Charter schools suspend more black students and children with disabilities. This year, UCLA’s Center for Civil Rights Remedies published a study that for the first time looked at the numbers of “out-of-school” suspensions for 5,250 charter schools and 95,000 public schools. The researchers found that while overall suspension rates have been going down since 2012, in charter schools, black students and students with disabilities were suspended at higher percentages in all grades than their peers in traditional schools. In middle and high schools, 12 percent more students with disabilities and 2.5 percent more black students were suspended in charters compared with noncharters.
Paying attention to this data is important, because researchers have found that being suspended is a strong indicator that a student will eventually drop out. And students who drop out are much more likely to end up in prison, becoming part of the “school-to-prison pipeline.” This issue disproportionately affects black students (in charter and noncharter schools), who are suspended at a rate four times greater than white students.
What troubles me the most is that black children are used as props for this “school reform industrial complex” that is more about privatizing public schools than it is about educational equity and actual reform. My experience with charter schools and networks tout a “no excuses” pedagogy treat they black neighborhoods they move into as broken communities that need to be fixed and saved.
We don’t need this trend to explode, because the neighborhoods with the least agency and voice will be the ones targeted first.
Teaching isn’t charity work. It’s a job. But because it is a profession dominated by women, and teaching is often viewed as a caretaking role, we see teachers who stand up for their labor rights as selfish. And we view the profession itself as unworthy of the value and support it’s always deserved.
How Gender Bias Affects Teachers’ Salaries - The Establishment (via brutereason)
A grade-school philosophy teacher shares the most profound things kids have ever said
As a philosophy teacher to grade-school students, Jana Mohr Lone is no stranger to getting her mind blown.
For the last 20 years or so, Mohr Lone has been the president of PLATO, a nonprofit focused on bringing philosophy to schools.
Though her students still have most of their baby teeth, Mohr Lone says a lack of life experience hardly deters them from reflecting on life’s big mysteries: happiness, existence, knowledge, death.
Over the years, some quotes have really stuck with her. Here a select group she shared with Business Insider that are particularly profound.
I may miss you like crazy, and I do, but what the hell would you expect? You were my best friend. The person I confided in when things got rough and laughed with when things were the best. We made promises and memories and dreams that you took away in the snap of your fingers. So yes, of course I fucking miss you, I just don’t want you back in my life, because really, you’re too toxic for me to handle anymore without dying.
Hey you! I know we don’t talk anymore. Why would we? We have nothing in common. I hope you’re doing okay. I’m doing pretty damn well.
Even though you killed me, I want to thank you. You taught me so much. You taught me how to feel heartless. You taught me how to dump that stupid romantic and passionate side I once had. You taught me the importance of putting yourself first. You taught me how to be dependent. You talk me how to fade away.
You taught me to recognize my double standards. You taught me how to be contained and now I’m finally free again.
And you taught me one of the most important lessons ever. Never, ever, ever, plan your future around someone who doesn’t show affection towards you.
Oh and on a side note, I still haven’t forgotten how you hated kissing and just wanted to fuck.
Oh and thank goodness, we’re not together, because I’m on your period & you probably would have been angry that you didn’t get some on your birthday.
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