"...and keep lowering
it until it's all gone."
Posted on 05/02/2019 5:42:18 AM PDT by simpson96
A pattern we’ve seen throughout the United States is on a roll in California. Last week, the state Senate approved a bill to prohibit schools from suspending students who engage in “willful defiance” of teachers and other school authorities and staff. This permission slip for disruptive and even dangerous behavior also extends to the disruption of school activities.
The bill’s author and those who support it cite racial disparity as the driving reason for the ban. CBS Sacramento reported, “African-American students made up 5.6% of enrollment in California schools in 2017-18, but accounted for 15.6% of willful defiance suspensions. Conversely, white students made up 23.2% of statewide enrollment but made up only 20.2% of willful defiance suspensions.”
In other words, the implication is that the underlying reason for the disparity is racism. Yet, it’s the teachers and principals on the front line who make the decisions about who should be suspended. Is the State of California saying its teachers are racist? Or is this an excuse to create “racial parity?”
That’s what Jason Riley at The Wall Street Journal believes. In a piece last year about Obama administration guidance to schools on the issue, he noted, “Put another way, the [Obama] administration was demanding racial parity in school discipline, regardless of who was being disruptive, which is as silly as demanding racial parity in police arrests, regardless of who’s committing crimes. The result is that more schools have been disciplining fewer students in order to achieve racial balance in suspension rates and stay out of trouble with the federal government.”
California passed a similar bill last year when Jerry Brown was governor. He vetoed it, stating in part, “Teachers and principals are on the front lines educating our children and are in the best position to make decisions about
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Even the most leftist of teachers gonna be put under a lot of stress and opt to give up the career...when the thugs rule, no learning happens except for what happens when the thugs rule.
bkmk
This policy (more or less) was implemented in the St. Paul, MN school district during Obama’s administration. It resulted in absolute mayhem in the schools for the teachers and the students that were attending in order to actually try to learn something.
The policy came under serious scrutiny when a teacher who had been violently attacked and seriously injured by a student filed a lawsuit against the school district.
The superintendent of the district was put on the hot seat, and later fired.
Bookmark
Stop punishing criminals and the crime rate will plummet!
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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