Posted on 05/17/2015 2:40:14 AM PDT by dennisw
Board members of California's Oakland Unified School District unanimously voted on Wednesday to cease suspending students for what they call "willful defiance." Those behaviors can include swearing/yelling at teachers, refusing direct orders, texting, and storming out of class, to name a few.
The reason? Concern that too many black students are being suspended for willful defiance.
One sophomore student, Dan'enicole Williams, told the San Francisco Gate, "They never take time out, if someone is sleeping in class, to ask what’s wrong. They may be acting that way because they didn’t eat the night before.”
"We’re getting pushed out of schools,” she added. “They don’t care about us.”
Along with suspensions, the new policy will also include bans on expulsions and transfers of students to other schools for multiple infractions.
According to the SFGate, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has been investigating Oakland schools' "disproportionate suspensions" for several years. The district signed a voluntary agreement in 2012 that brought in Manhood Development classes for black males to address behavior issues and to begin discussions on "restorative justice." These programs, dubbed "alternative discipline," can cost districts upwards of $2.3 million dollars per school year.
Vowing to cover those costs in his 2015-2016 budget, Superintendent Antwan Wilson said, “This is about reintegrating students into the classroom rather than excluding them from learning."
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“They may be acting that way because they didn’t eat the night before.”
Notice no mention of charging the parent with neglect.
Give them room!
If a student is yelling at a teacher then the teacher can’t teach the kids that are there that want to learn. unfortunately some public schools are triage for the administrators and the teachers with the school trying to teach the kids willing to learn and get rid of the kids that are not and are impacting the other kids education.
the answer is not to keep these problem kids but to let them know that if you get in the way of the educating of the schhol well be gotten rid o.
The students are being exempted from civilization. They will be wild animals all their lives.
Maybe so, but have you ever tried teaching in a classroom with no discipline?
EXCELLENT reply and format ... thanx.
There is no better source, than the one linked ... from above.
I take it that you condone the disruption of the class and the interference with the rest of the students who may want to learn something. I may be old fashioned, but I still think people should be responsible for their actions.
Entirely predictable consequence of “civil rights” legislation. “Civil rights” are an end-run around the constitution, and lead to the “some pigs are more equal” system of capricious political system of “justice”.
Mollycoddling.
Good, after all, how much education do you need to be a pimp, a drug dealer, a welfare slut?
They aren’t actually schools anyway. They are slop troughs / holding pens/ indoctrination centers.
“Restorative justice” discussions = Talking about how the White Man is the cause of all your problem.
The teachers should walk out, as they are no longer considered to be an authority figure in the classroom—by either the students OR the administration! Cannot imagine ever being a teacher nowadays. I was a high school teacher for ten years, then left teaching to join the military. I figured if I was going to do battles every day in the classroom, I could instead go serve our country and be willing to serve under any circumstances—and get better pay! I had a master’s degree and just by joining as a second lieutenant, I had a $5K pay raise! The open disrespect, rebellion and mayhem that this situation in Oakland allows is equal to anarchy in the school. Smh...
If someone is being disruptive, you’ve got to get them out of the learning environment. It may not have to be a full blown suspension, but you can’t let them stay there and continue disrupting. Once students figure out they can do this, the inmates will run the asylum and NO learning will take place. Plus, any teacher worth their salt will leave (if they have not already). So, by placating a few, you will extinguish the chance of learning for anyone.
The results are entirely predicable to anyone with half a brain, but not the School Board (who may not have half a brain between them). Let them “discover” it on their own. As usual, the dysfunctional Black community chooses to placate the thugs at the expense of those struggling to do it right.
I knew a woman who was given one of those names. She chose to use the name Tonya, and was actually a successful PhD educated medical researcher. People who want to be successful can choose to use respectable names.
No parents. No upbringing.
Trash begets more trash.
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