There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline. – Ricardo Montalban
According to The New York Times,
The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
The decision culminates a nearly yearlong effort begun by the Trump administration after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The deaths of 17 students and staff members on Feb. 14 prompted lawmakers in both parties to demand tougher gun laws, but after a brief flirtation with gun control, President Trump abandoned that focus and instead empowered a school safety commission, led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Almost immediately, the commission turned away from guns and instead scrutinized the Obama administration’s school discipline policies, though none of the most high-profile school shootings were perpetrated by black students. The commission’s focus was part of a broader effort to reject the previous administration’s race-conscious education efforts, which have included siding with Asian students suing Harvard to end affirmative action and delaying an Obama-era rule to prevent disproportionate numbers of minority children from being funneled into special education classes.
The documents obtained by The Times — a draft letter and a draft chapter of the safety commission’s research — focus significantly on race and promote the idea that the federal crackdown on potentially discriminatory practices has made schools more dangerous.
“The federal government’s paramount obligation is to guarantee student safety, including when it is acting to ensure that educational programs and policies are administered in a racially neutral fashion,” the commission wrote. “However, where well-meaning but flawed policies endanger student safety, they must be changed.”
Disability and civil rights advocates will almost certainly denounce the latest policy maneuver. The Obama administration policies were adopted after strong evidence emerged that minority students were receiving more suspensions and tougher punishments than white students for the same or lesser offenses, while disabled students were too quickly being shunted into remedial or special-education programs.
“Safety is a red herring intended to raise fears about our own children,” said Eve Hill, a disability rights lawyer at Brown, Goldstein & Levy who worked on the Obama-era discipline guidance while a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
The Education and Justice Departments plan to send a joint letter this week announcing the rescinding of policy statements dating to 2014, according to a draft letter signed by Kenneth L. Marcus, the Education Department’s head of civil rights, and Eric S. Dreiband, assistant attorney general for civil rights.
The 2014 Obama policy advised schools on how to dole out discipline in a nondiscriminatory manner and examine education data to look for racial disparities that could flag a federal civil rights violation. Though the guidance is nonbinding, critics have argued that the edict pressured districts to keep suspensions low at the expense of student safety.
I can remember, back when I was in school, every student knew, no matter what the color of your skin, that actions had consequences.
Bad behavior, including disrespecting the teachers, was firmly and immediately dealt with.
There was no doubt as to who was in charge…the Administration and Faculty were.
Nowadays, thanks to a lack of parenting, peer pressure, including pressure from street gangs, political correctness, and Liberal School Boards and School Administrators, teachers literally get shouted down, ridiculed, and even physically threatened in their own classrooms.
In fact, in some schools, there is no such thing as a home suspension anymore. When a student is “suspended”, he/she has to serve their time in school.
Political correctness leading to structuring school discipline based on race, is setting the unruly student who is not allowed to be disciplined up for failure.
I can look back at those who cared enough about me to set me on a “course correction” when I was in school and now tell you unequivocally that they did it out of love, not hate or malice.
Obama and his Administration sacrificed school discipline for political correctness because that is the prism through which they viewed and distorted reality.
By giving certain students an attitude of entitlement, Obama not only set them up for failure, he set them up to be unable to achieve in the real world because to be successful in a chosen profession requires discipline.
And, without individual achievement, the “Central Government” becomes the provider of the masses from cradle to grave.
Are you beginning to see the big picture, gentle readers?
Without those who teach children challenging, molding, and disciplining them, there can be no leaders, no individual achievement, and no American Exceptionalism.
And, what does that lead to?
The Politboro taking care of the Proletariat.
And, that was probably the plan all along.
Until He Comes,
KJ
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