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Abstract
Exclusionary discipline in the United States has been shown to be a harmful practice
for educational outcomes and School-to-Prison pipeline outcomes. Exclusionary discipline and
these harmful effects are experienced by low socioeconomic status and racial minority students at
higher rates than their white upperclass peers. Exclusionary discipline policy discourse reveals
the ideological dimensions of this harmful practice in US schools. This study posits a theoretical
framework relevant to these racial and class disparities in exclusionary discipline to explain the
normalized conditions disparate exclusionary discipline operates within, with Emile Durkheim’s
concepts of collective solidarity and functions of crime, Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim
Crow, and Bourdieu’s Reproduction Paradigm in schools. In conversation with this theoretical
framework, I analyze exclusionary discipline policy in the State of Connecticut with a proposed
two-step method of Critical Discourse Problematization Policy Analysis Framework. Through
this method’s analysis of the policy interpreted through my theoretical framework, I find that
exclusionary discipline policy in Connecticut is interdiscursively connected to US criminal and
carceral system policy discourse and practices. Likewise, the findings indicate distinct
connections to individualist ideological discourse which is historically shown to criminalize US
minority groups and maintain white supremacy. Paired with national racial and class disparate
trends in exclusionary discipline introduced in the literature, and similar Connecticut disparate
exclusionary discipline trends, these findings suggest the analyzed exclusionary discipline
policy’s permeance in and perpetuation of structural racism and inequality reproduction