The Rochester City School Board has approved a new code of conduct tonight that moves away from suspending disruptive students and clarifies what’s expected of them.
A community task force that included administrators, teachers, parents and students spent a year debating and drafting up the new standards. Despite the teacher involvement, the Rochester Teachers Association voted thumbs down on the code of conduct, saying it didn’t provide enough support for teachers or for students.
The new policy has support from the Alliance for Quality Education and Metro Justice, which says suspensions and expulsion cause students to drop out, and then drop in to the school-to-prison pipeline.