Discipline Discussions: Changing Our Mindset—Discipline Inequities

Discipline and Behavior Series: Changing Our Mindset: Discipline Inequities

Valerie C. Williams Director, Office of Special Education Programs Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

By Valerie C. Williams
Director, Office of Special Education Programs

I must confess that being a mother of an African American young man — specifically, a 12-year-old Black boy with a disability — I am gravely concerned with the disparities in discipline practices that children with disabilities, particularly children of color with disabilities, experience.  This breaks my heart and simultaneously makes me very angry.

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