Prepare your school children for unjust punishment

[njJoniGuy 2,131]

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President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior.

His July 26 executive order established a government panel to promote “a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools.”

“African Americans lack equal access to highly effective teachers and principals, safe schools, and challenging college-preparatory classes, and they disproportionately experience school discipline,” said the order, titled “White House Initiative On Educational Excellence.”

Because of those causes, the report suggests, “over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.”

“What this means is that whites and Asians will get suspended for things that blacks don’t get suspended for,” because school officials will try to level punishments despite groups’ different infraction rates, predicted Hans Bader, a counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Bader is a former official in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, and has sued and represented school districts and colleges in civil-rights cases.

“It is too bad that the president has chosen to set up a new bureaucracy with a focus on one particular racial group, to the exclusion of all others,” said Roger Clegg, the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

“A disproportionate share of crimes are committed by African Americans, and they are disproportionately likely to misbehave in school… [because] more than 7 out of 10 African Americans (72.5 percent) are born out of wedlock… versus fewer than 3 out of 10 whites,” he said in a statement to The Daily Caller. Although ” you won’t see it mentioned in the Executive Order… there is an obvious connection between these [marriage] numbers and how each group is doing educationally, economically, criminally,” he said.

 

The order created a “President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.” It will include senior officials from several federal agencies — including the Departments of Education, Justice and Labor — which have gained increased power over state education policies since 2009.

The progressives campaign for race-based discipline policies also won a victory in Maryland July 24.

The state’s board of education established a policy demanding that each racial or ethnic group receive roughly proportional level of school penalties, regardless of the behavior by members of each group.

The board’s decision requires that “the state’s 24 school systems track data to ensure that minority and special education students are not unduly affected by suspensions, expulsions and other disciplinary measures,” said a July 25 Washington Post report.

“Disparities would have to be reduced within a year and eliminated within three years,” according to the Post.

The state’s new racial policy was welcomed by progressives, including Judith Browne Dianis, a director of the D.C.-based Advancement Project. “Maryland’s proposal is on the cutting edge,” she told the Post.

Dianis’ project is also a law firm that litigates race-related questions, and it gains from laws and regulations that spur race-related legal disputes.

“The combination of overly harsh school policies … has created a ‘schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track,’ in which punitive measures such as suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests are increasingly used to deal with student misbehavior,” claimed the group’s website.

This “is a racial justice crisis, because the students pushed out through harsh discipline are disproportionately students of color,” the group insisted.

The administration had previously advertised its support for the campaign to impose race-based discipline policies.

In February, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that “we’ve often seen that students of color, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students with special needs are disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled.”

“This is, quite simply, unacceptable. … These unnecessary and destructive policies must be changed,” he said in his speech, given in Atlanta, Ga.

Holder’s speech did not, however, include any evidence of discrimination toward any individual African-American student. For example, he offered no evidence that school infractions by African-American students prompt stiffer punishments than similar infractions by white, Hispanic or Asian students.

The progressive campaign to impose race-based rules on schools relies on various judges’ decisions, which penalize so-called “disparate impact” in hiring.

According to progressive lawyers, “disparate impact” may occur when companies or state and local governments hire and promote people at rates different from their percentage in the local population.

Because of judges’ decisions, juries can force companies and state agencies — such as city boards that hire police officers and firefighters — to pay heavy financial penalties to plaintiffs, even when hiring policies are recognized as color-blind.

When facing a disparate impact lawsuit, employers have to justify their hiring practices, for example, by showing that the job demands special skills possessed by relatively few members of a racial or ethnic group.

In 1997, however, the Seventh Circuit appeals court barred the practice of racial balancing in school discipline to avoid disparate impact lawsuits, said Bader.

Progressives say the “disparate impact” claims are supported by the 1964 Civil Right Act.

Critics, such as Clegg, say “disparate impact” law is used to trump popular and effective color-blind practices, such as civil-service tests by governments and employment-suitability testing by companies.

Another critic, David Rettig, head of the National Character Education Foundation, told The Daily Caller in February that apparently-disproportionate school discipline practices can be a reflection of local crime reports.

“Outside the walls of the school, how many of these kids are coming from not just dysfunctional homes, but homes that are not supportive of their children?” he told TheDC.

[vortex0178 3]

What's next? Making sure that all races are equally represented in prisons?

[MedicYeti 96]

What's next? Making sure that all races are equally represented in prisons?

Yes. Watch your corn hole Ray Ray.

 

My son is 3, Pre-K starts next year. These types of stories, and this one particularly, make me really think about private school or home school.

[jermz1987 243]

I was home schooled, and I turned out fine...........I think

[PhilipJFry 4]

married parents does not equal stable and disciplined home life for a child. two parents present and accounted for and doing THEIR JOB AS PARENTS does.

[Candide 0]

I was home schooled, and I turned out fine...........I think

 

Nah, your probably a bit weird, no offense. Every home schooled kid I ever met was. Even South Park touched on it.

[RubberBullets 65]

These idiots should realize the same effected immigrants in the early 1900's as immigrants were the driving population of those impoverished, uneducated, and imprisoned. If you were to take any ethnic population and dump them into high density urban environments you will see crime trend upwards, education rates drop, and quality of life continue to fall. It is not a Black/White/Yellow thing. It is a social/psychological issue. Do I have an answer? Certainly not. It doesnt help the situation that kids today are brought up with less and less accountability for their actions. Then again its not like there are ANY role models in sight... Fatherless homes, corrupt governments, TV figures that help perpetrate people living beyond their means. I guess i've gotten to that point in my life where I see the newer generation becoming the sad future of tomorrow..Then again, Im sure my elders said the same thing about mine. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

[jermz1987 243]

Nah, your probably a bit weird, no offense. Every home schooled kid I ever met was. Even South Park touched on it.

 

 

Damn.....South Park touched on it? My life is over.

[Soju 153]

Love it. Once again, as keeps being proven over and over, instead of looking at the reasons why " students of color... are disproportionately likely to be suspended or expelled", and trying to find a solution for that, the problem MUST be that others aren't getting suspended enough. So if every race, ethnicity, social class, etc, ALL get suspended at equal rates, the problem is solved! Right?

 

Oh......hmm.

 

Since the Olympics are going on, might as well share something that I think has applicability here.

 

I was watching table tennis (the best Olympic sport, seriously!), and a young 16 year old American of Asian descent (Chinese/Taiwanese) was playing and doing quite well against the world' #2 player. It was mentioned that her parents only allowed her to pursue the sport as long as she got straight A's, and if she got anything less would not be allowed to play/train until it was brought up to an A. Well needless to say, apparently she has never gotten anything but an A in school.

 

How is this relevant? It shows a stark cultural difference in upbringing and parenting. This story is not unique, as it is much more common for those of Asian descent to be much more strict in a parenting style, and in general, Asian-Americans tend to be more successful then other ethnicities, and tend to work harder to achieve their success.

 

Of course this doesn't mean other ethnicities aren't successful, or hard working. It doesn't matter where you come from, what race you are, if you work harder then anyone else, you won't be limited on potential.

 

What I find funny is they did note some of the reasons for the disparity. But then they say this.

 

“Disparities would have to be reduced within a year and eliminated within three years,”

 

So in essence, it doesn't matter the reason, the disparity of more blacks being suspended is the issue. Despite the fact that blacks have a 43% higher chance of not having their parents being together, despite the fact that they are more likely to have "not just dysfunctional homes, but homes that are not supportive of their children", leading to them being suspended more, that is not the issue. Others aren't suspended enough.

 

Sad.

[Anselmo 87]

Seems to me we should be color blind by now. It's 2012. Everything should be a level playing field.

[Qel Hoth 33]

I'm just a white man, so my opinion probably means nothing here, but this is 2012. Why are we basing ANYTHING on race and/or sex?

[Soju 153]

Because people still use race and sex as both excuses for behavior and as a means to benefit themselves if they can. And people are still ignorant enough to buy into it, as opposed to taking personal responsibility. It is easier that way.

[njJoniGuy 2,131]

This is all part of "Black Liberation (Reparation) Theory" as espoused by Rev Wright, and others.

It's time to get even (as they say)

[raz-0 1,259]

Hey, it doesn't mean that non-black kids will be punished more, it will just give black kids the privilege of not being punished for breaking the rules.

 

 

[johnp 45]

Damn.....South Park touched on it? My life is over.

 

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104018/home-school-kids

[Kaiser7 33]

Soo, this has to pass through congress right? I don't see them backing something this radical. I doubt any MSM has covered this, if you guys have seen it on there, say something. I'd be shocked.

[njJoniGuy 2,131]

Soo, this has to pass through congress right? I don't see them backing something this radical. I doubt any MSM has covered this, if you guys have seen it on there, say something. I'd be shocked.

Nope.

Rule by Executive Order.

[Soju 153]

Hey, it doesn't mean that non-black kids will be punished more, it will just give black kids the privilege of not being punished for breaking the rules.

 

Ahh, an equally as awful idea. In fact, I'd say that is SIGNIFICANTLY worse! Now kids will think they can get away with even more! Because we know they never tried to get away with things before. It isn't like blacks were being suspended at a disproportionately high rate to begin with...oh wait.

[Kaiser7 33]

Nope.

Rule by Executive Order.

 

That's what I figured, so I guess he's doing it to regain the black vote since many in the African American are disappointed with their continued high unemployment under his regime?

 

And isn't there anythign they can do to challenge an EO

[JrzyGuy30 0]

Makes me sick. Ugh, guess wife and I should wait on having kids so we can afford to send them to private school... Not some liberal/racist/sexist public(Federal) education system. Now if I could get them to stop billing me for this stupid school system in my property taxes, I'd consider spending the rest of my life in NJ.