Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
The obvious answer has escaped them.
Suspend a whitey if he looks at you funny. If they inhale too deeply, kick them out. That should help even out the disparity < /yes, sarcasm intended>
Incredibly (in a sane world) the article would at least raise the question as to whether those suspended students DESERVED suspension.
But alas, we do not live in a sane world, therefore the OBVIOUS is never discussed, as it isn't very PC.
Myers Park's Bill Anderson called the gap "absolutely not" acceptable. He wants to expand training for teachers to better understand the culture of poverty, which he believes plays a role.
How stupid can these clowns be?
The problem is NOT the teachers. As pointed out earlier in the article:
"A lot of children don't show behavior appropriate for school," she says. "We have kids who haven't learned that you're respectful to teachers, you don't curse in class, you don't get up and walk around."
The lefties are not helping the underprivileged by sanctioning antisocial behavior. Doing that only perpetuates their plight.
Sounds like the crime rate.
Here's a similar question; what are the minority/majority expulsion numbers? I. e., How many of the reported 30% blacks expelled are expelled more than once?
In my observations as a teacher in a black majority school district for nine years, I would say it is because the black kids misbehave more often.
They won't get their butt whupped for bad behavior in school, though, and therein lies the problem.
I didn't know standing up in church on Sunday and calling the minister a "punk-ass b*tch" or a "motherf*cker" was "engagement."
So the students who were taught correct behavior prior to Kindergarten are now supposed to suffer by having troublemakers in the classroom to disrupt their education to satisfy these lefties. I dont think so. Maybe some kids need a little extra attention in the early grades to teach them right from wrong.
Yes. I am a public high school teacher. This "hip-hop" culture where young black men associate themselves with criminals and gang members is killing them. It's killing them academically and socially. In my school, we don't allow the F word in the hallways; when it's heard the kid (usually black) is written up and often suspended. What else are we to do? If we allow that kind of language the parents of the kids who don't use it will pull their kids out and send them to private schools, as maybe they should. As long as young black men have gangbangers as their heros and prefer to bring $150.00 sneakers to class tied around their necks instead of pencils and paper, this is going to go on.
Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
Jus' gotta hab quotas, it jes' ain't fayuh no uther way.
Those in the best position to fix this on going problem, are too busy making excuses and blaiming everything and everyone else, to face up to and work on the problem.
The only racism present in this situation, is the raciests who prefer to blame every shortcoming by members of their own race on imagined racism by members of another race.
I wonder if there is a correlation to single parent household?
If any of the keepers of the NC Ping List are not in church at this hour (like the undersigned infidel), he or she may wish to send this out.
All these kids need is a father that takes his belt off and whips their asses with it.
So, we have a study that adjusted for factors of social and economic bias. So where are the raw numbers. In other words how many of the black suspensions (other factors being controlled) are because of discretionary calls by the teacher. (and how many teachers are black?). This is a flawed study like so many examined by Thomas Sowell in his book "Vision of the Anointed". The problem is that the study started with the vision that blacks would be discriminated against in school and proceeded from there.
One thing that should be mentioned is that teachers, as a class, work very hard on their prejudices. I had a bias against kids who refused to turn in homework for example. I would never let a racial bias affect what I did as I tried to understand every student. But some kids work harder, some kids let you know they are trying to get it but can't. Some kids come after school or during lunch for the extra help that was always offered. Etc. And the teacher tries to behave equally toward every student, and tries to be fair when deciding the grades at the end of every quarter. But I would have to argue that disruptive behavior hurts all the kids for the sake one one or two who can't behave. Sorry, classes need discipline and kids need to come to school with this one understanding -- behave or out you go.
Finally it must be noted that this article casts dispersions on a fine -- usually left thinking group -- the teachers themselves. If this is a left on left problem, maybe we should let them duke it out. I for one would love to see the teachers union take on the elites who put out shoddy research like this. The anointed Vs. the anointed.
The reason is behavior and not race. The few times that I got mine busted for bad behavior in school, I got it busted again when I got home. No questions on my part concerning fairness were entertained.
However, they do not want to look deeply enough to find the TRUE root of the problem, which is that blacks violate school policies at a rate four times that of whites, and the violations are more egregious on average than those of white students.