Racial disparity in school punishment is structural and not explained by behavior or poverty

Evidence

“The data are unambiguous: African-American students are punished more harshly than their White peers for the same infractions. This disproportionality is not attributable to differential rates of misbehavior, and it is not reducible to differential rates of poverty. It appears to be a stable and consistent feature of how school discipline is administered.” — , The Rod and the Child, 7420

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the disproportionate-corporal-punishment findings for Black students documented in this season’s earlier episodes. — connects to: Racial school segregation generates lasting feelings of inferiority among minority children — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 504; Separate educational facilities in public schooling are inherently unequal — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 505; Race and poverty affect test scores only through their effect on social capital. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1053 (+3 more)

Related

• Schools apply different sanctions by class, race, and gender. (similarity 0.85)
• Separate educational facilities in public schooling are inherently unequal (similarity 0.84)
• Black students are paddled at twice the rate of white students. (similarity 0.81)
• Suspension fails to reduce misbehavior and actually predicts its own recurrence while harming academics (similarity 0.80)
• School discipline punishes identical child behavior differently by race (similarity 0.79)
• Children of Color suffer simultaneous special-education, gifted, and discipline inequities. (similarity 0.79)
• US schools paddle roughly 160,000 students annually with Black students struck twice as often (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racial school segregation generates lasting feelings of inferiority among minority children #expands (0.60) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 504
• Separate educational facilities in public schooling are inherently unequal #corroborates (0.55) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 505