Book Review: Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/19/1612:00 PM

In November 2015, a video of a young girl in South Carolina’s Spring Valley High School classroom being “thrown to the ground” by Richland County Sheriff Deputy Ben Fields swept the nation. In March, another video surfaced of a Baltimore school officer kicking a high school student. In May, an autistic 10-year old girl was dragged and handcuffed by police in Louisiana. This comes on top of scientific data declaring that children as young as preschool age receive excessive punishments in school and after-school settings. Children of color are specifically more at risk, receiving expulsions or suspensions when their white counterparts receive referral to medical care or a warning.

[For more of this story, written by Hope Wabuke, go to http://jjie.org/book-review-en...l-discipline/296888/]

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