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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread.  SMH[/quote]
+1000 Seriously.

In a probably futile attempt to add something sensible to this thread ...

I think a major problem with only looking at race is that you don't control for Socio-Economic Status or other impacts such as Special education students, including those coded with emotional disabilities. In my experience as a teacher, there is a correlation between poorer students having more disrupted home lives, which leads to more challenging classroom behaviors. I do not deny that there are studies that show that teachers will tolerate certain behavior more from white students than black/brown students. But there is also likely to be more disrupted behavior from poor students, who are more likely to be black or brown. Whittle this data to show only students from families with HHI >$100k, and the disparity will likely be much less.[/quote]

This is the belief that so many people point to as an explanation for what is going on. Unfortunately, in studies done throughout the U.S., the discrepancy between discipline rates for the same behaviors holds true when the black students in question are from high-SES families. At that point, I think you need to concede that racism is the explanation.[/quote]

They did a similar study in the U.K. which has the same suspension disparity rates as the US, but they broke it down by nationality.  They found that black immigrant children were suspended/disciplined at a lower rate than native white children at the same time that native black children were suspended/disciplined at a much higher rate.  They also found discrepancies amongst the Asian students based on country of origin.

I know that racism is the "go to" explanation for EVERYTHING today, but different rates of suspensions doesn't necessarily prove that.  You see the same disparities in crime, with affluent blacks committing crimes at the same rate as lower-middle class whites, even though the crime rate for both groups drop as SES goes up.[/quote]

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