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[quote=Anonymous]This will get lost in the crazies on this thread but I do not understand why the BOE just doesn't set clear guidelines for what constitutes a suspension and set up a review panel for suspensions.

If there are situations where black and hispanics students are suspended for trivial things or things that a white kid would not be suspended for doing then an independent review panel should be able to easily spot this.

If black and hispanic students are committing suspension worthing violations with higher frequency than whites then they should end suspended more. The only way to safely reduce those numbers is to reduce the opportunity these students have in committing these crimes. This would mean more school security staff in high risk schools, more structured, less free time and reducing the crowding situations.

Psychologists have found that almost all crime is most influenced by opportunity. You can be motivated to commit a crime (or not motivated to avoid committing crimes) but if you have less opportunity you will be less likely to go to the effort to seek it out. [/quote]

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