Issues affecting black girls

This is terrible – and completely unsurprising, sadly:

For all the attention placed on problems that black boys face in terms of school discipline and criminal justice, there is increasing focus on the way those issues affect black girls as well.

Data from the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education show that from 2011 to 2012, black girls in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide were suspended at a rate of 12 percent, compared with a rate of just 2 percent for white girls, and more than girls of any other race or ethnicity. In Georgia, the ratio of black girls receiving suspensions in the same period compared with white girls was 5 to 1, and in Henry County, that ratio was 2.3 to 1, said J D Hardin, the spokesman for the county's school district. And researchers say that within minority groups, darker-skinned girls are disciplined more harshly than light-skinned ones

Schools' Discipline for Girls Differs by Race and Hue

By TANZINA VEGA

NYT, DEC. 10, 2014 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/us/school-discipline-to-girls-differs-between-and-within-races.html