Two students set off fire alarms in the same school district. One of them, an African-American kindergartner, is suspended for five days; the other, a white ninth-grader, is suspended for one day.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
School Suspensions: Does Racial Bias Feed the School-to-prison Pipeline?
Author: STACY TEICHER KHADAROO
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Publication Date: 31-Mar-13
Link: School Suspensions: Does Racial Bias Feed the School-to-prison Pipeline?
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Publication Date: 31-Mar-13
Link: School Suspensions: Does Racial Bias Feed the School-to-prison Pipeline?
Stephan: Here is the latest on the New American Slavery trend, which is blending with the privatization of schools to create a pipeline of prisoners. We have no jobs for these young people of color, but they are useful to corporations as valves to tap the public treasury in the form of a payment from government, read tax payer, funds to maintain them as prisoners. It is all very profitable for the few, and a source of misery for the many. Once again a demonstration that in the U.S. we have been taken over by vampire capitalism