Posted on 03/10/2010 1:09:39 PM PST by Hube
As mentioned yesterday, the Obama administration is going to begin looking "more intently" at civil rights in our public schools, notably disproportionate discipline rates, [lack] of access to college prep courses, and that 'ol "disparate impact" nonsense. Roger Clegg, who's usually dead-on about the effects of ... stuff like this, notes:
...the easy way out for schools -- and what school bureaucrat won't prefer the easy way out -- is to make sure the numbers pass muster, i.e., to make discipline decisions based not solely on the merits, but also on the basis of race. And since administrators aren't likely to mete out punishment just to balance the numbers, they will balance them by going easier on black students because they are black.As a result, school discipline will be further eroded, making it increasinigly difficult for students of all races to learn.
Maddeningly, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave an address about all this at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, "scene of the 'Bloody Sunday' civil-rights confrontation 45 years ago." As Power Line's Paul Mirengoff says, "... did the civil rights protesters of the 1960s really march so that school administrator's would be intimidated into not disciplining black students who violate the rules?" Highly unlikely. Which just goes to show you how preposterously the civil rights movement has been altered. The right to attend the same schools as everyone else has now been transformed to the "right" to equal discipline rates (despite the number and severity of offenses). The right to equal educational opportunity has been transformed into the "right" to take, for example, Advanced Placement classes (even if you're in no way prepared for the rigor of such classes).
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And then people wonder why quite a few Americans, including myself, feel like our society is circling around the bowl.
Ever wonder if some of these riduculous “(white) kid expelled for making a gun with his hand” type stories are caused by administrators trying to even the number of white kids punished versus black kids?
My kids are homeschooled to avoid this crap
Then they can’t figure why homeschooling is growing like crazy.
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That’s an interesting thought.
If it’s true, then it goes to show how far they have to stretch to find something to use against the white kids.
Duncan will fail
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