BCN: Nationally, black junior high and high school students are suspended at a rate more than three times as often as their white peers, twice as often as their Latino peers and more than 10 times as often as their Asian peers. According to former Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the “huge disparity is not caused by differences in children; it’s caused by differences in training, professional development, and discipline policies. It is adult behavior that needs to change.” In other words, the Education Department sees no difference between the behavior of black students and white, Latino and Asian students. It’s just that black students are singled out for discriminatory discipline. Driven by Obama administration pressures, school districts revised their discipline procedures by cutting the number of black student suspensions.
Max Eden, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has written a report, “School Discipline Reform and Disorder: Evidence from New York City Public Schools, 2012-16.” The new discipline imposed on public schools is called restorative justice. Rather than punish a student through exclusion (suspension), restorative justice encourages the student who has misbehaved to reflect on his behavior, take responsibility and resolve to behave better in the future. The results of this new policy are: increased violence, drug use and gang activity. Max Eden examines the NYC School Survey of teachers and students and finds that violence increased in 50 percent of schools and decreased in 14 percent. Gang activity increased in 39 percent of schools and decreased in 11 percent. For drug and alcohol use, there was a 37 percent increase while only 7 percent of schools improved. Read More
More black privilege.
Helen Keller could have seen this outcome.
Well dang, I hope they don’t miss home economic where they learn to hold their guns sideways.
I know from a teacher friend, not a pencil necked pussy, that black students are impossible to control, let alone teach. And those kids who want to learn are petrified. That’s why he just quit.
Bad_Brad, the first semester they learn how
to paint a piece of cardboard to look like a
car door, and cut a window out for the full
simulation. The gun is second semester.
Let them get away with bad behavior in school and they grow up in contempt of Congress, unmasking innocent Americans and weaponizing the IRS as adults.
Isn’t it time to focus on the propensity of some to commit crime, identify them, and act accordingly? Gee, what a concept. They are trying this crap where I work, and it’s having the same effect. Much more violence.
The problem with Stereotypes is that someone is always willing to validate them.
Stop all this pretense. Just hand out the diplomas, so they can go find jobs….
There is no way to teach low IQ cretins with no self control, a propensity for violence and who travel the halls “rappin'” vile threats. The school to prison pipeline should be cut, maybe a Head Start to prison pipeline would be more in the nations interests. Cut out the middleman and save trillions over time.
I could never figure out the suspension thing, in my mind that was never really a punishment, just a vacation to go to goof off.
The real problem in their mind is the schools don’t get cash when the kids aren’t there.
Let’s go to a voucher system where parents get to decide where their kids go including homeschooling.
Some how, some way, whitey is to blame. Death to whiteys!
Holding black yoots accountable for their own behavior just can’t be it.
All students should be placed in their own ‘cone-of-silence’ personal space, that has a mic and speaker. students can lock the door from the inside. If one student acts up, the instructor can turn off that mic and speaker, the other students can lock their doors. And go on with the instruction.
@ T
Suspension was never punishment – it was to allow other students to get their education without being disrupted by an asshole student. Enough of those and there is no point in having them there at all – expulsion.
It worked. If the problem child can’t get his act together, he/she has to go.
Absolutely agree on vouchers. Once I explained it to my Democrat neighbor that he would have control over who gets the money and that schools would start caring about not having students if their teachers were lousy – he got it. Before that his logic said: Give teachers more money and they’ll be better teachers. o.0
The switch was flipped after going through how he had to offer better quality and pricing to beat his competition, and if there were no competition, then he could charge out the wazoo and wouldn’t need care about the quality because – where else would they go if he’s the only game in town.
He’s a Dem voucher supporter now.
All it takes is the truth laid out in a relate-able way.