Minneapolis Public Schools sees progress with new behavior standards and sets goal for school year

Minneapolis Public Schools ^ | 11/07/2014 | Stan Alleyne

[Rusty0604]

Minneapolis Public Schools sees progress with new behavior standards and sets goal for school year

MINNEAPOLIS—Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson announced today her intent to eliminate the nonviolent suspension gap by 2018. To achieve this, MPS must aggressively reduce the disproportionality between black and brown students and their white peers every year for the next four years. This will begin with a 25 percent reduction in disproportionality by the end of this school year; 50 percent by 2016; 75 percent by 2017; and 100 percent by 2018.

Moving forward, every suspension of a black or brown student will be reviewed by the superintendent’s leadership team. The school district aims to more deeply understand the circumstances of suspensions with the goal of providing greater supports to the school, student or family in need. This team could choose to bring in additional resources for the student, family and school.

[Rusty0604]

Out and out discrimination, sounds like Zimbabwe. The district is 70% minority; what I'm guessing is that they don't get that if the ratio is 70/30 that would be normal. Even if it is more, treatment should be equal and fair no matter what color the student.

[GeronL]

if 75 out of 100 infractions are done by black students they will find 75 innocent white kids to punish too

This is a Bill Ayrers project pushed by the Holder Department of Justice, not Dept of Education

[oh8eleven]

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson

Surprise ... not!

[Rusty0604]

I know this is Holder. I just do not get how white people don’t stand up to this. I did when they tried it with my daughter and a Hispanic, and I won.

Justice is supposed to be blind. And now our next AG will be black to carry on Holder’s work.

[NorthMountain]

Government schools are houses of madness, ruled by the insane.

It’s long past time to abolish them. Education is far too important to let the government screw it up.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Moving forward, every suspension of a black or brown student will be reviewed by the superintendent’s leadership team.

Blacks get subjective, reasoned decisions and whites get zero tolerance. Nice to see the white students (the minority) won't recieve equal protection under this policy. The Brown v. Board of education decision made this kind of discrimination illegal, I wonder if blacks in Minneapolis even notice the irony.

[ronnie raygun]

New behavior standards mean the old standards which were fine will be modified to suit the irresponsible parent or parents and thier unruly disruptive children so that they will not sue the district or the school officials for tossing thier offspring out on thier a##es. From this we expect our children to be preyed upon, suffer classroom disruptions, hinder learning, and have them bring home the sh## they see and here in class. The majority is now beholden to the minority. Happy with political correctness and diversity are you?

[MNDude]

I can’t even imagine how the black students will behave now that the little fear they may have had is now removed.

[C19fan]

The same people pushing this complain when the middle class and above move out of the district.

[T-Bone Texan]

End result will be white students punished for minor infractions like gum chewing so as to find parity when a son of Obama rapes a girl in the bathroom or punches a teacher in the jaw.

That is what we are talking about here; let's drop the pretense.

We are witnessing the death of great nation in real time, and this is just a tiny, tiny part of it.

[Rusty0604]

They way it was explained to me when they tried to pull this crap on my daughter was that for over a hundred years things weren’t fair for the minority children so now our children will have to suffer a little discrimination to make things fair. They had the nerve to say that with my daughter present! Well I don’t have any white guilt and neither do my children so we didn’t roll over. (I’m actually half Cherokee but since that shouldn’t make a difference I didn’t tell the school)

[armydawg505]

Actions dont matter, only skin color. I guess MLK’s dream of one day not being judged by the color of your skin but the content of your character is not convenient for leftists now.

[armydawg505]

How’s that school desegregation working out now for the public schools?

[driftless2]

That's like eliminating the achievement gap between black and white students. Another futile quest. Why don't they ever talk about the gap between Jewish students and non Jewish, white students? Or the gap between whites and Asians. Even with Jewish students in the mix, white students lag behind Asian students. Those gaps have been prevalent for more than half a century.

Similarly, some students misbehave more than other students. It's mostly genetic factors creating these scholastic and behavioral gaps, but that fact will never be addressed by the powers that be.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Anything goes now, except education.

[Rusty0604]

They simply lower the standards for everyone to eliminate the achievement gap. Then they will need to import even more skilled workers from other countries because we don’t teach our kids how to do anything.