Statist insanity continues: Lesser violations now account for most of the 3.3 million annual suspensions of public school students

At issue is the routine use of suspensions not just for weapons or drugs but also for profanity, defiant behavior, pushing matches and other acts that used to be handled with a visit to the principal’s office or detention. Such lesser violations now account for most of the 3.3 million annual suspensions of public school students. That total includes a sharp racial imbalance: poor black students are suspended at three times the rate of whites, a disparity not fully explained by differences in income or behavior.

On March 8, the education secretary, Arne Duncan, lamented “schools that seem to suspend and discipline only young African-American boys” as he pledged stronger efforts to ensure racial equality in schooling.

A growing body of research, scholars say, suggests that heavy use of suspensions does less to pacify schools than to push already troubled students toward academic failure and dropping out — and sometimes into what critics have called the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/education/19suspend.html?src=me&ref=general

Statist insanity continues: Lesser violations now account for most of the 3.3 million annual suspensions of public school students

Statist insanity continues: Lesser violations now account for most of the 3.3 million annual suspensions of public school students

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