TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Caregivers' moral narratives of their African American children's out-of-school suspensions: Implications for effective family-school collaborations
JO  - Social work
A1  - Gibson, Priscilla A.
A1  - Haight, Wendy L.
SP  - 263
EP  - 272
VL  - 58
IS  - 3
N2  - In this qualitative study, the authors examined the culturally nuanced meanings of out-of-school suspensions for 30 lower income caregivers of African American children suspended from school. Caregivers were invited to describe their experiences of their children's suspensions during in-depth, individual, audiotaped interviews. Caregivers generally valued their children's school success, recognized when their children had misbehaved, and supported educators' imposition of appropriate consequences. Out-of-school suspensions, however, were rarely viewed as appropriate consequences. On the contrary, caregivers produced emotionally laden moral narratives that generally characterized their children's suspensions as unjust; harmful to children; negligent in helping children with underlying problems such as bullying; undermining parents' racial socialization; and, in general, racially problematic. Suspensions also contributed to some families' withdrawal from participation in their schools. Understanding how caregivers experience children's out-of-school suspensions provides important clues to how families and schools can work together to effectively reduce racial disparities in out-of-school suspensions.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0037-8046
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -