Article contentOntario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. Removing suspensions for students from those grades will “empower all children to achieve their potential,” said Minister of Education Stephen Lecce in a statement. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Ontario to ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism Back to video“It is clear there is systemic discrimination built within the education system, whether it be streaming of racialized students, suspensions overwhelmingly targeting Black and Indigenous kids, or the lack of merit-based diversity within our education workforce,” said Lecce’s statement. The study suggested 42 per cent of Black students were suspended at least once by the time they graduated high school, compared to 15 per cent for other racialized students and 18 per cent for white students.

Source: National Post July 06, 2020 22:39 UTC