Posted on 03/25/2015 8:42:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Exactly two people are responsible for filing over 1,700 sex discrimination complaints with the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in the last few years.
Catherine E. Lhamon, the Education Department’s secretary for civil rights, won’t identify these two highly litigious individuals.
Lhamon, an Obama appointee, cited confidentiality rules as the reason, The Washington Post reports.
Under the Obama administration, the growth in the Department of Education’s sex discrimination complaints has been astounding. In 2010, Lhamon’s office saw just 391 such complaints. In 2014, the number was 2,354.
That’s a 502 percent increase.
The Office for Civil Rights has seen the total number of all complaints snowball by 57 percent. In 2009, the number of complaints of all kinds was 6,364. Last year, the number of all complaints was 9,989.
In response to this massive surge, the U.S. Department of Education is seeking to hire 200 additional attorneys and investigators. The new hires would enlarge the already-hefty Education Department civil rights bureaucracy by nearly a third.
The Office for Civil Rights currently employs 554 staffers.
Lhamon’s department branch is requesting a budget of $131 million this year. That figure marks a $30.7 million increase over last year’s cost outlay.
Lhamon lauded the increase in federal red tape and said she needs more employees to handle the ever-growing workload.
“We have the trust of the national community bringing to us their deepest hurts and asking for resolution,” she told the Post.
Critics of the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights point to a 2011 letter from the Obama administration’s Department of Education civil rights as the fairly obvious source of the huge influx of sex discrimination complaints.
“There’s been a huge amount of confusion among colleges and administrators about how to handle these things. And that’s led to a lot of investigations being opened,” Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a civil rights organization, told the Post.
The 2011 letter entitled “Questions and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence” is 46 pages long.
It dictates how American colleges and universities must respond to allegation of sexual violence and depends heavily — at times almost exclusively — on Title IX, a comprehensive 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. (RELATED: The Obama Administration Is Gripped By Radical Feminists Who Despise Due Process)
If schools fail to respond appropriately to allegations of campus sexual assault, they risk severe financial sanctions. (RELATED: Here Are EIGHT Campus Rape Hoaxes Eerily Like The UVA Rape Story)
Professors from law schools at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Harvard University and George Washington University have charged that the letter’s directives force public and private schools across the country to adopt policies that threaten to dispossess students of basic, fundamental due process rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
I have a different solution....
Cloward and Piven ?
The two people are justifying a huge increase in the Dept. of Education’s budget so my guess is they’re liberal left education geeks.
Well to paraphrase Yogi....
Players play
Coaches coach
Lawyers file paperwork
We had a supervisor who worked people long hours with little to do. His purpose was to try and get the managers way off to hire on more people.
He failed.
Barratry
I had to fire someone like that. Very unproductive employee, started her shenanigans on DAY ONE, it turned out. I was stunned at the time.
But I'm wiser, now. She seemed to arrive on the job "pre-trained" to try to play this kind of game.
And yes (for the curious minded) she could have been Obama's daughter. Very sad...when given a chance (good job, very secure public sector, good pay, health/vacation benefits) she chose to throw all of it away.
As if she came from another country, frankly. Different mores, different habits, different way of thinking. A very short-term mode of thought.
And YES, if you're a competent and caring manager, you CAN fire public sector employees. It's a myth that you can't...at least in Nevada. (I don't know about NYC/Chicago/NJ.)
In the bible the penalty for a lie is what the lie might have cost the person falsely accused. If only....
There was a similar situation in Tampa, someone claiming to be a “handicapped rights activist” would go from one restaurant to another and hit the night club scene looking for anything that didn’t meet the minimum ADA regs. He even tried to file suit against strip clubs saying the stages and stripper’s poles weren’t ADA compliant. Fortunately, those cases were thrown out, though the fact those lawsuits weren’t declared frivolous, giving those club owners stronger grounds to counter sue, should scare the living you-know-what out of any thinking person.
“... threaten to dispossess students of basic, fundamental due process rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.”
Obama’s communist totalitarian approach coming to a university near you.
If a guy makes a pass at a girl but not at the homosexual standing next to the girl can the homosexual file a sexual discrimination complaint against the guy?
prolly cuz it’s her and her fellow carpet muncher!
I have had about a dozen-and-a-half EEOC complaints lodged against me for firing or disiplining people. Nine of them were from one woman. She always had at least three of them going at a time so that she could not be fired until they were resolved. As soon as one was nearing a finding, she would file a new one.
Anyway, I won every single one of them. That was important. When EEOC says I did not do anything wrong, the person has to pay a lawyer to file a lawsuit. If the EEOC ever said I was wrong, he or she could get a lawyer on contingency.
“He looked at me funny...I’m filing charges!”
A homely female teacher claims discrimination cause only the pretty & young teachers have sex with their students.
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