Exclusionary school discipline, more commonly known as kicking kids out of class or school, begins when teachers send disruptive students to the principals office and leads to suspension or expulsion from school altogether. For more than 35 years, school suspension research in the United States has consistently documented that Black (and more recently Brown) students, particularly males, are disproportionately issued exclusionary school discipline consequences even though no evidence supports the claim that they are more disruptive than their peers. From a social justice perspective,...
Exclusionary school discipline, more commonly known as kicking kids out of class or school, begins when teachers send disruptive students to the princ...