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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an issue in public and private schools, OP. [b]In public schools, black males have a different suspension rate for the exact same offenses. It's just how the world is.[/b] You are at the school, hopefully, because you have identified something your child gets there that he cannot get anywhere else, not because paying tuition entitles you to a life void of racism. We all have to work toward that together.

I can tell you that the same attitudes exist amongst parents in the public/charter school world in DC as well. "How can we get the poor kids out of the school that is in our neighborhood?" "How can we get more white kids to the school?" "Yes, the school has lots of AAs but they are high-SES, so, you know..."

You live with this, you deal with this and you always will. The US has a strong legacy of racism. The best thing you can do for your child is to give him a great education so that he can help to educate the world out of ignorance. He will know what it means to be on the outside (and btw unless he goes to an HBCU, he will experience this at the next level anyway) and hopefully he can turn that into something positive. To be young, gifted and black...a blessing and a curse. [/quote]

I call bs on the bolded comment above, cite the source, and post a link to the peer reviewed jouranl article and let';s see the sample size, longitudinal range of teh study, etc..[/quote]

Not the PP, but here's a few articles:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02732170701796429
http://edr.sagepub.com/content/39/1/59.short
Skiba, Russell J., et al. "Parsing Disciplinary Disproportionality: Contributions of Behavior, Student, and School Characteristics to Suspension and Expulsion." (2012), p.6
http://uex.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/07/30/0042085912450575.abstract[/quote]

Also to the poster who called BS.  Please check out the "BS" sources such as the Washington Post article and studies done by the Department of Justice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-washington-area-african-american-students-suspended-and-expelled-two-to-five-times-as-often-as-whites/2011/12/23/gIQA8WNQNP_story.html?wpisrc=al_national

Again, not to imply DC independents have the exact same issues, but you cannot deny there is a disparity.[/quote]

I read the Post article and all it said was that there were more expulsions/suspensions for black students, in an arithmetic sense, not that there was a study saying blacks were suspended more than whites for the same offenses.  Clearly the disparity alone merits some attention to see if bias is present, but I don't see the data saying that it's been established that disparate treatment for the same offense is pervasive.[/quote]

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