How will they fix this disparity? By forcing the white and Asian students to stay home on certain days? That’s partly how they’re dealing with the disparity in punishment for blacks students as opposed to other students, by not punishing the black miscreant students while cracking down on the others.
If the school and police and PARENTS had cracked down on St. Skittles, he wouldn’t be six feet under and we wouldn’t have to glorify unarmed black thugs on a daily basis. He was truant. He had women’s jewlry, a screw driver and traces of marijuana in his backpack at school but the cops didn’t so much as slap his wrist. The only punishment the school doles out to problem students is the exact “get out of school free card” they wanted in the first place. I used to think throwing the parents in jail for their kids skipping was a dumb idea. Now, not so much. If it takes the parent handcuffing themselves to their child and sitting in class with them every day, then so be it. But no, that’s child abuse! Not to mention 99.9% of the parents were too lazy to get up and take their kid to school before this became the problem that it is. It’s those same lazy parents who can’t be bothered to teach their children not to steal and rough up people like Michael Brown did. It’s those lazy parents who can’t be bothered to beat their kid’s butts in front of the school principal and cops - oooh, but then the cops will arrest the parents. It’s a lose, lose all the way around.
Many years ago in Texas we had a pilot project - not state funded - which was launched by truancy monitor at one of the local schools, a local JP and a psychologist. Parents of children who were chronically truant or absent had to appear before a JP. Family was either ordered for family counseling or parents fined. In one case no inventions seemed to work so JP put both parents in jail for 24 hours. Program worked and was showing results but fell apart when newly hired truancy monitor at school refused to participate stating he was too busy checking on truants to do any interventions.
The simplest ‘fix’ would be for parents to pay for the education of their own brood.
Even better, would be to pay each teacher...kids more inclined to the arts? Pay for band, pottery, drawing, etc. Inclination to ‘hands-on’? Maybe shop, vo-tech. That’d really show how much sex-ed it needed, and better teachers would be sought out and as ‘on the hook’ as the parents for teaching (no more ‘passing ‘em just to get rid of the problem).