Racial Disparity in School Discipline:

"He cited a case in which he said a black student in Providence, R.I., when asked by his teacher to help get a computer disk unjammed, pulled out a small folding pocket knife to aid him and subsequently was expelled. In contrast, a white student in Danville, Vt., who was found with a rifle in school was not expelled or suspended after he explained that it was the hunting season."