[reaganaut1]

Cited by Heather MacDonald in an NRO article "Discipline Disparities". The Obama administration has been saying school discipline is biased against blacks.

[WayneS]

I guess now the Obama [mal]Administration will have to start claiming that the methods the schools use to address the prior problem behavior are biased against blacks...

[rbg81]

I have a graduate student who used to be teacher. That is, until he got stabbed by a student while teaching in an inner city high school. The assailant, who was Black, only got a one week suspension. Meantime, the student is still dealing with the medical fallout from that attack.

[soycd]

Lack of fathers. Poor parenting. Peer pressure to be gangster. Blacks being taught hatred of whites. There are lots of reasons for it.

Whites coming down hard on blacks is NOT one of the reasons.

[Iron Munro]

The high rate of black criminality is probably rooted in black boys being delivered by white doctors.

Oh! The unspeakable racial trauma - it’s just too much to contemplate.

/s

[celmak]

Interesting.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Furthermore, no variable or set of variables have yet to account for this discrepancy, inviting speculation that this association is caused by racial bias or racial antipathy.

BS. What are the numbers used in this "empirical research"?
Do the exact same number of whites commit offenses worthy of punishment as blacks? I doubt it. I would speculate, in absence fo real numbers, that more blacks commit offenses worthy of punishment than whites.

Could, uh, this be why "empirical research finds a significant racial gap in the use of exclusionary school discipline with black students punished at rates disproportionate to whites."?

[Tenacious 1]

A large body of empirical research finds a significant racial gap in the use of exclusionary school discipline with black students punished at rates disproportionate to whites. Furthermore, no variable or set of variables have yet to account for this discrepancy, inviting speculation that this association is caused by racial bias or racial antipathy.

WHAT?!?!?! no variable or set of variables have yet to account for this discrepancy? Really? Why does unrefrigerated milk spoil sooner than refrigerated milk? Is there no variable or set of variables that would account for the obvious difference? Try this; Children growing up in fatherless homes, with little guidance or discipline tend to have less respect for authority, their peers, establishment rules or generally accepted social manners. They, therefore 1) Swear at teachers 2) Fight at school 3) vandalize property....

I'm no expert here. But I'd guess this study started with the results, "Black students are disciplined more because of racism."

[oh8eleven]

suggest that the use of suspensions by teachers and administrators may not have been as racially biased as some scholars have argued.
Now that's racist!

[hosepipe]

The disproportionate number of blacks to whites and asians is probably NOT nearly as BAD as it SHOULD BE...

IT SHOULD BE WORSE.... liberal teachers turn their heads..
and much stuff is ignored..

-OR- blame is transferred to THE VICTIM... probably white but could also be black.. or asian or hispanic..

Affirmative Action has many heads.. like Medusa..

[prof.h.mandingo]

Duh!!!! I love these studies. I have taught in an alternative school in the deep south. I didn’t need a study to tell me this.
Actually you just have to look at what passes for “family” in any races family nowadays.
They all smoke dope together and commit crimes together.
Many live with grandparents whom they control.

[Organic Panic]

That’s UMpossible.