Black Girls vs. Dropping Out
Losing Confidence & Can't Reach Academic Aspirations
What is Why Black Girls Drop Out?
Black girls sometimes get less recognition for achievements than the males do from a early age because they are seen to be more mature and self-reliant
What is undermined attachment and sense of belonging ?
Black Girls are "Pushed Out, Over-policed and Under-protected".
What is Social Inequity
Although YOU are here, black girls that don't obtain a high school education cannot be admitted.
What is an institution for higher education (college)?
Counseling, In-School Suspension, Conflict Management
What Are Alternative Resolutions Beyond The Juvenile Justice System?
Chaotic Environments Where Discipline is Prioritized Over Educational Attainment
What Are Zero-Tolerance Schools?
Girls do this when Counseling needs are over looked or disregarded
What is Acting out ?
An obstacle that many women face in the workforce.
What is Sexual Harassment
Employers are less likely to hire black girls that don't have a high school education. Subsequently, this 'rate' is affected.
What is the unemployment rate?
Town Halls, Community Hearings, Listening Sessions
Where Are Opportunities For The Public Will To Express Their Concerns?
Unsatisfying and Discouraging
What Is How Black Girls Describe Their Interactions With Teachers & Counselors?
Increased levels of law enforcement and security personnel in schools often make girls feel
What is discomfort and rebut from school systems ?
Out of school Suspension, Expulsion for females; In-school Suspension for males
What is Educational Inequity ?
When a black woman is not hired for a job because she lacks a high school diploma, she misses out on receiving the job's benefits. Women without access to insurance benefits tend to have more of these.
What are health problems?
In school community service, In school detainment, In school fundamental learning
What are ways to stop punitive responses ?
Girls not being celebrated for good behaviors, yet boys do
What is gender gap and overlooking accomplishments?
The failure of schools to intervene in the sexual harassment and bullying of girls contribute to
What is Insecurity in schools ?
there is not a single example of a society where women (as a group) have decision making power over men (as a group).
What is Gender Inequity?
Black girls who get expelled or drop out of high school are more likely to enter into this system.
What is the Juvenile Justice system?
Skilled interventions might have redirected the conflicts that led to fighting, into someone less damaging to students' development and attachment to school.
What are resolution strategies/prevention measures?
Pregnancy, Sexual Assualt, Lack of Empathy and Lack of Support
What Are The Causes Of Black Girls Dropping Out of School?
Individuals are suspended or expelled and some prosecuted for fighting in school.
What is Punitive Response ?
An abundance of men and the lack of women in roles of leadership in the workplace and schools.
What is gender inequity in all systems?
Black girls that drop out of high school are more likely to partake in this kind of abuse.
What is substance abuse?
Girls need opportunities to take a deeper look and begin to question the messages they have been receving. They are perfectly capable of doing that.
What is having a source or someone to confide in?