Something less racist from
Al Thompson. Doesn’t he see the connection between the
Blacks Disciplined More
Often in Schools
What would you find if you
looked locally?
The Chicago Tribune finds
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070924discipline,0,22104.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout)
:
In the average
almost 60 times as likely as
white students to be expelled for serious
disciplinary infractions.
In
In
enrollment but account for
22 percent of the students who get suspended.
The story continues:
In every state but
students are being suspended
in numbers greater than would be expected
from their proportion of the
student population. In 21 states�Illinois
among them�that
disproportionality is so pronounced that the percentage
of black suspensions is more
than double their percentage of the
student body. And on average
across the nation, black students are
suspended and expelled at
nearly three times the rate of white students.
No other ethnic group is
disciplined at such a high rate, the federal
data show. Hispanic students
are suspended and expelled in almost
direct proportion to their
populations, while white and Asian students
are disciplined far less.
Yet black students are no
more likely to misbehave than other students
from the same social and
economic environments, research studies have
found.
Don't miss this bit of
context:
"There simply isn't
any support for the notion that, given the same set
of circumstances,
African-American kids act out to a greater degree
than other kids," said
Russell Skiba (http://site.educ.indiana.edu/ProfilePlaceHolder/tabid/6210/Default.aspx?u=skiba)
, a professor of educational
psychology at
discipline issues in public
schools. "In fact, the data indicate that
African-American students
are punished more severely for the same
offense, so clearly
something else is going on. We can call it
structural inequity or we
can call it institutional racism."
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