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Nashville Middle Schools Suspend 50% of Its Black Boys!! (This is a Damn PROBLEM!)
It's tough to be a black boy in Nashville, Tenn.
Nine middle schools there have suspended half of their black male students at some point, more often than any other group.
One school suspended 58 percent of its black male students, but just 10 percent of its white male students. Another suspended 58 percent of black boys but only 13 percent of white boys.
On the elementary school level, six schools suspended only black males, even though four of those schools have a mixed black and white population. In Tennessee, black kids are four times more likely to be suspended than other students.
And the problem is not unique to Nashville. Nationally, black kids are suspended three times more often than whites.
"That's a terrible track record," attorney Larry Woods, who is suing the school system over inadequate textbooks and resources, told WSMV-TV in Nashville. "I think the entire community's going to be shocked and surprised at these numbers. ... These aren't the occasional bad kid or bad seed; they're suspending more than half [of] their minority students."
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Comment by Lenetta McDonald on July 14, 2010 at 3:30pm
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Yes the NAACP is a joke. You ask for help, they will say "we do not service that community but if you get 50 people together you can start your on branch and represent the people in your area". Later you will receive a letter regarding donating money to the NAACP. What a joke!
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The conditions at Williamson County School System are worse. The Black kids here are suspended at a rate of 75% more than white kids. The white kid can get into trouble but will not be punished. A black kid can get into trouble doing the same thing as the white kid, but this kid is taken to juvenile. The treatment of black students in Williamson County is harsh. It gives you the impression that this system wants all black kids (boys) in jail and this will rid the city of the minorities. Some teachers have stated to the black kids (boys), "you will never amount to anything and you will end up in prison like the rest of you people".
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Comment by Curtis Holbert on June 13, 2010 at 3:42pm
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This just pisses me off!!!
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This is awful! Just plain awful! We need to do something about this asap! It's only going to get worse! Black men standup! This needs to be addressed asap!
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Comment by Alnisa Almugtadir on June 12, 2010 at 6:38pm
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I am the mother of five boy's and them being suspended is occassional, when they are wrong there wrong but they would always give me that no tolerance bull when i bring to there attention that the case is minor. I notice that the white male students can do much worse and be put in ISS while the blacks just get suspended.
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O Yes our NAACP in Tennessee is nothing but a JOKE!
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you think that is something, Al Sharpton was on Tom Joyner the other morning talking about how all of the south including Tennessee justice system is bipartisan, meaning black or more likely to go to jail and service crazy time for almost nothing. But you know if you don't have anyone to stand up for the minorities then they can get away with this stuff. We don't have anymore A Lobby's, C. E. McGruder's, which just a few of the great people that helped, stood behind and advocated for our people. Today our people like the above mention, will not lift a finger for our people unless we PAY. So until we get people to stand up for what is right, we will aways get the short in the the stick.
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Comment by Angela Hayes on June 11, 2010 at 12:01pm
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I do agree with you Michelle, and by the way how have you been doing? I miss the chat folks in the room..Anyway, I have a son in Middle school and a son that has graduated from MLK...on his way to UT-Knoxville :))...but my son that is in middle school has been placed in ISS more than once..but when I questioned what the problem is with all his teachers ( 3 white and 2 black), one particular teacher began to "move" her head when speaking (pretty strange)...but she was quick to be very offensive. On the other hand the "white" teachers were more open to listen and then speak with reasoning...In my opinion its hard to be a young "black" boy in middle school....
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Comment by Carla Michelle DeCourcey on June 11, 2010 at 8:51am
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There will not be any change until more parents become involved in their children's education. I have had experiences with the Robertson County school system that were not at all positive. I decided that I would become a substitute teacher which would allow me to go to school everyday with my son. Like I used to explain to him " they are getting the white boys ready for UT Knoxville, and preparing you for an assembly line".
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