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Restorative Practices: Righting the Wrongs of Exclusionary School Discipline by Dr. Marilyn Armour

Students with behavioral health needs are disproportionately subject to exclusionary school discipline and school - based arrests.

The presence of police officers, guns, handcuffs, and metal detectors in schools creates hostile teaching and learning environments that are reinforced by harsh, punitive, and exclusionary school discipline policies.

But while much has been said about the potential negative effects of exclusionary school punishment, little is known about what policymakers can do to address it.

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Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

Williams says many believe that ultimately this use of exclusionary discipline pushed children out of the schools.

The scholars write, «Across the state, black students are about 2.4 times as likely to receive exclusionary discipline (conditional on reported infractions and other student characteristics), whereas within school, this same conditional disparity is not statistically significant.»

They assess the evidence on critiques of exclusionary discipline and in support of alternative strategies, and discuss areas where additional research is necessary to understand the consequences of both for schools and students.

Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

Further, they note that researchers have not yet established a causal relationship between the use of exclusionary discipline and either school climate or students» later lives — such as the school - to - prison pipeline.

Steinberg and Lacoe note an increase in the use of exclusionary discipline to address nonviolent offenses, such as school uniform violations or refusal to turn off a cellphone.

We also found that there was a subset of schools that could be labeled as «persistently exclusionary.»

Because the Civil Rights Data Collection quantifies the use of exclusionary discipline, it becomes a salient metric for researchers, advocates, and policymakers — but on its own, it does not paint a complete picture of a school's approach to discipline or, more importantly, its overall climate.

In particular, schools will need to adopt alternative practices, rather than eliminating or dramatically reducing the use of exclusionary discipline in a policy void.

[11] They find black students in North Carolina were less likely to be subject to exclusionary discipline when they had black teachers rather than white teachers, even within the same school.

Moreover, reform advocates note, basing admissions on geographical boundaries is an exclusionary practice, all too redolent of the days when low - income students of minority background desperately sought to escape from «slum» or «ghetto» schools and gain access to the generally superior schools in «good» neighborhoods from which they had been barred.

In a new study, Steinberg and Lacoe use data from Philadelphia schools, relative to counterparts elsewhere in Pennsylvania over the same time period, to study a 2012 district reform restricting the use of exclusionary discipline and emphasizing positive approaches.

Finally, the letter contains a significant appendix of «illustrative» specific suggestions for policy and practice that could serve to help states and districts avoid violations, urging schools to reduce the use of suspension and other forms of exclusionary discipline, focusing instead on positive approaches.

Such schools need massive amounts of help in order to transform into orderly learning environments that don't have to resort so much to exclusionary discipline.

The 2014 letter declares that «Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance... decreased academic achievement... increased likelihood of dropping out; substance abuse; and involvement with juvenile justice systems.»

A school's willingness to define its boundaries, however exclusionary they may seem to outsiders, can have clear benefits for education.

As of May 2015, 22 states and the District of Columbia had revised their laws in order to require or encourage schools to: limit the use of exclusionary discipline practices; implement supportive (that is, nonpunitive) discipline strategies that rely on behavioral interventions; and provide support services such as counseling, dropout prevention, and guidance services for at - risk students.

According to the American Psychological Association's Zero Tolerance Task Force, there is no hard evidence that exclusionary policies reduce school violence.

And even if schools reduce their use of exclusionary practices, it doesn't necessarily follow that they will cease to mete out these punishments disproportionately by race.

Changes to district policies guiding school discipline and student conduct constitute a direct approach to reducing exclusionary discipline.

Restorative practices are a burgeoning alternative to traditional punitive justice such as suspensions (both in school and out of school) and other exclusionary forms of discipline.

We don't know whether the use of exclusionary discipline causes school climates to deteriorate, or if administrators respond to unruly climates by clamping down on school discipline.

In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive behavior that would warrant higher rates of exclusionary discipline than white peers.

While the evidence does suggest that school climate is worse when exclusionary discipline practices are more widespread, this evidence is not causal.

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Advo - cates of discipline reform contend that exclusionary discipline may have adverse consequences for school climate.

Fourth, even as our quality improves, our schools have made remarkable progress reducing exclusionary discipline.

Eliminating exclusionary zoning in a metro area would, by reducing its housing cost gap, lower its school test - score gap by an estimated 4 to 7 percentiles — a significant share of the observed gap between schools serving the average low - income versus middle / higher - income student.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

These evidence - based approaches help schools support students with challenging behaviors and were recommended by the Mayoral Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline to keep students in school learning instead of punishing them through exclusionary discipline practices, which do not address the underlying causes of the behSchool Climate and Discipline to keep students in school learning instead of punishing them through exclusionary discipline practices, which do not address the underlying causes of the behschool learning instead of punishing them through exclusionary discipline practices, which do not address the underlying causes of the behavior.

As many of you know, Black students are disproportionately referred to law enforcement and school - related arrests, as well as subjected to exclusionary discipline.

Exclusionary punishments, those that remove students from schools, have come under fire in recent years.

We find clear evidence that elementary school students are less likely to be subjected to exclusionary discipline when their race matches that of their teacher.

The State of New Jersey sought review in this Court, first arguing that the exclusionary rule is wholly inapplicable to searches conducted by school officials, and then contending that the Fourth Amendment itself provides no protection at all to the student's privacy.

In an October article for the periodical Education Next, researchers Matthew Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe argued that current evidence is inconclusive on whether disproportionate discipline is actually the result of bias, and researchers have been unable to show how exclusionary discipline affects school climate or students» future lives.

On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.

In fact, a handful of studies have shown that black and Latino students are less likely to receive exclusionary discipline in schools with higher concentrations of black and Latino teachers.

Our primary outcome of interest is whether a student received an exclusionary disciplinary consequence — that is, one that removed him or her from the classroom as punishment, including detention, in - school suspension, out - of - school suspension, or expulsion.

For the past several years, state education leaders in California have encouraged schools to reduce these exclusionary punishments.

Some cities are addressing inequity, by finding ways to give more students access to challenging curriculum, reducing the use of disproportionate exclusionary discipline, and improving access to the best schools.

Indeed, a 2014 analysis of school discipline data by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found these students are overrepresented among students who experience exclusionary discipline across the country.

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

Sixteen percent of black male elementary school students in the classrooms of white female teachers received exclusionary discipline in North Carolina during our study period.

Consequently, it is hard to assess how today's public schools compare with their predecessors (with their stratified, segregated, often exclusionary educational structures), with contemporary Catholic schools (that sometimes abandon problem students), or with experiments in school choice and vouchers (all still relatively new and limited).

Any faith school is to a degree exclusionary.