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The Sound of Misbehaviour

Dr. Ian Cushing examines how school behavior policies can frame non-standard language as misbehavior and reinforce deficit thinking.

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I suspect all of us parents want our children to feel safe, both physically and psychologically.

The latter is much harder to be certain of prior to school enrollment, of course. Even when you think you have a perfect idea of an institution’s academics, you aren’t the one sitting in that desk for the better part of a day, and the way your child feels when they come home matters.