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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did no one read the article?  The author does not live here.  No where does she attribute anything to DCPS.  Furthermore - she's talking about pre-school.

Anyway, I googled the woman and she is being touted by Oprah as a new "great voice" etc., etc.    I gather she lives somewhere in Omaha.

[b]In any event: black, white, purple, red, orange, or teal green - I think the article was slanted.  [/b]

She stated over and over that she was AA and posted lots of cute pics of her kids - they are adorable if not hellions.

She stated that she had conversations with "white friends" whose kids had done worse things and had not been suspended but she did not cite schools, etc.  where these offenses went without consequence.

She grew up without a father - he was addicted to drugs and alcohol.

Bless her trying to raise her two sons and I am glad she is not doing it alone as her mother did.   However I must say, the author of this article has a huge chip on her shoulder.  Once again - no matter if your kids are orange, green, purple, red or hot pink - YOU need to take responsibility as a parent and if your children are throwing chairs and spitting at people, they do not deserve to be around others.

Stop trying to be the next Oprah and teach your kids some manners.

Thank you.

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Uh, yes, it was slanted.  She's writing about the slant.

[i]Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension, according to the study released by the  Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in March.[/i]

There's no way that kids with the cognitive power of a three-year-old have the decision-making faculties to process the consequence of a suspension.  Let's take race out of it and consider how we would feel if nearly half of ALL kids were suspended multiple times before they reached kindergarten.

Assigning shame and blame does absolutely nothing to address the fact that something is very wrong with that picture.  And, given that you can look at the kids' faces and conclude they are "hellions" no matter how adorable, then it's fair to say that, at minimum, the first suspension is a condemnation - [i]of a three-year-old[/i] - with no regard for any facts.

As everyone keeps posting, we don't know what the facts are, but the consensus is and should be bad kid and bad mother.  Because no one here has had a kid younger than 5 flip out on them for no reason.[/quote]

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