The usual rebuttal here on the blog is that African-American students may be twice as likely to misbehave, but studies show even for the same transgressions, black kids pay a higher price.For the 2011-2012 school year, African-American students represented 37 percent of all the students enrolled in Georgia but made up 54 percent of students receiving in-school suspension, 66 percent of those getting out-of-school suspension, and 50 percent of those expelled.
The Brookings Institution report, citing federal education department data, found 1 out of 100 black students in Georgia were struck by a teacher or staffer during the 2011-12 school year, the most recent school year available. By comparison, 1 of 200 white Georgia students were struck during the same school year. White students outnumber black students in Georgia’s public school students, according to state education department data.
Only three states — Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi — had a higher rate of black students who were disciplined by corporal punishment, the study found.
“So long as these failures fall disproportionately on black children, we are not yet living up to the dream that ‘children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,’ ” the report said.
