[reaganaut1]

/sarc below:

The only reason blacks could be suspended more than whites is racism. There are lots more white than Asian teachers, and those white teachers are suspending more whites than Asians because they are biased against whites. Boys are no more disruptive than girls, so their higher suspension rates must also reflect bias. The classes that high schools offer have nothing to do with that the students are prepared to study. If there are more inexperienced teachers at mostly minority schools, it has nothing to do with how much respect those students show teachers.

The NYT treats any government report on racial "disparities" as the gospel truth.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Much of this could be true and so what?

How much of it is “self inflicted injury” on part of our honorable black community?

They said it was anathema to act white. Fine, that is their prerogative. The consequences are NOT their prerogative! That has to be taken up with God, not with America!

[PGR88]

What the report doesn’t mention is that the majority of black students are attending schools with black teachers and often black administrators.

[PapaBear3625]

Black students are suspended and expelled at three times the rate of white students.

As they get older, young black men commit homicide at a rate around five times the non-black rate. So?

[Robe]

Scholastic Achievement = “Acting White”

[FredZarguna]

When you pretend that an entire group of people whose average intelligence is one standard deviation below the population mean is just as intelligent on average as every other identifiable group, you must continue with the pretense up and down the line. All of the other consequences: tendency to violence, lower average achievement, dropout rate, ... all stem from this basic fact; since we scrupulously ignore it, we must also [falsely] conclude that the consequences do not flow from it.

Mathematics is neither compassionate nor merciless. It is what it is.

[PapaBear3625]

If there are more inexperienced teachers at mostly minority schools, it has nothing to do with how much respect those students show teachers.

It's all the unions' fault. Teachers with experience (and thus seniority) try very hard to get OUT of minority-majority schools.

[workerbee]

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[Cowboy Bob]

I don’t think the Chinese and Russians give a darn about the black folk in America. The liberals should keep this in mind.

[kimoajax]

Of course it just has to be the fault of institutions and society in general...and not that of a bankrupt subculture which ignores if not encourages behavior producing these desperate suspension numbers.

[Red Badger]

In the liberal paradise of NY?.................IMPOSSIBLE....................

[Leaning Right]

Here's the bottom line. On a percentage basis, blacks are suspended more than whites. That's because on a percentage basis, blacks misbehave more than whites.

I personally think this can be traced back to the family unit. Are both parents under the same roof? Is education valued in the home? What is the family's annual income? All of that matters.

But none of that will be looked at. Instead, schools will be branded as “racist” if the percentages don't seem right. So the schools will simply cut down on black suspensions. Disruption in those schools will skyrocket. Middle class families (mostly white) will flee those schools.

The schools will spiral downwards. And who will be hurt the most? It will be the black students who come to school looking for a decent education. They will be trapped in chaos.

Even in the worst schools are many more good black students than there are disruptive black students. But it doesn't matter. They will be trapped in chaos.

[tomkat]

.. said Daniel J. Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California at Los Angeles’s Civil Rights Project.

Department of Gibsmedat, Western Regional Field Office

[Responsibility2nd]

Uh oh. This can only mean one thing. Education is Racist. Look - Whitey is even picking on little black babies:

 

Black preschoolers more likely to face suspension

Friday, March 21, 2014 9:15:01 AM · by armydawg505 · 59 replies

www.wtop.com ^ | 3/21/14 | Jesse J Holland

 

[showme_the_Glory]

Poor Trayvon was suspended and look what whitey did to him. whitey = anything NOT black.

[Beagle8U]

Funny thing, the crime stats show the same racial inequality? Go figure.

[easternsky]

I have a great solution, How about Schools for Blacks only. There that should fix it.

[lastchance]

Well the NYT is populated by loons and idiots.

[YHAOS]

"School Data Finds Pattern of Inequality Along Racial Lines"

Boy! No one expected this development!

[I want the USA back]

Yup. And they break the law much more.

[cuban leaf]

The dividing line is income level. Hate to break it to these people, but not only can parents choose a neighborhood based on its quality of schools, but it implies the obvious: Some districts have better schools. And guess what? It is often determined on income level.

I spent 1.5 school years in Mercer Island schools (yep, the same place where Obama lived with his grandparents and Michael Medved and Paul Allen now live). The schools were massively superior to the Kent school district I spent the next five years. And my attitude and grades showed it. But it was not about race. It’s about income level.

You want to be see your kids get a better education? Make more money. Or, thanks to the internet, just go here: https://www.khanacademy.org/

Oh, and I lived just a few blocks from Paul Allen about ten years ago and one of my wife’s friends, who also lived on the island, was one of the very few black families that lived on the island. They called the Crown school busses “twinkies”, because they were “yellow on the outside with a rich, white filling”.

All this report is saying is that poor people go to worse public schools than rich people, and more minorities are poor. Duh. They should watch Lean On Me.