[Fiji Hill]

"I had an opportunity to visit Meridian and listen first hand to students," Perez told a gathering of attorneys in Boston. "They told me of being escorted from school for crying while being paddled. They told me of serving time in in-school suspension for wearing the wrong color socks.

And, of course, he took what the kids told him at face value.

[WKB]

Mississippi ping

[Fiji Hill]

In a classroom of 30-40, it takes only one misbehaving student to prevent any learning whatsoever from going on.

[Pollster1]

The goal of the consent decree approved by a federal court on Thursday is to "prevent and address racial discrimination in student discipline," and to keep black students out of the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.

I'm not sure that letting black kids get away with unacceptable behavior is a positive step toward keeping them out of the school-to-prison pipeline. There is another option that would work well, but it requires parenting of those kids and a conscious choice to behave in a civilized manner and to accept responsibility for their own decisions and actions. My idea probably wouldn't work because racists on the other side would not permit an attempt.

[TomGuy]

So, the disruptors win.

Wanna bet the schools see an increase in problems within the classrooms?

It will be up to the teachers to maintain discipline — and they probably have little to no authority to act.

But, hey, fewer black kids will be kicked out of classes.

[Uncle Miltie]

Punish the well behaved.

Racists.

[MamaTexan]

“The court’s order is a powerful reminder to schools that they may not discriminate against students on the basis of race or another protected status in administering discipline.”

And the government gets that authority to create protected classes from....where, exactly?

[jimfree]

Blackboard Jungle? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047885/

[Theodore R.]

To paraphrase Dan Quayle: “Been there, done that”, and I won’t work, will never work.

[Gay State Conservative]

The soft discrimination of low expectations...a trademark of the Rat Party.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I thought I read an article here last week that said that the “schools” were going to start encouraging the little turds to misbehave.

[G Larry]

It’s all about Fed matching funds.

The schools and unions really hate to miss out on the cash flow.

[OldPossum]

I started school in 1946 and from then until 1966 when I graduated from college (with a three-year interval when I was in the Army) I never went to school with anyone of color.

Neither did I get beat up by a gang nor called a “mother-f-—er” or other choice expletives of those people.

Some people are just plain lucky.

[McBuff]

There’s no substitute for a Father and Mother devoted to their children in the home. . .NO SUBSTITUTE. . .We’ve been doing everything to destroy this core value. . .so this is the results. . .the thugs stay in school? great answer. . they will just disrupt even more.. ..kick them out. . great answer. .then they flood the streets and wreak havoc upon the community. . .throw them in prison. . great answer. . they join the over 7,000,000 inmates already there (at, roughly $65,000 a year to house, cloth and fed an inmate. . do the math. . and the money is running out!!)

[upchuck]

Don’t have much use for g’vment indoctrination centers or those who work there. But I do feel a little sorry for those tasked with “bias-free policing,” and “age-approopriate [sic] responses” when working with these heathen.

[Tupelo]

I have friend who is a teacher in a Mississippi high school. he told me that he told a student that after graduation, he and his parents should sue the school district for malpractice. the poor kid was not able to learn anything this past year because he was one of only 2 or 3 in the entire class that even bother. My friend spent the entire year trying to deal with the other "students". Quote: "DISTRUCTIVE, BELLIGERENT, LAZY, SHIFLESS, STUPID" are just a few of the words he used to describe these now High School Graduates.

[DrewsMum]

Meridian used to be a pretty cool place with an “old town”feel...

However, the thugs have taken over and now it’s mostly a big crap hole.

[struggle]

All you need to do is make an ISS room that plays one Rebecca Black song over and over, with a teacher with noise cancelling headphones on to watch them.

They’ll straighten out.