Challenging behaviors: Child versus Educator

  While attending an equity session, where facilitated shared research data by Walter Gilliam where African American preschool boys are 3.5 times more likely to be suspended/expelled more than their white age peers.  In state-funded programs the expulsion rate from prekindergarten is about three times higher than students in grades K-12.  His data revealed the indicators of characteristics which were denoted as the 3 Bs.  The 3 Bs of expulsion risk are Big , Black and Boys who are more likely to be suspended or expelled.  Therefore, teachers are more like to recommend preschoolers for suspension or expulsion when the child is black, or boy, or is physical bigger than their peers.    The United States Department of Education Office of Civil Right (2016) stated,  Black preschoolers 3.6 times as likely to be suspended than their white peers.  Black children represent 19% of preschoolers but the rate is 47% ...