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[quote=Anonymous][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.[/quote]

No witch hunt.  You are mistaken.  The study is designed to test the hypothesis that the suspension of black students in MCPS is highly positively correlated with the race of those recommending and authorizing the suspension.   This study would like at the race of the suspending persons (teachers) and the race of all the suspended students over the last 10 years in MCPS.  All races for both variables.  The aim or objective would be to explore potential correlations to test the hypothesis.  This is not a witch hunt, rather a scientific approach (minimize any biases in the study design and blind those doing any analyses), to explore this observation outside of the biases exhibited by people like you and I.

If the data is available it is worthy of scientific investigation to get at the truth rather than this back and forth.

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