Posted on 06/21/2019 3:05:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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On Thursday, responding to longstanding concerns that the system penalizes black and Hispanic students, Mr. de Blasio announced new rules that will limit arrests in schools for low-level offenses.
In addition, its likely that the maximum amount of time for suspensions will be sharply reduced.
For decades, city statistics have shown that the New York City school system has disciplined black and Hispanic students at higher rates than white and Asian children an unsettling yet consistent feature of the nations largest school district.
The new guidelines represent perhaps Mr. de Blasios most dramatic attempt to change how students of color are disciplined and how police interact with students in school. All New York school buildings have a New York Police Department school safety agent, and other police officers are allowed in schools.
Ms. Colon said she went to Iowa to ask the mayor to eliminate all arrests and summonses in schools. Though she didnt get the exact answer she hoped for, she said the changes are a step in the right direction.
Black and Hispanic students represent about 90 percent of arrests and summonses in schools, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Though suspensions have plummeted by about 30 percent since Mr. de Blasio took office, 46 percent of total suspensions last year were issued to black students, who make up 26 percent of the school system.
After years of sometimes rocky experimentation with ways to replace former Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs so-called zero tolerance approach, the city will use restorative justice practices that emphasize defusing conflict over suspensions in all middle and high schools starting in the next school year. The city will add 85 new social workers, funded as part of the final city budget
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Reality check: Scripps showed up for 30 minutes of content free BS every other Thursday afternoon. Otherwise, it was a babysitting service with breakfast and lunch served daily. Poor academics. My son was the top fly on the manure pile...a mistake that earned him frequent beatings during recess.
Corrective action: we pulled him out of that worthless pest hole. It took 5 weeks of intensive work to catch up to the classroom progress at our local neighborhood school. In the process, I was doing "second checks" of the grading on math and English. It was deplorable, but much better than the "magnet" school. I pushed him harder at home to compensate for the crappy public school.
Results: my son graduated with a 4.33 GPA. He took 5 AP courses and scored the best possible "5 of 5" on each one. Part of the reason is he studied so hard that he was often teaching the course while the paid seat warmer (teacher) looked on. He conducted evening review sessions for his fellow students.
Damn...you beat me to it!
That should have been your first clue - how many people do they need to count fish?
I've been reading over your old posts and it sounds like our situations are pretty much the same: mid 50s, 2 years or so from retirement, teaching inner city. I'm in Los Angeles and my school is a bit better (99% Latino, suburbs, pretty stable) but I see some of that behavior too. I saw it a LOT my first 11 years, because I was teaching in middle school, truly inner-city. Again, most of my kids were Latino, but "feral" was exactly the word I used. And, like you, I always noted that it was really a small percentage who acted that way, but they were so over-powering, and we get so little support... I, too, learned early on: don't bother sending them to the guidance counselor. She hated White people and her attitude was always that I had somehow provoked the poor child.
I'm in a better school now, though, and am grateful. Most of the kids are quite nice. And about 20% are actually intelligent.
When I referred to fatherless, I’m talking about out of wedlock where no father is involved. Here’s an article and the statistics look bleak.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/trends-in-unmarried-childbearing-point-to-a-coming-apart
I think children come out better when parents married and there was an attempt to be an intact family even if the marriage ends in divorce. Divorce parents are still usually involved in raising and disciplining the children.
You are ever so right, just take a look at the failed Obama programs. How much clearer could it be that blacks and hispanic are more apt to commit a violation of the schools rules than are whites. That is the problem they should address,and take action to correct.
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