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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Wed Jun 8, 2016, 10:25 AM Jun 2016

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For black kids, the school-to-prison pipeline opens the second they start preschool [View all]

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Black students are disproportionately suspended from school when they’re as young as three-years-old, according to new data released by the Department of Education this week, suggesting that the school-to-prison pipeline is set in motion even earlier than elementary school.

Despite fewer black children being enrolled in preschool, they’re 3.6 times more likely to be suspended from school as white children, the report found: http://fusion.net/story/310792/black-students-school-suspension/

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For black kids, the school-to-prison pipeline opens the second they start preschool [View all] MrScorpio Jun 2016 OP

When will it end! Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #1

If you're black in America, it never will end. MrScorpio Jun 2016 #3

We have to change it! Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #4

Amen. We have to change it. Bucky Jun 2016 #11

Been keeping up with these stories and it is sickening. This trend follows through high school too tonyt53 Jun 2016 #2

Yep Liberal_in_LA Jun 2016 #5

Great article Gothmog Jun 2016 #6

The article has some messed up numbers in it. Captain Stern Jun 2016 #7

It has a goal. Igel Jun 2016 #8

It's a good thing the presumptive nominee has a lot of influence with the private prison industry Fumesucker Jun 2016 #9

Yup it does. nadinbrzezinski Jun 2016 #10

There was a story of a black kid who got arrested for theft for taking food he had already paid for. Odin2005 Jun 2016 #12

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