http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/conservatives-aghast-idea-addressing-racial-discrimination-schools
The National Review Online decried new federal guidelines that could reduce the number of needless arrests and incarceration of minority students in public schools.On January 8, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Education (DOE) issued new, optional guidelines to help public schools develop non-discriminatory disciplinary policies. Right-wing media were quick to accuse the Obama administration of playing the " race card"because the guidelines addressed the fact that minority students are far more likely to be disciplined -- often unfairly and excessively -- for nonviolent and minor disruptions in school.Because more and more schools rely on armed police officers known as " school resource officers" to handle behavioral problems, many students of color end up getting arrested and incarcerated.
and what part of that is not true, IMO the republicans are opposing because it lowers their stockpile of potential residents of their private prisons. this new initiative would make all those engaged culpable the White students as well not exactly their pick for prison occupants.
NRO has previously called the new DOJ guidelines " disturbing." But in a January 16 editorial, the site went further, complaining that the guidelines were an overblown response to "spectral racism" and were based on "arbitrary evidence" (emphasis added):
The Obama administration is no stranger to trying to micromanage complex, intractable problems from Washington. But using the Civil Rights Act to direct schools' disciplinary practices might be its most foolhardy idea yet.Beginning in 2010, the Department of Education, led by the occasionally sensible Arne Duncan, announced that it intended to pursue vigorously civil-rights violations in the American school system. That's led to a number of DOE investigations of various school districts with racially disparate discipline rates.this is just like the scotus mistake about NC "overblown" propensity to violate voters rights being not as egregious therefore they don't need to be collared and made to ask permission to violate Prgressive voter's rights.The feds contend, as an aside, that discrimination in discipline shows up in studies when controlling for poverty and other factors, but the evidence for this contention is ludicrously weak.Federal civil-rights investigators don't have to publicly disclose the grounds they've used to initiate investigations of racial discrimination, but their work so far leans as heavily as the new guidelines do on evidence of disparate statistical impact, rather than on indications of real bias and disparate treatment.They will not admit that they rely on such arbitrary evidence, since there is little statutory justification in the Civil Rights Act for such a disparate-impact case, but the objection is clear enough: Certain minorities are disciplined at higher rates than whites are, so racism must be at work.When such a simple heuristic is applied, schools will feel even more pressure than they already do to adopt a simple solution: try to discipline all races, regardless of behavior, at the same rate.
they are getting a little more clever in covering their radical agenda they know they are watched so they adjust and redo. no one not involved in these actions can deny the discrimination that is real. then again they have their old fall back "they are using the race card" would need to if they were not making race the issue.
