The revelation of systemic disproportional suspensions of black students in our nation’s school districts is disturbing and troubling on a number of layers beyond and above educational concerns. One wonders if this same horrid disparity exists in private and parochial school venues. The portrayal of black students has always been contaminated with ugly themes some of which include themes regarding genetic inferiority.
In our nation the incongruent levels of parity and inequality have often received attention in the criminal justice area and in some health care terrains to observe this inequality surface in our educational systems is truly a concern worthy of state and federal intervention. Our government must create a reporting metric that provides transparency and disclosure to minority parents about the incidents and comparable rates of suspensions between student racial groups. One of the constructive attributes of recent federal educational legislation was the right to make evaluations and contrast academic outcomes based upon racial groups.
The importance of superior educational outcomes is heighten more by the troubled economic realties of the new world order. Parents of black students must be in the vanguard of programs and laws which impact the future of their children this focus must involve best practices and uniform guidelines which ban disparate punishment and remedies for troubled students to the delivery of superior educational programs.
Gregory Thrasher is a blogger and the director of Plane Ideas. You can reach him at planeidea@msn.com.
The worldview of black people is based on how we treat each other. We engage in mass rhetorical-philosophical discourse about issues that can only be resolve by our own collective resources, yet we fail to act generation after generation.
The masses of black people reject their own prophets and fail to build education institutions that eradicates the tenets of this article.
BLACK IS NOT INVESTING ENOUGH IN BLACK– namely our children,marriage,family, community,etc. This crap starts at home or with family & parents. This is NOT about just buying black; it’s about investing in others (asians,indians-india,whites,arabs,etc.) by imatating & injesting what is most valuable to them (clothing,hair,plastic surgery,european beauty–hair/look,cars,things….) MORE than ourselves. MATH,READING,WRITING & LEARNING WORK SKILLS (degrees, certifications,manual/office labor,business ownership,etc.) are basics for LIFE & PERSONAL GROWTH. And we do not have to just choose one field because we have different interests & can become multiskilled in any area.
CORRECTION: Meant to say we need to STOP following or imitating non-blacks as if what THEY value is more important than what we think or value. They value crap & things more than character—this practice hurts us more than any group or culture. For example,both parents should raise children—not just woman. Just because you prefer someone non-black does not make it OK to neglect your black family,community or children. Deadbeat/missing black fathers & black mothers who bring any man (lover)unsupervised or abusive around her children,SHOW BLACK CHILDREN they are worthless.
CORRECTION: Meant to say we need to STOP following or imitating non-blacks as if what THEY value is more important than what we think or value. They value crap & things more than character—this practice hurts us more than any group or culture. For example,both parents should raise children—not just women. Just because you prefer someone non-black does not make it OK to neglect your black family,community or children. Deadbeat/missing black fathers & black mothers who bring any man (lover)unsupervised or abusive around her children,SHOW BLACK CHILDREN they are worthless.
I really like how author focused on the role of parents in securing a good educational outcome for their children.
Interesting proposal we have disclosures for food ingredients makes sense to inform parents on rates of school suspensions.