Committee looks for altenative city school, classrooms for disruptive students

YOUNGSTOWN — Persistently disruptive students in the city schools could find themselves removed from their classrooms and placed in a more controlled environment where they will learn to improve their behavior.

An ad hoc committee on student discipline and procedures is looking at the creation of an alternative school situation for discipline problems, said Anthony Catale, school board president.

“I have been a proponent of that from the get-go,” he said.

The committee, appointed by Superintendent Wendy Webb, is just starting its work, but Catale, who asked that the committee be created, said the alternative school concept could be one of the group’s recommendations to the school board.

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