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If you have minority students receiving harsher punishments than white students for the same behavior, then there is a problem, and it should be addressed. Minority students engaging in violent behavior in school aren't part of the required signatures, and honestly, suspensions for non-violent (or sexually offensive) incidents are really overkill in my opinion.
No data to support claim. Black Superintendent bailing water. Trying to throw anything at the wall to make it stick. No matter how much money is spent, no matter how many Blacks are promoted to run the school system, now matter how many head start or free lunch programs it just gets worse & worse. They just can't get their heads around why poor Blacks, many transplants from Chicago, Gary, East St Louis move here & can't compete academically or behave themselves? Why people refuse to admit the obvious is baffling. It's students coming from single family homes. Regardless of color. Those are the kids who fall behind academically & have behavioral problems. Over 70% of all Black students live in single family homes. One can not begin to address the achievement & behavior gaps, until we admit the real problem. As long as we avoid the problem it only gets worse as no White parents in their right minds want to send their kids to school with these kids. White enrollment is down 50% since 1985 as they bail to charter/private/suburban schools & create a permanent caste system.
If you have minority students receiving harsher punishments than white students for the same behavior, then there is a problem, and it should be addressed. Minority students engaging in violent behavior in school aren't part of the required signatures, and honestly,
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suspensions for non-violent (or sexually offensive) incidents are
really overkill in my opinion
Read the article. Students of all backgrounds should receive the same punishments for the same acts.
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Originally Posted by CinSonic
are you kidding me. lol. i went to high school it wasn't the white kids fighting and talking back to the teachers
They did in mine and too many of them got away with things that black and hispanic children would not. I remember clearly one white boy who would throw things at our physics teacher during almost every class. He would dare the teacher to suspend him. It was so disruptive and made it difficult to learn. Rather than write the boy up, the teacher would go cool off and come back.
They would fight too...especially the girls over boys.
stats say white teachers are faster to kick out a black kid for doing the same thing that a white kid did, essentially giving the white kid the benefit of the doubt, which is affirmative action.
this law should help erase that action.
only the white right would be opposed to this. they were fine with the old system where the black kid got kicked out and the white kid got to stay, even though they both committed similar offenses.
stats say white teachers are faster to kick out a black kid for doing the same thing that a white kid did, essentially giving the white kid the benefit of the doubt, which is affirmative action.
this law should help erase that action.
only the white right would be opposed to this. they were fine with the old system where the black kid got kicked out and the white kid got to stay, even though they both committed similar offenses.
I agree with you with regard to the problem you describe. There is a solution, though, at least in some part. Here is an example of what one man in my area --a very wealthy man, but one man--did to cut crime by 50%, increase graduation rates to 100%, provide college education for students in a little town of about 3000 people. It was "drug-infested" and people were afraid to walk outside. 190 children have received full college scholarships, property values have tripled.
"The Tangelo Park Program has since its inception provided free preschool to all two-, three-, and four-year olds who live in the Tangelo Park neighborhood. In addition, he provides an all-expense paid education for those who reside in the Tangelo Park neighborhood and are accepted to vocational school, community college, junior college or a four-year public college in the state of Florida. Thus far, approximately 190 youngsters who reside in the neighborhood have been provided full college scholarships."
Read the section on "Social Responsibility." This is an amazing blueprint for helping people succeed on their own. He doesn't pay for everything, the community participates with volunteers. I saw an interview by one man in Ferguson. He said people here just need an opportunity. Rosen created a great model for the Ferguson area to follow.
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Originally Posted by Mason3000
No data to support claim. Black Superintendent bailing water. Trying to throw anything at the wall to make it stick. No matter how much money is spent, no matter how many Blacks are promoted to run the school system, now matter how many head start or free lunch programs it just gets worse & worse. They just can't get their heads around why poor Blacks, many transplants from Chicago, Gary, East St Louis move here & can't compete academically or behave themselves? Why people refuse to admit the obvious is baffling. It's students coming from single family homes. Regardless of color. Those are the kids who fall behind academically & have behavioral problems. Over 70% of all Black students live in single family homes. One can not begin to address the achievement & behavior gaps, until we admit the real problem. As long as we avoid the problem it only gets worse as no White parents in their right minds want to send their kids to school with these kids. White enrollment is down 50% since 1985 as they bail to charter/private/suburban schools & create a permanent caste system.
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