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Responses are color-coded by alias:
| Anonymous 1 | J. | Abri | Anonymous 2 | Alisa | Shiloh | La Cubana Traviesa | Leenette | Anonymous 3 | Pierre | Marie Tate | Bria | Connie | Pookie | Jane Doe |
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How many times have you been suspended or expelled from school?
1) Twice 2 J) Expelled twice; 15 times suspended 3) I think about 12 times 4) 9 times 5) at least 10 6) 4 times 7) 15 times, all my problems began when I was young at 5 yrs old in “private catholic school” 8) I really don’t know 9) I have
been suspended before from school because of getting into fights and
arguments with my peers. (Behavior) I would say... I have been suspended
from school about more than 10 times within a 10) Yes at least 5 11) Yes, I’ve been suspended once 12) Yes, about 4 times 13)
Only Once
1) I just didn't care I said oh well I’ll just not go back to school. 2) Neither I was happy to leave I didn’t want to be there anyway. 3) I felt discriminated 4) No it just made me happy cause I wasn’t in school 5) It made me mad and do more worse things kuz my mind state would turn to if ima get in trouble its goin 2 be worth it 6) It didn’t motivate me in any way to stay at the school it more motivated me to leave. Which i did end up doing and going to California. 7) No, it made me hate the school system like no one cared or took the time to hear me out they judged me by my past and didn’t understand or get to understand me, I wasn't a bad kid I love school and learning I just don't like being labeled. 8) It made me want to go back to school and get back on track. 9) Well I think getting suspended motivated me to work harder at my goals I was trying to achieve... just so I could show everybody that there is a good side to me and that I could do somethings right. 10) It made me more made and made me want to fight the people more. 11) I worked harder but I also felt mad at the school. I felt motivated to do better so the people who suspended me would not think wrong of me. 12) It made me mad because I think the school was telling him it was OK to cal a girl a bitch. 13) I felt like I don’t really care cause it wasn’t a big deal
Did you behave better when you got back into school or did you get suspended again?
2) I got suspended again 3) I got suspended again 4) got suspended again 5) I just got suspended again 6) Behaved worse and got suspended until I ended up leaving. 7) I would behave but then I was bullied or picked on again due to m mental illnesses ( I.E.P. A.D.H.D Anxiety Learning Disorders) 8) I behaved better 9) Yes ... I tried my best to behave better and show the teachers that I did have home training and respect. But the schools always tried to find a reason to suspended me for no reason what so ever. I got suspended again and the principal had told me that I wasn’t allowed back into the school So I had to Switch schools so that I could finish up the school year. 10) I got suspended again after I got arrested. 11) Yes I got suspended again for the same problem 12) I acted the same way but I have not gotten suspended again. 13) yea
What did you do
while you were suspended? 1) What I did was kicked it with my homies, sleep in, and watch TV 2) I did worse things than I did when I was in school. 3) Watch TV, smoke weed, smoke cigs fight w/ brothers and sisters, sold drugs, and got my ass whooped 4) Nothing good 5) I would go out act crazy, act a fool and just be wild 6) Made my Friends skip school to be with me, just got into more trouble and dragged others with me. 7) Study, cry 8) Sit at home and do the work they sent home for me. 9) When I was suspended ... I always got suspended long-term so all I had to do was stay home and watch TV and Eat and listen to my mom’s bullshit all day long! 10) I could not go no where I could not do anything 11) Sit at home and watch TV. 12) Stayed at home and be in trouble. 13) Watch TV
Did you have a parent or guardian stay home with you when you were
suspended? 1) No 2) No, I got kicked out [of my house] when I was suspended 3) No 4) No 5) Nope 6) No they were either working or busy with something else 7) Yes I did, my mom stuck by my side and fought the school system the whole way 8) No my parents was always at work. But I did have an older sister home with me. 9) No Because My mom had to work, just to pay the bills and keep food in the house. 10) My mom stayed home, She is a stay at home mom. (I think Kids who don’t have some one to watch them will get in more trouble) 11) I stayed home with my grandma 12) No 13) [My] Grandma stayed home
Did your teacher give you work packets to complete? If yes did you
complete them? 1) Yes but I didn't do them 2) No! They didn’t give a shit less if I made it or not 3) No 4) No 5) No my mom had to go get my work and no I never did it. 6) I probably was given them but I was either not at school to receive them due to be locked up or just not going or I wasn’t paying attention to receive them. 7) They did but it was like 5th grade work it was degrading. 8) Yes they did and I did it 9) Sometimes the teachers would try to give me packets to take home to complete and most of the times I did complete them. 10) Yes, but I would still be confused when I got back. I would ask for help but the teacher would tell me to ask another student. 11) They did not give me any work 12) No 13) No they said the would give me work but they didn’t
Did you hang out in the streets while you were suspended? What did you
do? 1) Yes what I did was hang out on the streets with my friends and have fun. 2) Yeah, sold dope fought and drank and smoked weed. 3) Fight, smoke weed, smoke cigs, sell weed/other 4) Yes got drugs 5) Yes I grew up in the streets. What did I do ? You mean what didn't I do/ 6) No I would be at a friends house. 7) Barely I went shopping and sometimes would smoke weed to relieve my stress from school. Or sometimes I would hang out with my Gang bangin homiez 8) Yes I did at times ... the way I grow up i was always in the streets and the only way that i could stay out the street was to got o school 9) I have never and will never hang out in the streets when I got suspended, because I know that all that would do was lead me on the wrong path to life. So I made the smart choice by staying in the house. 10) I stayed at home 11) No I just watched TV because there was nothing to do. 12) No
Did you ever quit going to school for a long time or drop out?
Explain why you quit going? 1) Yes because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd 2) Yeah because I was tired of going through the same staff every time I walked into school. 3) Yes I was coming to jail to much and missed to much stuff and gave up on school. 4) Yea, because all my teachers were looking down on me and they were to hard on me. 5) Yes because it kept getting suspended so i just said F*#K it and stopped goin. 6) Because I wasn’t usually home or near school and I was preoccupied with other things going on in my life. And I took off out of severial times 7) Yes I did
at my freshman year. I couldn’t take the drama, the drugs the
gangs and me moving backwards instead of forward, and being
labeled!! So I did school for 3 months and it was hell. I was
failing 8) No 9) Yes I have dropped out of school for about a half a year because I had a lot of failing grades and I didn’t think I could make it or go any farther with my education. 10) No but my
friend died and I kinda skipped school for a whole 2 weeks. They did
not help me catch up. They wanted me to come after school but that
interfered with my sports. My gradees started 11) No. 12) No 13) I thought about it because it is too much work to catch up. I wanted to drop out but I didn't.
1) They can start more programs after school so that kids can have some options of what they want to do. More teachers assistants because some kids need more attention Support groups helping you, being there for you- more than just academics. 2) Try to understand us not get us in trouble. Reporting us for everything we do doesn’t help. I don’t understand why they think their being so helpful when their just helping themselves. 3) Not suspend kids so much. If a kid has a record don’t treat them differently 4) More help even when i asked for help teachers didn’t want to help. 5) Try 2 help them a lil more instead of just kickin' em out 6) I think
they should teach how to make better decision making or only suspend for
fighting or physical acts for safety issues but suspension for drugs,
stealing skipping etc is just dumb because that gives 7) Support. Listen. 8) I think if the school could have more activities and after school programs and more attention from the teachers. 9) In more
trouble prone area where schools are located, schools can have or
incorporate a kind of rehabilitation grop during or after school that
can persuade kids to follow the right track. School may also 9) I think the Schools should give the misbehaving students in house suspension or detention just instead of suspending them ... because when they suspend them all they do is take away their learning. 10) In Atlanta before you get suspended you can choose to sit and talk and settle the conflict instead of getting suspended. I liked that. 11) Hey, can give kids detention. Make deals with kids so they behave better. 12) In-school detention 13) Give them 2 days of detention. at least there still in school and they are getting their work done.
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