suspend

(suspension, suspended, etc.)
When a kid does something bad (gets caught smoking pot on campus or something) that is not bad enough to be expelled for, they are generally suspended. Basically they go home and don't come back to school for a number of days. By law, when a kid is suspended they are allowed to make up any work missed, so this turns out to be a mini vacation for some of them. The real problem with a suspended kid is because of the nature of the type of kid that gets suspended, they are probably behind in class already. Then they miss a week of school and get further behind. They come back and don't make up anything they missed, and are now even further behind than they were before. It may be frustrating, and leads to them getting suspended again. This is similar to, but not the same as an in school suspension.
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