Gangstas are a protected class now?
Accountability is as “last century” as the Law,
justice, and the US Constitution.
Maybe we should ship them all back to Africa where this is no school and they can just hang with the tribe and do nothing all day.
Maybe we should ship them all back to Africa where this is no school and they can just hang with the tribe and do nothing all day.
Naaah.
Um, this IS sarcasm right? My world is upside down if it isn’t. Well, it’s been upside down for the last four years anyway. What’s new?
...at a congressional hearing Wednesday on the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.
That's a short segment of the fatherless birth to welfare to failed union school to gang to narcotics and alcohol addiction to juvenile justice system to abandoned school to prison system.
It's another Democratic [sic] party production.
‘—it raises substantial concerns,”
Of course. In the demented liberal mind it MUST be due to racism and not to anti-social behavior. Of course. All White people are racist and the schools are racist and the states are racist and the country is racist and the world is racist.
And liberalism is a mental disorder.
hmmm, go to youtube and enter something like
“chuck e cheese brawl” or “walgreens riot” or “mcdonald’s fight” and you might get a clue.
For example . . . an African-American student in kindergarten was suspended for five days for setting off a fire alarm while a white student in 9th grade in the same district was suspended for one day for doing the same thing.
Without a discussion of many details, such as whether it was a first offense or repeat offense for either kid, how could an objective person evaluate whether this was appropriate?
“We must focus on the early years as well. It is unacceptable that African-American male preschoolers are expelled at almost nine times the rate of African-American girls with white preschool boys being expelled at almost four times the rate of their female peers,” Davis added.
Is it unacceptable that the expulsion rates differ, but not that the underlying rates of offenses also differ? An objective reporter would at least investigate the relative rates of offenses that lead to expulsion.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Mich.) . . . said African-Americans are three times more likely to be suspended and four times more likely to be expelled than their white peers. Also, more than 70 percent of students arrested in schools are African-American or Latino.
Again, what are the rates of commission for serious offenses in school, or does that detail conflict with the goals of this biased article?
He said disparities also exist with students identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender . . . "Nationally, students with disabilities are suspended at more than twice the rate of students without disabilities, and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth are more likely to be disciplined and arrested than their peers."
He seems to be saying that disturbed kids get suspended more often without considering whether they also act out more often.
Delisle called for “a multi-prong strategy that encourages educators to pro-actively monitor their discipline practices for disproportionality, assess for root causes where disproportionality exists, and engage in a broad-based community effort to develop an action plan to root out discrimination in the administration of discipline.”
I'd rather have educators educating children, with parents the responsibility to address the root causes of their own kids misbehaving in school. I remember when parents backed the schools, at least when the school was right, and kids turned out a whole lot better back then.
“students with disabilities”. And what do they consider disabilities? I suspect they are not talking about deaf, blind, and wheelchair here.
The stupid just won’t stop. More evidence (as if it were needed) to abolish the Department of Education.
Oh dear lord, here we go with the utter absurdity of claiming that disparate results are due to bias.
Here’s a radical concept: boys tend to break more rules, get into fights more often, and otherwise commit more deeds that warrant direct punishment than girls do.
It’s patently absurd to expect a demographic group known throughout history for a higher offense rate to have the same punishment rate as a group known throughout history to have a low rate of violence and a high rate of adherence to rules. Offense rate is justly tied to punishment rate - if you offend more you get punished more often and more severely.
Boys and girls are different, ladies and gentlemen. Thank god for this fact, otherwise our species wouldn’t have a future to speak of. You can’t go around expecting different behavior to produce the same results.
As far as the race issue goes, much the same could be said. Your higher arrest/suspension/punishment rate isn’t due to your dusky skin color and some violently racist police officers and/or judges, it’s due to the simple fact that you committed a goddamned crime in the first place! STOP COMMITTING CRIMES DUMBASS!
So, what would happen if we based our punishment systems on punishments meted out rather than offenses committed, be they school suspensions or criminal penalties (I bring up the criminal justice system angle because this same laughably fallacious reasoning is used by liberals trying to undermine our justice system)?
Well, in that event, you’d have to ensure that the high-rate offenders didn’t get punished more than the average person would. And, conversely, you’d have to ensure that the average person gets punished even when he or she didn’t do anything to warrant such.
If schools were penalized for suspending violent, problem youths, and were closely monitored to ensure that no group or individual faces more punishment than their demographic representation would warrant, that would mean that school administrators would either have to turn a blind eye to career-offenders in the student body, utterly ignoring behavior that deserves an escalating response, or alternatively they would have to harshly punish the well-behaving children for the slightest infraction just to ensure that they could claim they’re applying harsh penalties equally to all demographics. Most administrators would opt for a middle-ground, turning a blind eye to minor-to-moderate infractions from frequent offenders while crucifying the occasional good-little-lamb as a sacrificial offering on the altar of political correctness.
This fallacious logic, this laughable farce, is just the same old game. Liberals want a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card for their favorite minorities. Bonus points if they can figure out a way to stick-it to whitey while doing so.
There is an even higher disproportionate difference in the felony arrest and conviction rate for all males between 18-35 compared to all females 18-35.
Must we arrest more females to even things up or simply let the young thugs go free or have lesser sentences compared to older lawbreakers.
Reductio ad absurdum
As usual liberals misidentify the problem. The problem is the 9th grader should have gotten a two week suspension because he/she knew better.
What a racist thing to say!
dennis prager said today that, while he usually thinks people are smaert until proven stupid, anyone with an education degree he ythinks is stupid until proven smart. and usually they won’t be proven smart.
education degrees are worthless, just another way to employ individuals to teach eduction classes because they would fail in the real world.
I’m writing this as my sophomore students are busy writing an essay about the character of Odysseus for their final. I’m so very glad I’ll be retiring soon.
Most of my students are Alaska Native. I’ll bet they’re disciplined more than the white students are. They’re also more likely to be outwardly racist, more likely to avoid schoolwork, more likely to be using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs, and more likely to skip school. They’re more likely to miss class for a whole variety of reasons. They’re more likely to also come from homes missing one (or both) parents.
So the unequal academic outcomes that stem from all those behaviors and environments are supposed to be balanced in my classroom to reflect a racial percentage in the community. Of course, this is insanity. It’s apartheid with a happy face. It’s the segregated south as designed by northern intellectuals. It’s the scientific method and statistics as applied to utopian idealism. It’s the age-old concept of “one drop of blood” as imposed on human beings, in which kids with a white dad and a Yup’ik mom are Native, and a kid with two white parents and a Yup’ik grandparent are Native.
So here’s how it will be enforced in my classroom and school. We’ll have a new requirement to keep records of discipline and classroom management based on race and gender and sexual orientation. (God knows how the “sexual orientation” thing will work itself out.) Every time I ask a kid to spit out the gum or sit up straight or put away the headphones, I’ll be required to documentation of the action, the time, the disciplinary cause, the remediation, and, or course, the race, gender, or orientation of the student. My superintendent will produce a neat little chart at the start of the year. State officials will fret. Occasionally an angry parent will threaten a lawsuit when little Johnny pulls a knife or slashes my tires.
The end result, of course, will be that schools will proudly be able to report that the percentage of (fill in your minority) offenders disciplined is approaching equality, while the schools themselves become living hellholes.
By all means homeschool. I would love to see vouchers or complete privatization, but I don’t think I’ll live to see the day. In the meantime, I cry for the students in my room and their children.
God help us.
I’m writing this as my sophomore students are busy writing an essay about the character of Odysseus for their final. I’m so very glad I’ll be retiring soon.
Most of my students are Alaska Native. I’ll bet they’re disciplined more than the white students are. They’re also more likely to be outwardly racist, more likely to avoid schoolwork, more likely to be using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs, and more likely to skip school. They’re more likely to miss class for a whole variety of reasons. They’re more likely to also come from homes missing one (or both) parents.
So the unequal academic outcomes that stem from all those behaviors and environments are supposed to be balanced in my classroom to reflect a racial percentage in the community. Of course, this is insanity. It’s apartheid with a happy face. It’s the segregated south as designed by northern intellectuals. It’s the scientific method and statistics as applied to utopian idealism. It’s the age-old concept of “one drop of blood” as imposed on human beings, in which kids with a white dad and a Yup’ik mom are Native, and a kid with two white parents and a Yup’ik grandparent are Native.
So here’s how it will be enforced in my classroom and school. We’ll have a new requirement to keep records of discipline and classroom management based on race and gender and sexual orientation. (God knows how the “sexual orientation” thing will work itself out.) Every time I ask a kid to spit out the gum or sit up straight or put away the headphones, I’ll be required to documentation of the action, the time, the disciplinary cause, the remediation, and, or course, the race, gender, or orientation of the student. My superintendent will produce a neat little chart at the start of the year. State officials will fret. Occasionally an angry parent will threaten a lawsuit when little Johnny pulls a knife or slashes my tires.
The end result, of course, will be that schools will proudly be able to report that the percentage of (fill in your minority) offenders disciplined is approaching equality, while the schools themselves become living hellholes.
By all means homeschool. I would love to see vouchers or complete privatization, but I don’t think I’ll live to see the day. In the meantime, I cry for the students in my room and their children.
God help us.
Again with the poor African-American BS.
If those kids behaved themselves they wouldn’t get suspended, but a-holes like this want to punish white kids for minor infractions to keep the stats looking good,
What an idiot.