Freebies for violence against "under-disciplined" ethnic groups

If these articles by Hans Bader and Heather McDonald do not make your blood boil, nothing will. They write about the ill effects of the efforts of the Holder Justice Department and the Duncan Education Department to require schools to stop disciplining black students disproportionately to other students: "Blacks were three and a half times more likely to get suspended or expelled than their white peers. (The fact that white boys were over two times as likely to be suspended as Asian and Pacific Islander boys was discreetly ignored, though it would seem to imply antiwhite bias as well.)"

"The homicide rate among males between the ages of 14 and 17 is nearly ten times higher for blacks than for whites and Hispanics combined. Such data make no impact on the Obama administration and its orbiting advocates, who apparently believe that the lack of self-control and socialization that results in this disproportionate criminal violence does not manifest itself in classroom comportment as well."

Refusing to hold students accountable for their misbehavior only guarantees their future failure. "When students see no consequences for bad behavior, not only do they continue to misbehave, but the behavior worsens, with more and more students joining in." "School systems are jettisoning whole swaths of their discipline practices in order to avoid disparate impact."

Who are the winners and who are the losers? The legal profession and the training profession are the winners.  "The losers are the kids. Protecting well-behaved students’ ability to learn is a school’s highest obligation, and it is destroyed when teachers lose the option of removing chronically disruptive students from class. Nor does keeping those unruly students in class do them any favors. School is the last chance to socialize a student who repeatedly curses his teacher, since his parent is obviously failing at the job. Remove serious consequences for bad behavior, and you are sending a child into the world who has learned precisely the opposite of what he needs to know about life."

Read much more, including some graphic examples.
Heather McDonald's article is here:  http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_3_school-discipline.html

Hans Bader's article is here: http://www.openmarket.org/2012/08/09/obama-administration-aggravates-the-minority-achievement-gap-increases-risk-of-school-violence/#more-58905