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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See how many of those teachers live to see their excessive retirement! Hey, maybe this is a pc way of getting pension reform.
Dan’enicole///
You don’t know HOW CLOSE my mother came to naming me that.
They don’t care about us///
Want some cheese with that whine? What babies. I thought Obama’s kids said they were tough.
Too many people are being arrested for bank robbery. Bank robbery now is legal.
Are you serious?
3 black women were fired from my place of employment for stealing return premium checks and (don’t know how they did it), changing their names on the check. 2 of them were on either FMLA or disability for years and were out 90% of the time (don’t know how they got away with that), the other one, I thought would have a little more common sense but she was in on it and they finally got rid of them on Friday..Not sure if the company is going to press charges.....You give people an opportunity to work and make something of themselves and this is what happens......
Yes.
It’s like the tragic musical “West Side Story.”
In the soda shop scene, we see the gang kids menacing, shoving, and mocking students who have their homework with them. Can’t have egg heads hitting the books. Typical behavior for teen thugs of any ethnicity.
Tragically only two of the little monsters are dead or in prison at the end.
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.”
I’m sorry but you are just looking for an excuse. You think you are the only one that missed a meal how about havinng t work after scool or take care of a sick family memeber and on and on.
They serve the same function as Gitmo; hold the known enemy in a controlled environment for as long as possible.
Just for that we’re not going to punish you.
We have turned our cities into massive “Lord of the Flies” social experiments. There will be hell to pay when (not if) the EBT system collapses and hunger strikes hard.
“alternative discipline,”
I would like a alternative planet to live on.
The Old Testament has a verse. It reads thusly: In those days there was no king in Israel so every man did what was right in his eyes.
The question is: How long is it before this spreads Nationwide? We know that it is already happening in some parts.
A few questions: ( Just wondering)
How old are you?
Are you a public school teacher?
Are you studying to become a public school teacher?
You left out Lemonjellow and Orangejellow...
They refuse to admit the undeniable fact that certain people act in unacceptable ways and are willing to let them have special privileges.
Later
Too many? Really... I guess if a school district is 75% of race X, 20% of race Y and 5% of race Z, and 90% of problems is from race X, because their parents are non existent, and their future is cloudy. Should we tell the Race X that we will give you passes,how will they find what the real world works?
“”You young bucks” are in for a rough ride because more and more of the people who implement the policies this thread is about will be running more and more of the Country. “
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I have read all the posts. Your post is only one that has pointed out the non-neutral consequences that this cultural and social philosophy will have on the future of our nation. The consequence for all of our nation’s young people, regardless of whether that hold to conservative principles or not, will be a “rough ride”
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