[mhking]

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[Dimensio]

The article calls him "a C student"; at the end of the article, however, it is noted that he is worried about "the D and F on his latest report card and whether they will affect his prospects for studying architecture in college."

My heart bleeds for that kid, really...

No, wait, it was just indigestion.

[FreePaul]

But are minority kids also being unfairly singled out for discipline in schools?

Probably not unfairly. They have been conditioned to believe that they can do anything without consequences. The more serious problem is that minority students have been singled out by liberals in general and liberals in the education system as being to stupid to learn. Whole education systems have been dumbed down because liberals believed that the minority students couldn't keep up with others. This certainly hasn't been beneficial to the minority students.

[AppyPappy]

What would racial profiling have to do with learning? Is knowledge biased against darker skin color?

[Tacis]

There is definitely bias in society today. Worse yet is the continuing outright discrimination. For example, this past weekend, I watched a very little bit of a nationally televised Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) game. Women black basketball players are forced to play on segregated, all black teams and the TV network still broadcast this racist game. In most other sports, blacks and whites are allowed to play on the same teams. But the WNBA forces fine black athletes to play on segregated teams. This must end! No wonder these kids think they are put upon in the classroom.

[mhking]

...black students are "told by their black peers that to do well in school is to act white. Doing well is selling out. It is white students who do well; a proper black person really shouldn't do well in school." They make no secret of this, says (Linguist & noted author John) McWhorter, who has seen it and experienced it firsthand, and it is true at every income level.

I have to agree - my wife and I have experienced this first hand over the years, and my children have also experienced this over the last few years as well.

We emphasize excellence. We emphasize studying. We emphasize education. While there are plenty of black families who place the same values that we place on those things, there are many others who do not. And their attitudes translate to their children (or as I've been known to call them, those 'bad assed kids'). And what's even more sad is that when the don't do well; when they cause disruption in the classroom, then my child is the one that suffers. Because not only is my child ostracized by these cretins, but the rest of society attempts to lump my child in with these urchins, marginalizing them and reducing the opportunities to succeed without even greater efforts on the part of my wife and myself. We are left with the thankless task of browbeating the school systems into making sure that our children get what they need, regardless of their attitude toward others that look like them.

[Rodney King]

If anything, blacks have it easier. All a black student has to do is have a B average and slightly above average SAT scores and he will get a full scholarship to almost any of the top schools in the nation.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Blacks are similarly more likely to be incarcerated; why are the geniuses at Time wasting their energy looking for some kind of bias when other statistics indicate that the higher suspension rate is justified?

[gubamyster]

Aren't most teachers in inner-city schools minorities - probably black? Isn't the NEA a liberal organization? Aren't most teachers liberal? Then we are to believe that liberal, black teachers are unfairly punishing black school children.

Maybe, just maybe it is not a racism problem, but a problem that black school children cause more problems & are punished accordingly. Nah..., can't be.

[toupsie]

NATIONALLY, AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE 2.4 TIMES AS LIKELY TO BE SUSPENDED AS WHITES

Considering that about 50% of the US Prison population is African-American and African-Americans make up only 13% of the US population, the "2.4 times" number seems reasonable.

[ratdog]

This whole mess is a result of sin.  God had some very good reasons for people NOT having sex BEFORE marriage.  This is the result of one of them.  I'll briefly list two very obvious ones.

One.  The spread of disease ... AIDS has claimed millions of lives and will claim millions more.  STD's are rampant enough that you see commercials about STD medications on TV almost every night.  There is no substitute for abstinence.

Two.  Illegitimate births ... and this article does a good job of explaining this one.

God did not give commandments in order to make Him feel important.  He did it to help us live better lives.

[wny]

Why are there never any articles titled "Being Awarded Government Contracts Due To MBE Quotas While Black"?

[NativeNewYorker]

he is worried about "the D and F on his latest report card and whether they will affect his prospects for studying architecture in college

I laughed right out loud when I saw this.

One of the black kids I interviewed for an undergraduate slot at Cornell last year told me he wanted to study architecture.

He couldn't identify a favorite building. He couldn't name an architectural style. He couldn't name a favorite architect.

His cluelessness was astonishing. He wouldn't have lasted one week on a serious college campus.

[Spyder]

In my experience, blacks are less likely to be disciplined for any given offense. Our child was bullied last year - the worst offender being a black child. The white kids who did the bullying were usually punished while the black child never was. Don't know if the teacher was afraid of being accused of being racist (which I felt ultimately she was anyway).

[TC Rider]

Indeed, the stance of the civil-rights establishment is contrary to the interests and self-respect of African Americans.

Of course, the civil-rights establishment is only interested in their own continued existance.