[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.

[Amelia]

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

In our school system, a student may be expelled after one very serious offense. Serious offenses may also result in the student being sent to an alternative school, as may 10 or more less serious offenses - but in the alternative school, they are still in the public school system, just not in the same setting as the other students.