Schools are often inflexible in their social programs and curriculum designs unable to meet the developmental needs of non-mainstream children (p. 146). It has also been reported that African American males are disproportionately placed in special classes for low performance. ... For example, African American males are three times more likely than White students to be placed in mildly to moderately mentally retarded special education programs (Haynes et al., p. 147). ... Discrimination from the...

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The well renowned professor of law at Yale, Peter Schuck described affirmative action as "A program in which people who control access to important social resources offer preferential access to those resources for particular groups that they think need special treatment" (Schuck 5.) ... Another example of preferential treatment of minorities is when students are seen as being admitted into academic institutions based solely on their race, despite that their academic score are drastically lower than standards. Along with this process comes the low regard for the minority student popul...

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