These School Districts Stopped Disciplining Students, and Chaos Ensued
The title of the article should have read stopped disciplining black students. The so called problem was the disproportionate # of black students suspended vs. white students
The prior policy had a mandatory suspension for carrying a weapon. The suspensions were not discretionary. The disciplinary vice-principals were than given incentives to increase suspending of white students.
Then-Superintendent Valeria Silva in 2011 made it a priority to reduce racial disparities in student discipline.
While the disparities never closed, the overall number of suspensions fell considerably for two years. Suspensions rebounded in 2013-14, the year the district moved behaviorally troubled students into mainstream classrooms and switched from two-grade junior high schools to three-grade middle schools.
Last December, after a Central High School teacher was badly hurt while breaking up a lunchroom fight, school safety.
Silva tweeted after the exoneration of the officer in the Michael Brown death in Mo.
Soon after authorities announced Monday that a grand jury had decided against indicting white police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, Superintendent Valeria Silva tweeted:
“No indictment for officer Wilson! Very sad day in America. How do I explain this to my black students?”
A reasonable person would say to that question :how about, Don't strong arm rob a store or anyone for that matter and don't try to take a gun from a cop.
The prior policy had a mandatory suspension for carrying a weapon. The suspensions were not discretionary. The disciplinary vice-principals were than given incentives to increase suspending of white students.
Then-Superintendent Valeria Silva in 2011 made it a priority to reduce racial disparities in student discipline.
While the disparities never closed, the overall number of suspensions fell considerably for two years. Suspensions rebounded in 2013-14, the year the district moved behaviorally troubled students into mainstream classrooms and switched from two-grade junior high schools to three-grade middle schools.
Last December, after a Central High School teacher was badly hurt while breaking up a lunchroom fight, school safety.
Silva tweeted after the exoneration of the officer in the Michael Brown death in Mo.
Soon after authorities announced Monday that a grand jury had decided against indicting white police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, Superintendent Valeria Silva tweeted:
“No indictment for officer Wilson! Very sad day in America. How do I explain this to my black students?”
A reasonable person would say to that question :how about, Don't strong arm rob a store or anyone for that matter and don't try to take a gun from a cop.
