Last year the CSG Justice Center, in partnership with the Public
Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University, released a
statewide study of nearly 1 million Texas public secondary
school students, followed for at least six years. One of the
more shocking discoveries of this report is that the majority of
students were suspended or expelled between seventh to twelfth
grade. This report clearly shows that there needs to be changes
made to how we discipline our children in schools. Below is a
passage from the report about how African-American students were
disproportionately removed from classes. A link for the whole
report can be found below. 2. African-American students and
those with particular educational disabilities were
disproportionately likely to be removed from the classroom for
disciplinary reasons. - The great majority of African-American
male students had at least one discretionary violation (83
percent), compared to 74 percent for Hispanic male students, and
59 percent for white male students