Reply to July 24 - Maryland Board of Education Backs Race-Based Quota-System for School Discipline

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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone here read or heard about this activity in our state school system:

[b]Race-based school discipline policies[/b]
http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/obama-backs-race-based-school-discipline-policies/#ixzz21rpuR5R1

The article directly references the Maryland State Board of Education, and their July 24 meeting.  Here's the agenda for that meeting:

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/pressrelease_details/2012_07_19.htm
Sure enough, check out 11:15 AM
[i]11:15 a.m. Student Discipline
The State Board is scheduled to act on draft regulations based on its report, "A Safe School, Successful Students, and a Fair and Equitable Disciplinary Process Go Hand in Hand," as well as a revised version of the report. The public will have the opportunity to comment on the draft regulations before they are made final.
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This is the article referenced in that 11:15 AM session:

[b]A Study of School Discipline Practices and Proposed Regulatory Changes[/b]
http://msde.state.md.us/School_Discipline_Report02272012.pdf

While that report has a couple of good ideas such as providing learning continuity for children that are suspended for extended time periods, the idea that schools systems will now be pressured and forced to racially discriminate against children when dolling out punishments is incomprehensible.   In other words school administrators will now be held accountable for ensuring that oriental, east easian, white, black, jewish, arab, and latino students are punished (suspended, expelled, etc) in a manner that is consistent with the school systems demographic percentages.  For those that need help understanding what that means, it means that those sweet oriental kids are going to have to be suspended and expelled from schools at a rate that is equal to the rate that blacks are suspended, expelled, and otherwise punished regardless of what the reality is in the school system.  So what does that mean?  Are they going to start trumping up charges for the oriental kids, suspending them for actions that do no warrant suspension, or are they going to start letting the black kids slide by even more without being punished.

I'm all for ensuring suspended kids (black, white, asian, whatever) receive access to learning opportunities while on suspension (that's actually a very good idea, perhaps long overdue), but how absolutely ignorant are Obama, O'Malley, and the Maryland State Board of Education to inject a racial quota into our school's disciplinary process?  It's time for new leadership, if not for the country, then for Maryland.  I'm fed up.

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