A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the Washington, D.C. area are suspended or expelled two to five times more often than White children. It’s a national trend that needs to be addressed. (More)
Response: This reminds me of a middle school where a white male principal school got on the school’s intercom and called all of the black males to the auditorium to talk to them because they were at-risk. When I heard about this, it pissed me the hell off. The only problem is I didn’t have a male child in the school because I would have sued the damn system. I had a daughter there at the time and since I did challenge him, damn fool responded to my emails and I messed his behind up but I couldn’t go but so far. He retaliated by trying to use my daughter but his tail was moved to the Central Office. I think I still have the emails today whereby I questioned him what did he tell them? He had invited a black minister to come talk to them but he claimed he forgot about it when I questioned him. But my problem was all of these black males where not doing bad in school and I told him that hell I was an adult black male and I am considered myself at-risk as well. But my question was what kind of message did this send to little black girls, white girls and white males about the black male? All black males are at-risk be they in school or out of school. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher
