Courtney Macavinta

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Who suspends a preschool student?

Right?

So it yeah, our our data shows that it starts at a very young age.

And and here so that's kind of the bad news.

The good news is there's also a causal relationship that's been found between teacher behavior that provides the solution.

And the solution is, and and I when I heard this, so we have fellows at the Respect Institute who study stuff who are already experts on stuff.

And we have two that are experts on the school to prison pipeline right now.

And I asked them, okay, really no kidding, how can we end the school to prison pipeline?

Like this is everyone's written about it.

It's well documented.

What can we do?

The first thing you can do is change school policy, right?

So that you are more restorative, which means your your focus is reducing office referrals, is reducing or eliminating suspensions.

You know, in other words, it's keeping kids positively connected to school, which means positively connected to the adults there primarily.

So part of it's policy and also what can you a teacher even send a kid to the office for?

You know, they there's a big trend of sending kids to the office for what was called willful defiance.

And of course kids of color were targeted with this.

So you know, you're tapping a pencil, you're being willfully defilant.

Bye, you're out,

So one of pieces policy, the other part is practice, and the practice is simple but not easy.

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