In the wake of each tragedy, both President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump called for administration-wide efforts to promote school safety and protect the nation's children. The 2014 guidance provided tools and recommendations for fair and effective school discipline practices that promote a positive and safe school climate and improve learning outcomes. The 2014 guidance package urged schools to reduce the widespread and discriminatory use of "exclusionary discipline" -- suspensions, expulsions and school-based arrests -- for non-violent misbehavior in schools. The commission claims that the earlier guidance resulted in a "chilling effect on school discipline — and on the use of exclusionary school discipline," which had "significant consequences for student and teacher safety." But it is well documented that children across the country are being kicked out of class, restrained and arrested for minor misbehavior that does not pose a threat to school safety.

Source: CNN December 30, 2018 03:11 UTC