Black Preschoolers Far More Likely To Be Suspended - Polidicks

[IMG]http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/03/21/ap994362300157_wide-3ed6dc0a34044b10ed07211167440de824034fd6-s40-c85.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Here's what the education data show: kids who are suspended or expelled from school are more likely to drop out, and those dropouts are more likely to end up with criminal records. In many places, school discipline pushes kids directly into the juvenile justice system. Take just one example: a school fight can end in an arrest for assault. Education and civil rights groups have dubbed this phenomenon the "school-to-prison pipeline." There are big racial differences in how school discipline is meted out: students of color are much more likely to be suspended or expelled that white students, even when the infractions are the same. A new government study on discipline in the nation's public schools shows just how very early that gap is present. According to the report, [B]black children make up 18 percent of preschoolers, but make up nearly half of all out-of-school suspensions.[/B] (We're talking mostly four-year-olds, people.) Across age groups, black students are three times more likely than white students to be suspended. While boys make up the large majority of students who are suspended (about eight in 10), about 12 percent of black girls are suspended and 7 percent of Native American girls are suspended. That's a rate higher than that of white boys (6 percent). Black students make up about 16 percent of enrolled students, but make up more than a quarter of all students who are referred to the police. Native Americans are also overrepresented among the suspended. They make up one percent of enrolled students but two percent of the suspended. Students with disabilities make up about 12 percent of the student population, but they make up 75 percent of those restrained at schools. There's a racial gap there, too: blacks are about 19 percent of the population with a disability, but make up more than a third of students who "are restrained at school through the use of a mechanical device or equipment designed to restrict their freedom of movement. English-language learners were underrepresented among the suspended. The report doesn't specify why there are such glaring disparities in school punishment, much less why those begin in preschool. But an interesting study released in February suggests a contributing factor. [B]A team of Harvard researchers found that black boys faced harsher punishment because they're often perceived as older than they actually are.[/B] [I] "The study also involved 264 mostly white, female undergraduate students from large public U.S. universities. In one experiment, students rated the innocence of people ranging from infants to 25-year-olds who were black, white or an unidentified race. The students judged children up to 9 years old as equally innocent regardless of race, but considered black children significantly less innocent than other children in every age group beginning at age 10, the researchers found." "The students were also shown photographs alongside descriptions of various crimes and asked to assess the age and innocence of white, black or Latino boys ages 10 to 17. The students overestimated the age of blacks by an average of 4.5 years and found them more culpable than whites or Latinos, particularly when the boys were matched with serious crimes, the study found. Researchers used questionnaires to assess the participants' prejudice and dehumanization of blacks. They found that participants who implicitly associated blacks with apes thought the black children were older and less innocent." That information doesn't at all explain the preschool discipline gap, because the study's participants were looking at children who were at least a half-decade older. [/I] [B]In January, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized "zero-tolerance" [/B]policies that quickly involve the criminal justice system for infractions like truancy and smoking. "A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal's office, not in a police precinct," he said. He called on schools to find other ways to discipline students that didn't remove kids from school for long stretches of time. He urged that school suspensions and expulsions happen only as a last resort.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/21/292456211/black-preschoolers-far-more-likely-to-be-suspended[/url]

How do you suspend a preschooler?

I'm going to wait until I see what the post with the most agree ratings is before I decide my opinion on this.

I got expelled from preschool :v: America is great

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44316584]How do you suspend a preschooler?[/QUOTE] Generally if they're being violent or unruly with the other kids.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44316584]How do you suspend a preschooler?[/QUOTE] Apparently, first, you have to make sure they're black.

I volunteer at an elementary school and I've only seen like one fight between two 5th graders. and it was over some mundane shit I don't even remember. I took a look at the referral and it was only a parent conference with administrators, a few lost privileges, and a student conference with one of the administrators in charge of discipline. nothing about detention or expulsion, just conferences to straighten him up. I don't understand how other schools take the easy way out and just punish the kids straight out. especially in elementary school, where every action can affect the development of the student

[quote]There are big racial differences in how school discipline is meted out: students of color are much more likely to be suspended or expelled that white students, [b]even when the infractions are the same.[/b][/quote] I bolded the part that I predict people will miss

in highschool I can understand suspending a student for a fight because they're practically adults by then and they know what shit they're doing but if that's all the school is doing then there's a huge problem it's dumb that suspension/expulsion is even on the table for disciplinary action in elementary schools

Teachers are people, they have the same biases as other people do. I know a couple of teachers, and I've heard them say that when the first day of school comes and they look in their classroom and there is a black student in there they 'know' that kid is going to be trouble. The poor kid hasn't even had a chance to start shit yet and he's already being singled out. Meanwhile, I've known kids in school who have a mom or dad that's friends with the teacher and they could do anything in that class and the teacher would just ignore it. This is why there can't be corporal punishment in school, certain kids would always be hit by the teacher and other kids would never be hit, even if they did the same infractions.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;44316698]I bolded the part that I predict people will miss[QUOTE]There are big racial differences in how school discipline is meted out: students of color are much more likely to be suspended or expelled that white students,[B] even when the infractions are the same.[/B][/QUOTE][/QUOTE] i can't help but wonder what kind of supreme asshole manages to be racist to fucking preschoolers of all things, damn.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44316584]How do you suspend a preschooler?[/QUOTE] Kids are more likely to fight when they don't know it's wrong, I remember getting into small fights in preschool. I had to leave half way through the year though when my finger got cut off in an automatic door though and so I forget most of preschool, just remember everyone fought a lot. Is that normal?

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I swear with most republicans, they're just like a whistling teapot, about to explode in racial slurs and inappropriate words.

[QUOTE=Vintage Thatguy;44316766]Kids are more likely to fight when they don't know it's wrong, I remember getting into small fights in preschool. I had to leave half way through the year though when [B]my finger got cut off in an automatic door[/B] though and so I forget most of preschool, just remember everyone fought a lot. Is that normal?[/QUOTE] What the fuck.

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;44317179]I swear with most republicans, they're just like a whistling teapot, about to explode in racial slurs and inappropriate words.[/QUOTE] Who the hell said anything about republicans

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[QUOTE=Vintage Thatguy;44316766]Kids are more likely to fight when they don't know it's wrong, I remember getting into small fights in preschool. I had to leave half way through the year though when my finger got cut off in an automatic door though and so I forget most of preschool, just remember everyone fought a lot. Is that normal?[/QUOTE] I got a 3 day OSS for fighting a kid over a pair of scissors in kindergarten, and that was in 1998