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Reply to ""My Brother's Keeper" and at-risk kids... thoughts?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Geez, this thread got colonized by victim-blamers pretty quick. But for the PP who was asking about physical punishment in US schools, yes, it's a thing, it still happens. You can did into the stats yourself at the US Department of Ed. Office for Civil Rights database. There are also some (older; 05-06) numbers here (http://www.stophitting.com/index.php?page=statesbanning)--about a quarter of a million kids each year, with black boys extremely disproportionately represented. And frankly, I don't think it matters whether the boys in question were violent or behaving badly before they were hit. They still didn't DESERVE to be hit. And a crisis of behavioral problems among black boys and young men is just as much evidence of institutional racism as disproportionate amounts of physical punishment. Why are we letting this happen? We are all the grown ups here--the better question is "what can we do to fix it before it happens?"[/quote]
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