Courtney Macavinta

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 043: Why Fostering Cultures of Respect in Our Schools is Critical, with Courtney Macavinta · 7 Feb 2017 podcast

That is very focused on.

packaging and material wealth and presentation.

And I think that makes your work so important because that doesn't create a space for anything that's outside of that kind of glossy packaging, right?

So if you're not the perfect student who's sitting in the desk listening, compliant.

you know, amiable, afraid of authority.

If you're not doing that, you know, you're not

You're not gonna fit in as a student.

one of the focus areas of the Respect Institute, you know, as things have evolved, and this equally applies to girls and and boys, is, you know, ending what's now called the school to prison pipeline.

So this is a significant, well-documented problem that shows a causal relationship between when a student is sent to the office, like a you know, an office referral,

Or when a student is suspended or at worst expelled.

They're three times more likely to enter the justice system, especially if they're a student of color.

Before I talk, I I l dug dug into the I know that there's a special education um disproportionality here.

And you know, the Department of Education

Found this is this is so sad to me that students that qualified for special ed are twice as likely to get suspended.

And fifty-eight percent of all students placed in seclusion, so that could be like an in-school arrest or a you know, they're they're special ed students, and seventy-five percent of those who are physically restrained at school, which shouldn't happen anyway.

Qualify or are enrolled in special ed.

And I definitely see that as a juvenile justice commissioner here in Santa Clara County, which is another role I play.

you know, our kids that are locked up, all of them, I'm not gonna say all, I'm gonna say 89% in the realm of that have an have an IEP, you know, are special ed kids.

Wow.

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