School superintendent, Bernadeia Johnson, states that the objective is to “disrupt” the current suspension trends.
Johnson states that the new policy will force school administrators to reconsider the reason for issuing a suspension before carrying one out.
Is this not a racist policy?
This is part of the disparate-impact campaign waged by the DOJ, which seeks to prove discrimination not based on the intent of an individual case, but rather on statistics of a particular area.
Johnson claims that suspensions meted out to minority students were all too often based on behavior that would not have led to a suspension for a white student.
So, starting on Monday, November 10, every suspension of a black, Hispanic or American Indian student that does not involve violent behavior will be reviewed by Johnson’s office before being approved.
“Changing the trajectory for our students of color is a moral and ethical imperative, and our actions must be drastically different to achieve our goal of closing the achievement gap by 2020,” Johnson said in a November 7 statement announcing the policy change.
This policy is coupled with a reduced police presence in the city’s schools.
The policy is also part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education for the district’s lopsided suspension rate.
The changes come after a review of suspensions made during the 2012-13 school year found a jump in suspensions for student in grades K through 4 even in the midst of questions that were already being asked by the federal government.
This and previous suspension rates brought an investigation by civil rights investigators from the Department of Education in 2013. The federal probe reviewed the records of 11 district schools.
Like in almost all U.S. cities, Minneapolis has a problem with its minority student graduation rate. But in 2013 overall graduation rates rose to 79 percent over the previous year’s 72 percent. Early this year, the city issued statistics showing that 85 percent of white students graduated in 2013. Only 56 percent of black students and 58 percent of Hispanic students graduated in 2013.
Minneapolis is still doing better than some major Midwestern metropolises. Chicago, for instance, recently celebrated a 17-point rise in graduation rates for 2013 but that still left the city’s graduation rate at only 65.4 percent (up from a mere 58.3 percent for the 2011-2012 school year).
Once they reached equality they realized that was not enough. Just like it says in Animal Farm, all pigs are equal, just some are more equal than others. (Many schools no longer require the reading of Animal Farm, doesn’t fit their narrative)
Of course nothing racist about that….
Without classroom discipline no one learns!
…because they are.
Absolute racism at its finest.
Always blame color instead of correcting the problem head on!! EASY WAY OUT!! Reverse Discrimination!
70% non whites out of 37,000. They feel blacks are more likely to be suspended? This is funny! What would you expect with those numbers. Not to mention blacks are more likely to get suspended no matter where the school district might be. There is a reason but it’s not racism.
Been there, done that. You are so right. Our children are not getting the education they deserve because of all the disruption from unruly children that do not respect the teacher or the other students right to learn. My experience is the children are have ADD, ADHD, or have been taught to be disrespectful.