About 250 students in Gwinnett County Public Schools violated major school system rules on everything from weapons to damage to school property and indecency in the first quarter of the school year, school board members were told Thursday. Seventy-five of the students were cited for violating the district’s policies on drugs, alcohol and tobacco. The second highest category of violations were for physical abuse of a non-employee, and third was abuse or threat on a school employee with 32 violations, according to the district’s report. In the 2012-2013 school year, the district dealt with 478 major rule violations.

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