Too Many Black Students Suspended Leads Oakland Schools to Stop Punishment

truthrevolt ^ | 5.15.2015 | Trey Sanchez 294

[dennisw]

Board members of California's Oakland Unified School District unanimously voted on Wednesday to cease suspending students for what they call "willful defiance." Those behaviors can include swearing/yelling at teachers, refusing direct orders, texting, and storming out of class, to name a few.

The reason? Concern that too many black students are being suspended for willful defiance.

One sophomore student, Dan'enicole Williams, told the San Francisco Gate, "They never take time out, if someone is sleeping in class, to ask what’s wrong. They may be acting that way because they didn’t eat the night before.”

"We’re getting pushed out of schools,” she added. “They don’t care about us.”

Along with suspensions, the new policy will also include bans on expulsions and transfers of students to other schools for multiple infractions.

According to the SFGate, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has been investigating Oakland schools' "disproportionate suspensions" for several years. The district signed a voluntary agreement in 2012 that brought in Manhood Development classes for black males to address behavior issues and to begin discussions on "restorative justice." These programs, dubbed "alternative discipline," can cost districts upwards of $2.3 million dollars per school year.

Vowing to cover those costs in his 2015-2016 budget, Superintendent Antwan Wilson said, “This is about reintegrating students into the classroom rather than excluding them from learning."

[Olog-hai]

The phrase “too many” implies a set limit.

Left-wing black leaders sure were successful at their doctrinarian goal to destroy the family in “their” segment of society that they base on race. With all the help that their left-wing white friends can muster. They have their “community” in too much disarray to be held accountable by them.

[patro]

Antwan? Really? It really doesn’t help when parents give their kids made up names. Shaniqua, Shanaynay, Latrina, Johntavius. If I were these kids I’d act up to, knowing that no matter hard I try, employers won’t take me seriously because my mother didn’t give me a real name. Might as well wear clown get-up 24/7.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"They may be acting that way because they didn’t eat the night before.”

SNAP ("Food stamp") spending $74 BILLION in 2014, and Nat'l School Lunch program $14 BILLION.

[Obadiah]

No chance these kids were out roaming the streets till 2 am the night before, huh? I’m sure their fathers are concerned about their school behavior, right?

[EEGator]

Black people will never STFU about grievances...never.

[SpaceBar]

Blacks don’t need ‘the man’ keeping them down.

They do it just fine by themselves.

[4rcane]

I think some of suspension is stupid. Those are minor infraction, not something you should be kicked from school for

[4rcane]

I think its a case of some teachers picking the easy route, removing problem students instead of trying to educate the students. If they’re still coming to class then we should encourage them, not kick them out simply because they yelled at the teacher. I can understand if a student was stealing or committing violence, but not for all the other minor incident that was named

[Lumper20]

This is the same as saying -Don’t worry you can do what you want,say what you want, as we depend on you for our paycheck. What pure BS. Just let them do as they please with no damn rules. And people wonder why we have the Ferguson’s,the Baltimore’s etc. I almost fell out of the chair yesterday as here in Nashville some black on channel 5 news claimed a cop was mean to him and the liberal news lady let the black and his mom do all the talking and blaming the cop for yelling like-”Get your DAMN hands up” or words to the effect. Yet a call to 911 said he or someone fitting his description had an AK.

[CGASMIA68]

Maybe one time but I am sure if you check most of theses scum bags are habitual multi time offenders. They disrupt and hinder the lives of those that want to learn.Remove them.

[9YearLurker]

“Restorative justice” discussions—yeah, that’ll help.

[Libloather]

...swearing/yelling at teachers, refusing direct orders, texting, and storming out of class, to name a few.

They need to be taught that they can also do all that crap on the job - if they ever get one.

[Yosemitest]

Title should be:

Superintendent Antwan Wilson of California's Oakland Unified School District PROMOTES Willful Defiance of School Rules For Negroes!

This is what happens when you allow LIBERALS TO LEAD YOU INTO HELL !

Race, Politics and Lies. By Thomas Sowell, May 5, 2015
" ... You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization —
including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain
— without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

Non-judgmental subsidies of counterproductive lifestyles are treating people as if they were livestock, to be fed and tended by others in a welfare state —
and yet expecting them to develop as human beings have developed when facing the challenges of life themselves.

One key fact that keeps getting ignored is that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits every year since 1994. Behavior matters and facts matter, more than the prevailing social visions or political empires built on those visions. ... "

[ballplayer]

MORON

[minnesota_bound]

Parents need to stop naming their kids “Dan’enicole”

[knarf]

"We’re getting pushed out of schools,” she added. “They don’t care about us.”

You're moving yourselves out of school ... nobody WANTS you ...

We tried ... we really, REALLY did

But you took our kindness and attempt to love you and shoved it right back into our faces ... so it has come to ... sorry ...

No, wait a minute ...

I'm not.

[ransacked]

And nobody mentions how unfair these students are to the other students who sincerely want to learn. They are ruining their education through their vile and disgusting behavior. The lack of discipline in our society is having catastrophic effects. These students should be separated from the others.

[DH]

OH BOY!

A preview of the next generation of savage animals to be released on the population.

History will write the record of the great failure in trying to bring prehistoric savages into a civilized society.

[submarinerswife]

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