Student Advocacy Center of Michigan: Exclusions

Exclusions

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Exclusions include:

Detentions
In-school Suspensions
Out-of-school Suspensions
Expulsion

Exclusions occur when a school disallows a student to participate in something. This ranges from out of classroom suspensions, to bus suspension, all the way to permanent expulsion. There are state and federal laws that tell school officials how they are to go about 'excluding' students based on the student's behaviors. Each school district has a handbook that also lays out the procedures by which a student may and should be excluded. For this reason, it is not worth it to go into detail about detentions and in-school suspensions here. Contact your district office for rules and regulations about those things or see the Suspensions and Expulsions sections.