{"id":49046,"date":"2014-11-11T06:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49046"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:42:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:42:01","slug":"separate-but-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49046","title":{"rendered":"Separate But Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u2013 or a three day vacation. And don’t kid yourself \u2013 that’s what suspension is, to any kid who’s actually getting suspended.<\/p>\n

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

But the news that the Minneapolis public schools have officially adopted a “separate but equal” system<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2013 or a three day vacation. And don’t kid yourself \u2013 that’s what suspension is, to any kid who’s actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49047,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions\/49047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}