The Press Democrat

The student was only 4 years old when he was suspended for the first time. He was in a transitional kindergarten class, a preparatory year that helps students develop fundamental social and emotional skills. By the time he was 5, the boy had been suspended five times in one semester of his kindergarten year. Those suspensions, his mother says, were for behaviors related to a delay in his ADHD diagnosis, a lack of support, and constant changes to his classroom environment by Windsor Unified School District officials. The boy bounced from general education classes to special education classes in his transitional kindergarten and kindergarten years, and frequent changes in his classroom supports halted his academic progress, his mother said.