Posted on 02/12/2017 2:09:22 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
In the Obama years, America’s public education system embarked on a vast social experiment that threatened to turn schools into educational free-fire zones. The campaign—carried out in the name of “racial equity”—sought to reduce dramatically the suspension rate of black students, who get referred for discipline at much higher rates than other students. From the top down, the U.S. Department of Education drove the effort; from the bottom up, local educational bureaucrats have supported and implemented it.
“Racial equity” has become the all-purpose justification for dubious educational policies. Equity proponents view “disparate impact”—when the same policies yield different outcomes among demographic groups—as conclusive proof of discrimination. On the education front, “equity” does not seek equal treatment for all students. Instead, it demands statistical equivalence in discipline referrals and suspensions for students of every racial group, regardless of those students’ actual conduct.
Equity advocates’ central premise is that teachers, not students, are to blame for the racial-equity discipline gap. They claim that teachers’ biases, cultural ignorance, or insensitivity are the gap’s primary causes. The key to eliminating disparities, they maintain, is to change not students’ but adults’ behavior. Equity supporters justify their agenda on grounds that the racial-equity discipline gap severely hampers black students’ chances of success in life. Kids who get suspended generally fail to graduate on time and are more likely to get caught up in the juvenile-justice system, they say. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
It almost didnt matter the offense, if they were black, it was racism to penalize them so they stayed in school to disrupt further. Obama, the most racist president since Wilson.
Our progressive-left rulers' goal is not to lower the former statistic, but to raise the latter, to equal levels. The goal is cultural destruction.
Hows that ‘”hopey changey” thing workin out for ya...Why is da MAN always comin’ down on a brothah?
“Obama, the most racist president since Wilson.”
Eisenhower started it.
I am not opposed to blacks having their own schools staffed with black teachers and administration.
Male-Female marriage is a racist, sexist micro-aggression whose function is to give hetero whites a made up way to feel superior and look down on blacks and sexual deviates.
/sarcasm off
That’s exactly what Black Lives Matter says on their website. I’m series.
Problem is believing that a teacher can undo bad home, environment, culture, and bad attitude in 6 hours a day.
Obama, the most racist president since Wilson.
That statement implies there can eventually be harmony between the races.
There can't be, and there won't be.
America is now a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-racial empire.
This situation won't end well.
Saying Obama is as racist as Wilson ignores science and history. Of course Obama implemented policies to benefit black people........he's black!
And we SUBSIDIZE this!!
I wonder why we get SO MUCH OF IT???!
Read it and weep...
Half-white, half-black.
placekeeper
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.