On April 23, President Trump signed an executive order directing public schools to develop student discipline policies without considering race and ethnicity. The order states, “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology.”
The administration is justified in taking action. Restoring order to America’s classrooms requires reversing years of misguided federal policies that focused on racial quotas and therapeutic interventions. These policies have harmed academic achievement, endangered students, and made it more difficult for struggling students to get help. To succeed, the administration must respect local control while overcoming strong resistance from a deeply rooted education bureaucracy, whose radical agenda remains its primary goal.
Our current problems were intensified by a 2012 report from the Obama administration, which found that black students were “suspended, expelled, and arrested” at higher rates than white students. In response, the administration sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to state and local education agencies in 2014, warning of federal investigations if rates of “exclusionary discipline”—suspensions and expulsions—were racially disproportionate.
Not surprisingly, Obama’s policy shift has been a disaster. Where schools have tried the racial bean-counting regimen, the results have been less than noteworthy. A North Carolina school district tried to improve discipline by implementing a policy that paid a non-profit over $800,000 to help develop it. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools had fewer suspensions during the school year and no expulsions, part of a broader shift toward “equitable discipline.”
I remember when this happened. My wife was a teacher at Glen Avenue when this whole hug a thug mess started. Some of the stuff she told me – kid walks down the hallway intentionally drops a deuce in his pants and having roll out on to the hallway floor just to spite Mrs Conway; multiple students flat out F bombing teachers and staff; weapons and in some cases drugs. She eventually just quit, and I was 100% supportive of that. Glen Avenue wasn’t alone as Prince Street, Pinehurst and all of the middle and high schools had crazy problems. Schools need to just bounce them out and Obama’s “Dear Colleague” note was just ridiculous. But, shocker, Wicomico County schools have no spine (as always) and everything went to pot. In light of all of the changes via POTUS schools should just send home a letter explaining the kids who can’t behave will be removed from school (permanently) and it would be up to the parents to educate them and have the parents report to the school system and be legally responsible. Before all of the bleeding heart liberals start crying, there were never these issues before two things happened
1. Discipline was not universally and completely follow by the school’s own policy on discipline
2. Illegals migrants everywhere that bring their their world problems with them – specifically the French creole folks from Haiti
Now we see POTUS close the border, shut it benefits and throw them out. Now it’s time to retake our communities and stop apologizing for being American.
Our board of education is completely run with cowardice. Everything they do is based on not making anybody mad. And it’s mostly hidden from public view.
Every damn one of them should be fired!!