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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1183662" data-attributes="member: 44954">Your misunderstanding is assuming that the word &quot;discipline&quot; means telling a child no, or giving them detention.&nbsp; &nbsp; reducing the dropout rate of African American students and helping African American students graduate from high school prepared for college and a career, in part by promoting a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools, and by supporting successful and innovative dropout prevention and recovery strategies that better engage African American youths in their learning, help them catch up academically, and provide those who have left the educational system with pathways to reentry;For example, a black child (15 year old Shaquandra Cotton in Dallas, Texas) being imprisoned for a year for shoving a teacher.&nbsp; Do you think that would have happened to a 15 year old white girl in Texas?&nbsp;&nbsp; dis·pa·ratevery different: describes people or things so completely unlike one another that they cannot be comparedPutting a 15 year old child in prison because of an altercation at school does not promote education. A judge has found her mother&#039;s care is detrimental to her, so prison is better? As I said,&nbsp; it takes children out of a system that educates them, and puts them into a system that teaches them how to be criminals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1183662, member: 44954"] Your misunderstanding is assuming that the word "discipline" means telling a child no, or giving them detention. reducing the dropout rate of African American students and helping African American students graduate from high school prepared for college and a career, in part by promoting a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in [B]disparate use of disciplinary tools[/B], and by supporting successful and innovative dropout prevention and recovery strategies that better engage African American youths in their learning, help them catch up academically, and provide those who have left the educational system with pathways to reentry; For example, a black child (15 year old Shaquandra Cotton in Dallas, Texas) being imprisoned for a year for shoving a teacher. Do you think that would have happened to a 15 year old white girl in Texas? [COLOR=#404040][FONT=Arial]dis·pa·rate very different: describes people or things so completely unlike one another that they cannot be compared[/FONT] [/COLOR] Putting a 15 year old child in prison because of an altercation at school does not promote education. A judge has found her mother's care is detrimental to her, so prison is better? As I said, it takes children out of a system that educates them, and puts them into a system that teaches them how to be criminals. [/QUOTE]

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