Zero Tolerance Policies In Schools

America’s ideology on education has truly evolved throughout the years. At one time wealthy white American boys only had the right to education. Brown vs. the Board of Education, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, and countless others court cases America’s ideology on education has evolved into all students have the right to education. Although America views on education has improved there are still policies, cultural biases and stereotypes, and opportunity gaps still have negative impacts on minorities and special needs students.
In recent years, zero-tolerance policies has increase suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests in schools across America. These policies are pushing students out of the classroom, increasing police officers presence at school, and sending more students to juvenile detention. The two major groups being affected by the zero tolerance policies are minorities and special needs students. When a student is pushed out of the classroom there is a higher chance that he or she will have fall behind in academics, be taken out of the classroom again, and eventually dropout of school all together. Once a student has drops-out of …show more content…
Biases and stereotypes has also contributed to minorities and special needs students being pushed of the classroom. A teacher with cultural biases and stereotypes may remove an at risk student for the classroom for a simple disturbance or not except as much expect as much academically. Assistant teacher I have seen teachers enable student on the teacher’s on biases and stereotypies. Either the teacher did not expect much from the students or treated the student as if he or she was a trouble child, which was not the case in most situations. As a teacher I am going to go to cultural sensitivity trainings to equip myself with the necessary skills to remove my personal cultural