Direct evidence often involves a statement from a decision-maker that expresses a discriminatory motive. Direct evidence can also include express or admitted classifications, in which a recipient explicitly distributes benefits or burdens based on race, color, or national origin.
Below are some examples of direct discrimination: A parent rings a school asking about admission for a child with cerebral palsy. The secretary says, “We don't take disabled children.” A deaf young person is not allowed to take part in a workshop run by a visiting orchestra, as “Deaf children won't benefit from music.”
Discrimination Examples Some examples might include: A teacher calling on female children more than male children, assuming that female children are better students. A patient at a hospital getting denied treatment because they are transsexual; their assigned gender not matching the gender that they identify with.
Legally, the term “discrimination” covers only actions that are taken against people because they belong to certain protected classes such as age, gender, race, and the many others that will be discussed in detail throughout this chapter.
Discrimination is when a student is treated worse or bullied because of the student's immigration status, disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.
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Examples include harsher treatment of minority students compared to their non-minority counterparts on punishments like: Suspension. Unfair grading policies. The allowance of discriminatory behavior perpetrated by other students in the classroom.
For example, if a student is not allowed to go to a school because of his or her race, the school is discriminating against that student. Sometimes even governments have discriminated against whole groups of citizens.