Records obtained by WDRB News show district staff doled out 20,841 referrals to students for fighting, which includes student-to-student fighting and striking and student-to-staff striking incidents, during the 2021-22 school year.
JCPS bus drivers wrote 1,016 behavior referrals through the first 24 days of the current school year, the first on a regular in-person learning schedule since 2019-20.
JCPS reports that 425 fights have occurred at schools as of Aug. 24, according to data obtained by WDRB News through an open records request.
Waller-Williams Environmental School students are outpacing recent totals in bus referrals at the same time that in-school behavior reports are on track to drop by nearly 2,000.
