Minority Students Get Harsher Punishments Than White Ones
LatestA new study shows that a whopping 60% of Texas students are suspended at some point in middle or high school — and those getting the harshest suspensions are students of color.
According to the Times, the Council of State Governments found that 31% of Texas middle- and high-schoolers received an expulsion or out-of-school suspension at some point. If you add in-school suspensions, the figure jumps to 60%. And perhaps most disturbing of all, recidivism rates were very high: kids who got out-of-school suspensions or expulsions got an average of four of them, and one in seven kids had eleven or more disciplinary actions on their records. So clearly suspensions and expulsions aren’t stopping the behavior they’re meant to punish.