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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The day they stop disciplining students who act out (regardless of their background) is the day we leave for private. All the good teachers will leave too. This is absurd. There has to be a minimum standard for behavior for everyone involved.[/quote]

It’s not about not disciplining. It’s about who gets disciplined, what for, and to what degree? Whose parents can get them out of it and whose can’t? White students face fewer suspensions. When Black and brown students are disciplined it’s often for subjective things like “disrespect.” If you fight, sell drugs, hurt someone sure, there’s an expectation of consequences. The consequences are not equal though nor are the offenses for which some students receive them. [/quote]

I still don’t understand how you can “prove” that black and brown students are not simply misbehaving more often? Is there some proven rule that all races misbehave with equal frequency? Maybe culturally they are not taught to respect authority?[/quote]

That would be a racist premise. Being disciplined at higher rates than white and Asian students when you are of a racial group that is a smaller percentage of the school population overall than those groups suggests it’s a system issue. That’s why these reports, which are public, are called district discipline DISPROPORTIONALITY reports. They are DISPROPORTIONATELY disciplined relative to their numbers as part of the overall student population. A huge issue for that as well is that most teachers are... white.  [/quote]

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