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

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[quote=Anonymous]Now now....just because the point that started this thread (in spite of numerous links posted by me referencing the Maryland State Board of Education web site) has now been outed as being a part of a real, legitimate movement and not some whacky, out of touch news article as you at first tried to frame it is no reason to get upset.

In response to your bullet points:

1) That's why they're supposed to perform studies before instituting these types of social experiments on our children.

2) How trite.  Re-read the Maryland policy; what's suggested here is not simply an "investigation" of alternatives to reduce disparity, it's an ACTUAL and complete leveling of any (statistical) disparity in less than 3 years.  Think about this for a moment, how do you modify the punishment statistics as a school administrator or teacher when you actually have control over only a very small, minute portion of that which is in a student's life that is actually causing misbehavior and have no control over many of the primary factors (poor home life, bad/weak parenting, wrong friends, psychological and self-esteem issues, and so on and so forth)?  How do you get those race-based statistics down when you don't actually have control over many of those root causes of misbehavior in your student population?  Think about it.

3) This is has never been an issue in the thread.  For, it has been I (certainly not you), that has first and foremost brought this up time and again as being the singular silver lining in this policy.  Do not claim this as your own.

As we see other school systems (Oakland) begin to take on this same racist approach as O'Malley's Board of Education (instituting policy that encourages the administration of punishment based on an offendors race without making an effort to focus on reducing the causes of the offenses themselves regardless of race), it becomes readily apparent that you have deluded yourself into thinking this is a positive turn of events.

How is it that nearly every single person posting in response to the Oakland Tribune "gets it" (including  blacks), but you don't?

Just because you run an internet board, doesn't mean that what you say on it is well-informed.  Please re-examine the the policy and think through its implications in the REAL world.

This is a bad, racist policy.  Bad for Oakland, CA, bad for the State of Maryland, and bad for our local children regardless of race.

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