Posted on 12/07/2013 2:51:19 PM PST by ladyjane
Durham Public Schools seeks input on reducing suspensions
DURHAM – Durham Public School leaders are seeking the community's input on how to reduce school suspensions, particularly among African-American students. The first of three public forums was held Saturday on Hillandale Road. Community leaders and parents showed up to the event.
Last school year, the district issued close to 6,000 suspensions. Nearly 80% of them went to African-American students. Officials admit they can be a little too eager to hand out the punishment.
"I think we have to do a better job of understanding what the current policy is," Superintendent Eric Becoats said.
Attendees were broken up into teams to figure out what does work, what the problems are and how to fix them.
"We will be sharing this with the Board of Education, and working with the board and our school leaders to determine our next step," Assistant Superintendent Debbie Pitman said.
Easy.
Weed out the bad apples — and expel them at the start of the school year.
Get rid of PC principals and teachers.
I will tell you what happens next. Quotas are setup so the the numbers look right. Minority kids get a pass, and the rest are punished for the smallest infraction. Ethnicity becomes the trump card over behavior.
This, incidentally sounds like that sneaky technique used by statists to create the illusion of consensus for their pre-decided course of action.
I'm guessing anyone with my suggestion would be quickly isolated and ignored by the "moderators."
This could be solved easily.
If the parents would get married before having kids, stay married, and spend time with their kids, teach them values, and stay involved in their lives on a daily basis, including paying attention to who their friends are and helping select better friends, kids would be far less likely to get in trouble in the first place. If the parents of these students would ground kids who get in trouble at school and take away the kid’s Xbox, PSP, Nintendo, tablet, iPhone, laptop, and other electronic entertainments for misbehavior (or even better, never buy that junk), the kids would be more willing to obey rules and there would be fewer suspensions.
In other words, this problem will not be solved.
The leftist answer is to make penalties harsher for whites than black students. This has actually been attempted in a couple of places, I remember one in New Mexico.
If a black kid knocks out a white kid, the black kid will get less punishment than the white kid.
Then there is a town in Alabama or Mississippi that lets black kids pass with lower grades than they do for whites.
Why not just reduce the number of suspendable offenses?
There is a group in North Carolina called CARE - Citizens Advocating Racial Equality.
http://subpub.chapelhillnews.com/2013/02/05/74895/forum-targets-school-suspension.html
I don’t know much about them but according to the article black students are ten times more likely to be suspended than white students.
Good idea.
Caning. A better idea. LOL
when good and evil compromise, evil ALWAYS wins...
Let me try and help.
Did you suspend any student for making a gun shape with their fingers and “firing” at their schoolmates? If so, don’t do that.
Did you suspend any student for drawing a picture of a gun? If so, don’t do that.
Did you suspend any student for writing an essay in which they praise Jesus Christ? If so, don’t do that.
Did you suspend any student who brought a somewhat sharp knife from home to cut up an apple for their lunch? If so, don’t do that.
Did you suspend any student for wearing a patriotic t-shirt, American flag pin, religious symbol, etc.? If so, don’t do that.
Did you suspend any student for passing out religious literature, forming a Bible club, reading the Bible, singing religious songs? If so, don’t do that.
There, I’ve tried to be of help to them.
I’m hoping the good folks over in Durham are taking note of all these excellent suggestions.
I’m hoping the good folks over in Durham are taking note of all these excellent suggestions.
My teenaged son was suspended once for cutting class. He thought it was great and planned to keep cutting class and keep getting suspended. So, I went to the principal and told him that suspending my boy was no punishment, punishment was keeping him in school, and I offered to personally escort him to all of his classes, to which he agreed. My son was horrified when I showed up first period to make sure he went to second period. Several of his friends (and fellow truants) approached me to tell me what an awful mother I was and how I should not embarass my son like that, so I gave them my phone number and told them to have their parents call me and tell me not to do so. I got not one single phone call, I think those young people were afraid their parents might take up the practice. The principal told me he was going to adopt the practice for truants. That if the parents wanted to so do, they could escort their children to class if they were caught cutting class. The truancy rate went way down in that school, no kid wanted to take the chance that his mother would show up to make sure he went to class.
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