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Mad Science or School-to-Prison?

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High-stakes test question: A female science student conducts an experiment with chemicals that explodes in a classroom, causes no damage and no injuries. Who gets to be the adventurous teenage genius mad scientist and who gets to be the criminal led away in handcuffs facing two felonies to juvenile hall? If you’re a white girl check Box A, if you’re an intellectually curious black girl with good grades check Box B. B was sixteen-year-old Kiera Wilmot, who was arrested and expelled from Bartow High School in Florida in 2013 for a science experiment gone awry.2

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  1. Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Sikivu Hutchinson

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  1. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Anthony B. Pinn

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Hutchinson, S. (2016). Mad Science or School-to-Prison?. In: Pinn, A.B. (eds) Humanism and Technology . Studies in Humanism and Atheism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31714-4_8

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