Eric Holder calls for racial quotas for punishment of schoolkids

Well this should just be the final nail in the coffin of our failing school system. Holder wants teachers to operate on a racial quota system for punishing students for stuff such as chewing gum or tardiness, or insubordination, as well as suspensions, and expulsions. Just let the kids who are acting up, who need the discipline the most get away with it.

This policy will just destroy minority kids having any chance of ever growing up, because teachers are going to be too afraid of being called racist to discipline them.

You couldnt destroy the minority communities quicker than liberal policies have if you tried.




Education experts blasted a recent Department of Justice directive, which they say seems to advocate a racial quota system for punishing school kids for such transgressions as being late or chewing gum in class.

The memo, jointly released by the departments of Justice and Education on Wednesday, urges public schools to ditch so-called "zero tolerance" policies the feds claim disproportionately affect minority students. The letter, which was sent to all public schools, said even well-intentioned policies are discriminatory if they end up being applied in greater proportion to minority children.

“Schools ... violate Federal law when they evenhandedly implement facially neutral policies and practices that, although not adopted with the intent to discriminate, nonetheless have an unjustified effect of discriminating against students on the basis of race," read the letter. "Examples of policies that can raise disparate impact concerns include policies that impose mandatory suspension, expulsion, or citation (e.g., ticketing or other fines or summonses) upon any student who commits a specified offense — such as being tardy to class, being in possession of a cellular phone, being found insubordinate, acting out, or not wearing the proper school uniform.”

Experts interviewed by FoxNews.com said punishments should be meted out to school kids who break the rules - without regard to their race. And some say that if minority children are more likely to violate school rules, then going easy on them for disrupting class will only hurt their better-behaved classmates - who are also likely to be minorities.

“They are right that expelling a student would hinder their academic performance,” Andrew Coulson, Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom said to FoxNews.com. “But it is outweighed by keeping them in the school, as it affects the performance of other students.”

Coulson referred to a Study in 2011 by a University of Rochester Professor who suggested that cutting out-of-school suspensions completely would actually widen the academic achievement gap between African-American and white students.

Achieving a balanced quota in imposition of punishments can't even be done on a school-by-school basis, he said.

“It’s not possible to equalize unless you increase practice of the policy at schools with a large African-American student body and decrease it at schools with a large white student body,” he said. “It’s the only solution that’s been suggested, but if they do it, it will hurt the academic performance of all students and those students will likely be African-American.”

Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Daily Caller the letter was “troubling,” and an attempt to intimidate schools into initiating bad policy.

“As best I can tell, they are telling schools that even if you have policies that are clearly neutral, that are clearly evenhanded, that are clearly designed to create safe environments for students and educators, DOJ still might come down on you like a ton of bricks,” Hess said.

The guidelines are not the first time the Obama administration has bucked prevailing crime and punishment policies over concerns they were unfair to minorities. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last summer that he was instructing federal prosecutors to stop charging nonviolent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimum sentences, a change affecting crack cocaine sentences that have disproportionately affected minorities.

But going after schools is a new step, even though the federal school discipline recommendations are nonbinding. They encourage schools to ensure that all school personnel are trained in classroom management, conflict resolution and approaches to de-escalate classroom disruptions — and understand that they are responsible for administering routine student discipline instead of security or police officers.



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As a kid, I used to hear older folks say, "if you give blacks power, they'll own you before you know it." I thought at the time, they were racist. Nope! They were not only right, it's MUCH worse now than even they had feared. This coupled by shitbag white libs putting them in power, and America is finished up.

 

I volunteer in high poverty schools. Worst behaved? Hands down is the black kids. Best behaved? Likely a tie between the Hispanics and Caucasians. Hispanics more often than not have 2 parents. Whites also have that likelihood. Blacks rarely have a father in the picture. Just this week I threw in the towel on 3 groups of kids, with 95% of them black. I told the teacher something had to change. She's agreed to give me new groups to work with. Blacks do NOT deserve special treatment.

 

It's nice to know a common sense guy is in a school system helping out! And no question, just because someone's black doesn't mean they should get away with what they want. All it's doing is setting them up to fail, then jail, and ultimately violent death.

 

Are most black people too stupid to realize how bad this is for their kids? Or do they just not care?

Kids need discipline. Whether it's a poor black kid or a rich white kid (like that "Affluenza" case), when there are no repercussions for your actions you turn into a sociopath.

 

Some of both.

 

the sad thing is that before big govt leftist idiots got involved with replacing dads with govt checks... blacks had strong communities and plenty of intelligent black role models and people.

Leftist govt programs have destroyed black communities yet these numbnuts like holder keep wanting more govt.

 

Holder probably views the ghetto as a revolutionary army just waiting to throw off their chains in an orgy of violence because only then can the perfect society be instituted. Meanwhile we have to deal with the s$^t liberals have created on a daily basis if we live anywhere near their most favored pet projects, the inner city reservation/zoos... I moved hours away from that mess and life is immensely better.

 

Eric Holder is the poster child for mediocrity and personifies the idea of someone being promoted beyond their abilities. His incompetence combined with his overt racism is an incredible embarrassment for the country.

The clear pattern of inappropriate use of the Justice Dept for political purposes by the Obama regime like this threat to school districts nationwide is unconstitutional and simply to be ignored like most other decrees from this junta.

 

If you spent less time concerning yourself with minorities and more time tryng to be a good human being. Holder is doing what he is paid to do. The schoolhouse is ripe for predjucies.