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WTF? How can this not be reverse racism?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...rmission-to-Suspend-Any-Minority-Student

The Minneapolis public school system announced a major new district-wide policy for disciplining students: any suspension of a non-white student requires the district superintendent's approval.
The MPS has been stung by reports that students of color are 10 times more likely to receive a suspension than white students. The Minneapolis school system has an enrollment of over 32,000 students. Seventy percent are non-white.
School superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, a black woman, maintains that she wants to "disrupt" the current suspension trends.
Superintendent Johnson says that her new policy is aimed at forcing local school administrators to deeply "probe" the reasons for issuing a suspension before that punishment is handed out.
Johnson claims that suspensions meted out to minority students were all too often based on behavior that would not have led to a suspension for a white student.
So, starting on Monday, November 10, every suspension of a black, Hispanic or American Indian student that does not involve violent behavior will be reviewed by Johnson's office before being approved.
"Changing the trajectory for our students of color is a moral and ethical imperative, and our actions must be drastically different to achieve our goal of closing the achievement gap by 2020," Johnson said in a November 7 statement announcing the policy change.
This policy is coupled with a reduced police presence in the city's schools.
The policy is also part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education for the district's lopsided suspension rate.
The changes come after a review of suspensions made during the 2012-13 school year found a jump in suspensions for student in grades K through 4 even in the midst of questions that were already being asked by the federal government.
This and previous suspension rates brought an investigation by civil rights investigators from the Department of Education in 2013. The federal probe reviewed the records of 11 district schools.
Like in almost all U.S. cities, Minneapolis has a problem with its minority student graduation rate. But in 2013 overall graduation rates rose to 79 percent over the previous year's 72 percent. Early this year, the city issued statistics showing that 85 percent of white students graduated in 2013. Only 56 percent of black students and 58 percent of Hispanic students graduated in 2013.
Minneapolis is still doing better than some major Midwestern metropolises. Chicago, for instance, recently celebrated a 17-point rise in graduation rates for 2013 but that still left the city's graduation rate at only 65.4 percent (up from a mere 58.3 percent for the 2011-2012 school year).

A lot hinges on whether this statement is true.

All they have to do is ask permission here on the fire. It will be freely granted...

And they wonder why non-whites are 10 times more likely to be suspended???????????????????


Murderapolis -- 'nuff said there..

Got mixed feelings on this...

These situations ain't black and white if you'll excuse the pun.

Prob'ly most White kids attend schools with lower suspension rates overall, even for outwardly similar offenses. But that lower suspension rate may be due to the CONTEXT of those offenses.

For example if a minority school has a huge problem with kids skipping class, actually suspending that kid may be the ONLY time the parents to come in and talk (they have to before their kid can come back) whereas in the other school the parents might be all over this and the problem for a given kid nipped in the bud before it gets chronic. But, suspensions for skipping class (as ironic as that may sound) would show up as being disproportionately common at that lower end school.

FWIW it drives me up the wall when they break things down by "color", the BIGGEST prediction of how a kid does in school, regardless of color, is how much money their parents make. If you are still "poor" in America and you ain't an actual recently-arrived immigrant its because of your own behaviors, not "discrimination".

The poorest White kids can show all the same behaviors as the worst-raised kids in the school, whereas you can find some Black and Hispanic kids who's parents are just awesome.

JMHO,
Birdwatcher

Oh boy that's just great. Teach them that their skin color grants them immunity from following the rules or being disciplined.

"School superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, a black woman, maintains that she wants to "disrupt" the current suspension trends". Another affirmative action education major with a what the fook kind of [bleep] name. (Bernadeia??????)

This is an example of why I am so glad I left the Twin Cities going on 20 years ago now...

They can't keep falling all over themselves, to kiss the assss of any and all minorities on the planet.. and they pride themselves in attracting them to come to Minnesota so they can be 'culturally diverse', instead of the frozen northern wasteland of only Sven and Oly...

Turning the place into a welfare Disneyland is how they have managed to accomplish that... all the Hmong and all the Somalis that have come there are a perfect example...

and then there are the blacks from Chicago that migrate up because welfare and liberalism is even easier for them in Minneapolis than it is in Chicago...

and they love hitting on all the little blonde haired blue eyed suburban airheads who want to 'change the world'...

Minneapolis School District was a zoo with their minorities when they only made up 30% of the student population...

lazy, no personal responsibility, no direction and no care about anything but themselves is a common thread, and the liberals tend it like some grandma would tend her garden...

and then they cluelessly wonder why they have all of these minority social problems...continually

Wouldn't the fact that the minority children outnumber "whites" so greatly in itself be a possible factor in larger numbers being disciplined, regardless of other factors? And I'm giving them a BIG benefit of the doubt here.

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 loons.
Minneapolis is a hub for socialism.
The Mpls. Public School System is ground zero for loons, socialism and the height of ineptness. At $21,000 a student, barely 50% get a diploma which has dubious significance. The Superintendent is Obama personified! Don't ask me how I know.

I doubt it coincidence that the same stats are true of felony convictions.

I doubt that too. Ms Johnson is looking like a racist more and more.

For some unknown reason, they seem to have some kind of a problem getting a grasp on the concept of mathematics...

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It's not reverse racism for the simple fact that there is no such thing as reverse racism.

Despite what the left says, racism IS NOT defined by whites mistreating people of color.

Racism is when the race of a person dictates special treatment, either bad or good. So this is simply racism because now people of one race (whites) are now subject to worse treatment than people of another race (black/latino).


Definition:
racism - noun

1: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

2: the belief that some races of people are better than others

5 will get you 10, it,s a lie.

You said it!!

TC area used to be fairly decent, if not actually fun to visit (back in '50s-'70s)... Not now - especially not over the last (like you said ) 20 years or so.. I try and avoid it like the plague.. On the way to Sturgis I get goin' early and don't stop till I get to the SD border..

This is just the sort of crap that drives good teachers out of the profession.

Hell, If I lived over in Sconsin, and was headed to Sturgis, it would be WI 35 down to LaCrosse and across on I 90 avoiding the Twin Cities...

When I use to go back home to Virginia from MN, I'd take I 39 down thru Rockford and south, to I 74 and skirt metro Chicago.. more miles but definitely LESS time...and a lot less Stress...

Those Minneapolis folks really like their superintendent Dr. Bernadeia Johnson. She is paid $190,000 base salary with a bonus of up to $40,000. With her bonus that is more than the state governor and mayor of Minneapolis make combined. -tnscouter

Welcome to the Twin Cities version of Affirmative Action...

Probably the last time a while ago there will ever be a white Superintendent of the Mpls School System again...

and as far as the Governor's Salary... With Mark Dayton, its all token money anyway....He's part of the Dayton Hudson Family, that owns TARGET stores, and the rest of the Dayton Hudson Fortune...

I remember back in the 80s when he was running for Governor, his family spent $7 million on Campaigning for him, when the Salary for the Governor was less than $100K a year...

He ran many times, and spent that kind of money and always lost...

For the Folks back there, how many times did he run for Governor before finally being elected?

Thanks for posting... that video NEVER gets old...

Wonder how much on the ball they are, when Stoned...

Image the mental torture it must be to figure out for them, if you buy two Hamburgers, and they are a $1 a piece, how much will it cost for the two hamburgers before taxes....

My wife taught at the local HS and she is SO glad she retired two years ago. The teachers here are up against the same BS because it was found that black kids had too many disciplinary actions against them. OBTW, the school is almost 95% black.