more thoughts generated by the public schools research

[flea]

In addition to looking at breakdowns by race and socioeconomic status, you can look at children with registered disabilities. I was just poking around and noticed that the rates (in the Athens-Clarke County GA school system as a whole) for white children who are autistic are almost exactly the same as for black children who are "emotionally or behaviorally disturbed," and that there are almost no white children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed and almost no black children who are autistic.

Differential diagnoses, anyone?

Comments

[serrana.livejournal.com]

*clears throat* No, never. None of that, now. There is nothing behind the curtain....

(Who, me? I am exceedingly diagnosis-resistant at this point, having had darned near everything people could come up with pinned on me as a child. And yet I manage a functional adulthood -- how did that happen? *sigh*)

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Wow, is that ever skeevy....