Education
Oct. 29, 2010
School Discipline: Targeting Students of Color
When it comes to discipline, targeting students of color is an ongoing problem with lasting consequences. By Jory Steele of the ACLU of Northern California.
One day during lunchtime at a middle school in Bishop, a small town in the Eastern Sierra, a 12-year-old Native American boy was playing with his friends on the playground when a police officer posted at the school accused him of violating the school dress code. The boy was wearing a bandana, and he asked if he could put it in his locker rather than turn it over to the police officer. (It had been his grandfather's, who had recently pas...
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