“Students of color, students with disabilities and male students” are suspended at a disproportionate rate to their peers, in “potential violation of civil rights laws,” an official from the U.S. Department of Education said at a congressional hearing Wednesday on the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.
“We are alarmed by the disparities in disciplinary sanctions, particularly for students of color, students with disabilities, and male students,” said Deborah Delisle, assistant secretary for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the Education Department.
In written testimony, Delisle said such disparities are a “potential violation of civil rights laws.”
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“Suspensions, expulsions, and in-school arrests lead to kids being out of the classroom and a troubling increase in the number of people in the juvenile justice system,” Durbin said.
ReplyDeleteThe BEST quote in the whole article.
I think I have this figured out, discrimination is mathematics. All behaviors of all groups is assumed to be identical, therefore if treatment is in any way different it is discrimination.
ReplyDeleteI guess they are being suspended for being black?
ReplyDeleteOR, are they suspended because blacks cause more trouble?
Schools suspend the students that misbehave. It is what it is
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of troubling statements in that article. Most schools practice progressive discipline techniques where the consequences get more severe as the amount of offenses increase. The A.A. Kindergarten student who was suspended for 5 days may have had other occurrences where discipline was called for. Fir the white student it could have been their first offense. The discipline should not be the same.
ReplyDeleteThe other statement about getting to the root cause of the problems that are making the kids bad is something the Feds do not want to hear. Bit goes back to the students home life and parents-or lack of parenting. But no, we can't blame it on the irresponsible procreators.
If you look at the population of our country and the number of black males that are arrested by the police and are in jail. I would say that the cops are all violating civil rights.
ReplyDeleteI am a school administator I know that the stats say the same in Wicomico County schools but lets face reality. These are the kids that are creating the problem on a daily basis and are disrupting he learning process for all children. Its not discrimination it is what it is.
ReplyDeleteThere is no discrimination here. It is reality. Any educator will tell you the ones who act out the most are the ones from poor disadvantaged, enviroments whose parents have big problems and emotional or mental dysfunctions. Some things will not change. Alcoholics and druggies and single parent homes produce the majority of these childen who disturb the classroom. This is a fact of life not a discrimination issue.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a violation of Civil Rights, this truth, children who have mental disabilities I mean menatal illnnes not autism or mental the retarted the ones who are depressesed,bipolar or have a schizophrenic disorder are not addressed. It is a disability yet they are still not reconized like the rest of the disabilities therefore teachers and administrators are not trained on how to deal with these kids behaviors.The number of kids with these mental dsorders are inreasing. More are being identified in the classroom. The DOE needs to fix that and then their so called discrimination will decrease some.
ReplyDeleteMales will act out more any way. Testostorone. Its aboy thing.:)
ReplyDeleteThe DOE needs to change.
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