Findings

Using what we learned in the NYU graduate program as a guide -- including artist tools like performance and socially engaged art, research methods, and our burgeoning teaching practice -- PSP staged an 'intervention' in Washington Square Park on Friday June 25, 2021. We gathered the public's suspension stories, engaged those never suspended in a prompt that challenged how they avoided punitive discipline in school, as well as collective ideas for alternatives to school suspension.

The Pink Slip Project interviewed a classroom of students in a New York City public high school. In the 45-minute discussion, we listened to students' suspension stories, how the experience made them feel, and their ideas for alternatives to suspension.