Doakes Sunday: Low Expectation

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The student was disrupting the class.

The teacher couldn’t get her to stop being disruptive.  The teacher called the Principal.

The Principal couldn’t get her to stop being disruptive.  The Principal called for a Deputy Sheriff.

The Deputy couldn’t get her to stop being disruptive.  The Principal gave the Deputy permission to arrest the student to take her out of class.

The Deputy couldn’t get the student to stand up to leave so he dragged her out of her chair and out of the classroom.

Another student filmed the arrest.

The teacher and the Principal support the Deputy’s actions.

The student is Black, protests erupted.

The Sheriff fired the Deputy.

The lesson learned: Black students don’t have to obey school rules.

How will this lesson affect minority graduation rates, unemployment, college admissions and lifetime earnings?

Joe Doakes

Joe’s asking a rhetorical question.

We can see it in Valeria Silva’s Saint Paul Public Schools.

And when Silva’s gone?  We’ll see it in her successor’s SPPS, as well.

Just watch.

6 thoughts on “Doakes Sunday: Low Expectation

  1. I very much like the way unruly students are separated early on in Finnish schools. Many American schools have a minority of unruly students who make learning impossible for the rest. Segregating out disruptive students into high-discipline remedial classes improves learning for the rest, provides incentives to improve for the simply lazy, and allows directed remedial attention for those who need it most. Without the unruly students, we could maintain high student/teacher ratios in high performing classrooms, allowing low student/teacher ratios for the unruly and slow who need the attention.

  2. How will this lesson affect minority graduation rates, unemployment, college admissions and lifetime earnings?

    It won’t. kids will be passed with failing grades so they will graduate, unemployment will be paid out if you never worked, affirmative action admission quota will be raised and lifetime earnings will skyrocket under the redistribution program.

  3. Emery, in the US the federal government was never supposed to run local school systems. Universal secondary education wasn’t even a dream until after the Civil War.
    The federal government is purposely prevented from doing things it is not very good at by the constitution. No one really believes that a centralized government run by technocrats results in good governance anymore (people can’t even agree on what the term ‘good governance’ means). At the very least, no one believes that a centralized government run by technocrats results in democracy.
    Most American institutions that empower the federal government are relics from the days when people did believe that every problem should be federalized. More efficient, you know, and if we all believe that science — including social science — produces truth, why should a plurality of interests be tolerated? Truth is the same for everybody.
    In other words, it is not a proper thing to do to sit in an ivory tower and determine how every school should be run and every child should be educated. The people with the greatest interest in a child’s success in life (some call it a product of ‘love’) are that child’s parents, not a bureaucrat or a politician. In other words, other people should not have to educate their children to suit you.
    And when I say ‘should not’, I mean it in the same sense as ‘you should not keep trying to draw water from a well with a bucket with no bottom.”

  4. Segregating out disruptive students into high-discipline remedial classes

    There is no such thing as high-discipline in public schools. So many parents have learned they can sue the school into letting their special snowflake run amok, that the schools are now powerless to maintain any kind of control. Likewise, too many educrats balk at the word “NO”, let alone punishment, for fear of breaking one of the special snowflakes.

    Reason #98769024405632750 why my wife and I life paycheck to paycheck and send our kids to private Catholic school. When my children have had problems caused against them, the school has stepped in. One student (not mine) in 7th grade last year was expelled with extreme prejudice (as in; instantly and without remorse, not because of skin color) because he was caught sexting another 7th grade girl (not mine) against her wishes, during school hours, when phones were to be locked in their locker. In public school, he would have gotten a slap on the wrist, if not a pat on the head and a “boys will be boys, but he’s expressing his sexuality, so it’s all good” message.

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