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Subtle factors combine to fuel school-to-prison pipeline [NonDoc.com]

 

The Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has published a study examining the civil rights impact of school discipline and juvenile-justice policies.

The study explains how excessive and disparate suspensions of students “may lead to high rates of juvenile incarceration” — particularly among youth of color, boys and students with disabilities — in what has become known as the school-to-prison pipeline.

In its report released this month, the committee issued a number of commonsense recommendations ranging from better professional development of teachers, of school law enforcement officers and of juvenile-justice workers to a repudiation of “zero-tolerance” disciplinary policies.

The committee recommended that the department “impose mandatory reforms to disciplinary policies for schools that demonstrate significant disparities in disciplinary actions on the basis of race, color, or disability,” but that’s not as ominous as it might seem.

I emailed Melissa Wojnaroski, civil rights analyst with the commission, for clarification.



[For more of this story, written by John Thompson, go to https://nondoc.com/2016/06/28/...-to-prison-pipeline/]

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This makes me so sad, and is a painful reminder that it's going to be difficult to help kids with trauma in school, when schools can often be the source of traumatization.

Schools will have to reckon with those two pie charts above in order to benefit from their trauma informed practices, or we will continue to see these disparities. Some students will be viewed from a trauma-informed lens, while others will still be seen as incorrigible.

If I've learned anything in life, it's that racism is infinitely adaptable.  It only diminishes when confronted directly. 

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