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 ‘60 Percent Think Discipline Isn’t Fair’: New Report Reveals Student, Family, and Staff Experiences with Discipline

June 20, 2019Jay KustkaLearning from Student Voice, YT in the NewsNo Comments

Jimmy Simpson Jr. is partnerships lead and equity coach for YouthTruth, a national nonprofit that helps schools measure nonacademic indicators related to school climate and academic achievement. Recent federal, state, and local data reveals there’s still a lot of work to do when it comes to ensuring discipline policies and practices are fair and equitable for all, despite more than a decade of encouraging advocacy.   Jimmy and the YouthTruth team wanted to know: What do students, parents/guardians and school staff think about discipline and fairness in their schools today?

To answer this question, YouthTruth analyzed the survey responses of more than 104,000 students, parents/guardians, and instructional and noninstructional school staff members across 132 secondary schools in a new report: Learning from Student and Stakeholder Voice: School Discipline.” Here are some of the key findings:

  1. Overall, students feel less positively about discipline than do families or staff. 
  2. Stakeholders at high-poverty schools have similar experiences with discipline as do those at other schools. 
  3. Students, families and staff of different races and ethnicities have different experiences with discipline and fairness.
  4. If one group of school stakeholders feels positively about discipline, other stakeholder groups in that school tend to agree.
  5. High school students and families feel less positively about discipline than do middle school students and families.

Read more about how this data relates to national conversations about school discipline in The 74 Million.

Tags: discipline, Learning from Student and Stakeholder Voice School Discipline, Learning from Student Voice, The 74 Million

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