Cenk Uygur
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How High School Suspensions Cost BILLIONS
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June 9, 2016
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7:27Now PlayingA very common high school punishment is actually costing the country billions. A study indicates that students, who get suspended, are less likely to graduate high school, and then become much less productive adults. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“When students get suspended from school for a few days, they may not be the only ones who miss out.
A report released today by UCLA's Civil Rights Project tries for the first time to quantify the full social cost of so-called "exclusionary discipline."
The authors calculate that suspensions in just one year of school — 10th grade — contributed to 67,000 students eventually dropping out of high school. And that, they conclude, generates total costs to the nation of more than $35 billion.
Russell Rumberger, a co-author of the study and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says that number is conservative. "That's just for a single year."
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