This is an exciting exercise in whose spin to believe; the banner headline that one in six students in Mobile schools was suspended last year or the spin from the school system that that doesn’t mean the schools are dangerous.

This is what made me laugh out loud though.

Barbour pointed out that no Mobile County schools are listed as being “persistently dangerous schools” under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which has a provision allowing students in such schools to transfer out.

I was on the committee that developed Alabama’s definition for “persistently dangerous school” and no school in Alabama has ever met the criteria, so to use this as a back-up for whether a school is too dangerous or not is laughable.

Mobile Press-Register: One student in every six suspended