[Amelia]

Thanks, Blueflag!

A pretty large system - will account, in part, for the large number of incidents. Also, many students will not have any discipline infractions, and some students will have MANY.

[Blueflag]

You're exactly right. There are many repeat, habitual offenders -- problem kids, go figure.

A single 'incident' might be coded with three or four (or more) offense categories.

One should NOT infer from the statistics that one in four Gwinnett students had a 'serious discipline' problem. One should infer that the discipline problem in Gwinnett County is as real as it is anywhere in a large poly-socio-economic-ethnic school (public) system, and disparities in reporting/coding data led to a manufactured crisis.