{"id":324,"date":"2015-10-30T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=324"},"modified":"2015-10-08T05:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T05:15:05","slug":"solving-the-school-discipline-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/30\/solving-the-school-discipline-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the School Discipline Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"storytext\" class=\"storytext storylocation linkLocation\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garfieldmessenger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Double-truck-background-copy-copy-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joseph C. Phillip frames the debate\u00a0in terms of students&#8217; family life and single vs. two parent homes, rather than bigotry in\u00a0school disciplinarians. He thinks that focusing only on race-talk on this issue will lead to unsatisfactory solutions that institutionalize the idea that there is something inherently different culturally that leads to black children misbehaving.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A 2006\u00a0study claims Seattle school teachers discipline black students more than their white peers. How about a solution that doesn&#8217;t involve pulling the &#8216;race card?&#8217; [&#8230;] We can either march forward under the illusion that a discipline gap exists because teachers are a bunch of racists, suspending black children more than white for no other reason than the color of their skin. Or, we can finally realize that a breakdown in the traditional family structure, and an embrace of the destructive social behavior and attitudes that have accompanied it, is playing the devil with our children.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5169996\">Click here to read\/listen to more.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Questions:<\/h2>\n<p>Do you agree of disagree with\u00a0Phillip&#8217;s interpretation of this issue?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think\u00a0that solutions should be focused on race or family life? Another related factor? A mix of these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph C. Phillip frames the debate\u00a0in terms of students&#8217; family life and single vs. two parent homes, rather than bigotry in\u00a0school disciplinarians. He thinks that focusing only on race-talk on this issue will lead to unsatisfactory solutions that institutionalize the idea that there is something inherently different culturally that leads to black children misbehaving. &#8220;A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/30\/solving-the-school-discipline-gap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solving the School Discipline Gap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[21,46,77,27,55,57,4,31,74,38],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-audio","category-authored-post","tag-american-history","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-minorities","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-racial-inequality","tag-stereotypes","tag-white-privilege","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}