Yep if students don't fit with the schools agenda of being a top ranked school AKA bigger budgets to work with....the student is pushed out of their circle of 'whogivesashit'
been there, done that...…..what a crock
The more reports we get the more I start to believe a little bit with the conspiracy theory people that the school district and sheriff wanted the little shit to do the killing.
I'm not sure it it's still being done but schools were graded on a ranking list. According to their ranks was their budget funding proportioned. The higher you ranked the more money you get. But in order to get higher rankings, the students performance on testings, attendance, drop outs, etc were taken into account. The higher testing grades and attendance, the lower the drop out rate would rank a school higher than those with different resulting numbers. There were other factors taken into account as well. Including showing improvement in said numbers for something like 3 consecutive years(?).
We live in a district that the schools all ranked in the top 3 ranks. But we had kids that didn't fit with their narrative and instead of getting any kind of comprehensive help, they were eventually pushed out of the district. The local high school told us that because of their grades, they would be better off going to another school because they don't fit here.