Black Children and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

This lede tells me I’m gonna read this article:

I always strove to give my daughter access to good schools in “safe” areas, but an experience in a public school has taught me how students of color, even in well-resourced schools and neighborhoods, can fall victim to the school-to-prison pipeline.

I know a mother of a mixed-race child who moved her out of an integrated public school to a less-mixed Catholic school when the girl was getting into fights for the first time. More later . . .

via ZORA

2 thoughts on “Black Children and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

  1. Seeing “racism” everywhere. Talk about paranoia. I wanted to “clap” for the man, William Dennison, who asked some questions that warranted answers, but I would have had to sign up for google or facebook which I refuse to do.

    Yes, where is the father? Another single mother looking to blame everyone else for her daughter’s misbehavior on the bus at the first school.

    By the way, starting a new school and being placed in the lowest reading group is standard procedure. I moved 7 times in the second grade in the 1940’s. Each time I had to try out from low to high reading groups.

    Sadly, most of the respondents were fully invested in her tale of racism.

    Maybe it’s time we designate a state for blacks and encourage them all to move there and run it the way they prefer. They could succeed or fail based on their own freely-chosen decisions and could not blame lack of diversity or racism if they ended up like Detroit. Where are the successful (free and prosperous) black societies?

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