Posted on 10/03/2018 8:57:01 PM PDT by OddLane
President Barack Obama’s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights.
Later that year, as a result of widespread support across the nation, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Duncan titled his speech “Crossing the Next Bridge.” Duncan told the crowd that black students “are more than three times as likely to be expelled as their white peers,” adding that Martin Luther King would be “dismayed.”
Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and her special assistant and counselor, Alison Somin, have written an important article in the Texas Review of Law and Politics, titled “The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline” (Spring 2018)...
(Excerpt) Read more at intellectualtakeout.org ...
Absolutely true. If students try any of that assault stuff on future employers, or even verbal abuse, they will find themselves booted out of the place of employment so fast, their heads will swim. So why condition students to think that this is proper or appropriate behavior? Why allow educators to be victims of physical harm? Why set up an atmosphere of very much less than optimal learning in a classroom, where anything goes?
The reason liberal true believers in what they are doing is the Path to Prison Pipeline Study.
Principals are scared to look bad if they suspend minority students.
Is it a legit reason? I say no.
They are doing the undisciplined acting students no favor.
It is part of the reason though.
Spare a consequence, spoil the student.
But since when did reality get in the way of leftist social engineering?
Obama was/is dedicated to bleeding America to death by a thousand cuts. This is an example of one of his cuts.
Once they have gotten to highschool age, it’s beyond hope for a good majority of them, IMO. Probably elementary school.
Short of a miracle, one cannot undue years of cultural indoctrination that has been going on since birth. One would have to have some kind of inner spark of awareness, separate from their environment, to get beyond it.
This from nearly 20 years ago and what has changed?:
How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million...
An idealistic new Yale grad learns up close and personal just how bad inner-city schools can be—and why.
Joshua Kaplowitz
Winter 2003
https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-i-joined-teach-america—and-got-sued-20-million-12393.html
Obama’s Keep Criminals in Schools program
Of course, like you say - in the long run this con will hurt the students... more.
The story behind Nikolas Cruz and the shooting of 33 former classmates and staff is one of the repeated failures of the system from the FBI to the school to the sheriff’s office to social services. The massacre was very foreseeable but politics got in the way. Specifically, politics, funding of more than $53 million, and Chicago school discipline got in the way.
This Was Obama-Chicago Discipline----The Superintendent of Broward County Schools, Robert Runcie, came out of Chicago and the Duncan-Obama administration.
The Miami-Herald reported: In 2003, Arne Duncan, then head of the Chicago school district and later Secretary of Education under Barack Obama asked Runcie to oversee the district’s technology department. Runcie went on to serve in other administrative roles, including as chief of staff for the Board of Education, before becoming the Broward schools superintendent in 2011.
In 2016, he made $335,000 a year in a region that has poor mental health services due to lack of funds. He was well-paid to bring down the numbers and alter the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.It was supposed to happen as a result of the Promise program.
The Promise---- The school board instituted a program called Promise which made not reporting criminal behavior a standard policy. Police said they did not have discretion in arrests, according to the President of the Sheriff’s union. The Promise [Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support, and Education] program kept Nikolas Cruz from getting arrested. Not having a record allowed him to buy guns.
The program began in 2012 as a way of dealing with the district recording the highest number of school-related arrests statewide (over 1,000). Superintendent Runcie, with strong connections to Obama, was expected to stop the alleged school-to-prison pipeline.
The program was geared towards keeping minorities out of prison. The killer’s name was Cruz, making him a minority. An agreement was drawn up with police and community organizations like the NAACP which kept kids out of jail based on race but didn’t necessarily deal with the issues they had.
Principals, instead of school resource officers [sheriffs], became the primary decision makers in responding to student misbehavior. Misdemeanors were supposed to be overlooked but records suggest more serious crimes were ignored to keep the money flowing. The district had to continually show improvement in statistics. There is no question the serious threats by Cruz to shoot up the school were reported to the sheriff’s office and he ignored them. Nothing was reported and nothing was ever done. This was the school/police policy.
$53 Million in Grants---With a cooperative judge and the Superintendent’s tight connections to the Obama administration, arrests were down 66% within one year of Runcie’s arrival. Grant money started flowing into the school district. The school district initially received over $53 million in grants to facilitate “improved life for students in poverty/students of color.”
The Last Refuge has been investigating this for years and uncovered documentation making a very convincing case for the entire program being corrupted by funds and statistics.
The extent of killer Nikolas Cruz’s disciplinary problems was summarized by the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami-Herald. In addition to a slew of disabilities, Cruz had been out of control for years. As a New York educator for more than 30 years, I can tell you that long before Cruz blew completely, he would have been in a residential school.
One of the program’s participants, Juvenile Court judge Elijah Williams, speaking at a 2013 signing ceremony for PROMISE, focused on the statistics. “We are waiting for our numbers to come in,” he told the audience.
Applied discipline is a last chance to save some of those destined for a life of crime.
“.....Because black students have more discipline problems and it makes ‘the community’ look bad.”...….
Discipline applied at a young age has all but been done away with, hence the results.
True. But this is effective way to hide the failures of the current liberal social meddling.
The odds a child will be held back in school, flunk out, be disciplined at school, get arrested, join a gang and go to prison are three to four times higher is born to a single mother. REGARDLESS OF RACE OR INCOME.
The black illegitimacy rates has been three times higher than that for whites for a century. The only shift has been an increase in illegitimacy rates in general - 30% for whites, 80% for blacks.
If a racial minority has 3x as many illegitimate children, you will get 3x as many disciplinary problems.
That isn’t racial oppression but differences in group behavior. There’s a way to solve this - repairing the black family - but liberals don’t want that.
If one wants to change the course of the nation start indoctrinating the children. We now have a whole generation young adults who wet themselves if they don’t get their way
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