LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A CCSD educator believes student discipline is underreported across the district and is specifically concerned about the amount of time kids are being kept out the classroom. He has planned a town hall on the issue after pulling years of discipline data using open records law.
“I’m an educator for about 11 years now. I’ve spent most of that in alternative education,” shared Doctor Kyle Rogers, a teacher at Peterson Academic School, a behavioral school for middle and high school students. Rogers works with the most at-risk children every day, advocating for them for years on his own time even becoming a foster dad.
“I’ve seen how when you love on them… when you take care of them, when you don’t push them out, you continue to call them back in, they can thrive and they can succeed. And that’s what I want to see for all of our students,” Rogers asserted.
CCSD regularly reports on its student discipline data during school board meetings. Their last report was over the summer.
“We are observing positive trends related to overall student discipline… We continue our downward trend of student suspensions over the past three years since returning from Covid. Schools have issued approximately 2,200 fewer suspensions this year compared to the third quarter last year. This represents a ten percent decrease in total suspensions,” reported Kevin McPartlin, Associate Superintendent of Clark County School District.
The numbers are also published on this CCSD website. However, Rogers is concerned it only part of the picture and argues the data doesn’t show all the time kids are being kept out of school.
“Sometimes the district will remove a kid for during an incident occurring and what the district claims is we need time to investigate the incident. And so, they say, ‘We’re going to wait, and you’re not allowed in the building for two days,’” Rogers explained. Though a student isn’t allowed on campus during that time, Rogers claims it isn’t counted as a suspension.
“There are thousands, really tens of thousands of suspensions. That isn’t showing up in the data that anyone knows about… Students are missing, collectively in a single school year based on the data, I have over 100,000 days of missed instruction,” Rogers stated.
Rogers says all that missed classroom time has a big impact on standardized test scores and how connected a student feels to their school. Rogers plans to present seven years of data he’s obtained he says is not available to the public. That will happen Saturday, October 11th at 10 a.m. at the Clark County Library on Flamingo.
The district’s latest presentation on student discipline can be found at this link starting at the 8:00 minute mark.
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