Feds: Harsher punishment doled out to black students - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Some things never change.
While quantitative data perpetually indicate that so-called "Blacks" are disproportionately involved with violent crime, drug criminality, school dropouts, illegitimacy, and so on, when the data show that they are disproportionately disciplined in our public schools, it is a sign of "racism." The presumption is that all kids act alike, and if Blacks are being suspended and expelled at greater rates than "whites," the only tenable explanation is racist administration of school discipline.
It couldn't possibly be that "Blacks" are more problematic as students. Noooooooo.
This self-inflicted delusion could be harmless except for one thing: The purported "racism" in the System is deemed a "problem" that must be addressed and "solved."
So those in charge of school discipline are sent memoranda that tell them they must be sensitive to the "problem" and not contribute to its perpetuation. And the predictable result is that disruptive "Black" kids are held to a standard that is sufficiently lower than normal, so that they will only be disciplined in proportion to their percentage of the student population.
Result: This problematic sub-population of students become EVEN MORE OF A PROBLEM than they were before! Because they know they won't be disciplined as aggressively as other students with the same type of infractions.
This is yet another example of the phenomenon that I like to call the Imputed Insidious Cause. If an insurance company is hiring fewer "Black" actuaries than "white" actuaries, it must be due to racism. If the police qualification exam excludes all but a few "Black" applicants, it must be a "racist" test. If MIT's student body is only 0.21% "Black," the admissions process must be "racist."
We must revert to , and assume the Imputed Insidious Cause, because otherwise we might have to deal with the possibility that a certain racial or ethnic group is "inferior" in some way, and we know that "all men are created equal," so factual inequality is not something we can countenance.
Isn't it sad when we have to make public policy that accomodates our intentional refusal to confront unpleasant realities?
Some things never change.
While quantitative data perpetually indicate that so-called "Blacks" are disproportionately involved with violent crime, drug criminality, school dropouts, illegitimacy, and so on, when the data show that they are disproportionately disciplined in our public schools, it is a sign of "racism." The presumption is that all kids act alike, and if Blacks are being suspended and expelled at greater rates than "whites," the only tenable explanation is racist administration of school discipline.
It couldn't possibly be that "Blacks" are more problematic as students. Noooooooo.
This self-inflicted delusion could be harmless except for one thing: The purported "racism" in the System is deemed a "problem" that must be addressed and "solved."
So those in charge of school discipline are sent memoranda that tell them they must be sensitive to the "problem" and not contribute to its perpetuation. And the predictable result is that disruptive "Black" kids are held to a standard that is sufficiently lower than normal, so that they will only be disciplined in proportion to their percentage of the student population.
Result: This problematic sub-population of students become EVEN MORE OF A PROBLEM than they were before! Because they know they won't be disciplined as aggressively as other students with the same type of infractions.
This is yet another example of the phenomenon that I like to call the Imputed Insidious Cause. If an insurance company is hiring fewer "Black" actuaries than "white" actuaries, it must be due to racism. If the police qualification exam excludes all but a few "Black" applicants, it must be a "racist" test. If MIT's student body is only 0.21% "Black," the admissions process must be "racist."
We must revert to , and assume the Imputed Insidious Cause, because otherwise we might have to deal with the possibility that a certain racial or ethnic group is "inferior" in some way, and we know that "all men are created equal," so factual inequality is not something we can countenance.
Isn't it sad when we have to make public policy that accomodates our intentional refusal to confront unpleasant realities?
