Tucker is all over the failures in the FL shooting & mentioned if the policy for handling these shootings is wrong. It appears he doesn’t know what we know about the policies & procedures. Someone needs to clue him in.
Another Omarosa moment on Big Brother. BB wants to slap at the WH early tonight. Ten minutes in and Omarosa whining about Hope Hicks being Communications Director. Whaaa, but, but I have a communications degree!!
Yes, it’s not just in Broward County.
Obama admin made schools more dangerous: Column
OPINION
Obama admin made schools more dangerous: Column
The Trump administration can bring discipline back to schools and help students of color.
MAX EDEN | USA TODAY
There’s been a sea of change in school discipline over the past five years. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was convinced that the striking racial disparity in school suspensions was “not caused by differences in children.” According to Duncan and others, students of color were being discriminated against by their teachers, fostering a “school-to-prison pipeline [that] must be challenged every day.”
So, the Obama administration issued federal guidance putting school districts on notice that even if their discipline policy was “neutral on its face” and “administered in an evenhanded manner,” they could be subject to a federal civil rights investigation if minorities were suspended at a higher rate. Partly in response to federal pressure, over 50 school districts, serving 6.35 million students, implemented reforms and 27 states revised their laws regarding school discipline.
An examination of the NYC School Survey shows that, in the eyes of students, school climate has deteriorated significantly from the 2013-14 to the 2015-16 school years. The deterioration was most dramatic in schools that serve 90+% students of color, and especially striking compared to those same schools in the last two years
To make the case that reforms in St. Paul, Minn. had gone awry, Ramey County attorney John Choi noted that the number of assaults against school staff tripled from 2014 to 2015, terming it a “public health crisis.” That’s a tragic result for a policy intended to make school discipline more fair for students of color.
Concerned teachers’ union leaders have commissioned teacher surveys that suggest that discipline reform hurting the students it’s trying to help in many other cities. In Tampa Bay, Fla., 66% of teachers said that the new policy did not make schools more orderly. In Santa Ana, Calif., as well, 66% of teachers said the new system was not working. In Denver, Colo., 75% of teachers said that the new system did not improve student behavior. In Madison, Wis., only 13% of teachers thought that discipline reform was having a positive effect. But in Baton Rouge, La., 60% of teachers said there was an increase in violence or violent threats from students, and in Syracuse, N.Y., two-thirds of teachers said they were worried about their safety at work.
The press coverage has been alarming as well. After the federal government pressured Oklahoma City to revise its discipline policies, one teacher, quoted in a Daily Oklahoman editorial, said teachers “were told that referrals would not require suspension unless there was blood.” In Buffalo, Marc Bruno, a teacher who got kicked in the head by a student said: “We have fights here almost every day.... The kids walk around and say, ‘We can’t get suspended — we don’t care what you say.’” Judy Kidd, president of the Charlotte Classroom Teachers Association, said, “[T]here are some administrators who would rather ignore the behavior to get their suspension numbers down. ... In some schools there’s no structure and no expectation of behavior.”