Time out: Edmonton students are suspended thousands of times each year

Hours after she was handed a five-day suspension, 14-year-old Taytum sat on a south Edmonton patio while back at school, class carried on without her.
After jumping down from a wall in her junior high school’s library in mid-June, the ninth grader wound up in the office having a heated discussion with the vice-principal, a school-based police officer and a child welfare worker.
No one was hurt, she said, but it was her second suspension after just three weeks at her new school. She missed