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Flunked Out: A Comparative Look At State Educational Code, Title Vi Of The Civil Rights Act, And Slavery Education, Emory French-Folsom, Maryn Rolfson
Flunked Out: A Comparative Look At State Educational Code, Title Vi Of The Civil Rights Act, And Slavery Education, Emory French-Folsom, Maryn Rolfson
Brigham Young University Prelaw Review
In 2017, a mock slave auction was held in a 5th grade classroom at
South Orange Elementary School in New Jersey, which included the
‘sale’ of a black child by white students. A few weeks after this incident,
students from another elementary school in the same district
made posters advertising the sale of African American slaves, which
were displayed in school hallways. Wisconsin 4th graders in 2018
were given a homework assignment which asked them to explain
“three good reasons for slavery.”
Stop Punishing Our Kids: How Title Vii Can Protect Children Of Color In Public School’S Discipline Practices, Lizette Rodriguez
Stop Punishing Our Kids: How Title Vii Can Protect Children Of Color In Public School’S Discipline Practices, Lizette Rodriguez
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
Section I of this comment considers the evolution of education in the United States and how American society dealt with racial discrimination in public schools in the past, and how those facts and decisions differ from the issues that students of color are facing today. Section II explains the Equal Protection Clause (EPC) and analyzes the seminal cases that demonstrate the power of the EPC and when it is appropriate to use it. Section III introduces Title VII and walks through violations of disparate impact discrimination and disparate treatment discrimination. Section IV explains what the Department of Education’s Civil Rights …