Posted on 03/24/2014 6:02:10 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Even preschoolers are getting suspended from U.S. public schools—and they're disproportionately Black, a trend that continues up through the later grades.
Data released March 21 by the Education Department's civil rights arm finds that Black children represent about 18 percent of children enrolled in preschool programs in schools, but almost half of the students were suspended more than once. Six percent of the nation's districts with preschools reported suspending at least one preschool child.
Advocates have long said that get-tough suspension and arrest policies in schools have contributed to a "school-to-prison" pipeline that snags minority students, but much of the emphasis has been on middle school and high school policies. This data shows the disparities starting in the youngest of children.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration issued guidance encouraging schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal's office. But, even before the announcement, school districts have been adjusting policies that disproportionately affect minority students.
Overall, the data shows that Black students of all ages are suspended and expelled at a rate that's three times higher than that of White children. Even as boys receive more than two-thirds of suspensions, Black girls are suspended at higher rates than girls of any other race or most boys.
The data doesn't explain why the disparities exist or why the students were suspended. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder were scheduled to appear at J.O. Wilson Elementary School on March 21 in Washington to discuss the data.
Nationally, one million children were served in public preschool programs, with about 60 percent of districts offering preschool during the 2011-2012 school year, according to the data. The data shows nearly 5,000 preschoolers suspended once. At least 2,500 were suspended more than once.
Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies for the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, said the findings are disturbing because the suspended preschoolers aren't likely presenting a danger, such as teenager bringing a gun to school.
"Almost none of these kids are kids that wouldn't be better off with some support from educators," Losen said. "Just kicking them out of school is denying them access to educational opportunity at such a young age. Then, as they come in for kindergarten, they are just that much less prepared."
Losen said it's appropriate to discipline a 4-year-old, but a more appropriate response might be moving them to a different educational setting with additional services.
"Most preschool kids want to be in school," Losen said. "Kids just don't understand why they can't go to school."
Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of the Advancement Project, a think tank that specializes in social issues affecting minority communities, has been advocating against the overly zealous use of suspensions against African American students. Unfortunately, she said it didn't surprise her to hear that even younger black students were being kicked out of school at a high rate.
"I think most people would be shocked that those numbers would be true in preschool, because we think of 4- and 5-years-olds as being innocent," she said. "But we do know that schools are using zero tolerance policies for our youngest also, that while we think our children need a head start, schools are kicking them out instead."
can’t argue with what you say, however 72% of new born black children born to single mothers, per recent survey is both tragic and scary
A higher percentage of black children don't know the names of colors when they enter kindergarten too. And NO it doesn't cost a fortune to teach your child the difference between red and green.
This ‘study’ is an extension of the nonstop pity party blacks engage in... egged on by white liberal elites who benefit from black rage... it's stupid.
Not just bad parenting skills, NO skills is more like it. It is what you get when you have your first child at 12, you are under educated, your mom who had you at 12 is under educated.
And If you are a HS Grad of the Memphis City SchoolS and come out with A/B grades in Math, you chose to go to college even JR college, you have to take REMEDIAL MATH COURSES FIRST before you can even take a Electronic and Computer Science course. Hubby spent 20 yrs teaching the under educated Memphis HS Grads REMEDIAL MATH before he could teach his electronic and computer science classes!
Start with the basic at home, teach color, shape, tie shoes, wipe nose, and butt. That is is not right to hit others. And if the teacher tells you your kid is LD, go to library and get Dick & Jane books to teach reading. Get Flash cards to teach math and DRILL for hours.
SCHOOLS GET EXTRA $$$ FOR A LD, ADHD OR ANY OTHER LABELED KID. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO GET EVERY KID ON THE LIST. WHICH IS WHY THEY DON’T SEND THEM HOME ON BAD WEATHER DAYS UNTIL NOON! MONEY!
What Common Core will do to Colleges
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2014/03/what_the_common_core_will_do_t.html
Common Core Math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyl_uYrojs
College Students Learn Common Core Math (video)
http://conservativevideos.com/2014/03/college-students-learn-common-core-math/
Hollywood Actress: Public Schools Are Brainwashing Kids With ‘Progressive Agenda’
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/03/02/hollywood-actress-public-schools-brainwashing-kids-progressive-agenda/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_term=headline&utm_content=140308&utm_campaign=saturday
“Of course school is the most political, because that’s where the progressive agenda is coming out the strongest and the hardest,” said Sorbo.
Sorbo said she was hesitant to reveal her faith or political beliefs publicly because of possible backlash and negative reaction from Hollywood.
But she could not remain silent on education.
“You people who send your kids to school, you have no idea what the schools are doing to their fresh little brains, in brainwashing them into this progressive, liberal—it’s antithetical to America, the agenda that they’re being indoctrinated with,” Sorbo said.
Bill Gates Tries to Fashion Teacher Support for His Beloved Common Core
http://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/bill-gates-tries-to-fashion-teacher-support-for-his-beloved-common-core/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed
National Takeover of School Curriculum
http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/column/national-takeover-school-curriculum.html
8 reasons against Common Core
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/eight-problems-with-common-core-standards/2012/08/21/821b300a-e4e7-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html
Exposing Common Core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2Xj6JrERc
An Outline of The Political Significance of the Common Core
http://www.markgarrison.net/archives/1198
Jeb Bush backs Common Core in TN visit
http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyhill/2014/03/19/jeb-bush-backs-common-core-tn-visit/#more-13351
What is the Problem with Common Core?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJIrD1iJLjs
Stopping Common Core National Standards and Tests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g384XeKPnqY
MLA Hates Common Core
http://www.academia.org/mla-hates-common-core/
Revolt against the testing tyrants
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/03/19/revolt-against-the-testing-tyrants/
this one has links in it.
Why Is Bill Gates Asked to Defend Common Core Math Standards?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/17/Why-Is-Non-Mathematician-Bill-Gates-Asked-To-Defend-The-Common-Core-Math-Standards
Jeb Bush backs Common Core in TN visit
http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyhill/2014/03/19/jeb-bush-backs-common-core-tn-visit/#more-13351
Revolt against the testing tyrants
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/03/19/revolt-against-the-testing-tyrants/
this one has links in it.
Why Is Bill Gates Asked to Defend Common Core Math Standards?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/17/Why-Is-Non-Mathematician-Bill-Gates-Asked-To-Defend-The-Common-Core-Math-Standards
This one is what our own state purposes to install.
TN Student Speaks Out About Common Core
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PprP5TCZBRI
TN Common Core
http://www.tncore.org/
IF you wish more information the place you will find it is right in Rour state’S, Eagle Forum Daily news letter.
Thanks for sharing... If the problems we're facing are ever going to get fixed the truth has to be seen. That's where people like you come in Gail. - Thanks for sharing
The parents of those children have a givadamn deficit.
Government policy is the opposite - it is centered around destroying morality, the family, fatherhood, responsibility, etc.
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Exactly. There needs to be some evangelizing in those neighborhoods by true followers of Christ. The mohammedans know it’s fertile ground, which is why they go there to recruit.
On my first day of kindergarten a black girl stabbed me with a pencil on my right thigh. The teacher said she didn’t do it on purpose but she was moved to another table. Even at age 5 I knew this was BS and she meant to hurt me.
I did get revenge on the last day of 1st grade. Her desk was in front of mine. She had braids with those little plastic hair clips. Lets just say she was missing a few of the back braids when she got home. I actually kept them for a few years.
This is a question - just a question, not a comment - doesn’t it seem like all the little kids that get sent home or otherwise suspended for pointing their finger or drawing a picture or having some object on them.....doesn’t it seem like they are always little white children?
There's a bunch of perverse incentives feeding into this mess. Schools - and some parents - benefit if their child has emotional 'problems'. "What you reinforce, you get more of..." as the old adage goes..
Leftist policy has devalued children to the point that they are now simply meal tickets for their parents.
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