Separate But Equal

For starters, I think schools today resort to suspension way too quickly; sometimes it seems it’s the only sort of consequence schools offer anymore. There seem to be either no meaningful consequences to an action – or a three day vacation. And don’t kid yourself – that’s what suspension is, to any kid who’s actually getting suspended.

To the extent that black and Hispanic kids were getting suspended more? That’s at least partly the sign of a lazy administration.

But the news that the Minneapolis public schools have officially adopted a “separate but equal” system, where most students can be suspended without further ado, but black and Hispanic students require further review, makes me wonder if these people have ever heard of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.

11 thoughts on “Separate But Equal

  1. As I commented on FB, liberals are immune to logic, facts and reason. No amount of pleading or explaining to them that this is a constitutional violation will matter, because “racism” > constitutional law and TRUE equality in their world. The only way this will change is to hit them where it hurts.

    Someone needs to sue the MPS for discrimination. Hopefully that hypothetical case will land with a judge with at least an ounce of intellectual honesty, because only those with zero intellectual honesty could see the supposed validity in the MPS’ new process.

  2. If I were a black or Hispanic parent of a child in the Murderapolis Government Schools, I would be really, really ticked they were less likely to hold my child accountable for his behavior. And for that matter, if I were any parent of a child in the Murderapolis Government Schools,or a child in the Murderapolis Government Schools, I would be really, really ticked that my child were (I was) being endangered because certain favored groups were not being held accountable for their behavior.

    Seems like the nastiest, most dangerous bigots out there are leftists in the “civil rights” movement. Along the same lines, I just looked at the 19 demands of “civil rights” protesters in Ferguson, and quite frankly from a tactical viewpoint, some of them looked like they’d been written by a rather virulent chapter of the KKK or Aryan Nations.

    My favorite one is where they demand the police not use riot gear–OK, so if they don’t have tear gas and shields and such, and they’re confronted with a mob throwing rocks and such at them, what tool on their belt do they reach for when they don’t have riot gear?

    Hint; it ain’t the nightstick, the Taser, or the flashlight. The “wisdom” of civil rights activists stands to get a lot of people killed in any serious confrontation.

  3. About a month ago, a teacher from St Paul public schools had a column (or was it a letter to the editor?) in the St Paul paper. St Paul public schools all but eliminated suspensions due ot the high number of blacks getting suspended. She said since that policy was put in to effect, the classrooms have become horrible. Disruptive students are making it almost impossible for the well behaved students to learn.

  4. Rampant reverse racism, to be sure. Or is it just plain old economics? The Mpls public schools are having to cut more than $5 million from their budget because their budget called for them to enroll 900 new students this year – and they got only two. Yes, two.

    Aren’t federal dollars disbursed to the schools based on daily attendance? I’m not sure what the rules are regarding suspended students, but the district could be losing thousands of dollars a day for each student suspended.

    (With policies such as this, I’m surprised the district attracted even two new students.)

  5. Too many Hispanic and Black males being disproportionately kicked out of school. The answer is easy…start kicking out more Asian and White girls. Equal outcomes. Problem solved.

    You’re welcome.

  6. Further evidence, were any needed, that the most critically important thing you can do is to get your kids or grandkids out of the publik skoolz.

  7. I know per NW’s comment, that state education dollars are linked to attendance, and that federal dollars are linked to state dollars. So absolutely, funding is a big issue here. The interesting thing here is that they pretty much assumed 3% student increases in a city that’s not growing. Would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in those meetings!

  8. At least they can cite a SCOTUS case… from 1897… and was overruled in 1954.

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