Posted on 12/21/2016 8:58:57 PM PST by Phillyred
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has agreed to investigate allegations that the Upper Dublin School District discriminated against black students by disproportionately giving them out-of-school suspensions, contacting police over infractions, and placing them in lower-track courses.
The complaint was filed last year by the Public Interest Law Center on behalf of a group of parents who alleged that African Americans made up 7.3 percent of the Upper Dublin student population, but received 45 percent of the suspensions in 2014-15, 48 percent in 2013-14, and 63 percent in 2012-13.
Federal investigators declined to look into two other allegations: that no black students were enrolled in gifted classes in the district's four elementary schools and middle school in 2014-15, and that they were harassed at the middle and high schools, creating a hostile environment for them.
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Behaviour is apparently an illegitimate reason for suspension. A correct number of suspensions each year must be determined at the beginning of the school year and those suspensions must be parceled out randomly but exactly proportionately according to race, sex, claimed “gender.” religion, income level, etc. As acceptable an easier to implement would be to limit all school punishment to white male students.
There was an article yesterday where the US Justus dept. got involved in a county matter where a muslim church was denied some kind of zoning variance for a mosque.
Anyone else would have to hire a lawyer. This chit stops next month.
The problem can be remedied very simply. Suspend more white kids. Check them for butter knives, pop tarts shaped like guns, etc.
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We live in this district and our sons were in the schools from K-12. Most students are from middle to upper-middle class homes, and there is a very dedicated contingent of families who will support their children through tutoring, SAT prep courses, etc to give them a good start in life. Upper Dublin has a high proportion of educated, professional families. They value education and achievement. Throw into the mix a segment of the district which is from a poorer area with a high percentage of African Americans. There is a difference in home resources, and in many cases, culture regarding education. When our kids were in school, the youngsters causing trouble or falling behind were often from this area (North Hills) or had been brought in through the local shelter for orphaned, displaced, or later, adjudicated youth from Philadelphia. The school district has been wrestling with this for years. It defies easy solutions.
There are no such things as easy solutions, only just and tough ones. Just 29 days to go.
In her current class of 4th graders, she has kids that refuse to stay in their seats, will escape to run down the halls during class and get into fistfights while in class. She had one of them doing simulated sex acts on one of the girls in the class while giving a running commentary on how she should perform.
The children failing the tests over and over are from the same group and the parents refuse to help her or the school to get them to behave or to learn (most of them failed the 3rd grade SOLs but were passed up to the next grade anyway). In the case of the "sex ed" student, the parents refused to believe the Principal when she told them what the kid had done. Some of these parents have threatened her and the school system with legal action when they suspend their kids for classroom antics/fighting.
There is a problem.
Penalizing schools for "students" behavior. How about the students who WANT and education and are threatened by violence?
I worked in a ghetto school. Everything you said is totally believable.
I blame those in charge. Some superintendants should be imprisoned. The Department of Education should be disbanded immediately. It is a weapon against white families, and conservatives.
Schools have become violent prisons for white children, and anarchic playgrounds for violent nonwhite children.
Really...This is a serious question, not a rhetorical one. I would be interested in your thoughts about this since you have had direct experience with these children ( white and black) and their parents.
Parent across the nation send children into violet environments that (1)no adult would tolerate, (2) would result in felony changes,(3) and cost the business millions in damages.
Then the kids are gaslighted by being told that it prepares them for the “real” world and it good for them. In what real world would any adult tolerate this?
If this were a political or legislative issue by now the threat would have more than a hundred or even several hundred responses.
Fundamentally the Marx-O-Progs own the culture and that means schools , media, entertainment, and even many churches. Of the 4 I believe that schooling drives the other 3.
Yet....Conservatives are asleep. Even here on Free Republic conservatives are in a stupor. Even Freepers are distracted by the issue of the day and fail to hear the Marx-0-Prog termites gnawing at the foundations of freedom.
Agree it's tough. The problems are deep and in many cases teachers know better and aren't supported by admin. Public schools aren't alone in facing these cultural problems, but the intensity of them is greater there.
I posit that white parents are willingly ignorant of what goes on in their schools, and they simply do not want to fathom the level of violence and abuse they are subjecting their children to.
The disconnect I saw was stunning. White parents think the world is the same as when they were young. And off course they do not want to be accused of “the rayciss”, which is a powerful tool to silence white voices who call for accountability.
And the ghetto parent? They don’t care. For them, school is a babysitter, or more accurately, a holding pattern for prison.
Yep! **Willfully** ignorant.
Also...I respect your decision to not participate in the abuse. You are one of the so-called “good” teachers.
I have no respect for teachers who **willingly** choose to go to work every day and implement and establish a system that HURTS children. They **willingly** choose to do this in exchange for money and benefits. No one is holding a guns to their heads forcing them to do this.
If this school district is guilty, Alex Trebek better go into hiding!
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