This is an article published in the New York Times. It states that children with disabilities are more likely to be suspended from school, than are non-disabled students. But, they didn’t need a study to prove this. They just needed to read DeafInPrison.com. We’re well familiar with both the school to prison pipeline, and the difficulties disabled students – in particular, the Deaf – are faced with. They are often disproportionately punished, in both schools and in adult life.
According to a new analysis of Department of Education data, 13 percent of disabled students in kindergarten through 12th grade were suspended during the 2009-10 school year, compared with 7 percent of students without disabilities. Among black children with disabilities, which included those with learning difficulties, the rate was much higher: one out of every four was suspended at least once that school year.
Want to read more? Here’s the link:
deafinprison.com 
Pinned you. V=http://pinterest.com/pin/147141112796408846/ Thank you.
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And thank you.
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You address an interesting and very important subject.
I did not want to write this publicly but, I can’t seem to respond only to you…please feel free to delete this comment. It is very hard to grasp your serious point when I have a hard time getting past your grammar. In the second line the usage of then vs than was jarring.
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Oops. Nobody’s perfect. Thanks for noticing. I’ll fix it right away.
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Oh, BTW. If you click on the image of “Jack,” the black dog directly under where it says “E-mail Us,” your e-mail client will open with our address automatically inserted in the “to:” box. 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Prison Enquirer.
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