There were three panelists for the conversation, and one of them was the The moderator for the discussion cited a statistic that during the 2018-2019 school year, there were over 2,900 suspensions and that more than half of those were Black students, even though they make up only 18% of the school population. Foust had a pointed response: “We do an awesome job of suspending Black males, we do an awesome job, and I'm being facetious, of putting labels on Black males in special ed, and we do a great job of not putting them in our Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) programs. And so the AIG program, we have schools where there aren't any students of color in them at all. And so we do a great job of isolating African American students, which then leads to suspension. And it all boils down to relationships," Foust said.