Wonkette: Zero-Tolerance Suspensions For Pre-K Are Racially — WHAT? THEY SUSPEND PRE-K KIDS??!!11!
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Today’s wrist-slitting Big Story from the Associated Press tells us that our nation’s educators are starting the school-to-prison pipeline even earlier than we thought, as SIX PERCENT of pre-schools report suspending at least one pre-school child. Naturally, as the Education Department’s civil rights division will report today, black children are disproportionately suspended. African-American children make up 18 percent of preschool students, but about half of the suspensions.
Wait, did we say “naturally?” No, not naturally, you stupid pre-school administrators, THAT IS NOT NATURAL AT ALL, STOP IT!
The Feds don’t seem to have asked these school systems WHY they suspend pre-school kids. Presumably it is because they are chewing Pop-tarts into gun shapes. Usually, suspensions are a response to violence or threats, and while any sensible person is in favor of not allowing children to beat each other up, maybe pre-K would be an appropriate place to teach kids about Not Hitting?
More at link:
http://wonkette.com/544658/zero-tolerance-suspensions-for-pre-k-are-racially-what-they-suspend-pre-k-kids11#more-544658