{"id":56859,"date":"2015-12-30T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56859"},"modified":"2015-12-29T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T03:04:24","slug":"titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56859","title":{"rendered":"Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Some of us on the Right obsess about legal theories, which makes normal people\u2019s eyes glaze over.\u00a0 But the legal theories courts use make a difference not only in the present case, but in future cases where the theory is accepted as legitimate precedent.<\/p>\n

A job requirement which appears innocent on its face, but which disqualifies an unusually high percentage of certain historically disadvantaged groups, is said to have a \u201cdisparate impact\u201d and therefore constitutes unconstitutional discrimination.<\/p>\n

For example, the job requirement that firefighters must be able to drag a heavy weight a long distance eliminates most female applicants. \u00a0In order for the job requirement to remain, the employer must show that dragging a heavy weight a long distance is a legitimate job requirement (it is, as you know if you\u2019ve ever tried to handle a charged fire hose, much less lug an unconscious victim out the window of a burning building, down a ladder and across a lawn to safety). \u00a0There is no \u201cteam lift\u201d on a ladder \u2013 you carry the victim or leave him to die.<\/p>\n

Plaintiff\u2019s lawyers love the legal theory of \u201cdisparate impact\u201d because it doesn\u2019t require proof intent to discriminate, only proof of unequal results.\u00a0 The theory has been stretched to apply to housing and lending and now, to school discipline.<\/p>\n

Black parents complained that Black students are suspended at higher rates than other students (see chart below).\u00a0 They claim the school\u2019s discipline policies have a disparate impact on Black students and therefore constitute racial discrimination.<\/p>\n

\"stpsd\"<\/p>\n

In response, St. Paul schools seem to have adopted a policy that Black students would not be suspended, even for repeated attacks on other students, faculty and staff.\u00a0 Violent students quickly got the message: thugs won\u2019t be punished, violence exploded, there is no discipline.<\/p>\n

Recently, a St. Paul teacher was attacked by a student and suffered a concussion.\u00a0 The teacher is suing the school<\/a> for adopting policies that create an unsafe workplace and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the teacher\u2019s union strikes for workplace safety.<\/p>\n

This is what happens when liberal judges let liberal plaintiffs impose liberal social values on society through litigation instead of education to pass legislation.\u00a0 A theory that gave like-minded Liberals in the courtroom an excuse to impose social engineering is wreaking havoc in a classroom and nobody is accountable for the foreseeable consequences that are causing real damage to the next generation\u2019s educational success.\u00a0 Any parent that can afford to flee the system, has.\u00a0 The only children left are those with nowhere to go and no way out.<\/p>\n

For shame.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if you still have your kids in that plague-ship of a district, I gotta ask why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Some of us on the Right obsess about legal theories, which makes normal people\u2019s eyes glaze over.\u00a0 But the legal theories courts use make a difference not only in the present case, but in future cases where the theory is accepted as legitimate precedent. A job requirement which appears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56859","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=56859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56861,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56859\/revisions\/56861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}