A new report out today reveals that Rikers Island, the nation’s second largest jail and subject of a damning federal investigation, spends $96,000 per inmate each year. That’s more than a 40 percent increase since 2006 and, The New York Times reports, twice the amount spent per inmate by other big cities like Los Angeles, which houses a larger inmate population.
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As we talked, I admitted that JJ had been suspended three times. All of the mothers were shocked at the news.
“JJ?” one mother asked.
“My son threw something at a kid on purpose and the kid had to be rushed to the hospital,” another parent said. “All I got was a phone call.”
One after another, white mothers confessed the trouble their children had gotten into. Some of the behavior was similar to JJ’s; some was much worse.
Most startling: None of their children had been suspended.
After that party, I read a study reflecting everything I was living.
Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension, according to the study released by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in March.
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implicit bias
racial discrimination
In states like Louisiana with large gaps between the the poorest households and middle earners, students are less likely to graduate high school.
While a little bit of inequality might motivate some students to study harder, a lot of it might kill their motivation entirely.
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Also, has the child been encouraged? Has the child been told the importance of an education in today’s U.S. economy?
Do the teacher’s tell the children that they have potential?
And is there a class that explains in detail the importance of college? If the children know how important college is, then they would be more likely to finish high school