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HOLDER'S NEW SCHOOL DISCIPLINE GUIDELINES: STOP TARGETING MINORITIES
AP ^ | 8 Jan 2014 | KIMBERLY HEFLING

Posted on 01/08/2014 6:02:42 AM PST by 12th_Monkey

he Obama administration is issuing new recommendations on classroom discipline that seek to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules.

Civil rights advocates have long said that a "school-to-prison" pipeline stems from overly zealous school discipline policies targeting black and Hispanic students that bring them out of school and into the court system.

Attorney General Eric Holder said the problem often stems from well intentioned "zero-tolerance" policies that too often inject the criminal justice system into the resolution of problems. Zero tolerance policies, a tool that became popular in the 1990s, often spell out uniform and swift punishment for offenses such as truancy, smoking or carrying a weapon. Violators can lose classroom time or become saddled with a criminal record.

"Ordinary troublemaking can sometimes provoke responses that are overly severe, including out of school suspensions, expulsions and even referral to law enforcement and then you end up with kids that end up in police precincts instead of the principal's office," Holder said.

In American schools, black students without disabilities were more than three times as likely as whites to be expelled or suspended, according to government civil rights data collection from 2011-2012. Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; blackmales; discipline; holder; mandatoryprofiling; minorities; minoritystudents; racialprofiling; racistholder; school; schooldiscipline; schoolle; teens; zerotolerance
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PLEASE read this BS at the link. Excuse me while I swear.
1 posted on 01/08/2014 6:02:42 AM PST by 12th_Monkey
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To: 12th_Monkey

Holder you are twisted

they don’t target minorities, they target bad behavior

if the minorities are the ones doing the dirt, they will be the ones paying the price

people are fed up with putting up with crap from people jsut because of their skin color


2 posted on 01/08/2014 6:08:45 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: 12th_Monkey

The American people voted for Obama...they knew or should have known that he would appoint people that subscribed to the ultra-leftwing beliefs. And so, this is no surprise. I didn’t vote for any of this!


3 posted on 01/08/2014 6:09:21 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: 12th_Monkey

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time..................


4 posted on 01/08/2014 6:12:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Blue Turtle

How long do you think it will take to get Jesse Jackson and Sharpton to get on this bandwagon?


5 posted on 01/08/2014 6:14:57 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Progov

In 3 - 2 - 1 .....


6 posted on 01/08/2014 6:16:09 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: 12th_Monkey

They only ‘target’ the people who cause the problems, dumba$$ Holder

why is this douchenozzle still in office? Isn’t he being held in contempt? That should be grounds for immediate removal


7 posted on 01/08/2014 6:16:34 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

“Spare the rod, spoil the child” was a cautionary warning that the white majority in flyover country obeyed, with “Reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick” the prevailing method of assuring the natural tendencies of the young to rebel were overcome.

Yet for some reason, this method of introducing the more recent generations of “the young” to a degree of civilized behavior has been abandoned, with what the forefathers would have thought to be a reckless and foolish course of action. Trying to “understand” children without using discipline as necessary is an exercise in futility, as very quickly, they learn how to game the system.

The result is a bunch of feral children, disrespectful and even arrogant in their ignorance, challenging all authority, rightly or wrongly, but the challenge is based in physical terms, never on any intellectual grounds.


8 posted on 01/08/2014 6:18:53 AM PST by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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To: yldstrk

The left’s view of race is entirely twisted.
The left calls us racist because we expect everyone to comply with the same civilized standards of behavior,

and they somehow aren’t racist because they expect minorities to be incapable of living up to those standards.


9 posted on 01/08/2014 6:19:52 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 12th_Monkey

My wife just had a meeting on this.


10 posted on 01/08/2014 6:20:51 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: alloysteel

Families have to be dismantled in order to deify Godgov.


11 posted on 01/08/2014 6:20:54 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 12th_Monkey

Around here white Americans are the minority. Does he mean them? Because they sure get pushed around and shunned, taken advantage of and by people that won’t speak English. That includes middle school kids as well as everyone


12 posted on 01/08/2014 6:21:01 AM PST by stanne
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To: yldstrk

I wade through the urban youts daily and can confirm beyond the shadow of a doubt, that it’s all on them.

Once upon a time many years ago, I was visiting an elementary school. To my surprise as I looked down the hall, the principal and the assistant principal were dragging “a person of color” down the hallway. Seems the little angel was disrupting the class and REFUSED to go to the principal. So they removed him.

Not to long ago I found myself in a class room, for about 15 minutes the teacher asked “a person of color” to sit down at his desk. he continued to stand and NOT do the work other kids were doing. The assistant principal eventually came and got the kid to sit down, but he refused to do the work and refused to respond to the teacher and AP when spoken to.

Sure, Iv’e seen whites missbehave, but it’s very rare.


13 posted on 01/08/2014 6:21:21 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: 12th_Monkey

people like holder, obama, sharpton, jackson all prove what lincoln once said about the two ethnic groups living together on this continent...it won’t work.

in this way I almost envy Japan. 95% Japanese still.


14 posted on 01/08/2014 6:22:46 AM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Blue Turtle

Obama being elected is why we have the “knockout game”, flash mobs and whatever else. Why? Because they have a friend(s) in high places now and rules don’t apply


15 posted on 01/08/2014 6:23:28 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: 12th_Monkey

In order to say that the disparities are due to unfair disciplinary actions,
you have to be able to defend the premise that a teenage Asian girl is just as likely to cause trouble as a teenage black boy.


16 posted on 01/08/2014 6:23:32 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Mr. K

he should be gone because of gun runner, but he’s not. Why? Cowardly Republicans don’t want to be seen beating up a “person of color”


17 posted on 01/08/2014 6:25:06 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: alloysteel

the root, like all children, goes back to their parents. My kids were prepared to go to school, there is discipline in my house, so good behavior in school was expected.

That isn’t the standard in certain “communities” so your use of “feral” is spot on.

“and thats all I got to say about that”


18 posted on 01/08/2014 6:28:25 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: Progov

As soon as the checks clear and the money is in their accounts.

No checks, no rent a mob.


19 posted on 01/08/2014 6:28:46 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: redgolum

Really....?

care to disclose details???


20 posted on 01/08/2014 6:29:04 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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