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Starry Messenger

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Wed Sep 28, 2016, 03:36 PM Sep 2016

Bias Isn't Just A Police Problem, It's A Preschool Problem [View all]

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/28/495488716/bias-isnt-just-a-police-problem-its-a-preschool-problem


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according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, black children are 3.6 times more likely to be suspended from preschool than white children. Put another way, black children account for roughly 19 percent of all preschoolers, but nearly half of preschoolers who get suspended.

One reason that number is so high, Gilliam suggests, is that teachers spend more time focused on their black students, expecting bad behavior. "If you look for something in one place, that's the only place you can typically find it."

The Yale team also asked subjects to identify the child they felt required the most attention. Forty-two percent identified the black boy, 34 percent identified the white boy, while 13 percent and 10 percent identified the white and black girls respectively.

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It's impossible to separate these findings from today's broader, cultural context — of disproportionately high suspension rates for black boys and young men throughout the school years, of America's school-to-prison pipeline, and, most immediately, of the drumbeat of stories about black men being killed by police.

If implicit bias can play a role on our preschool reading rugs and in our classrooms' cozy corners, it no doubt haunts every corner of our society.



Implicit biases are so baked into society and lead to oppression from the early early age of little babies in preschool, all the way up to adulthood. White people keep looking for sources of trouble and disruption in Black people who are otherwise not doing anything abnormal, or anything different from what a white person might be doing in the same situation. A lot to discuss here, as this is something that happens everywhere--even here.
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Hillary, during the debate, said that implicit bias is everyone's problem MrScorpio Sep 2016 #1
Totally agreed. Starry Messenger Sep 2016 #2
+1 uponit7771 Sep 2016 #10
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You will of course, cite objective sources for your allegation, yes? LanternWaste Sep 2016 #4
That troll just loves this group. Starry Messenger Sep 2016 #5
I think I pulled the short straw last night. LanternWaste Sep 2016 #9
K&R sheshe2 Sep 2016 #6
Sorry I didn't see your post sheshe--an absent friend directed my attention to the article Starry Messenger Sep 2016 #8
K&R betsuni Sep 2016 #7
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