Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M046D9X |
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| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Morris shows how, despite obstacles, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.. Just 16 percent of female students, black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years, Monique W. Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. Morris chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged - by teachers, administrators, and the justice system - and degraded by the very institutions charged with hel
Ilana Ruskay-kidd said Monique E. Morris’s account of the over-policing and criminalization. Monique E. Morris’s account of the over-policing and criminalization of black girls is powerful and informative. She describes the way black girls have been subjected to narratives that impact the way they view school as less of a priority and themselves as not capable of thriving in an academic environment. She focuses on the full impact of zero tolerance policies and the ways in which an over-reliance on punishment can effectively push black girls out of the school system. She addresses the ways that female bodies are shamed and affected by dress code policies, that emph. "MANDATORY." according to Marka Law. This needs to be a mandatory read for all educators. I considered myself a very "race-aware" white educator who treated everyone fairly, but this opened my eyes to the ways that I was insidiously, subconsciously treating my Black female students differently. I am dead serious when I say this should be mandatory--we can't go on treating our Black girls like this.. Pushout is a book that all teachers who work in Pushout is a book that all teachers who work in schools should read to learn about their students. This book brings up many different topics of what happens in schools and gives solutions to teachers and administrators on how to relate to their students more. The book talked about how many different schools do not realize that they are treating students the way that they are. The first hand accounts that Morris included in her book were very helpful in making the book more interesting. The way that the different girls talked about their experiences in school and the alternative