Podcast: How Does a 5-Year-Old Get Suspended 16 Times?

Podcast: How Does a 5-Year-Old Get Suspended 16 Times?
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Have You Heard heads to Boston for a look at the controversial trend of kindergarten suspension. We go behind the data to bring you the story of a mother and a five-year-old boy who, in his first four months as a kindergartner, was suspended 16 times. Hard to imagine? His mother thinks so too as she struggles to understand how her bright, creative little boy could end up in so much trouble so quickly.

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