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I Have A Nightmare: Systemic Racial Disparities In Schools and It’s By Design

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today marks the birthday of the honorable Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had a dream, but today that dream has veered off down a path of destruction. Many schools across the United States, including the liberal State of Maryland have some major issues in their implementation of woke ideologies. Using Wicomico County, Maryland as an example, it is fact that systemic racial discrimination exists (but opposite of what they claim).

Disproportionality in Discipline:

The Wicomico County Public School system states that minorities are disciplined disproportionately as compared to Caucasian students. That is absolutely true. Caucasian students are disciplined more than minority students. When it comes to disciplining minority students, teachers are instructed to go soft, back down, not record minority cases, and discipline is not addressed when students are sent to the office. They return minutes later with a bag of chips.

Back in 2017, the WCBOE had a complaint filed against them with the DOJ regarding the school’s handling in the discipline of a special education student. A settlement was reached with the DOJ and the agreement ended in 2019. The complaint was not about race. However, the settlement of the disability case was spun and used to advance a racial agenda, since the special education student happened to also be a minority. This case is used by the school system to justify their bias in disciplinary practices.

A double standard in discipline definitely exists in the name of “restorative justice practices.” Over a hundred teachers in the Wicomico school system have testified that they are instructed not to document or minimize minority discipline cases to maintain a quota. Teachers are frustrated as they are just trying to teach their class, and are put in a position of carrying out racial inequality by design. These practices actually create disproportionality, opposite of what is claimed to be. The narrative is that minorities are disciplined more often and harsher than Caucasians due to racial prejudice. This is false. Their data is skewed, and will be tailored to fit the woke narrative for more grant funds for corrective action that will be ineffective in the end. All of these institutions and activist-consultants are cashing in on race.

This is from the Wicomico County Public School System presented at their January 13, 2023 board meeting.

4 thoughts on “I Have A Nightmare: Systemic Racial Disparities In Schools and It’s By Design”

  1. Dear Readers,

    This should not be new news to anyone that follows the antics of the WCBOE. Disparate practices have been in effect for quite some time before Mr. Obama had his DOJ involved. Prior to that time, there was indeed a database that was manipulated to suit the BOE reporting needs. The short version was that numbers were intentionally skewed to misrepresent the actual events occurring with students. The unwritten directive was handed down from the central office reflecting this posting. Principals then moved to placing discipline directives on their respective staff to jump through multiple steps before a real referral would be considered. To be frank, most teachers just gave up on even attempting to write a referral for even the most outrageous of behaviors. I could cite multiple events, but that would only serve to sicken and disgust the readership.

    Frankly, the DOJ situation only made what was bad, worse, and both teachers and school based administrators went from some (albeit little) control and authority, to absolutely none. It does not take a Ph.D. to recognize that a total lack of parenting, zero accountability by said parents (and their children), and a horribly skewed social metric to realize nothing good could come of any school based discipline attempts.

    Rinse. Wash. Repeat. Enter the Social Justice and Woke crowd and a whole new level of bizarre situations are now occurring.

    Until real accountability is placed both upon the SJW “educators” (and I use that term very loosely) and uninvolved parents, I do not foresee any meaningful change.

    Regards,

    Paladin

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