The school-to-prison pipeline: an epidemic that is plaguing schools across the nation. Far too often, students are suspended, expelled or even arrested for minor offenses that leave visits to the principal’s office a thing of the past. Statistics reflect that these policies disproportionately target students of color and those with a history of abuse, neglect, poverty or learning disabilities. Read more... #discipline #suspensions #zerotolerance #highschools #blackmales

Newly released figures show that suspensions in the county’s 25 high schools dropped from 2,263 in the 2012-2013 school year to 1,432 during the school year that ended in June. Suspensions involving black and Hispanic students fell by more than 600, but the district’s new figures show that while the gap has narrowed, suspensions of minority students continue to occur in disproportionate numbers. Read more... #suspensions #montgomery #highschools #maryland