just throw them right in jail
that is where 50% of them are headed anyway (probably 100% of the ones who are getting suspended)
“A recent analysis by the Urban Strategies Council found that 44 percent of the school system’s black males who received suspensions in 2010-11 were suspended solely for defying authority. About 75 percent of the suspensions of black males were on the basis of defiance, threatening or attempting injury and obscenity, according to the agreement.”
Jeez! Look, I didn’t like authority figures at that age either, but a teacher’s got to be able to keep order in his or her class. If you talk back, you’ve earned the suspension, whether you’re white, black, or martian.
As for threatening or attempting to an injure a teacher - that should be EXPULSION, not suspension. And with a follow up call to law enforcement.
Now, I’m not going to say there aren’t hot-headed teachers and their occasionally might be a kid who gets a raw deal. That happened to me in high school a couple of times. But I’m not buying that is the norm, or even a significant exception.
As for “changing the dynamic” or whatever nonsense is being espoused here, it’s missing the mark. It all starts in the home. Kids raised to be respectful of their elders and behave decently towards everyone else are going to have fewer suspensions than someone who screams “you’re picking on my baby!” every time their kid gets in trouble.
In 1980`s Oakland schools deployed armed guards in Oakland high and Tech.-I wonder why?
Someday soon government schools will be required to conform to Equal Outcome Education.
The norms expected for all students will be defined down to that of the lowest common denominator.
And the lowest common denominator is the underacheiving black students.
Schools will be required to withhold schooling from non-black students once they test to a defined level.
The average levels achieved by black students will be set as the upper limits permitted for non-blacks.
Once an Asian or white student tests up to the limit of the average black their government school education will be considered complete.
If the government can’t raise the average black kids up they will force the non-black kids down to the black levels.
We are on our way to becoming the New World Africa.
The problem is the suspension itself. Instead of giving these criminals-in-training free time off from school they should make them serve their suspension as part of the local prison chain gang.
Let’s see them screw-up after that.