However, federal officials admit that record-keeping problems may have inflated the initial numbers. Nonexistent, incomplete, inconsistent, and inaccurate student expulsion data are rife in school districts as well as the national level. Decatur illustrates how hard it is to grasp the size of the problem. The district keeps no such records. TO GO When the seven students were expelled in October 1999, their educational options barely outnumbered the two years for which they were initially banished.
Limited data suggest that fewer than half of all expelled kids enter alternative education programs.
Besides expulsions, the U.S. Office of Civil Rights documented about 3.2 million suspensions in 1997-98. Two Years Later. Kids who are expelled from school have bad outcomes in terms of juvenile justice. He says an analysis of adolescent health data shows that kids who were expelled or suspended from school were much more likely to be victims of violent crime in the subsequent reporting period. As in much of education, what happens to students after they're expelled depends largely on where they live.