"In 2012, approximately 5.8 million children and youth, ages 6–21, in the general population received special education and related services, which is about 13 percent of all public school students." 1/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Generally, African American and Native American youth are more likely to be identified with disabilities than white youth." 2/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Most often males make up approximately two-thirds of the special education population with higher percentagesof both emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD) and specific learning disabilities (SLD) relative to females." 3/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Youth with [emotional/behavioral disorders] and related disabilities are three times more likely to be arrested before leaving school, when compared to all other students." 4/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Youth with E/BD and related disabilities are twice as likely to live in a correctional facility, halfway house, drug treatment center, or experience homelessness after leaving school, when compared to students with other disabilities." 5/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Many youth with learning and related disabilities are referred to the juvenile justice system directly by schools." 6/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Rates of disabilities among incarcerated youth are generally estimated between 30 and 80 percent, which greatly exceed the approximate 13 percent of youth with disabilities in public schools." 7/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"In 2012, students identified as having SLD and those with E/BD disturbances represented the largest percentage of students with disabilities in correctional settings." 8/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"The rate of youth with diagnosed [specific learning disabilities] in juvenile justice custody has been observed at more than seven times that of learning disabilities in the general population." 9/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"Six times more incarcerated youth than youth in public schools have an [emotional/behavioral disorder]." 10/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

"A substantial proportion of incarcerated youth (up to 50 percent) may have diagnosed or undiagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD." 11/
https://neglected-delinquent.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NDTAC_Special_Ed_FS_508.pdf

Kids should never pushed and punished according to arbitrary and discriminatory ideas of how they should behave, what they should learn and how they should learn. 12/

And we should get rid of the idea that pushing and punishing students is about helping children and young people to be able to make a living at a future point and avoid jail or homelessness. 13/

Adequate food and housing should be established as a right, not something to be earned, and so should be the possibility to be able to make positive contributions to our communities according to our means.

Education should stop being framed as a Hunger Games competition.

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Economic safety should be about things such as structures of access to land and other resources, of care and protection to the rights of individuals and communities (including their right to consent and autonomy), and the dismantlement of unfair and uneven power structures. 15/

And closing gaps should never be about educational opportunities and outcomes, but about paying reparations and returning lands. 16/

People have a right to educational opportunities, but they should never be considered as a substitute of economic justice. Economic justice paid in the form of educational opportunities is justice denied. 17/

I hope it is okay to quote these tweets here. https://twitter.com/tiersaj/status/1276140567706120192?s=20

https://twitter.com/tiersaj/status/1276931917192015880?s=20