{"id":3336,"date":"2014-11-20T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/race-matters-in-school-discipline\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:38:57","slug":"race-matters-in-school-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/race-matters-in-school-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Race matters in school discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15529\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/paul-thomas-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15529 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/paul-thomas-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Paul Thomas\" width=\"195\" height=\"239\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 195px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 195\/239;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Furman education professor Paul Thomas, school discipline and the U.S. judicial system have something in common. Males, specifically black males, suffer the brunt of punishment in schools and life because they are disproportionately targeted. In an op-ed for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/11\/20\/3822727_thomas-race-matters-in-school.html?rh=1\">The State<\/a><\/i><\/b> newspaper, Dr. Thomas writes that acknowledging that fact is not an avenue to ignoring bad behavior, but the first step toward seeking ways in which all students succeed in school and then in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Furman education professor Paul Thomas, school discipline and the U.S. judicial system have something in common. Males, specifically black males, suffer the brunt of punishment in schools and life because they are disproportionately targeted. In an op-ed for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/11\/20\/3822727_thomas-race-matters-in-school.html?rh=1\">The State<\/a><\/i><\/b> newspaper, Dr. Thomas writes that acknowledging that fact is not an avenue to ignoring bad behavior, but the first step toward seeking ways in which all students succeed in school and then in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}