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MN Superintendent to now review all suspensions "of color"
Posted on 11/21/15 at 10:38 am
Posted on 11/21/15 at 10:38 am
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Beginning Monday, every proposed suspension of black, Hispanic or American Indian students that does not involve violent behavior will first be reviewed by Johnson or someone on her leadership team.
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The change comes amid intensifying scrutiny of the way Minneapolis public schools treat minority students and in the wake of new data showing black students are 10 times more likely to be sent home than white students.
Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson said she wants to “disrupt that in any way that I can.”
“The only way I can think of doing that is to take those suspensions back to the individuals and try and probe and ask questions,” Johnson said Friday.
I don't have a problem with a district wanting to address consistency in suspensions across the board. We shouldn't have students who are suspended for one offense while another who isn't suspended for the same exact offense.
That said, this is absolute bullshite. I feel for the teachers and school based administrators in Minnesota (especially larger cities like Minneapolis) who are having even more power taken away from them when it comes to controlling behavior in their classroom. Is it any coincidence that school suspension rates by race have a strong correlation with incarceration by race? No. And giving someone a slap on the wrist because people of their race have been suspended "too much" is absolutely ridiculous and counterproductive.
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This post was edited on 11/21/15 at 10:40 am
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Posted on 11/21/15 at 11:29 am to BluegrassBelle
These protests coming to a city hall near you...
Stupidity will not stop in the schools.
Stupidity will not stop in the schools.
Posted on 11/21/15 at 12:26 pm to BluegrassBelle
This whole "everything that happens can be labeled racism" has gotten stupidly out of control. Inmates running the asylum.
Posted on 11/21/15 at 12:32 pm to BluegrassBelle
Why not just review all of them? Plus they are gonna fall way behind on them or realize they were getting suspended for a reason.
Posted on 11/21/15 at 12:34 pm to BluegrassBelle
I smell reverse racism
Posted on 11/21/15 at 1:42 pm to BluegrassBelle
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MN Superintendent to now review all suspensions "of color"
"of color" seems to be nothing but a crutch used to blame others.
This is reaching a breaking point in this nation.
Posted on 11/21/15 at 3:29 pm to BluegrassBelle
If we keep hitting ourselves in the head with a hammer because it feels so good when we stop, when are we going to drop the hammer on this fricking racial shite?
Posted on 11/21/15 at 4:15 pm to BluegrassBelle
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that does not involve violent behavior
So it will not affect much.
Posted on 11/21/15 at 4:27 pm to BluegrassBelle
Easy answer to this is to always list your child as being a person of color on all school applications. What are they going to do a blood test to prove your legit? Families need to start doing this
Posted on 11/22/15 at 3:19 am to BluegrassBelle
Are they punishing one set of students harder? Honestly, they probably are as I've never seen a school that didn't treat the kids who had influential or wealthier parents better than other kids when it came to behavior -- even schools that minimize it do.
When it's analyzed in terms of race you see a racial disparity but if you did an analysis of punishments based on incomes at nearly all white schools, you'd see the exact same thing show up only it would show a disparity between rich and poor. Neither situation is a fair one to any one but it's harder to see economic disparity in the stats we take but hell let's fix what we can. I doubt it's intentional or even conscious that they're punishing one group harsher but more that they're being easier on the group with money, influence, and/or popularity in the community.
When it's analyzed in terms of race you see a racial disparity but if you did an analysis of punishments based on incomes at nearly all white schools, you'd see the exact same thing show up only it would show a disparity between rich and poor. Neither situation is a fair one to any one but it's harder to see economic disparity in the stats we take but hell let's fix what we can. I doubt it's intentional or even conscious that they're punishing one group harsher but more that they're being easier on the group with money, influence, and/or popularity in the community.
This post was edited on 11/22/15 at 3:20 am
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