Allen West
When the concept of doing a website was presented to me, initially I scoffed thinking there wouldn’t be enough critical material daily to comment on — boy was I wrong. Every day I am amazed at the insanity I witness in our America and here is another example.
According to a report in The Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder is at it again with his racial preference policies,
Attorney General Eric Holder called upon the nation’s school districts Wednesday to rethink “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies that he said disproportionately punish minorities and push too many students into the justice system. Alarming numbers of young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested for relatively minor transgressions like school uniform violations, schoolyard fights or showing ‘disrespect’ by laughing in class,” Holder said during a speech in Baltimore.
What did his remarks really mean? They accompanied the release of new federal guidance from the departments of Justice and Education encouraging (i.e. threatening) schools to adopt disciplinary policies that are “fair, nondiscriminatory, and effective.” The guidance offers parameters for punishment as governed by federal civil rights protections, alternatives to exclusionary discipline and a comprehensive list of regulations on the books in every state.
So now the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder will use its power to enforce “civil rights protections” in school disciplinary actions. In fact, the DoJ and DoEd are putting schools on notice that they are prepared to use their authority to investigate the claims of racial disparity in the punishment of students.
And of course the American Civil Liberties union (ACLU) is thrilled with this policy. The ACLU offered research showing that black students make up 36 percent of those expelled, though they represent only 15 percent of students.”
Not to be outdone by Holder in the “stuck on stupid” category, Education Secretary Arne Duncan stated, “Positive discipline policies” can actually foster safer school environments, without a heavy reliance on suspensions and expulsions. Schools also must understand their civil rights obligations and avoid unfair disciplinary practices.
I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.
Teachers are already disrespected and attacked, not feared. There were students at Deerfield Beach who steered clear of the lunchroom for fear of being picked on or engaged in a fight. A kid was stabbed while I was on the faculty there.
Yes, this violence on campus was perpetrated 8 out of 10 times by black students, male and female, but it had nothing to do with racial disparity. It had everything to do with a lack of discipline and control.
When a young man took a swing at me while I broke up a beat down that he and three others were giving a young man already on the ground, it had nothing to do with civil rights. It had everything to do with a criminal behavior which does not belong in a learning environment – and he was expelled. Now imagine under these new guidelines and rules, DoJ and DoEd would initiate an investigation.
Oh, Allen. You have not started a website yet? Shame on you.
Holder is out to avenge 400 years of slavery. Of course there was not 400 years of slavery in the first place, and no American citizen (to my knowledge) owns, or ever owned, slaves. Some foreign nationals keep slaves in this country, of course, but they have diplomatic immunity.
So Holder wants to hold me accountable for something I did not do.
That is crazy.
And disparate discipline in the schools is the same as no discipline in the schools. What does he want? A paper bag test before a student is disciplined? You can’t teach when students misbehave. That is just the way it is. Every student I have ever had would rather watch another student act out than pay attention to the material.
HOLDER IS GOOD TO PREACH TO THE TEACHERS, NO HE IS A ROTTEN APPLE,
protecting rotten apples, SHAME ON HIM USING HIS POWER TO MAKE SURE THOSE YOUNG BLACK WILL MAKE OTHER WHITES STUMBLE AS THEY PUSH HIM OR HER AND TRIP HIS LEG WITH HIS KICK,
HOLDER WOULD SAY, THIS CRIME IS NOTHING IMPORTANT,
AND SEE THOSE KIDS IN PRISON FOR LIFE LATER HAVING PUT THEIR HAND ON A ILLEGAL GUN TO KILL THEIR MOTHER,
I BET HE RECOGNIZE HIMSELF AS A 13 YOUNG KID TRIPPING OTHER WHITES AND LOOK AT THEIR FRIENDS WITH AN IDIOTIC SMILE, SHAME THERE IS NO PARENTS TAKING CARE OF THOSE KIDS, if they where,
AT LEAST THE TEACHER WOULD BE SENDING THEM TO THOSE PARENTS, BUT THE TEACHER ARE LEFT ALONE NO GOVERNMENT suporting them,, WHERE CAN THEY TURN TO NO FRIKING HOLDER,IS
GOING TO DO THE PARENT’S JOB, OH CALL THE POLICE
SEND THE KIDS TO BOOTCAMP,
But while black students are kept in class after bringing a REAL gun to school, will white students still be suspended for days just for biting a sandwich a couple times in a way that leaves the rest looking like a gun?
Nanny G
or calling the police for a 7 year old boy doing the sign og a gun aiming anothe kid,
which resulted at the police bring him to his home and arresting the father for it and
taking his guns,
BYE
When I was in eighth grade, I drew a neck-up self-portrait. To a viewer, it would appear that I was sighting down a handgun pointed directly at them.
The teacher didn’t freak out.
She didn’t have me arrested or expelled.
She did worse… she critiqued it. In front of the class.
Then encouraged me to take art classes.
I miss those days of sense.
What next? Will Holder order that all black violent offenders be set free, and for all white imprisoned assailants to have their sentences quadrupled, all in the name of racial equality?