Thread: Obama Using The Race Card To Change School’s Disciplinary Procedures

Obama Using The Race Card To Change School’s Disciplinary Procedures
Robert Rich



January 8, 2014 11:30am PST


For some reason, the Obama Administration has taken it upon themselves to dictate how individual school districts discipline their students. Instead of focusing on the major flaws tied to the actual education of our children, Obama seems more worried about blacks being punished worse than whites.

There will always be racism in our country, but the main reason it is here today, is a direct result of African-Americans needing a crutch to lean on when things aren’t going their way. As Morgan Freeman said it best, the only way to stop racism in the United States is to, “stop talking about it.” But of course, the discussion must continue in order to surely liberate those oppressed.

According to a new study, officials found, “African-American students were disciplined more harshly and more frequently because of their race than similarly situated white students.” The results go on to explain that, “Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.”

The study does not explain whether these percentages are looking at the entire population of schools, or the smaller, necessarily disciplined population. It also doesn’t seem to go too far into the severity of whatever the children did in the first place that required discipline. Although these two questions would sway the results heavily, it does not appear that they were both taken into effect—after all, God forbid we admit that African-American’s are prone to more frequent and more violent crimes (that’s racist).

Instead the officials responsible for organizing the study are insisting, “racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem.”

So what do we do about this? Well we handle most offenses, where police were originally brought in on account of the school’s zero-tolerance policy, in house. Attorney General Eric Holder stated, “A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal’s office, not in a police precinct.” Now of course we wouldn’t want to identify these youths before they turn into adults and are capable of much worse crimes—once again, that would be racist.

Instead the study is suggesting that, “all school personnel are trained in classroom management, conflict resolution and approaches to de-escalate classroom disruptions.”

The study’s results also list other recommendations including:

— Ensure that school personnel understand that they are responsible for administering routine student discipline instead of security or police officers.
— Draw clear distinctions about the responsibilities of school security personnel.
— Provide opportunities for school security officers to develop relationships with students and parents.

In other words, the people schools hire, not only are supposed to educate our children, but analyze any threat to the classroom and personally handle it. Education Secretary Arne Duncan explains, “we need to keep students in class where they can learn.”

So what do you guys think—is this a necessary concern, or more racially motivated malarkey? Let us know in a comment below!

http://www.mrconservative.com/2014/0...ry-procedures/

Experts slam DOJ letter telling schools to implement race-based punishments

12:14 AM 01/10/2014
Robby Soave
Reporter

Education experts decried a new memo from the Departments of Justice and Education that instructs public schools throughout the country to cease punishing disruptive students if they fall into certain racial categories, such as black or Hispanic.

The letter, released on Wednesday, states that it is a violation of federal law for schools to punish certain races more than others, even if those punishments stem from completely neutral rules. For example, equal numbers of black students and white students should be punished for tardiness, even if black students are more often tardy than white students.

Here is the relevant section of the letter:

“Schools also violate Federal law when they evenhandedly implement facially neutral policies and practices that, although not adopted with the intent to discriminate, nonetheless have an unjustified effect of discriminating against students on the basis of race.

Examples of policies that can raise disparate impact concerns include policies that impose mandatory suspension, expulsion, or citation (e.g., ticketing or other fines or summonses) upon any student who commits a specified offense – such as being tardy to class, being in possession of a cellular phone, being found insubordinate, acting out, or not wearing the proper school uniform.”

The Daily Caller asked several education experts to weigh in the letter’s recommendations; all three raised serious concerns about the ramifications of changing school disciplinary procedures to engineer equal outcomes across the races.

Joy Pullmann, managing editor of School Reform News, told TheDC that any notion of equal racial discipline is obviously flawed.

“It’s ridiculous to assign quotas for discipline based on race,” she said. “If we did that, for one thing, we’d have to believe that Asian students are severely under-disciplined.”

Andrew Coulson, director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute, said the letter’s policies, if implemented, would actually harm black children, by making the classrooms they inhabit “more chaotic.”

“The kinds [of kids] who just want to be free to learn in peace, who are not disruptive, have their education injured by the disruptive kids who remain in the classroom,” Coulson told The DC. “And since African American kids are more often assigned to schools like that, they’ll be the ones most hurt.”

Coulson previously testified before the U.S. Senate that establishing disciplinary racial quotas would be disruptive to students, but his advice was ignored. “Pivotal research” was omitted from the recent memo, he said.

“They risk harming the education of a lot of kids,” he said.

Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, described the letter as “troubling,” and an attempt to intimidate schools into initiating bad policy.

“As best I can tell, they are telling schools that even if you have policies that are clearly neutral, that are clearly evenhanded, that are clearly designed to create safe environments for students and educators, DOJ still might come down on you like a ton of bricks,” Hess told The DC.
Hess said it is desirable for schools to eliminate policies that treat black students unfairly, but DOJ’s new recommendations, “have overshot by a mile in terms of their proposed solution.”

“The only possible explanation is that you have got a room full of civil rights lawyers having a field day without talking to the real people, the educators who are going to be affected,” said Hess.

Pullmann also worried about the effect on classrooms. She said she has spoken to teachers who experienced a breakdown in the classroom learning environment when policies like this were implemented.

“Kids of the favored race know they can get away with more, so they misbehave more, and the well-behaved kids lose out on instruction because the teacher is busy trying to manage unruly students she can’t send to the principal’s office,” said Pullmann.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/10/ex...d-punishments/

This is so appalling! Some kids already think the rules do not apply to them. This just makes it worse! Why do people still send their children to public school?

I have already called my Senators and Congressman this morning - None claimed to know about this.

Yep!!!!