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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need actual classes for kids who need more support. Not everyone needs to be integrated. I've seen these kids in ES who are allowed to wander around and be extremely disruptive. Least restrictive does not work for everyone. We had a kid throwing chairs in ES for 2 years. That kids needs so much more and by MS and HS it would be a serious problem. [/quote]
I seriously doubt the kids with diagnoses and behavioral plans are the kids getting suspended.[/quote]

Not quite. If you look at suspension data, many of the kids who get suspended are in fact special needs. The most disciplined students in MCPS are Black, male and special needs. There's clearly a correlation with suspension data and being special needs, which suggests the way MCPS is supposedly supporting or not supporting special needs students is not working.[/quote]
This would be a double standard if such kids don't get suspended for let's say bringing a weapon to school but a white kid who brings a weapon to school does get suspended.  Or if such a kid wasn't suspended for being violent, but a Hispanic kid is suspended for the same thing.[/quote]

The disparities in suspension generally don't tend to happen for the extreme examples like bringing a weapon to school. It's the more lower level offenses such as "disrupting the classroom" or "disrespect" where you see Black kids suspended more than White kids.[/quote]

Most of those disparities are explained by frequency.  You don’t get disciplined for “disrupting the classroom “ the first few times you do it, but after enough incidents you do.  A naive examination of the discipline reasons and rates will miss this.[/quote]

How many white boys in Potomac and Bethesda get away with repeatedly "disrupting the classroom" compared to their Black counterparts in Silver Spring and Montgomery Village?

The research on the racial disparities for low-level suspensions is well-documented and researched.[/quote]

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