Post Letter: Common Sense on Closing Suspension Gap

Washington Post, Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Letter to the Editor
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"But we have removed many courses that these students can enjoy and learn from in favor of Advanced Placement and honors courses that students and parents feel are the only rigorous path to college. In many cases, technical arts and art and music have been axed because the schools say they cannot afford to keep them. In truth, the money is there, but the priority is to fund advanced courses. It is being entrenched in students’ minds as early as first grade that the only way to a successful, productive life is through college. If we give all kids — no matter their race — a reason to come to school and to learn how to achieve something of which they can be proud, suspension levels will fall."

G.P., Frederick