Student Expulsions Orange County

Assuming a role usually assigned to parents or police, a growing number of public schools are disciplining students for their misbehavior off campus. Students driving drunk on a weekend or caught fighting at the mall not only risk arrest and further consequences at home. Now, as the call for safe schools intensifies, they also may be suspended or expelled.

Zero-tolerance policies in public schools are pushing up the numbers of student expulsions in Orange County, straining the capacity of the county's alternative schools to educate those teenagers.