17 dead students in Florida wasn't enough to demonstrate the idiocy of this ridiculously racist policy?
— Michael J. Fell (@MichaelJFell) April 7, 2018
Obama Supporters Rush to Save His ‘Dangerous’ School Leniency Policy for Minority Students https://t.co/N1lEt0lC0d
...Politico reports Scott said the GAO report “dispels claims that racially disproportionate rates of discipline are based solely on income.”
“This report underscores the need to combat these gross disparities by strengthening, not rescinding, the 2014 Discipline Guidance Package, which recommends specific strategies to reduce the disparities without jeopardizing school safety,” he added.
The report is not “news,” since no one has disputed that minority students are disciplined at higher rates than whites and Asians. At issue is that Obama supporters attribute those higher rates to racism by teachers and school administrators.
“There are no surprises in the GAO report,” University of San Diego law professor Gail Heriot, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, confirms to Breitbart News. “From time immemorial, we’ve known boys get disciplined more often than girls. It’s just that in the past nobody was silly enough to argue that anti-male bias was the primary reason.”...
In a law review article on school discipline, Heriot and her colleague Alison Somin assert the Obama directive is “wrongheaded” and has introduced a higher level of “danger” to schools....
