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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost every study shows it's 2 things

1.  For the Rs People of color actually do act out more, and objectively perform at a lower level in school

2.  For the Ds Most people are still racist and treat people of color differently

[/quote]I have democrat friend who admit there is a parental and work ethic disparity and black and Hispanic patents need to be more involved [/quote]

I’ve taught in both high poverty majority minority schools and Ws in this county. A clear disparity in ability, motivation, and parenting doesn’t exist. Sure, you can find enough examples to satisfy your confirmation bias, but there’s just as many non-examples. A white kid goes to California for two weeks, it’s an educational trip and an excused absence. A Latino kid goes to El Salvador for the same amount of time and it’s an unexcused family vacation. I’ve taught plenty of white middle schools whose parents were disengaged and plenty of AA and Latino ones where the parents were a great support.

And I can absolutely tell you that there are racist teachers and admins. When you point out the discrepancy in how they talk about and act towards white vs. minority children, they get angry. MCPS needs to focus on identifying and removing racist staff.[/quote]
Do black students in a school led by a black principal have less reported suspension?  There are a lot of principals are black, most of them were wonderful teachers in classroom before they left classroom.  It will be interesting to breakdown data into each HS or MS to see if the race of the principals plays any role in student suspension.  [/quote]

Anecdotally, my experience has been the opposite. Our ES used to have a Black principal before he was promoted out of the school. Our new principal is white and the new principal seems bound and determined to just stop disciplining kids. Now every incident gets a "justice circle" where everyone, including kids clearly being bullied and/or assaulted, has to talk about their actions. So even if a kid did nothing and got beat up on the playground, they have to talk about how they could have handled the incident differently. Then apparently everyone just walks away - no punishment for the perpetrators, no discussion of the impact of their actions on the class. Just an endless round of self-criticism followed by....nothing. [/quote]

This made me LOL, because we had the same thing happen at our ES.  Doubt it's the same school because our previous principal was not Black.

We had a kid last year who had all sorts of crazy outbursts - threw furniture in the classroom, yelled at the teacher, etc.  Kid definitely never got suspended.  Instead, one time, the teacher even had the other students write notes about how they hoped he'd be better or some nonsense.  As if his crappy behavior is somehow due to the other kids in the classroom.

Sorry, but that is insane!  My kids are NOT responsible for another kid's bad behavior.  Ridiculous to make the other 25 well-behaved ten year olds in the classroom waste their time trying to make sure they don't 'trigger' the kid with issues.  [/quote]

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