Editorial: The Hidden Costs of Being A Black Student

Ideally, schools are learning environments that promote intellectual growth while nurturing healthy social and emotional development. Schools are also a microcosm of the bigger world in which students live, mirroring the best and worst of our society, including the debility of systemic racism. One way in which this inequity is perpetuated within schools is through exclusionary discipline practices, and the disproportionate impact these practices have on Black and multiracial Black children, as well as on single-parent families.