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Friday, April 13, 2018

Who Misbehaves?

Claims that school discipline is unfairly meted out ignore actual classroom behavior.

Race advocates and the media are greeting a new Government Accountability Office report on racial disparities in school discipline as a vindication of Obama administration policies. The GAO found that black students get suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students nationally, a finding consistent with previous analyses. The Obama Education and Justice Departments viewed that disproportion as proof of teacher and principal bias.

Administration officials used litigation and the threatened loss of federal funding to force schools to reduce suspensions and expulsions radically in order to eliminate racial disparities in discipline.

The GAO report, which implicitly rubber-stamps the Obama approach, comes just as Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos is evaluating whether to rescind Obama’s school discipline directives. DeVos should go forward with that rescission: the administration’s policies were fatally flawed, as is the GAO report that attempts to justify them.

The GAO report ignores the critical question regarding disciplinary disparities: do black students in fact misbehave more than white students?

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I fixed that problem. I left ghettofabulous Wicomico County for wild and wonderful West Virginia. The few black people here are trying to escape too! NO crap is tolerated at the schools!

Anonymous said...

If you have an infestation of cats and deer on your farm and notice all your crops are being eaten, is it unfair to blame the deer? Or, should a certain number of cats be thrown into the mix, just to prevent prejudice, even though the cats didn't do a thing?

Anonymous said...

Great analogy. The truth.