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White Kids Get Medicated When They Misbehave, Black Kids Get Suspended — or Arrested
Well this can be filed under "no shit Sherlock"
Black students made up just 18 percent of students in the public schools sampled by the New York Times in 2012, but “they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once” and 39 percent of those expelled — examining federal data, the Times also noted that “nationwide, more than 70 percent of students involved in arrests or referrals to court are black or Hispanic.” Even black preschoolers were not exempt: They made up the same 18 percent of the student population, but constituted half of all suspensions.
As everyone from the Times to the ACLU has noted, the enactment of tough "zero-tolerance" policies in schools has led to the criminalization of what had previously been viewed as minor disciplinary issues. Zero-tolerance often mandates that students be suspended — even referred to law enforcement and arrested — for minor transgressions: Until a 2013 rule change, Los Angeles students routinely received automatic suspensions for refusing to take off their hats (this fell under a category of violation called “willful defiance”), while a Florida district, the sixth largest in the country, set a state record for student arrests in a jurisdiction in 2011, primarily on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana and spraying graffiti. The ACLU has called this phenomenon the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
Here are the findings of the study:
If you’re a black student or you’re poor, you’re far more likely to be punished than offered behavioral treatment when you misbehave.
When school officials are given more leeway in how they discipline students, the role of race is more apparent in their decision-making.
Some schools have come to mirror the adult criminal justice and mental-health systems in how they deal with problematic behavior.
Let me say that again:
Some schools have come to mirror the adult criminal justice and mental-health systems in how they deal with problematic behavior.
Well this can be filed under "no shit Sherlock"
Black students made up just 18 percent of students in the public schools sampled by the New York Times in 2012, but “they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once” and 39 percent of those expelled — examining federal data, the Times also noted that “nationwide, more than 70 percent of students involved in arrests or referrals to court are black or Hispanic.” Even black preschoolers were not exempt: They made up the same 18 percent of the student population, but constituted half of all suspensions.
As everyone from the Times to the ACLU has noted, the enactment of tough "zero-tolerance" policies in schools has led to the criminalization of what had previously been viewed as minor disciplinary issues. Zero-tolerance often mandates that students be suspended — even referred to law enforcement and arrested — for minor transgressions: Until a 2013 rule change, Los Angeles students routinely received automatic suspensions for refusing to take off their hats (this fell under a category of violation called “willful defiance”), while a Florida district, the sixth largest in the country, set a state record for student arrests in a jurisdiction in 2011, primarily on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana and spraying graffiti. The ACLU has called this phenomenon the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
Here are the findings of the study:
If you’re a black student or you’re poor, you’re far more likely to be punished than offered behavioral treatment when you misbehave.
When school officials are given more leeway in how they discipline students, the role of race is more apparent in their decision-making.
Some schools have come to mirror the adult criminal justice and mental-health systems in how they deal with problematic behavior.
Let me say that again:
Some schools have come to mirror the adult criminal justice and mental-health systems in how they deal with problematic behavior.
