Should Black Students Be Allowed In Schools

Additionally, schools not only suspend black students for misconduct, but because the students do not meet specific standards. Some schools give suspensions if the students does not meet an academic requirement (Amurao, Para 3). This fits the identity of black students more because they are thought of as less educated and lazy, so administration can have a reason to kick them out. Black students are pushed out to better the image of the school and to maintain the its state rating. If a white student was not meeting the proper academic requirements, they would get a warning and receive help from teachers. But since a black student is not doing well in class, they are automatically suspended. Black students should be encouraged by educators to

Also, schools believe that suspending students teaches them why their action are wrong and protects the school from a “dangerous threat.” In actuality, kicking the students out of school only stresses them out, causes an emotional toll upon the parents and student, and creates more problems at home (“Out-of-School Suspension”, Para 1). Once they are suspended, students have a hard time finding someone to trust and talk to, so they begin to distance themselves from everyone else. This distance can have a huge impact psychologically and create a more lethal destruction than what their misconduct was. Suspending students for small misdemeanors does not benefit anybody and only makes matters worse. Students should be required to stay in school and be involved with programs that teach them how to build better relationships and other alternatives to dealing with a situation. If all schools throughout the United States enforced this rule, then crime, arrest, and drug abuse rates would drop dramatically. According to Anne-Marie Iselin out of school suspensions create bad relationships between a child and their parents leading to problems in the student’s homelife

According to “Chicago School-to-Prison Pipeline Fact Sheet” young black males are more prone to getting suspended and as the number of suspensions each students receives, the more likely it is that they drop out by sophomore year (1). Suspending students has no positive impact on their future, since it can lead to a fallback on their classwork, more rebellious actions, and eventually leading the student to a failed academic career. When the first thing schools turn to as punishment is suspension, they are decreasing graduation and college acceptance rates. As this happens, they are promoting the black stereotype of a lazy, uneducated trouble maker. Schools are supposed to be a guide for students to achieve their dreams, but when they keep suspending students for every small offense, they are denying their dreams and aspirations to become a reality. Schools are not encouraging students to do better, instead they are holding them back from becoming successful when punishing students harshly. To continue, schools that constantly suspend students allow them to have more freedom, exposing them to more situations that can get them in trouble, even being arrested and leaving them to drop out. According to Judy Molland, minorities are targeted to be punished more severely which