"Minority students will suffer worst" if teachers fail to keep order in classrooms for fear of being accused of racism

Gail Heriot dissents from a US Civil Rights Commission report. Paul Mirengoff writes in PowerLine,

Pretending, as the Civil Rights Commission does, that Black students do not commit disproportionately more offenses than non-Blacks does a disservice to everyone except, perhaps, identity politics activists. To quote Gail one more time:

[The pretense] "certainly does not benefit minority children. To the contrary, they are its greatest victims. African American students disproportionately go to school with other African American students. . .If teachers fail to keep order in those classrooms out of fear that they will be accused of racism, it is these minority students who will suffer most.

Children can’t learn in disorderly classrooms."

For the left, identity politics trumps nearly everything. We shouldn’t be surprised that it now trumps the urgent need for quality education.

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