Why Are Black Students Punished So Often? Minnesota Confronts a National Quandary

New York Times ^ | March 18, 2018 | ERICA L. GREEN

[reaganaut1]

MINNEAPOLIS — When Erin Rathke, the principal at Justice Page Middle School, is called to extract a student from class, she hears the same plea over and over again, most often, she has to admit, from black children: “The teacher only sees me.”

The plea weighs heavily at Justice Page, where African-American students are 338 percent more likely to be suspended than their white peers. “It’s painful sometimes, but I have to say, ‘Yes, that’s probably true,” Ms. Rathke said.

It is a reality that district leaders here have been grappling with for years: The Minneapolis school district suspends an inordinate number of black students compared with white ones, and it is struggling to figure out why. Last year, districtwide, black students were 41 percent of the overall student population, but made up 76 percent of the suspensions.

Numbers like that prompted the Obama administration in 2014 to draft tough new policies to try to address racial disparities in school discipline across the country. Now, the Trump administration is trying to reverse those policies — in part, administration officials say, as a response to school shootings like the massacre last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

The Obama-era policies — and the Trump-era reversals — have divided educators in the Twin Cities. In recent months, educators from Minneapolis, St. Paul and suburban Minnesota traveled to Washington to lobby the Education Department in support of reversing the 2014 guidelines, which encouraged school districts to review racial disparities in student discipline rates to ensure against violations of federal civil rights laws. Those that do not comply can face federal investigation or a loss of funding.

Then another group followed them to lobby for keeping the guidance.

[SamuraiScot]

School discipline is not the business of the federal government unless it can be shown that it is be administered in a discriminatory way

You were right the first time. It's just not in there, and no Supreme Court tin god can put it there. The USC makes it plain the states have to be free to be stupid in order to inspire the rest to compete with them and do better.

[TXnMA]

Look at the national crime statistics -- by race. "Misbehavior" is merely "sub-criminal" behavior -- and, almost certainly, shows the same distribution.

Therein lies your answer. The answer, conversely, is not the 0b0z0.Holder "PROMISE "program -- which paid schools grant $$$$ for accepting and not reporting in-school criminal behavior!

The "PROMISE" program was a major contributing cause of the 17 school deaths in Florida!

The root cause is not racial, it is cultural -- rooted in, and accelerated by, the ever-increasing out-of-wedlock births and fatherless "homes" that prevail in "the hood".

But, libtards never want to fix causes -- they only want to have "nice 'Optics'"!

[Jmouse007]

Please thank your wife for her faithfulness and sacrificial service teaching in the midst of such difficult circumstances.

Let her know that her efforts are not in vain.

The hundreds of lives she has impacted for good will are her testament and will never be negated by the rebellious, hateful few who willingly reject truth, knowledge and wisdom in order to throw their lives away.

[GOPJ]

The same reason whites are suspended more than Asians, and boys are suspended more than girls.

BINGO!

[Rocketwolf68]

I can’t wait until there’s no more white people in school to blame for their woes. I will never understand why they let Somalis infest Minnesota.

[Patriot Prof]

Do black children tend to behave any differently than other groups of kids? Regrettably, “sho-no-mo-fo.”

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[Glad2bnuts]

They won’t shut the bleep up. They are class cut ups, school room lawyers, and worried more about talking than listening.

A good joke from the 1980’s, black people don’t always talk during a movie showing, sometimes they shut up. I think the riff after that was asians don’t have straight black hair, squinty eyes and carry photo equipment....right...a sarcastic comic.

[Osage Orange]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSAoitd1BTQ

This is very, very long....but very informative..And enlightening.

I would suggest this to anyone....take the time to watch it.

[Trentamj]

It couldn't be because many urban youth regard the acquisition of knowledge as acting white, now could it? Naaaaaah! Probably not /sarc,

[SkyPilot]

Children need and desire attention. The same endorphins are released for emotional highs as well as lows. When there is no attention of a positive nature, young children will require it through attention from negative behavior. Either way, for positive or negative acts, the emotions are charged and endorphins released.

Agreed. My wife commented on this article, and gave me a one word answer: "Neglect."

But the media, the school administrators, the state and local governments, and much less the "black community" would NEVER admit that their Baby Momma and abscent Baby Daddy's were not the stellar, wonderful parents that blacks are depicted as on TV shows, movies, and commercials.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Not surprising. Public schools are run almost exclusively by racist liberals.

[JustaTech]

When I was a white child in 1950’s Texas, my mom would leave me with a black family she knew and trusted. One of their sources of income was a watermelon stand in the shade of enormous trees, in their front yard. No kidding.

At that house I never saw any clutter or dirt, no dirty or ragged clothes even on their little boy who was about my age. They all wore clothes that were clean and starched, always. The little boy had perfect manners which I was expected to emulate while I was in their care. I think that’s why mom left me there, to soak up some manners, because otherwise I was a typical spoiled only child.

Thanks to this family and other black people who babysat me, I grew up thinking of black people primarily as people who gave me instruction and disciplined me. Authority figures.

A strong traditional family was typical of blacks in those days. Then came the Great Society. The black family was undone by government policy, and now we see the result of raising human children like litters of rats.

Cultural Marxists are cancer.

[SkyPilot]

Look at this article by a black leftist:

You Realize Arming Teachers Is Going To Lead To Black Students Getting Murdered By Their Teacher, Right? If you give public employees guns, they will turn them on black people.

[SkyPilot]

Kudos to you ExNews, and again to wdnhrse's wife for your efforts in an impossible situation.

No one will acknowledge the real problem. Now the left is saying that arming teachers will result in black kids being "executed" - because of .....wait for it...............Racism.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3636068/posts

There was an article posted here a while back about the testimony of a male, white teacher in prominently black school. He was completely candid, and gave many details. It was a fascinating read. I could not find it, but if anyone has it, please post it.

[KSCITYBOY]

simple truth

[okie 54]

Well it could not possibly be one of the following
Being thugs
Drugs
Stealing
Shooting each other
Not showing up for class

[RegulatorCountry]

They’re suspended because their behavior warranted it. Anyone who believes that such blatant racial bias against a black child on the part of a teacher could even possibly exist for more than a split second in a modern US public school is either out of their minds or using racism as a crutch. Using racism as a crutch has led to several generations of black children who are essentially unemployable. Black children were objectively better prepared for the world under the segregated schools of the past with inferior facilities and old books. That doesn’t mean that I think forced segregation is the answer, but it does mean that inferior facilities and old books weren’t the problem then, and so aren’t the problem now. The problem is behavior, and attempting to curtail any effort to correct that behavior is only going to make the problem worse.

[trebb]

Yep - maybe they should do a study of skin color of those who do things they shouldn’t be doing and then compare it to the study that show so many Blacks/minorities being suspended....can’t believe they never thought of that......

[maddogtiger]

Sub normal IQ?