Posted on 03/06/2012 5:27:41 AM PST by reaganaut1
Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students, according to new data from the Department of Education.
Although black students made up only 18 percent of those enrolled in the schools sampled, they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once, 46 percent of those suspended more than once and 39 percent of all expulsions, according to the Civil Rights Data Collections 2009-10 statistics from 72,000 schools in 7,000 districts, serving about 85 percent of the nations students. The data covered students from kindergarten age through high school.
One in five black boys and more than one in 10 black girls received an out-of-school suspension. Over all, black students were three and a half times as likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers.
And in districts that reported expulsions under zero-tolerance policies, Hispanic and black students represent 45 percent of the student body, but 56 percent of those expelled under such policies.
Education is the civil rights of our generation, said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in a telephone briefing with reporters on Monday. The undeniable truth is that the everyday education experience for too many students of color violates the principle of equity at the heart of the American promise.
The department began gathering data on civil rights and education in 1968, but the project was suspended by the Bush administration in 2006. It has been reinstated and expanded to examine a broader range of information, including, for the first time, referrals to law enforcement, an area of increasing concern to civil rights advocates who see the emergence of a school-to-prison pipeline for a growing number of students of color.
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Is it because they don’t behave?
I am more concerned that there will be less suspensions which will result in less education across the board.
Turn minds into mush, then give them to Ward Churchill. Yeah, that will work /sarc.
In other news : It was found that black students were four and a half times as likely to act up and cause problems than their white peers.
Liberal logic = Any problem caused by any group of people that equal less than 50% of the population can be blamed on racism.
Should we have a 12% cap on the number of murders they are allowed to be convicted of?
Black women living in government housing, eating by using EBT, receiving welfare, using medicade, never having worked at any job, and being the 4th or 5th generation of this life style are destroying the future of all black people in the United States.
LBJ should be burning in everlasting hell for what he knowingly did to the black family.
The demonRATs planned the demise of the family, have supported gay "marriage" which is part of the communist plan in order to get the gummint more involved in our daily life.
I'll never go Galt, but I may go George Washington.
This all happened before. When the Left takes over in an aggressive way (manages to intimidate the people around them with their rage and threatening response to those who object) they use racial and sexual hate and division like a battering ram on American institutions. It is totally demoralizing.
They have made a lot of progress over the years in dismantling American society and institutions with this stragety of race lies, hate and blame. They have nothing but hate and injustice to replace what they demoralize and destroy.
Deeper injustice, violence and hate ensues. White people (especially heterosexual males and Christians)are always the devil that made the “victims” violent failures and so white males are targeted racially and sexually for legal, mental, social and physical abuse. This is the Left’s demanded “remedy” to “victimhood.”
In diversity hate doctrines, whites are scapegoated; white racism, as Flip Wilson would say, made the devil do it.
So the remedy is to target whites for self shame and hate re-education, injustice and violence. They got this gem from Mao.
I define PC as mandatory stupidity.
“According to DOJ crime statistics, blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders.”
It is virtually impossible to stop this. The same bozos causing the problems are spawning more troublemakers that take it to a new level. It will continue to accelerate to an unknown, but clearly unpleasant, end.
Cmon folks. This is just part of the MSMs Obama support agenda.
Since minority children (except, I bet, for Asians...) face more discipline, this must STILL be a racist country - Re-elect Obama and assuage your racist guilt...
This wasn’t happening that often to black kids in Beverly Hills. I think this is happening where the parents are messed up and passed up being messed up to the kids.
As a kicker, the last 20 years many lower economic parents have been drinking, doing pot in the name of libertarians and other drugs while pregnant and we have about 20% of the kids disabled due to that problem.
Keep in mind this perspective:
when political correctness was first proposed,
it was called by its more descriptive term
“cultural marxism”
I'm sure liberals have thought of that.
True, but I see that as more of the agenda-centric description, whereas mine is how it is actually practiced.
Bravo Sierra!
When I was in school, in addition to our white principal, we always had a black vice-principal whose job it was to dole out tit-for-tat suspensions to white kids, to make things “fair”. Has only gotten worse in the years since then.
“Putting aside the racist comments on this thread”
That statement alone makes you part of the problem. No one has uttered anything racist in the comments previous to your post. They have simply illustrated frustration with easily observable behaviors that are disruptive and/or violent that wind up costing everyone else in terms of money, security and educational opportunity.
This attitude in itself, this tying of hands against this type of oppression, has been a type of racism waged against those who are not black.
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