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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Another school system has joined Martin O'Malley and the Maryland Board of Education in signing on-board with the Obama administration's afformentioned, misguided philosophy of promoting a race-based quota system for school discipline .

[b]Oakland schools enter agreement with feds to reduce suspensions of black students[/b]
[url]http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_21650203/oakland-schools-enter-agreement-feds-reduce-suspensions-black[/url]

What's racist is not this post, but rather the idea that it's "okay" to hand out (or withold) punishment based on race.

I said it before and will say it again, Maryland Governor O'Malley (and now the Oakland's Board of Education also) proposal of finding alternatives for misbehaving students to get an education whilst being punished gets an A+.  That is as it should be.  However, Martin O'Malley's endorsement and participation in this movement from the perspective of unfairly dolling out punishments based on the race of the offender (reducing punishment for blacks, and increasing harsher more frequent punishments for whites and asians).

Let me guess, next someone will say the Oakland Tribune is racist too.  Puh-leaze.  Your bank called.  They said your race card is over the credit limit on this one.

[b]The Facebook poster's at the bottom of that Oakland Tribune article get it[/b], even if there are a few self-loathing brainwashed liberals in this thread that do not.  Wake-up.  If not for yourselves, then for your own children, for pete's sakes.

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Unlike you, the Oakland Tribune appears to be accurate in its reporting of the Board's decision. There is nothing in the article that supports your contention that punishments for blacks will be reduced and punishments for whites and asians will be increased. Rather, a focus on finding alternatives for out-of-school suspensions will probably result in a reduction of such punishments among students of all races.

Instead of the racially-divisive fear-mongering you have been engaging in, you need to consider the following:

1) When an offense is broadly defined, are you certain that equivalent actions by students of diverse racial backgrounds are categorized consistently?

2) If not, do you propose maintaining the status quo or investigating alternatives for reducing the disparity?

3) Even if the higher rates of out-of-school suspensions given to black and special education students are deserved, doesn't the negative impact of such suspensions to the students' educations justify a search for methods to reduce such suspensions?
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