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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you think if Student A who is white does X and Student B who is black does X... the black student should be suspended and the white student should not be suspended?[/quote]

No, I am saying that anyone who does X should get suspended.  Teachers have already said here they can not suspend minorities the past 1-2 years, due to restorative justice - meaning until these "numbers" get fixed and the suspensions are even between blacks, hispanics, white and Asians.  But they are not getting fixed.  So now I am guessing we will suspend more white and asians to even it out.

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What if X is looking at your phone during class or going to the bathroom and being late for class.

Teachers are disciplining black students for things they let white kids slide on.

It was clear in the article they are talking about minor violations.
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Lets see the list then, why aren't they showing the age, race, and age of each child and what it was that got them suspended.

Because I highly doubt black kids are getting suspended for using their phone in class and whites are allowed to just scroll away [/quote]

Blair HS students actually tested it out. They purposely had white and black kids do the exact same thing and documented the treatment of black kids.

They were getting multiple violations that lead to a detention.

They wrote it up and presented it to the principal and school board... video is convenient.

There was also a study done for NBA referees and they also treat black players differently, and home teams differently... the study allowed them to made changes and education to fix the issue.
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Looking at the situation objectively, it seems possible/likely to me that unconscious bias seeps into MCPS discipline at times (at least in some schools), but that it is only the cause of a small portion of the disparity in the data. The problem I see here is that MCPS (and Docca in particular) seems to be suggesting that if there's any disparity in the data, it must be because of bias. That's not something proved here by any real data.[/quote]

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