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Liz Willen
Hi all,

You may wonder why children as young as 5 are being handcuffed, put in police cars and transported to hospital emergency rooms for psychiatric evaluation, in a school district on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Please read our latest riveting and disturbing investigation, reported in collaboration with The Associated Press, describing how these emergency petitions have been used more than 750 times on children over the last eight years, on average three times a week.

The Hechinger Report’s Meredith Kolodner and The AP’s Annie Ma found that Black students and those with disabilities are more frequently taken from schools to hospitals, sometimes for behavior that may have stemmed from frustration over assignments or bullying.

We would love to hear from you about this practice, which also happens in other states.

We also look forward to hearing from our readers whose children are applying to college in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s historic decision to ban race-based affirmative action. I spent time with advisers helping Black and Latino students navigate this uncertain year, in the first part of a collaboration with Soledad O’Brien Productions. Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for being a Hechinger Report member!

Liz Willen, Editor
 

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The school district where kids are sent to psychiatric emergency rooms more than three times a week—some as young as 5 

Black students are targeted at a higher rate than other groups

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