The Weeds: We Need to Rethink Discipline in Schools

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This Juneteenth, we’re sharing an episode of The Weeds, a Vox Media podcast where host Jonquilyn Hill breaks down the policies that shape our lives. This episode digs into school discipline and the achievement gap with Francis Pearman of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. For many Black children, their first encounter with the discrimination that will trail them their whole lives comes from the school system — a system where they are five times more likely to attend a segregated school than their white counterparts. Kara & Nayeema will be back Thursday with a fresh episode of ON. You can find Jonquilyn Hill on Twitter @jonquilynhill Listen and follow The Weeds: https://link.chtbl.com/TheWeedsVMPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:27.6	We'll be back on Thursday with a new episode of On with Cara Swisher.
1:37.9	I'm John Quinhill and this is The Weeds.
1:41.7	When you're a black person living in America, it can feel like discrimination is lurking at every turn.
1:48.1	And if I'm honest, when I was younger, there were times that I thought this creeping feeling was
1:54.0	paranoid on my end. But no, there are real hard numbers that prove this.
1:59.6	The average black person makes 30% less than the average white person.
2:04.2	Black people have to wait for about 10 more seconds than their white counterparts
2:08.3	for cars to yield to them at a crosswalk.
2:10.6	Wealthy black people spend almost an hour of their day waiting,
2:14.1	compared to 28 minutes for their high income white counterparts.
2:17.4	Black people have a 74% greater chance at longer wait times at poll increasing.
2:23.4	The life expectancy for white people is over five years longer than for black people.
2:29.4	For many black children, the first time they experience this kind of discrimination
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