MSNBC: ‘Black and Brown’ Kids More Likely To Be Expelled for Minor Bad Behavior

>>> The upper west side of Manhattan. One of the schools being defined as persistently dangerous, which to me is difficult to understand, given that it serves 4-year-olds to 13-year-olds. 
>> Well, it’s a good question. We are still trying to answer that question. The department of education did not help us. The community wanted to ask questions. Say a couple of kids are fighting in the highway. Bumps his or her head. Unless the information is taken properly with the right stress There’s always the escalation up. Unless the individual who is going through each of these seventy, it get transferred. individual steps, and there’s several people involved the incident can become a violent incident. 
>> Right, but we know that kind of designation is likely to happen, we know that from other kinds of data — 
>we know that black and brown children are much more likely to be suspended or expelled for the kinds of things we would see as every day bad behavior. These little kids get adultified very early on, from 5 years old, even earlier, pre-k.