Discipline Quotas: The Obama Administration’s Evil Lives On
19th March 2018
n 2014, the Obama administration promulgated a “guidance” to America’s public schools that threatened federal investigations and litigation against schools where black students are disciplined (e.g., by suspension) more often, on a pro rata basis, than white students, on the ground that such numerical discrepancy is evidence of discrimination.
After all, Everybody Knows that black students misbehave exactly in proportion to their percentage of the student population. In fact, that gives us a way to fix discipline problems in public schools. If black students are 60% of the student population and ipso facto commit 60% of infractions, then the obvious remedy is to increase the proportion of white students. (As we’ve known since Brown v. Board of Education, adding white students to black schools immediately makes black schools better! It’s magic. Don’t go saying the opposite, though, you racist.) But where are all these magical white students to be found? I guess we’d better bus them in from Idaho or something — long bus trip to Harlem, but it’s a small price to pay for black equality.)
Many schools responded by adopting discipline quotas, which meant in practice that after a certain number of students of a particular race had been suspended, teachers and administrators were helpless to enforce any kind of discipline in classrooms.
Saw that coming.
March 20th, 2018 at 11:58
That’s one of the saddest things I’ve read in a long time.