Failing to discipline misbehaving black students causes a disparate impact on well behaved black students.
Therefore, whoever is caught misbehaving must always be punished, regardless of race, lest their peer group be disparately impacted.
I’ve heard liberals say that many minorities get in trouble at school because we don’t understand ghetto culture. It’s as is we need to understand dissing so that kids do not get in trouble for fighting because they were dissed.
I’ve heard liberals say that many minorities get in trouble at school because we don’t understand ghetto culture. It’s as is we need to understand dissing so that kids do not get in trouble for fighting because they were dissed.
If they only fit into the system.... but then again it’s a “whiteman’s” thing.... man of these issues would disappear. Instead of being Afro Americans , they need to be Americans. They need to drop their own counter culture for their own survival and success in the “whiteman’s” system.
I do not care where you go, there is only one way to put a nut on a bolt.
It all starts with education, and the parents promoting education...... and not such nonsense as ebonics.
Exactly. Two days ago I sent office referrals (and placed phone calls) for 7 disruptive students—all of them Black. In each case, individual exhortations desk-side failed to elicit the appropriate response in terms of behavior. That’s 7 out of a class of 29; you can imagine the difficulty the other students were having while trying to listen and learn. I took no satisfaction in the task, except for this: I was standing up for the rights of those students who came to learn that day! This has always been my determining factor in meting out disciplinary measures—measures which,by the way, are scant and ineffective in today’s environment.
Whenever I am challenged along racial lines by parents, students or administrators, I remind them of my students who come to school to learn, how they have comported themselves, ready and attentive, willing to learn; how they will sometimes look at me with pleading eyes; how they’ve come day in and day out hoping to wring some sort of education out of their school day. I remind them that I am here for THEM, as well as the disruptive students. If you ask me, job one for those students bent on disruption is to bring the swift rod of correction down on them—this is the first lesson they need to understand about education: it does not happen apart from [self-]discipline.
Well, gotta go! Off to another exciting day of fun and learning at the good ol’ gubmint school of eju-ma-cashun!