Personal Resilience: Also, our cohort increasingly gets suspended.
Suspension rates also rise during the middle-school years, especially among those who were not promoted.
Once students start being suspended, many develop a tolerance to it. Behavior that leads to suspension is often a symptom of deeper issues that require social support. Also, school-suspension policies vary greatly among the schools, and are enforced according to human judgment, which can vary as well.
Note that according to Information Works, 73% of all middle-school suspensions were for only 5 of 39 infractions. The 5 are: disorderly conduct, insubordination/disrespect, attendance-cut/skipped class, fighting, and attendance-cut/skipped detention.
