Many school-aged children in the U.S. end up in juvenile detention or expelled from school for offenses ranging from arriving late to breaking the dress code to fighting in the hallway. Once “pushed out” from school, these children are often headed down the road to a life of poverty and more serious crimes. A good portion of these kids are African-American girls who, our guest says, are unfairly targeted for discipline because of a misunderstanding of their behavior. We discuss this phenomenon and also talk to a professor who has studied the effect that extremely strict school rules have on the students and the teachers who are made to enforce them.
Guest Information:
- Dr. Monique Morris, President and Co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and author of the book, Pushout: The criminalization of Black girls in schools
- Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Co-editor with Jacob Fay of the book, Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and commentaries
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