This is the issue they covered in a White House meeting that I was invited to last year (and couldn't attend:/) as a filmmaker. Watch the videos of the researchers discussing the issue, then note the comments at the bottom. It'd be interesting to look up the LinkedIn profiles of the readers who left comments and see if they are teachers. If they are then that's scary and this message may fall largely on deaf ears... -- Education Week Black Girls and School Discipline: Four Researchers Unpack K-12's Racial Bias http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/black-girls-and-school-discipline-four-researchers-videos.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&intc=es&override=web In four videos, education researchers discuss their perspectives on the criminalizing of black girls in American schools, including by school resource officers.