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Experts slam DOJ letter telling schools to implement race-based punishments.
What ever happened to good sense and reason? If a child does wrong he or she is appropriately punished. Nothing else matters, i.e., size, color, race, rich or poor, ugly or pretty, etc. Our society has turned stupid, and now only thinks in terms of "political correctness. What the hell happened to us and how do we get it back to pre-stupidity days?
In sum, "Education experts decried a new memo from the Departments of Justice and Education that instructs public schools throughout the country to cease punishing disruptive students if they fall into certain racial categories, such as black or Hispanic.
The letter, released on Wednesday, states that it is a violation of federal law for schools to punish certain races more than others, even if those punishments stem from completely neutral rules. For example, equal numbers of black students and white students should be punished for tardiness, even if black students are more often tardy than white students.
The Daily Caller asked several education experts to weigh in on the letter’s recommendations; all raised serious concerns about the ramifications of changing school disciplinary procedures to engineer equal outcomes across the races.
Joy Pullmann, managing editor of School Reform News, stated, "That any notion of equal racial discipline is obviously flawed. It’s ridiculous to assign quotas for discipline based on race,” she said. “If we did that, for one thing, we’d have to believe that Asian students are severely under-disciplined.”
Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, described the policy as, “Troubling, and an attempt to intimidate schools into initiating bad policy. It is certainly desirable for schools to eliminate policies that treat black and Hispanic students unfairly, but DOJ’s new recommendations, “have overshot by a mile in terms of their proposed solution.”
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What ever happened to good sense and reason? If a child does wrong he or she is appropriately punished. Nothing else matters, i.e., size, color, race, rich or poor, ugly or pretty, etc. Our society has turned stupid, and now only thinks in terms of "political correctness. What the hell happened to us and how do we get it back to pre-stupidity days?
In sum, "Education experts decried a new memo from the Departments of Justice and Education that instructs public schools throughout the country to cease punishing disruptive students if they fall into certain racial categories, such as black or Hispanic.
The letter, released on Wednesday, states that it is a violation of federal law for schools to punish certain races more than others, even if those punishments stem from completely neutral rules. For example, equal numbers of black students and white students should be punished for tardiness, even if black students are more often tardy than white students.
The Daily Caller asked several education experts to weigh in on the letter’s recommendations; all raised serious concerns about the ramifications of changing school disciplinary procedures to engineer equal outcomes across the races.
Joy Pullmann, managing editor of School Reform News, stated, "That any notion of equal racial discipline is obviously flawed. It’s ridiculous to assign quotas for discipline based on race,” she said. “If we did that, for one thing, we’d have to believe that Asian students are severely under-disciplined.”
Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, described the policy as, “Troubling, and an attempt to intimidate schools into initiating bad policy. It is certainly desirable for schools to eliminate policies that treat black and Hispanic students unfairly, but DOJ’s new recommendations, “have overshot by a mile in terms of their proposed solution.”
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