Obama pushing race based school discipline

[shitstorm]

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.

cont., http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/obama-...-policies/

[Donovan]

Actually, the bill does reflect on the disparate rates of incarceration, but lays the blame more accurately at a systemic substandard educational process from the very start of a poor urban or rural child's life. It's unfortunate Obama made it race-specific because there are entire communities with the same difficulties in the rural south. But it doesn't matter anyway; if you go to the bottom of the bill itself at the white house site, you'll see the following disclaimers:

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(1) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or

(2) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

© This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(d) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

In other words, an unfunded mandate with no teeth. Election year posturing.

[shitstorm]

I've read the EO and find it to be the most stunningly and overt racist policy since affirmative action.

The implication is that blacks don't have access to the same institutional resources that whites do, which is a lie. The failure rate of blacks (not to mention violent behavior) is due to the massive failure at the family/personal level which is due to the nanny state that took over in place of families.

[Maggot]

Here try this out .....Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521 .

[Donovan]

The truth is that urban and rural students don't have near the same tax base, and therefore nowhere near the same access to quality of education, as suburban kids. Since the vast majority of urban centers are populated by low-income families, and blacks still suffer a tremendous imbalance in their poverty level compared to whites, then there is some truth to the claim blacks don't get equal access. But the causal relationship is income, not so much race. Rural kids suffer the same iniquities, especially in predominantly white extreme rural areas and farm communities. This same financial disparity also leads to the imbalance in poor people going to jail for the same crimes more affluent persons get probation for.

There is a color war in our country, but not the one most people think. It's green vs. not green.

[cladking]

Obama wants to displace the principal as the biggest bully in the school yard.

This is a sick society with every sign that it might be terminal. It's like a cancer of stupidity and political correctitude.

[cladking]

Rather than holding the school board or the government responsible for the utter failure of the educational system we are now to hold students responsible for the failure of other students.

The word "evil" wants to come to mind. To the degree this is intentional and to the degree it will cause further collapse of a destroyed system it is evil.

[Jimbone]

If this policy isn't an indictment on the failure of our educational system, them I don't know what is. And remember this is AFTER we have spent the last 40+ years throwing untold hundreds of billions of dollars down the hole on it.

So yes, by all means let's now institute a race based disciplinary systems. Because that's what has been suppressing graduation rates, right?

What a joke this EO is.

[shitstorm]

The truth is that urban and rural students don't have near the same tax base, and therefore nowhere near the same access to quality of education, as suburban kids. Since the vast majority of urban centers are populated by low-income families, and blacks still suffer a tremendous imbalance in their poverty level compared to whites, then there is some truth to the claim blacks don't get equal access. But the causal relationship is income, not so much race. Rural kids suffer the same iniquities, especially in predominantly white extreme rural areas and farm communities. This same financial disparity also leads to the imbalance in poor people going to jail for the same crimes more affluent persons get probation for.

There is a color war in our country, but not the one most people think. It's green vs. not green.

The bells and whistles don't make kids want to learn. It comes from family. Black families were deliberately destroyed by progressives who wanted blacks corralled and under the control of the (nanny) state. Now we have generations of learned helplessness and uneducated idiots who look to the state for everything, including parenting. They can't even get their shit together enough to be responsible for making breakfast. This EO is just more of the same and it's deeply racist. It will not improve anything for blacks but it WILL further erode the shitty environment in government schools.

People who got their formal educations in one room school houses, long ago, were far ahead of American blacks, now. Kids who are home schooled, costing the taxpayer nothing, are better educated than public school students.