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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be easy determine, in any public school system, the correlation of teacher race and suspended student race. Is there positive correlation between white teacher race and black student suspension?  How strong is this correlation after controlling for any confounders?  If variables such as race of teacher and suspended student are available over a certain time period (e.g., last decade in MCPS) MCPS can easily do this analysis.  I suspect the answer will mirror the results of similar studies in American society and culture.[/quote]

Don't you consider that a witch hunt?

And what about schools where 80% of the population, for example, is African American and the majority of teachers are white?  Is that in the "confounder" category?

And to add to the complexity of the issue, many of our suspensions are due to repeat offenders.  So Joe X could skew findings b/c he's been suspended 5 times in the past year.  You'd have to comb through the data to extract that information.

In many cases, our suspensions are approved by administrators who are also African American.  So while a white teacher may refer a handful of African American males, for example, for fighting, the administrator will decide upon the punishment. Disciplinary measures - at that level - are not a teacher's call.

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