Trump officials cancel Obama-era policy on school discipline

Associated Press ^ | December 21, 2018 | Colin Binkley

[Olog-hai]

The Trump administration has formally scrapped an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial discrimination in schools but that became tangled in a national debate over school safety.

Officials from the Education and Justice departments finalized the rollback Friday, just days after it was proposed by a federal panel on school safety. President Donald Trump formed the panel in March as the government’s response to the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

In revoking the rule, federal officials said they won’t intervene with schools’ disciplinary decisions as long as they don’t violate federal discrimination laws. […]

The 2014 policy urged schools not to suspend, expel or report students to police except as a last resort. Instead, it promoted “restorative” discipline measures that don’t remove students from the classroom. President Barack Obama’s administration issued the guidance after finding that black students across the U.S. were more than three times as likely to be disciplined as their white peers. …

[yesthatjallen]

A glimmer of sanity.

[morphing libertarian]

IIRC this is why St. Treyvon was on the street casing cars instead of being in jail for theft.

[Henchster]

President Barack Obama’s administration issued the guidance after finding that black students across the U.S. were more than three times as likely to be disciplined troublemakers as their white peers.

Very poor editing by our friends at AssPress.

[clintonh8r]

Gee you’d think the AP could have actually given us the name of the policy....

[Mears]

The PROMISE program.

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[Navy Patriot]

Trump officials cancel Obama-era policy on school discipline

No more "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards for you!

[Sasparilla]

This ludicrous Obama scheme was intended to prevent offenses to be criminally charged because too many minorities were being arrested.

PROMISE is an intervention-based program designed to correct student behaviors that violate this policy or Policy
5.8: Code of Student Conduct through a comprehensive set of supports and education. PROMISE is designed to
address these policy violations that rise to the level of entrance into the delinquency system. The intent of PROMISE
is to safeguard the student from entering the said system.
The list of PROMISE eligible incidents are outlined below.

1. Disruption on Campus-Major
2. Trespassing
3. Alcohol–Use/Possession/Under the Influence
4. Alcohol Sale/Attempted Sale/Transmittal
5. Drug–Use/Possession/Under the Influence
6. Drug Paraphernalia–Possession
7. Bullying
8. Harassment
9. Fighting-Mutual Combat
10. False Accusation Against School Staff
11. Assault/Threat (no harm or injury)
12. Theft-Petty <$300
13. Vandalism/Damage to Property <$1,000

[clintonh8r]

Thanks. I couldn’t remember it.

[Mears]

“10. False Accusation Against School Staff”

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Most annoying one of all,to me.

Why any would teach with this considered okay amazes me.

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[Daffynition]

https://fox61.com/2018/03/20/exclusive-hartford-teachers-union-says-district-practice-costing-students-teachers-and-taxpayers/

Hartford Public Schools [CT] have dozens of teachers/staff/admin on administrative leave. It’s an epidemic.

[libertylover]

issued the guidance after finding that black students across the U.S. were more than three times as likely to be disciplined as their white peers.

Maybe, but probably five times as likely to commit an offence where discipline is called for.

[rlmorel]

I had no idea.

So, if a minority student is entangled in one of these offenses, they are put into a program of some kind that doesn’t get them into the formal criminal system?

They don’t get a record?

They don’t get punished the same way or at all for any of these offenses?

Do I read that correctly?

[a fool in paradise]

Wasn’t this part of the reason the Florida school shooter hadn’t been criminally prosecuted before he attacked his ex-classmates?

[yesthatjallen]

Yes.

The Promise Program was enacted to ensure minorities wouldn't have a criminal record while in school.

This was done to stop the mythical 'school to prison pipeline'.

Apparently if schools didn't damage a child for life with a criminal school record minority students wouldn't be 'forced' to become criminals later in life.

[rlmorel]

Good Lord.

You can imagine that for some "kids" that list was a license to kill.

They wouldn't see it as "Look how people are helping to keep me out of trouble"

It would be more like "So...they won't put something in my record if I trash something and the Vandalism/Damage to Property is less than $1,000, or if I steal something, if it is less than $300 I might have to listen to a lecture, but that's about it"

[FreedomPoster]

This is the same program that the morons in Miami came up with, that led directly to the Parkland shootings, because no one properly dealt with the shooter’s indicative behavior for years before the shooting. The school system and the sheriff’s department initially developed the stupidity, and then Obama and Holder took the stupidity nationwide.

Here’s a Breitbart article that connects some of the dots:

Broward County Likely ‘Inspiration’ for Obama School Discipline Policy to Report Fewer Arrests, Suspensions
https://tinyurl.com/yax3y5qk

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

You would be shocks at how many dysfunctional children are
in our schools, even down to the lower Elementary School grades.

I’m learning about the extent of these problems with emotionally disturbed or parentally-miseducated kids (re their conduct) from my grandchildren.

Schools need good, strong and enforced rules of conduct, but if the children have problems, they must also be addressed in realistic ways. Excusing them from at least a partial responsibility means that they will continue to misbehave because they can, and that spells trouble in Middle School/Junior High and High Schools.

Look at the death rates of young black students and the causes of it. America - We have a problem.

Hope this new revised policy approach will succeed. It has too. Our children are too precious to waste.

[poconopundit]

Thanks for your wise comments, MadMax. School discipline is essential. If it's lax, all students in a school are affected and civil society is on a downward slope.

There's a favorite passage from Emerson's essays that explains the danger of this laxness:

The "Bank-Note Detector" is a useful publication. But the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.

If you take out of State Street the ten most honest merchants, and put in ten roguish persons, controlling the same amount of capital, -- the rates of insurance will indicate it; and the soundness of banks will show it.

What's more, the highways will be less secure: the schools will feel it; the children will bring home their little dose of the poison.

Yhe judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, -- which all need; and the pulpit will betray it, in a laxer rule of life.

Wealth from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)