Discipline has been taken out of the schools what would Flyn expect?
The statistics would be much higher if all the student problems were addressed, probably twice as high.
Bury your head in the sand, Ostrich style, but addressing the problem would not be politically correct.
This is also something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If black students are led to believe that they are being disciplined due to institutional racism, what motivation does that leave them to behave better? If you believe that racism is the reason behind your punishment, you are only given more reason to misbehave. The mindset behind this article is pathetic on its face; but it is typical of Seattle educators and journalists.
I am very mad at my daughters school right now, mainly because of a lack of discipline. My daughters old school was closed, and they are at a new school that is clueless about discipline.
My daughters' teacher is great. We had her last year at our old school, and she is great at controlling her classroom. However, when the kids are at lunch and out of control of the teacher, it is another story.
The new school does not have a cafeteria, and the kids eat outside most of the time. Well, yesterday it started raining. The staff told the kids to go into the gym. The kids went in and started screaming at the top of their lungs, and no one did anything about it. One of my daughters said she had to cover her ears, and she hated being in there.
I told my daughters that they were not to go into the gym anymore and to either go to the office or the nurse and call me if it happens again.
I've talked to their teacher and the principal.
If I didn't like their teacher, I wouldn't stay at the school. We will not be there next year, no matter what.
The prison system also has the same problem with high black disciplinary problems. A study suggested higher testosterone levels were possibly the reason, because black prisoners had higher levels of the hormone.
However, race-based biological explanations of behavior are not politically correct, sociological explanations can't be discussed, and even adult criminal statistics that mirror this phenom are tossed out the window. Those doing the reporting must stop reporting black transgressions as well as try to over-report white transgressions to rectify the imbalance.