Posted on 12/07/2013 2:51:19 PM PST by ladyjane
Durham Public Schools seeks input on reducing suspensions
DURHAM – Durham Public School leaders are seeking the community's input on how to reduce school suspensions, particularly among African-American students. The first of three public forums was held Saturday on Hillandale Road. Community leaders and parents showed up to the event.
Last school year, the district issued close to 6,000 suspensions. Nearly 80% of them went to African-American students. Officials admit they can be a little too eager to hand out the punishment.
"I think we have to do a better job of understanding what the current policy is," Superintendent Eric Becoats said.
Attendees were broken up into teams to figure out what does work, what the problems are and how to fix them.
"We will be sharing this with the Board of Education, and working with the board and our school leaders to determine our next step," Assistant Superintendent Debbie Pitman said.
Isn’t Durham where Crystal Mangum came from?
Yes, exactly. I forget, what is the name for the method?
Ha ha—that’s great!
I think I just remembered: Delphi.
Delphi
Thanks for the confirmation—as you can see above, it just came back to me.
Heheheh. My brain was digging deep too. "Monte Carlo" (nope, that's a probability thing) .... phzzzt, pssss, buzzzzz .... "Delphi" (aha! Type answer!) ... smoke from thinking deep clears ...
The Delphi Technique ... it works.
LOL
Yes, Crystal Mangum came From Durham. Nifong too. It’s a sad place.
BTW Crystal finally got sent away for murdering her boyfriend. It’s too bad the AG refused to prosecute her for her false accusations. It might have saved his life. It might have helped her children too.
bad enough we have to dumb down education to the lowest level, now we are dumbing down suspensions.
Durham should look at what is happening in the Hartford PS right now.....same issues. A charter school has been lambasted for too many suspensions and keeping strictly to the rules. The schools’ test scores have risen remarkably....no one seems to notice a correlation in that fact.
Schools could turn things around overnight, if they state the rules clearly, give ample time for everyone to know them [parents included] and any time a kid breaks the rule.....parent *must* come to class and sit with their kid to *babysit* him/her. If parent loses work often enough....child will learn very quickly.
Statistics don’t tell you all you need to know. It is all about behavior. I know more than a handful of educators who left the public school systems in Maryland because of race based reporting and punishment. The majority students end up being over-reported and punished to get the numbers to ‘look right’.
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