Schools Push Black Students To The Criminal Justice System

A recent study found misbehaving white students are more likely to get medical help, while misbehaving black students are more likely to face arrest and suspension. According to MSN.com the report analyzed a data set of more than 60,000 schools in more than 6,000 districts and found schools with relatively larger minority and poor populations are more likely to implement  suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, and arrests — and less likely to connect them to psychological or behavioral care.

Based on the study white kids tend to get viewed as having ADHD, or having some sort of behavioral problem.

Black kids are viewed as being unruly and unwilling to learn. The result has been a school-to-prison pipeline that acts as many kids' first exposure to the criminal justice system — and it can lead to more interactions with the justice system later on, because the lost school time and bad marks on their records can make it much more difficult to get ahead.

Black students with disabilities are almost three times more likely to experience out-of-school suspension or expulsion than their white counterparts, and twice as likely to experience in-school suspension or expulsion.

About 70 percent of students involved in in-school arrests or referred to law enforcement are black or Hispanic. Full Story