Posted on 11/10/2014 2:17:18 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
The Minneapolis public school system announced a major new district-wide policy for disciplining students: any suspension of a non-white student requires the district superintendent's approval.
The MPS has been stung by reports that students of color are 10 times more likely to receive a suspension than white students. The Minneapolis school system has an enrollment of over 32,000 students. Seventy percent are non-white.
School superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, a black woman, maintains that she wants to "disrupt" the current suspension trends.
Superintendent Johnson says that her new policy is aimed at forcing local school administrators to deeply "probe" the reasons for issuing a suspension before that punishment is handed out.
Johnson claims that suspensions meted out to minority students were all too often based on behavior that would not have led to a suspension for a white student.
So, starting on Monday, November 10, every suspension of a black, Hispanic or American Indian student that does not involve violent behavior will be reviewed by Johnson's office before being approved.
"Changing the trajectory for our students of color is a moral and ethical imperative, and our actions must be drastically different to achieve our goal of closing the achievement gap by 2020," Johnson said in a November 7 statement announcing the policy change.
This policy is coupled with a reduced police presence in the city's schools.
The policy is also part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education for the district's lopsided suspension rate.
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Openly racist.
Should be sued.
My thoughts, as well.
And I bet she’ll change her tune, if she has to actually sit in on thousands of meetings with disruptive (at best) students, whose behavior ranges from disrespectful to violent.
Or, the teachers’ union will put something together to protect the teachers who might be inconvenienced by this rule change....
And?
I think I have this one figured out.
The entrance to Hell is in Minnesota.
Let’s not facts get in the way of playing the race card.
Methinks the cause ain't racism, it's (as MLK put it) "the content of their character."
Students are disciplined on a local level by the local school "offended"
Bringing in a district cadre eliminates any power and control the local school board may have had.
I don't think this will fly
So in Ferguson, the locals are boarding up the stores, and the National Guard will most likely be called in to lessen the damage that they anticipate the black population to do.
Yet, suspending black students is because of racism, not because of behavior.
we must tolerate thuggish behavior or it is racism, ya know?
/s
Fine with me.
I think the result will be that the district will become more than 70% non-white.
forcing local school administrators to deeply “probe” the reasons for issuing a suspension.
One more black racist professional who supports and encourages the thug lifestyle.
Allowing the thugs to comitt crimes and get away with it
Sounds like racism against white kids and a free pass for minority thugs.
This initiative was started by Holder and the administration.
Any white child in the system needs to have his or her parents get them out of that system now. They are targets. These people are looking for equality of outcomes. So they have to have equality in punishment by color. So all whites will be scrutinized for any infraction at all to get their numbers up with the black students.
These kids will be targeted and gunned by the racist school administration.
I hope the local churches will help move these kids to burb and private/homeschool them.
Females are suspended less than males so I guess they’ll need to suspend more females in the interest of ‘fairness’ and ‘equality’.
The non whites are the majority and the whites the minority, but, the majority is actually the minority and the majority the minority if you look at it thru those special racist colored glasses. The KKK would be proud.
It couldn't be that "students of color" are 10 times as likely to commit discipline problems than white kids, could it?
Nah...
We need a gif of a white kid saying, “That’s racist!”
BOONDOGGLELISCIOUS
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