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Why Do We Keep Doing School Suspensions?
Suspensions, are disproportionately passed out to prickly black boys. We also know that suspensions have huge collateral consequences. There's not a stitch of available social science evidence to suggest that any good comes out of a suspension. So why do we keep doing them? I think it is this larger narrative of racest ideas that fundamentally cause us to not recognize these larger practices or forces. It's the same thing with police. Stops two sets of rules? I think so.