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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a mixed race kid (AA and white) who is 2- this is already on our minds when looking at schools.

My DH was (and is still) friends with mostly wealthy, white kids. One kid took the cops on a high speed chase through HoCo after being pulled over for a DUI. He got probation and a fine. If he was a minority, he would've been shot.

There are ingrained stereotypes that we all carry with us. Teachers and administrations are not exempt from this and data does not lie. More minority kids are suspended for lesser offenses and non-minority kids can tag a school with offense images (see reference to VA tagging in article about Glenelg "Among black families like hers, there were doubts that the white teens would face the kind of punishment black teens receive for similar crimes. Two years earlier, a group of students had painted swastikas on a historic black schoolhouse in Northern Virginia. A Loudoun County judge sentenced them not to jail time or community service, but to reading: along with visiting the Holocaust museum, each had to choose a single book about Nazi Germany or the Jim Crow era and write a report on it")

Every day, all day across the country.

Little white kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class=ADD/ADHD. Little black kids who cant sit still and are interrupting their class= thug, bad parenting, disruptive, etc. [/quote]

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IDK why the first reaction isn't - IT"S ABOUT TIME![/b] I was horrified when my kindergartner and early elementary kids came home and said "kids with brown skin get in trouble a lot".  They were taking this in just from being in school together, and generalizing from it. I am a huge fan of MCPS restorative justice. If little kids can see the differences in how students of color are treated so easily, why is it so hard for adults? [/quote]

Because parents of older kids have seen how the restorative justice practices are COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE!  And, how under MCPS leadership, and the current BOE, we have seen a huge decline in discipline at school, and a huge increase in terrible behavior.  Day in and day out.

Again, wait until you get to MS and see what goes on.  Any parent (white, black, brown, yellow or green) that listen to their kids stories of the bad behavior they witness on a daily basis recognizes that restorative justice and PBIS are useless.[/quote]

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