Schools apply different sanctions by class, race, and gender.

Evidence

We have emphasized elements on the “hidden curriculum” faced in varying degrees by all students. But schools do different things to different children. Boys and girls, blacks and whites, rich and poor are treated differently. Affluent suburban schools, working-class schools, and ghetto schools all exhibit a distinctive pattern of sanctions and rewards. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 514

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: School discipline punishes identical child behavior differently by race — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1187; Concrete school discipline differences reveal unequal freedom and expectations by race — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 543; Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata (+5 more)

Broader Connections