Racial Profiling
DWB (What does it stand for?)
What is Driving While Black?
How much the testing market makes
What is $7 billion?
Security measures used on students of color and their schools
1. On site police officers (armed with taser guns, mace and police batons)
2. Locked campuses
3. Metal detectors
The kind of schools that replaced racially segregated schools of the 20th century
What is de facto segregation?
The state that spends the most on testing
Bonus: How much the state spends
What is Calfornia?
Bonus: $44 million (Extra $200)
Strategies that prevent a healthy school environment for students of color
1. Zero-tolerance policies
2. Excessive security measures present
3. Extreme punishments for minor reasons (equivalent to mandatory sentencing)
“Nonwhite and Hispanic students drop out at ____ to ____ times the rate of white students.” (Fill in the blanks)
What is two & three?
Role that resources play on testing
1. Resources are allocated to schools with higher scores, rather than low-performing schools that need them
2. Students don’t have resources to perform well in the first place
3. Money is spent on tests while it could be spent on smaller class size and high quality teachers
How racial profiling plays a role in punishment in schools
1.Black students are punished for smaller incidents
2. Black students are punished more often
3. Black students are punished more harshly
The role racial profiling plays in tests
It makes black students seem genetically dumber, when the reality is most lack the resources to do well on tests
Consequences of testing
1. Benefits are given to white middle class students and the resources go into their schools
2. Widens the achievement gap between white & students of color
3. Decrease the quality of education for everyone
4. Bars students of color from college
5. Incorrectly assumes all students all get quality edu cation
6. Unfairly give students “sanctions” like grade retention and diploma denial and college rejection
Solutions for the education gap
Qualified teachers
Culturally competent curriculum
Teacher diversity
Smaller class sizes