This article from ABC news states that African American students are four times more likely to be suspended than other students and that they also receive less experienced teachers than their white peers. This kind of institutional and structural racism connects with the classroom experience where inexperienced teachers have a more difficult time managing classrooms which usually lead to students acting out. Results show that the numbers of students who are suspended has gone down by 20 percent from 2012 to 2016 but the average of students of color being suspended is still higher than the white students. It seems from results that the problem starts early. Black preschool students already have a higher chance of being suspended and more than half of them have received out-of-school detentions while only about a quarter of white students were received that punishment.
The issue this article presents is to state that African American students are being discriminated against too often. This results in African Americans not receiving proper education and being continuously discriminated against. Their lack of education also causes the stereotypes that basically state that African Americans are less educated and more prone to violence. People should care because with this kind of institutional and structural racism there will be no stop and black students will constantly be discriminated against. I could use the information I learned to raise awareness by doing things such as writing on this blog and sharing my knowledge. We should act differently by trying to understand the types of racism and if possible,offer more experienced teachers and more fairness in school punishments for the students of color.
The author is sympathetic towards African Americans. The value of their perspective is that we get to see the statistics of the African American students that get suspended and receive less experienced teachers. However, the author’s perspective only shows that one possible reason that the African American students were suspended. Although, there may have been many other factors including struggles at home or racist comments that some of their white peers may have made that led them to get in trouble at school.
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