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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.
-teachers [/quote]

Yes - what?!

You are trying to “balance” discipline by skin color?  How?!  25-25-25-25 for each major group?  [b]Or balance by that particular school so if that school had 50% Hispanics 50% of Hispanics receive discipline - no more no less?![/b]  If the ratio is out of whack you look the other way?  Pure lunacy. [/quote]

Read the ArlNow article linked.  APS isn't even trying to hide this is what they are measuring.  So of course schools are going to try to make the numbers look more like what they are told admin wants, which is disciplinary action in line with the race demographics.

On some level I get it, Black and Hispanic kids are disproportionately disciplined compared to the percentage they are in the school population.  The rub lies in what do you think the cause is and what is the administrator supposed to do with the end product of any kid behaving poorly.   I can believe at some point in time, white kids with pushy entitled parents probably got their kids out of a lot of things.  Now the pendulum has swung wildly the other way where there is a lot of pressure on administrators not to hold Black and Hispanic kids to the same behavior standards.[/quote]

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