White Liberals have found the perfect way of keeping those darkies in their place demonstrating how much they care about black children — “restorative justice”!!
New York public-school students caught stealing, doing drugs or even attacking someone can avoid suspension under new “progressive” discipline rules adopted this month.
Most likely, they will be sent to a talking circle instead, where they can discuss their feelings.
Convinced traditional discipline is racist because blacks are suspended at higher rates than whites, New York City’s Department of Education has in all but the most serious and dangerous offenses replaced out-of-school suspensions with a touchy-feely alternative punishment called “restorative justice,” which isn’t really punishment at all. It’s therapy.
“Every reasonable effort must be made to correct student behavior through…restorative practices,” advises the city’s new 32-page discipline code.
Except everywhere it’s been tried, this softer approach has backfired.
Yes, other large urban school districts are reporting fewer suspensions since adopting the non-punitive approach. But that doesn’t necessarily mean fewer infractions.
An aside here. This is the trick of the Progressives in California who got Prop 47 based. Want to see how to reduce the incidents of certain felonies? Make those charges misdemeanors!
In fact, many districts are seeing more classroom disruptions and violence — a national trend that ought to set off warning bells for New York school officials.
What’s more, the movement — which is driven by new race-based anti-discipline guidelines issued by the Obama administration — is creating friction between teachers unions and the liberal mayors they otherwise support.
Politicians can praise the new system, but it’s teachers who must deal with the disruptive and sometimes violent results. […]
In June, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the district, as part of a “Suspension and Expulsion Reduction Plan,” was “moving away from a zero-tolerance policy and promoting restorative practices.”
Students who bully classmates can no longer be removed from classrooms except for the worst offenses, and only then with the consent of a district supervisor. […]
[S]o far this school year, the Tribune reports students have suffered little consequence for infractions as serious as groping a teacher and bringing hollow-point bullets to class. […]
Los Angeles Unified School District is seeing a similar spike in campus offenses after its school superintendent followed federal orders to reduce suspensions of African-Americans. Even threats against teachers are ignored, as administrators’ hands are tied by the new policy.
“I was terrified and bullied by a fourth-grade student,” a teacher at a Los Angeles Unified School District school recently noted on the Los Angeles Times website. “The black student told me to ‘Back off, b—h.’ I told him to go to the office and he said, ‘No, b—h, and no one can make me.’ ” […]
In neighboring Orange County, teachers are dealing with increasingly violent and disrespectful student behavior since schools there also switched to the restorative strategy.
Recently mandated “positive interventions” have only exacerbated discipline problems in the largely minority Santa Ana public school district, where middle-school kids now regularly smoke pot in bathrooms — some even in class — and attack staff — spitting on teachers, pelting them with eggs, even threatening to stab them, according to the Orange County Register.
According to a recent teachers union survey, 65 percent of Santa Ana educators said the softer discipline system is not working. Dozens of teachers have filed hostile-work-environment complaints.
The list goes on. Teachers are admonished by their administrators not to discipline, even when violently assaulted, they are blamed.
Especially for the crime of White Privilege
After spending millions on restorative justice and “courageous conversations about race” training, Portland public schools have seen their students only grow more violent.
After a black high-school boy repeatedly punched his teacher in the face, sending her to the emergency room, the teacher, who is white, was advised by the assistant principal not to press charges. The administrator lectured her about how hard it is for young black men to overcome a criminal record.
Worse, she was told she should examine what role she, “as a white woman” holding unconscious racial biases, played in the attack, according to the Willamette (Oregon) Week.
A white sixth-grade teacher at a mostly black Washington, DC, school told the US Commission on Civil Rights she had similar “conversations” in which she was told that the bad behavior of black boys is mainly the teacher’s fault. “I have been encouraged to examine and question how my own racial dispositions affect my teaching and my students,” Andrea Smith testified.
During cultural sensitivity training required of school districts under restorative justice programs, teachers are told they are largely to blame for bad behavior of black students because they “misinterpret” African-American culture.
The training sessions, which often run several days, are led by civil-rights activist groups seeking “racial justice.”
I’m sorry, but exactly how does one misinterpret a punch to the face?
See this is where the Compassionate Racism of the Left is exposed — African-Americans are savages and We.Must.Make.Allowances for them.
Never mind that if these kids don’t learn a measure of self-control and appropriateness while in school, they will never be able to fully function as adults in modern society.
But that’s kind of the Left’s goal now, isn’t it?
and who is punished most by not treating young criminals as criminals? Poor people who live in the same community but, are not criminals.
Add this to the legions of reasons I send/sent my kids to parochial schools.
It would seem that there are basket loads of civil rights lawsuits waiting to be filed by non-black parents whose children have been treated differently for the same offense, not to mention teachers who are assaulted. It would seem female teachers who are subject to assaults, both sexual and “common” have a cause of action for an unsafe work environment, where the administration refuses to support them and sends them back into the toxic atmosphere.
(Okay, that may have been a little over the top, but O’Connor’s vote to preserve race in law was cowardly and has contributed greatly to what Obama and Holder have been getting away with, IMO.)
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Bitch asked for it? Is that the administration is saying?
That sounds suspiciously like the inverse of the old Klan myth that negroes couldn’t control their sexual impulses around white women except through violence and intimidation by white men.
>Bitch asked for it? Is that the administration is saying?
from 2008: “bros before hoes”
the takeaway here is something about a dark vein
all in all though you gotta love how these union whore teachers are getting the policies they deserve
right in their stupid union whore faces
ouch
glad that’s not me
Wonder how they do that whole classroom discipline thing in Africa, if that’s even a real place . . . somehow it doesn’t seem likely it would look like this
Hutu teachers treat Tutsi kids like special snowflakes, I’m sure.
dark continence i’m sure
hell to the communist # the black lies matter
>LET US now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth.
The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children’s access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans. They will persecute the greengrocer either because it is expected of them, or to demonstrate their loyalty, or simply as part of the general panorama, to which belongs an awareness that this is how situations of this sort are dealt with, that this, in fact, is how things are always done, particularly if one is not to become suspect oneself. The executors, therefore, behave essentially like everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree: as components of the post-totalitarian system, as agents of its automatism, as petty instruments of the social auto-totality.<
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“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
sixteen comments into a thread immediately above a thread about Moynihan, and I’m the first one to mention soft bigotry of low expectations?
Whatza matta wid all yuse?
So they’re taking Chicago nationwide?
The description of James Carville alone is worth the price of admission.
di, the Carville bit was indeed, awesome… but this
Had me close to baptizing my monitor.
And not a Presbyterian sprinkle, either.
I’m so not looking up “Presbyterian sprinkle” on Urban Dictionary…
It’s almost like they WANT a race war, or something.
If they do, it proves they’re bad at math.
If they do, it proves they’re bad at math.
They’re not doing math; they’re doing Sun Tzu.
Chaos favors the tyrant.
(That’s actually mine, but I’m sure he or Machiavelli or Alinsky observed the same principle.)
The Taliban were a minority in Afghanistan, yet they got control of the country because they restored order after the collapse of the USSR threw the place into internecine chaos.
You bust out the race war so that people cry out for order, and then you give it to them.
Good and hard.
That’s where they go wrong; I don’t plan on crying out for anything but — once war is declared — total victory.
I don’t plan on crying out for anything but — once war is declared — total victory.
You and what army?
Seriously.
It’s one thing to drive the Redcoats off the continent; quite another to maintain a perimeter around Galt’s Gulch, especially when John Galt is spread throughout the country.
Don’t count on the National Guard to stand down on principle — if the cities are on fire, they’ll be duty-bound to restore order, even if that means “temporary” curfews and martial law.
If you’ve got some rural stronghold to defend, good on ya, but the only way for the tyrants to not get their way is for the race riots to not spread from Ferguson.
Wanna know the fastest way to turn the whole country into Ferguson?
Assassinate Obama. The Secret Service has proven itself wholly incompetent, sending the Very Clear Message that nobody around him takes security very seriously. The towering hubris of Obama and his crew is ripe for exploitation by Russia, ISIS, Nation of Islam, the narcos — whomever would benefit from throwing the country into chaos.
Not a very short list, actually. That and an EMP would reverse-decimate us: 10% would be left.
Glenn Beck is right: pray for the president’s safety — not because we dig him but because of what would happen should he be assassinated.
What you’re saying is, they don’t want a race war. In which case you should be directing your argument to TW. All I’m talking about is what would actually be in store if there were an actual race war, as in WAR.
If all it is is a threat of war, they’re not really doing Sun Tzu, because he, the magnificent bastard, would have been much more circumspect against an enemy who had read his book.
rahm’s loser-assed pot smoker son goes to private school
When I was in school in the ’50s and ’60s we had “restorative justice” and “talk sessions”. They usually occurred in the vice principal’s office and involved a foot or a paddle applied to the student’s nether region. That way, things never got as far as assaulting or even cursing a teacher. They were nipped in the bud.
dicentra, I agree that a 1776-type rebellion is not going to happen – the enemy is within. However, our good buddy Mao had some thoughts on the subject that can easily apply to a 21st Century scenario:
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Zedong
Works both ways, to be sure, but I don’t see Starbucks’ barristas as especially motivated to save the Republic.