Posted on 02/26/2018 12:09:10 PM PST by Kaslin
No one who follows the blogging collective known as the "Conservative Treehouse" will dispute my claim that its most prominent blogger, "Sundance" by name, is America's best reporter. I got to know Sundance doing research for my book on the Trayvon Martin shooting, If I Had a Son. So instrumental was the research of Sundance and his colleagues that I made the "Treepers" the protagonists of the book.
Sundance's research into the political dynamics of Martin's Miami-Dade school system led him to expand his research into neighboring Broward County years before the Parkland shooting. We communicated the day after that shooting. We had a shared sense of what had gone wrong. I detailed some of this last week in an article on what one public interest magazine called the "Broward County solution." In Broward County, they call it more modestly the "PROMISE Program."
In November 2013, Sundance first reported that Broward County was "willing to jump on the diversionary bandwagon." As an attached Associated Press article noted, "One of the nation's largest school districts has reached an agreement with law enforcement agencies and the NAACP to reduce the number of students being charged with crimes for minor offenses." The goal, as the article explained, was to create an alternative to the zero-tolerance policies then in place by giving principals, not law enforcement, the authority to determine the nature of the offense.
In a collaborative agreement among school officials and law enforcement, the presence of the NAACP might seem anomalous, but not in the Obama era, where considerations of race routinely shaped educational policy. "One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests," Broward's recently hired school superintendent, Robert Runcie, told the American Prospect.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’m sensing that many people just won’t believe this; it’s just too drool-stupid. Extensive documentation will be required.
It is NOT Broward County. It is COWARD County!!
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Wow, something so obvious that even Sundance gets it right!
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Not incompetence, malevolence.
That would be a very fitting description.
A student in jail can not be counted as a student in class.
If the school receives money for each student in class, then there is a financial incentive to keep the police from arresting students. A student in jail costs them money.
In their minds, this is especially bad if they are stealing this money or giving it to the Democrat Party.
So they stop arresting them. Problem solved! No looking into why that differential exists. Libs automatically assume it's racism, forgetting that most schools are staffed to the gills with liberals. So it must be the liberals doing the racism?
This thing is like the community reenvestment act for law enforcement.
So they stop arresting them. Problem solved! No looking into why that differential exists. Libs automatically assume it’s racism, forgetting that most schools are staffed to the gills with liberals. So it must be the liberals doing the racism?
Fear of “acting white”, which is to say, studying, learning, being productive, and working.
Dems and commies yet again bring a solution that kills people
Seems like the problem was chickens#itery...had some deputies done their jobs it might have ended quite differently.
Hiding the true nature of what is going on in public schools is the goal of those who only care about more money for schools and looking good in front of the cameras. But unfortunately for all, the true nature of what is going on in our schools rears it’s ugly head often and the results are not pretty at all.
All competent Sheriff's departments wait until 17 people have been killed in a live shooter emergency
to discover that their security camera link-up has a built in 20 minute delay.
And that their armed deputies have no intention of endangering themselves by confronting an armed shooter.
Broward County Reaps The Dividends Of Sheriff Scott Israel's "Amazing Leadership"
Maybe all the schools’ CCTVs should be available for parents to access via internet. They have them at day care centers, and at pet boarding places. Why not the high schools? I know the teachers would hate it because they’d have to mind their Ps and Qs, but so what?
Sundance documented it. If the parents sue, they can nuke the school board members. Sundance warned them all individually of what was happening and what it would lead to.
EXCELLENT idea!
An insult to the Keystone Kops—They always got their man—even if it was by accident. I think they would have run into the school!
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