Posted on 11/10/2014 9:26:28 PM PST by george76
Minneapolis Public Schools are implementing a new policy aimed at eliminating the gap between the races when it comes to suspensions. Nothing will change for white students, they will still be suspended at the discretion of each schools principal. But for minority students, specifically black, Hispanic and Native American students, the Minneapolis Schools Superintendents office will personally review each case.
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The ethnic make-up of Minneapolis schools is majority minority. According to data for the 2014-2015 school year, 33.8 percent of students are white, while 37.2 percent are black, 19.3 percent are Hispanic, and 3.8 percent are Native American. Asians represent 6.8 percent of the student body but were not mentioned by Superintendent Johnson as being impacted by this new policy.
How this policy of different standards for students of different races squares with the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka remains to be seen, but court challenges are expected in the case.
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A black woman friend of mine in her 70s is constantly in a state of despair about her grandchildren and great-grands, because especially in black families, if parents today raise a hand to the kids or punish them, they can have the children taken away by social workers. I do not agree with any kind of actual abuse, but speaking as a white person who survived many spankings and verbal reprimands as a child, I can see how liberalism and white guilt has ruined blacks' sense of how to correct their kids.
I had the privilege of sitting next to his mother at an event at which he was the keynote speaker in 1999.
Fully one-fifth of the U.S. population of Somalis live in Minnesota about 20,000 out of a total of 100,000. Many others live around New York City.
Your post made me ache in so many ways.
Yeah, Hispanic families are increasingly the same way. In my family, had anyone threatened to call Social Services, my mom's attitude would have been, "You let me raise her my way, or you raise her your damn self."
I just wonder how long whites will put up with this crap?
The Irish? Ditto.
Yeah, we’re English-Irish-Scotch almost exclusively.
See the link at post 8 of this thread.
No, I mean, do black teachers suspend black students at the same rate white teachers suspend black students.
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