spiritguide
2nd April 2013, 14:42
The article at the attached link discusses what we are allowing our children to endure just to grow up. If we do not care about a just world for our children just what do we care about?
There are a few other posts addressing the subject, but this issue overall is important to all our futures.
Artilce lead in....
Rocketing school suspensions may feed the school-to-prison pipeline – and even violate civil rights.
By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, Staff writer / March 31, 2013
lTwo students set off fire alarms in the same school district. One of them, an African-American kindergartner, is suspended for five days; the other, a white ninth-grader, is suspended for one day.
Restorative justice: One high school's path to reducing suspensions by half
Police in schools 'not the answer,' coalition says, urging broader strategy
Better models for juvenile justice
Minority students are punished more than whites, US reports. Is it racism?
•An African-American high-schooler is suspended for a day for using a cellphone and an iPod in class. In the same school, a white student with a similar disciplinary history gets detention for using headphones.
•Two middle-schoolers push each other; the white student receives a three-day, in-school suspension, while the native American student is arrested and suspended, out of school, for 10 days.
Civil rights groups have been saying for years that school discipline is not meted out fairly, citing examples like these reported last year from around the country by the US Department of Education.
Link to full article...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2013/0331/School-suspensions-Does-racial-bias-feed-the-school-to-prison-pipeline?nav=87-frontpage-entryLeadStory
We must demand better for our children.
:peace:
There are a few other posts addressing the subject, but this issue overall is important to all our futures.
Artilce lead in....
Rocketing school suspensions may feed the school-to-prison pipeline – and even violate civil rights.
By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, Staff writer / March 31, 2013
lTwo students set off fire alarms in the same school district. One of them, an African-American kindergartner, is suspended for five days; the other, a white ninth-grader, is suspended for one day.
Restorative justice: One high school's path to reducing suspensions by half
Police in schools 'not the answer,' coalition says, urging broader strategy
Better models for juvenile justice
Minority students are punished more than whites, US reports. Is it racism?
•An African-American high-schooler is suspended for a day for using a cellphone and an iPod in class. In the same school, a white student with a similar disciplinary history gets detention for using headphones.
•Two middle-schoolers push each other; the white student receives a three-day, in-school suspension, while the native American student is arrested and suspended, out of school, for 10 days.
Civil rights groups have been saying for years that school discipline is not meted out fairly, citing examples like these reported last year from around the country by the US Department of Education.
Link to full article...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2013/0331/School-suspensions-Does-racial-bias-feed-the-school-to-prison-pipeline?nav=87-frontpage-entryLeadStory
We must demand better for our children.
:peace: