Virginia Tops Nation in Sending Students to Cops, Courts: Where Does Your State Rank? [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/5/1512:00 PM

ayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school.

Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb was being scolded for misbehavior one day and kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A police officer assigned to the school witnessed the tantrum, and filed a disorderly conduct charge against the sixth grader in juvenile court.

[For more of this story, written by Susan Ferriss, go to http://jjie.org/virginia-tops-...r-state-rank/108688/]

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