tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34766085311559238882024-02-19T06:47:51.184-08:00Stop Student Suspensions!We know that punitive school discipline policies, like suspensions, do not reduce conflict, but instead increase the likelihood that students will fall behind, drop out, or become incarcerated. Last year, there were 73,441 total suspensions. Suspension rates are still too high and students of color and students with special needs are still disproportionately impacted. Everyday that we wait for the appropriate changes to the Discipline Code, 260 students are suspended daily. This must stop now!Dignity In Schools - New Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828794005196702123noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476608531155923888.post-47615147429504235422012-10-05T08:31:00.001-07:002012-10-05T08:31:25.340-07:00New Yorkers March Across Brooklyn Bridge and Join Over 20 Other Cities in Actions to Call Attention to High Suspension Rates
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Contact: Shoshi Chowdhury, Dignity in Schools
Campaign-NY,</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="file://localhost/tel/347-832-8391"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">347-832-8391</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="mailto:shoshi@nesri.org"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">shoshi@nesri.org</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">New Yorkers March
Across Brooklyn Bridge and Join Over 20 Other Cities in Actions to Call
Attention to High Suspension Rates</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">New York, NY - On Friday, October 5 at 7:00
p.m., New York City students, parents, teachers and community members will
begin a candle light vigil and march across the Brooklyn Bridge carrying
life-size cut outs of students, representing 260 number of students suspended
every day in New York City public schools. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">“I am one of the many students who was suspended
more than once last year and missed more than ten days of class,” said Estefan
Peña, a leader at Sistas and Brothas United and a student at the Kennedy High
School Campus. “I was suspended three times for conflicts with my peers and
instead of having a mediation with the other students to resolve our conflicts
we were suspended. Each time I returned to class from a suspension, I was
further behind in my work.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">The march, organized by the Dignity in Schools
Campaign-New York (DSC-NY), is part of the 3rd Annual National Week of Action
on School Pushout, with communities in over 20 cities across the country
holding marches, rallies, teach-ins and trainings from September 29 – October 6
to raise awareness about the more than 3 million students suspended
out-of-school each year and call on states and school districts to implement
positive discipline policies.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">In the 2010-2011 school year in NYC, there were
73,441 suspensions. Over 29% of the students suspended, nearly 14,000 students,
received more than one suspension in a single school year. The DSC-NY coalition
is calling for a 50% reduction in suspensions by September 2013 and for
citywide funding and implementation of positive, school-wide approaches to
discipline that will reduce conflict, improve school climate and increase
learning.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Last month, the Department of Education released
a new Discipline Code that includes some positive changes proposed by DSC-NY,
such as eliminating suspensions for minor Level 2 infractions, like using
profane language, and calling on schools to use positive interventions like
counseling and restorative practices to address these behaviors.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Matthew Guldin, a member of Teachers Unite and
DSC-NY, stresses the importance of using positive responses to behavior rather
than suspensions. “School-wide restorative justice practices focus on helping
kids and teens mature by teaching them much needed social skills,” said
Matthew. “Once our children are equipped with these skills they can
better handle their emotions and deal with conflict, and in those instances
where our kids still do act out restorative justice focuses on the person who
did harm to another learning to take responsibility for his or her actions and
looks for ways that the harm can be repaired.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">DSC-NY is calling for the Department of
Education to go further by mandating the use positive interventions before
schools can suspend a student for other behaviors like fighting, to end
suspensions of more than 10 days, and to fund and implement positive
school-wide approaches to discipline, especially in high need schools.</span><br />
<b><span style="background: white;"><br />
The march will start today at 7:00 p.m. at the Brooklyn entrance to the Bridge
at Cadman Plaza and Prospect Street. Students, parents and teachers will march
to Tower One for a press conference and speakout and then complete the march on
the Manhattan side.</span></b><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Members include: Advocates for Children of New
York, American Friends Service Committee- NY, Brooklyn Movement Center, Center
for Community Alternatives, Children’s Defense Fund-New York, Coalition for
Asian American Children and Families, Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools,
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Future of Tomorrow, Make the Road New York,
Mass Transit Street Theater, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
(NESRI), New Settlement Apartments Parent Action Committee, Pumphouse Projects,
Sistas and Brothas United, Teachers Unite, The Sikh Coalition, Urban Youth
Collaborative (UYC), Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Youth on the Move,
and Youth Represent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">Every March, the 11<sup>th</sup>
grade students in my U.S. History and Government courses spend five weeks
working in teams on a “Moot Court” project that has become the seminal academic
experience of upperclassmen at our school. The teams read & research real First and Fourth
Amendment Supreme Court cases and then develop arguments and present in front
of guests “justices.” After eight years of Moot Court at our school, 11<sup>th</sup>
graders – almost without exception – take this project VERY seriously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">Two years ago, there was Moot
Court team of four young men who requested specifically to be together, arguing
that they were prepared to rise to the occasion and wanted the opportunity to
be a good influence on one another and “prove everyone else wrong.” This group of young men – Ivan, Jon,
Ricardo & David – may have been a risky assemblage, but it was <i>working. </i>By week four, they were still excited, focused and
committed -- to editing and re-editing their briefs, to staying after school to
read pieces of the Constitution to one another, and to telling each other how
to make the best kind of eye contact when at the speaker’s podium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">But, just at the end of week four,
only one week before the final presentations of their cases, three of these
young men were pulled into a nasty, violent, inter-school fight with students
from a middle school with whom we share a school building. The fight had been developing
over several weeks and was the result of out-of-school turf tension around the
two sets of projects across the street from our school. All of the young men involved – about
10 total – expressed feeling little control in the events that led to this
violent confrontation and appealed to the adults in the building to help
preemptively mediate tension like this in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">Ivan, Jon & Ricardo never
got to present in Moot Court. They were each given a 60-day suspension at an
alternate site. David was left to present with a group that was not his own – a
group that had never worked with him late into the evening on making the
perfect eye contact. Moreover,
Ivan, Jon & Ricardo were never again as engaged at school as I’d seen from
them during that Moot Court March: Ricardo, who was in line to be our senior
basketball captain, felt forced to transfer to a school without a basketball
team; Jon’s aunt sent him to live in New Jersey with distant relatives; and
Ivan spent his senior year openly mistrusting every adult (and student, for
that matter) in our school building. Even David, while not involved directly in
the fight nor the suspensions, was listless for months, wondering about the
hole in his life and his classes that was Ivan, Jon & Ricardo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">So, as educators, what did we
give to these young men? A 60-day suspension and some transfer forms? We could
have done so much more for this risky-but-working team who wanted so badly to
prove themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt;">- EEM, 11<sup>th</sup> & 12<sup>th</sup>
grade U.S. History & Government teacher in a small, public, non-charter
school in the South Bronx <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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Contact: Shoshi Chowdhury, Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY, (347) 832-8391,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="mailto:shoshi@nesri.org"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">shoshi@nesri.org</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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York, NY - On June 5, after more than 150 students, parents, educators, and
elected officials rallied at a press conference demanding positive alternatives
to high suspension rates in New York City schools, students with the Dignity in
Schools Campaign-New York (DSC-NY) testified at a public hearing on the newly
revised School Discipline Code before the NYC Department of Education at
Stuyvesant High School.<br />
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“My brother got suspended because he got into a shouting match with somebody,
and then after that he continued to get suspended, and now my brother dropped
out of school, and he’s only 16,” said Aiesha Vegas, an 18 year-old student at
Satellite Academy in the Bronx and a leader at Youth on the Move. “When kids
are getting suspended and they come back to school and they’re behind, they
feel more discouraged, and that’s why they end up cutting school, which leads
to them getting arrested, and which leads to them not graduating,” she added.<br />
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The newly revised Discipline Code takes some positive steps to limit the use of
suspension, but still lists 25 infractions for which middle and high school
students can be suspended for an entire school year. There were more than
73,400 suspensions in the 2010-2011 school year alone. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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City Council Member Daniel Dromm, a former teacher who worked in New York City
public schools for 25 years, also spoke at the hearing. “Despite the
administration’s stated commitment to helping Black and Latino students this
demographic still comprises a disproportionately high number of students hurt
by our schools discipline system. The criminalization of our students must
stop. The focus should be on using the discipline system to address
underlying issues that cause infractions in the first place.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
DSC-NY is calling for a 50% reduction in suspensions by September 2013 and for
the DOE to:<br />
1. End all suspensions for minor behavior infractions, like
defying or disobeying authority, shoving or pushing, that are listed in Levels
1-3 of the Discipline Code.<br />
2. Require that schools use positive interventions before
they can suspend a student, including for behaviors like fighting listed in
Levels 4-5 of the Discipline Code.<br />
3. End long-term suspensions of more than 10 days.<br />
4. Fund and implement positive school-wide approaches to
discipline in 10 high need schools, and in each of those schools designate and
train a Restorative Discipline Coordinator.<br />
<br />
“My brother got suspended for wearing a sweatshirt in school. He felt so
targeted in that school that eventually he dropped out. Each suspension plays a
role in the long run of students’ educational careers. When a student misses a
class they miss important information needed to pass their classes; eventually
it becomes easier to fail and drop out of high school,” said Adilka Pimentel, a
member of Make the Road New York. “Schools need to implement and REQUIRE the
use of positive interventions and alternatives to suspensions. I am worried
that if these types of changes are not made that more students like my brother
and sister will continue to be pushed out of school and not on the path to
graduation.”<br />
<br />
Visit</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://stopstudentsuspensions.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">http://stopstudentsuspensions.blogspot.com/</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">to read suspension stories
posted by DSC-NY. Every day that we wait for the appropriate changes to the
Discipline Code, 260 students are suspended.<br />
<br />
The Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York is a coalition of students, parents,
educators, civil rights, students’ rights and community organizations,
including: Advocates for Children of New York, Brooklyn Movement Center, Center
for Community Alternatives, Children’s Defense Fund-New York, Coalition for
Asian American Children and Families, Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools,
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Future of Tomorrow, Make the Road New York,
Mass Transit Street Theater, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
(NESRI), New Settlement Apartments Parent Action Committee, Pumphouse Projects,
Sistas and Brothas United, Teachers Unite, The Sikh Coalition, Urban Youth
Collaborative (UYC), Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Youth on the Move,
and Youth Represent.<br />
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<b>Media Coverage:<br />
</b><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/06/06/students-and-others-rally-before-discipline-code-hearing/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/06/06/students-and-others-rally-before-discipline-code-hearing/</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/education/162534/doe-officials-hold-public-meeting-on-revised-discipline-code"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/education/162534/doe-officials-hold-public-meeting-on-revised-discipline-code</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2012/06/05/nyc-schools-proposes-reduced-suspension-and-progressive-discipline/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2012/06/05/nyc-schools-proposes-reduced-suspension-and-progressive-discipline/</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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June 4, 2012<br />
Contact: Liz Sullivan, National Economic and Social Rights Initiatives, </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="file://localhost/tel/%2528646%2529%20713-5288"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(646) 713-5288</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="mailto:liz@nesri.org"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">liz@nesri.org</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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Schools; Students, Parents, Teachers Take Action</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continue unless Bloomberg and Walcott require positive alternatives to
suspension in all schools</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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New York, NY - On June 5th at 5:30 p.m. the Dignity in Schools Campaign-New
York (DSC-NY) will hold a press conference and rally outside of Stuyvesant High
School with students, parents, teachers and lawmakers to challenge the latest
draft of the NYC Discipline Code as not going far enough to address the
disproportionate suspension of students of color. At 6:00 p.m., community members
and lawmakers will testify at the NYC Department of Education (DOE) Hearing on
the new draft Discipline Code.<br />
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DSC-NY is calling for systemic changes to significantly limit the number of
infractions that result in suspension and to require the use of positive
guidance interventions, like restorative approaches, in all schools. DSC-NY is
calling for an overall 50% reduction in suspensions by September 2013.<br />
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Visit </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://stopstudentsuspensions.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://stopstudentsuspensions.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> to read a new suspension story posted by DSC-NY each day between
May 22 and the June 5 hearing. Every day that we wait for the appropriate
changes to the Discipline Code, 260 students are suspended.<br />
<br />
<b>What:</b> Press Conference at Department of Education Hearing.<br />
<b><br />
Where:</b> Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St, Manhattan<br />
<br />
<b>When:</b> Tuesday, June 5th, 5:30 p.m.<br />
<br />
<b>Who:</b> Robert Jackson, City Council Member, Chair of Education
Committee; Daniel Dromm, City Council Member, District 25; student, parent and
teacher speakers<br />
<br />
* Photo-op, protesters will be wearing t-shirts and holding colorful signs
designed by high school students. Speakers will be available for interviews.*<br />
<br />
The Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York is a coalition of students, parents,
educators, civil rights, students’ rights and community organizations,
including: Advocates for Children of New York, Brooklyn Movement Center, Center
for Community Alternatives, Children’s Defense Fund-New York, Coalition for
Asian American Children and Families, Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools,
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Future of Tomorrow, Make the Road New York,
Mass Transit Street Theater, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
(NESRI), New Settlement Apartments Parent Action Committee, Pumphouse Projects,
Sistas and Brothas United, Teachers Unite, The Sikh Coalition, Urban Youth
Collaborative (UYC), Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Youth on the Move,
and Youth Represent<br />
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this one time when I was walking to class and the principal stopped me because
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follow which were black / grey or khaki pants & a collar shirt of any color
besides red, because of gang problems. I was suspended for 5 days; I was really
upset and mad. Mad at the fact that I was suspended for such little thing. My
mom came in and spoke about my suspension and she said " My daughter shouldn't
be getting suspended for dress code, you could've sent her home and called me
instead of taking it this far. " Days passed and I remained in a basement
doing work with kids I didn't know kids that were misbehaving, cursing,
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The teacher was in the room and called security. They took me to the
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">“One of the times I was suspended was when I
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">J.C. is 18 years old and currently at Brooklyn
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Marcus (whose name was changed to protect his
identity) was absent for two days. I called his mom to check in, as is my
custom when a student is out for more than one day, and she told me that the
incident we had discussed during the previous week had landed Marcus a
suspension hearing, a possible superintendent's suspension, and up to three
months in an alternative learning center. It had been reported that Marcus
jumped a student outside of school during the week prior, however, there was
very little evidence to back up this claim and although in the reports there
was more than one person involved, Marcus was the only one accused and
prosecuted. He was given a full two-month suspension and his time was extended
for an incident that took place in the alternative learning center. When he
came back to take the state English Language Arts and math exam he told me he
was guessing on every question because he hadn’t learned anything since he left
our school. His extreme lack of confidence, as an effect of his suspension,
resulted in an inability to access his short and long term memory and complete
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- Sarah Arvey, 7th grade teacher in math and
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the process of trying to get back to the other boy, A hit his teacher. He was
suspended and charged with an A34 violation in the Discipline Code. The school
recommended a suspension of one year, despite the fact that this is well beyond
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helping A deal with his family tragedy, by offering him more counseling or
anger management, the school chose to try to keep A out for one year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Dignity In Schools - New Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828794005196702123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476608531155923888.post-84630725906658333062012-05-27T06:49:00.003-07:002012-05-27T06:49:22.081-07:00Fifth Grader "B"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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charged with pushing the girl, causing her head to hit the wall. Not only did
the school suspend him, but they also gave him detention AND excluded him from
his extracurricular math tutoring (before the suspension hearing even took
place). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lunch, and another girl, R, confronted her about an earlier incident that had
occurred between R and T's aunt. R testified that she initiated the
altercation, and started throwing punches at T, grabbed her by the hair, and
kicked her in the face. T had bruises on her face and had to go to the doctor.
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and suspended; the infraction code was B37. Not once did the school attempt to
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despite the fact that they were on notice that T had been repeatedly bullied by
R. In addition, T had never even had a detention before, let alone a
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">H
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of Emotional Disturbance, and has been diagnosed with ADHD. H was repeatedly
bullied from the time he started middle school. His parents wrote to the school
each time a bullying incident occurred, but very little was done to address the
situation. In February 2012, a boy pushed H into a wall. A moment later, the
assistant principal walked by. H became extremely upset that the AP hadn't
helped him or stopped the other boy. The situation escalated, and H was
suspended. He pleaded no contest and received a 30-day suspension. H continued
to be bullied at his suspension site, so the school requested a safety transfer,
and H was placed in a new site. At this second suspension site, H was suspended
again. On the day in question, H found a broken piece of pen on the ground and
was holding it in his hand. According to H's teacher, after he confiscated the
broken piece of pen and was leading H to the principal's office, H (while no
longer in possession of the pen) stated, "I feel like stabbing
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work to complete instead of appropriate schoolwork that would allow him to
progress. Because he has transferred suspension sites so many times, he has not
received grades for the last marking period, and despite his mother's attempts
to figure out what this means and what the implications are, no one has been
able to give her any answers. H has been out of school for over 3 months now
for what began with an incident which could have been addressed by mediation or
guidance intervention with H and the boys who were bullying him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Dignity In Schools - New Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828794005196702123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476608531155923888.post-393677186711768712012-05-23T05:14:00.000-07:002012-05-23T05:14:09.637-07:00Twelve Year-Old Omar<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Omar is twelve years old and in seventh grade. His teachers agree that he is very
bright and could be excelling in school, but he has struggled with behavioral
issues ever since he started sixth grade last year at the Cornerstone Academy
for Social Action in the Bronx.
Over the past two years, Omar has been suspended at least 20 times, most
often for disruptive behavior, inappropriate language, or insubordination. Omar has served most of these
suspensions in his school's SAVE room, but the school has also imposed three
Superintendent's suspensions. The
exact number of suspensions Omar has faced is unknown because usually the
principal or assistant principal tells Omar he has to go to the SAVE room for
the day or for the next few days and calls his mother, but does not keep an official
record of the suspension, and does not give his mother notice of the suspension
in writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">The school has tried meeting with Omar and his
mother, and tried having Omar write letters of apology for his behavior. But the school does not have a
full-time guidance counselor, and Omar's behaviors persist. Omar's mother
requested months ago that the school develop a formal Behavioral Intervention
Plan for Omar, but the school has not followed through. Today, Omar is out on suspension,
awaiting another Superintendent's suspension hearing next week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">To Read More About Omar's Story Click:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://school-stories.org/2012/05/looking-for-a-way-out-of-the-save-room/">http://school-stories.org/2012/05/looking-for-a-way-out-of-the-save-room/</a></span></div>Dignity In Schools - New Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828794005196702123noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476608531155923888.post-76128458531940494002012-05-22T18:26:00.000-07:002012-05-22T18:28:08.016-07:00We call on the New York City Department of Education to Take Action Now!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">The Dignity in
Schools Campaign-New York is calling for more systemic changes that would
significantly limit the number of incidents that result in suspension and
require the use of positive guidance interventions as alternatives to
suspension.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">DSC-NY is calling for
a 50% reduction in suspensions by September 2013 and for implementation of
positive approaches to discipline, like restorative justice, conflict
resolution and peer mediation, in all schools.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Leading up to the DOE hearing on revisions to the Discipline
Code to take place this June 5th, DSC-NY is calling on the DOE to:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">End all suspensions for minor
behavior infractions, like being insubordinate or shoving or pushing, that are
listed in Levels 1-3 of the Discipline Code.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Require that schools use positive interventions
before they can suspend a student, including for behaviors like fighting listed
in Levels 4-5 of the Discipline Code, and direct schools to use suspension only
as a last resort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">End long-term suspensions of more
than 10 days and prohibit students from being suspended for more than 10 days
total over the school year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Fund and implement positive
school-wide approaches to discipline in 10 high need schools, including those
with the highest suspension and arrest rates, and in each of those schools
designate and train a Restorative Discipline Coordinator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We urge that you work with us to ensure that
positive alternatives to suspensions and arrests are implemented in NYC public
schools!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Members of the
Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Advocates for Children of New York,
Brooklyn </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Movement Center,
Center for Community Alternatives, Children’s Defense</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Fund-New York, Coalition for Asian American Children and
Families, Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools, Desis Rising Up and Moving,
Future of Tomorrow, Make the Road New York, Mass Transit Street Theater,
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, New Settlement
Apartments Parent Action Committee, Pumphouse Projects, Sistas and Brothas
United, Teachers Unite, The Sikh Coalition, Urban Youth Collaborative,
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Youth on the Move, and Youth Represent</span></div>Dignity In Schools - New Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828794005196702123noreply@blogger.com0