[EinNYC]

Just another way Obama is destroying America. Just 2 days ago, I wanted to exit the bus I was riding to school. A black girl was blocking the aisle. I said, "Excuse me!" twice, and still she did not move. I had to shove my way past her in order to get off the bus. She then got off the bus as well---and shoved me, calling me a b__ch. This is your typical urban black student now. We will surely be paying for her room at the Grey Bar Inn soon enough.

[9thLife]

New York public-school students caught stealing, doing drugs or even attacking someone can avoid suspension under new “progressive” discipline rules adopted this month.

It's only fair. After all, teachers who do the same things aren't fired. They may be sent to the "rubber room", though.

[grania]

Another thing that’s making schools less safe is an unintended consequence of a reform. That would be schools being evaluated in part by rate of attendance and graduation rates. They’re keeping undesirables around to boost those numbers.

[A_perfect_lady]

Bookmarking this one. I’m in Los Angeles, and yes, we’re seeing it too. My students are mostly Latino, but they have no fear of mouthing off to anyone, including our very tall, fairly distinguished looking African American principal. Latino students can be startlingly racist, and delight in calling blacks “Chimpanzees” and muttering “fried chicken” every time they see one. Black Americans may find this soft approach backfires badly on them in the majority Latino communities.

[PROCON]

Thanks. I’ve read some of your other experiences inside the NYC school system, stay safe.

[dila813]

In Portland, if you are the right race, you won’t be suspended or expelled no matter what you do.

[gspurlock]

Wait just a minute. It looks like these are inner-city black schools. Blacks only make up about 13-14% of the population. Of that 13-14%, a maximum of 25% are in these inner city schools. We are talking about a small minority of a small minority, yet just as in the 1960’s, the media takes the worst of the worst of the black population and tries to make it look like the norm.

Then they think we’re all racist because they believe that we believe all blacks are exactly what they portray all black Americans to be.

I’m sick and tired of it. And it’s time we start calling them on it.

All this is is the fruits of the welfare system, exactly what the Democrats were deliberately cultivating to perpetuate racism ad infinitum.

[TomGuy]

School officials are too busy using zero-tolerance to go after perps who nibble Pop-Tarts into the shapes of pistols, or make gun shapes with their fingers, or a student leaving a butter knife in his parked, locked vehicle in the school parking lot.

[bgill]

It was just a handful of years ago our last child graduated from public high school. It was a nice conservative school though was headed in the wrong direction the last couple years. So very glad they graduated when they did or they’d be homeschooled today.

[papertyger]

Time to goggle John Derbyshire’s “The Talk: Non-Black Version.”

[eyedigress]

I graduated in 1982 from a school in East TN.

The mentality there was Jocks and Freaks. We had one main Principal and 4 vice Principals.

It was a different time. Simple rules, be on time and pass your class. It would seem these days kids have no idea of a life after school and choose prison. We had smoking areas and could leave grounds.

I wonder if making school a prison gets the prison mentality?

If you don’t pass your classes you don’t get a job.

I think that is gone.