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Feds Order Colleges to Stop Checking Criminal/School Discipline History Because it Discriminates
Judicial Watch ^ | MAY 20, 2016

Posted on 05/25/2016 10:54:26 AM PDT by detective

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Feds Order Colleges to Stop Checking Criminal/School Discipline History Because it Discriminates Against Minorities

The Obama administration has ordered the nation’s colleges and universities to stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities. Institutions are also being asked to offer those with criminal records special support services such as counseling, mentoring and legal aid once enrolled. The government’s official term for these perspective students is “justice-involved individuals” and the new directive aims to remove barriers to higher education for the overwhelmingly minority population that’s had encounters with the law or disciplinary issues through high school.

Instructions are outlined in a cumbersome document (Beyond the Box) issued by the U.S Department of Education (ED) this month. It says that “data show plainly that people of color are more likely to come in contact with the justice system due, in part, to punitive school disciplinary policies that disproportionately impact certain student groups and racial profiling.” Because education can be a powerful pathway to transition out of prison and into the workforce, it’s critical to ensure that admissions practices don’t disproportionately disadvantage justice involved individuals, the directive states. Colleges and universities should also refrain from inquiring about a student’s school disciplinary history—including past academic dishonesty—because that too discriminates against minorities. Civil rights data compiled by ED show “black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students and often for the same types of infractions.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: criminalhistory; criminals; doj; education; fedzilla; individuals; justiceinvolved; obama; obamacriminals; thugs; universities
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To: detective

“stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities. “

So in other words, minority kids commit lots of crime and cant control themselves in school, so please dont look at that?!?!?!


21 posted on 05/25/2016 11:06:43 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: moehoward

“Feds Order Banks to Stop Checking Credit History Because it Discriminates”

Happened years ago - Lawyer Obama did it in a case: Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank


22 posted on 05/25/2016 11:06:54 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: detective

The new rape support group on campus. Supporting campus rape since 2016.


23 posted on 05/25/2016 11:07:43 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (This year we break the Uniparty or it breaks us.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Reminds me of the old sayin how come women that are for abortion are the ones you would not boink anyways


24 posted on 05/25/2016 11:10:46 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: detective

Discrimination based on behavior is now illegal discrimination.


25 posted on 05/25/2016 11:11:38 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Political Junkie Too

If colleges and universities are banned from asking applicants about criminal records, then how are they to determine who qualifies for counseling and support services?


26 posted on 05/25/2016 11:11:46 AM PDT by matchgirl (An Ambassador is dead and Al Qaeda is alive.)
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To: Oldexpat
The liability insurance providers will have something to say about this.

My thoughts as well.

This would represent a huge shift in liability and change many established legal responsibilities for these Institutions.

Maybe, Obama will "Order" Gun sellers to stop checking criminal history next.

27 posted on 05/25/2016 11:12:31 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: detective

It would be so embarrassing to be an upstanding man who came from one of these minority cultures. I couldn’t imagine.

If someone sincerely believed that they were as good as me, they would demand to be held to the same standard as myself.


28 posted on 05/25/2016 11:12:48 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: detective
...Stop Checking Criminal/School Discipline History Because it Discriminates Against Minorities ...

NOTHING SCREAMS 'WE ARE INFERIOR' louder than this stuff....

It's insulting to all black kids who aren't gang bangers, rapists and criminals.

And those black kids who got into college the old fashion way - by being decent people and working hard? What does this malarkey do to them? Over time it will mark them as undesirable ... because sadistically when there's a 'problem' in the class room it'll be because a black kid's at it again.

If the exception was made only for white southern kids who had constant run ins with the law... the same thing would happen. Other students would hear the accent and want to get as far away from the possibly violent ones as possible.

It might look like this will help young black kids but it will hurt them instead.

29 posted on 05/25/2016 11:15:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Clinton was impeached for LYING UNDER OATH in a SEXUAL HARASSMENT case NOT for an affair.)
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To: detective

Won’t be long now: Stop checking college transcripts. If someone says they have a college degree then they have one.


30 posted on 05/25/2016 11:25:15 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: detective
Justice is rationality in the evaluation of men. Moral judgment enables one to know the essence that actuates him. It identifies the principles shaping his character and conduct. The policy of pronouncing moral judgment is a process of methodically seeking out and cherishing the virtuous traits one needs in others while being alert to the opposites in these traits and to their destructive potential.

The man who adopts a policy of moral neutrality, refraining equally from praise or blame, does not wipe out the moral facts thereby. What he accomplishes instead is to blind himself to the role of morality in man's life, subvert his own character, and lose the ability to deal with other men on the basis of objective principle. The result among other things is to consign his human relationships to the realm of chance, and to do even worse: willfully to deprive the good among men of his sanction and support, while becoming an ally of the evil.

31 posted on 05/25/2016 11:25:17 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: detective

So the feds are saying that law breaking and criminality are inherent behavioral patterns of minorities.


32 posted on 05/25/2016 11:31:49 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: matchgirl

Those guys are usually criminals already. They just get away with their crimes by claiming that the victims are crazy.


33 posted on 05/25/2016 11:35:59 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: detective

I always check my incoming students against the county’s data-base of court cases, arrests and convictions.


34 posted on 05/25/2016 11:36:02 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: detective

Instead of asking the obvious: why are these minorities getting into such trouble, and what can be proffered in order to reverse the trend?

The minorities may accept our liberal pity parties when the alternative is to just starve, but they find them oddly demeaning. We need to rediscover the meaning of “hand up, not just hand out.” And on a private level, so it can’t be gamed by Caesar and Caesar’s sycophants.


35 posted on 05/25/2016 11:39:21 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: mjp

It would be how God expects people to reason.


36 posted on 05/25/2016 11:40:34 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective
"Feds Order Colleges to Stop Checking Criminal/School Discipline History Because it Discriminates..."

..... This is how you create a crisis. When you look at all of the policies being forced upon this nation the past eight years .... Anybody with half a brain cell in their head can see that this administration is creating the environment for a massive crime wave as well as civil uprising so that the government can ride in on a white horse and save the day.

.... It is all a part of the so called Cloward-Piven Strategy and bolstered by the heavy use of Alinsky principles to achieve their ends.

37 posted on 05/25/2016 11:43:44 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: goldstategop

Blacks are thugs

You know there are regular people trying to raise families and keep the economy going. How do they deal with what is going on in other parts of their community?

Its like the muzzies no one is really speaking up/out.

Bill Crosby.....oh wait....(I love the oh wait dont you?)


38 posted on 05/25/2016 11:44:03 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Uversabound

Cosby

use spellcheck use it often.

LOL


39 posted on 05/25/2016 11:45:23 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: VanDeKoik
This is my daughter's last year teaching high school -- due largely to the fact that blacks now routinely commit acts in the classroom that would have gotten them expelled -- or jailed -- 20 years ago.

She says the number who are actually disciplined is less than 10% of those who should be disciplined.

Now, 0b0z0 wants even that small, underrepresentative segment of punished troublemakers to be pardoned and counseled -- because punishing them for their extreme, feral behavior -- is "racist"!!!

Hey, 0b0z0, Can you be even more RACIST?


40 posted on 05/25/2016 11:49:15 AM PDT by TXnMA (Recorded for posterity...)
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