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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsACLU:The Trump Administration Is Using the Parkland Massacre as an Excuse to Roll Back Civil Rights
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/student-speech-and-privacy/trump-administration-using-parkland-massacre-excuse-rollOn Monday, the White House announced the creation of a Federal Commission on School Safety, chaired by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, to recommend proposals for school violence prevention. Included in the mandate of DeVos commission is a starkly worded objective: Repeal of the Obama Administrations Rethink School Discipline policies.
Its fair to wonder what this plan is doing on a list of items supposedly responding to school shootings. Prior school discipline history does not indicate that a youth will commit a school shooting. In Parkland, discipline policies did not thwart the district from taking action, and the attacker had been expelled from school. In fact, while most perpetrators of school shootings are white, children of color and students with disabilities are the ones disproportionately subject to school discipline...
...The plain truth is that this has nothing to do with preventing school shootings the administration has had its eye on repealing the Obama-era discipline guidance for some time already as part of its deregulation agenda. And while the guidance is still characterized as under review by the administration, Secretary DeVos tipped her hand on Sunday.
In an appearance on 60 Minutes, she stated that racial disparities in school discipline come down to individual kids. To be clear about the implications of this statement, Ms. DeVos is saying that when Black students are disciplined more harshly than their white peers, the fault lies with Black youth. Secretary DeVos isnt grappling with the right approach to disparate school discipline; shes denying the problem exists.
Its fair to wonder what this plan is doing on a list of items supposedly responding to school shootings. Prior school discipline history does not indicate that a youth will commit a school shooting. In Parkland, discipline policies did not thwart the district from taking action, and the attacker had been expelled from school. In fact, while most perpetrators of school shootings are white, children of color and students with disabilities are the ones disproportionately subject to school discipline...
...The plain truth is that this has nothing to do with preventing school shootings the administration has had its eye on repealing the Obama-era discipline guidance for some time already as part of its deregulation agenda. And while the guidance is still characterized as under review by the administration, Secretary DeVos tipped her hand on Sunday.
In an appearance on 60 Minutes, she stated that racial disparities in school discipline come down to individual kids. To be clear about the implications of this statement, Ms. DeVos is saying that when Black students are disciplined more harshly than their white peers, the fault lies with Black youth. Secretary DeVos isnt grappling with the right approach to disparate school discipline; shes denying the problem exists.
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ACLU:The Trump Administration Is Using the Parkland Massacre as an Excuse to Roll Back Civil Rights (Original Post)
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2018
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Of course they are, and DeVos should be in prison along side of Rick Scott
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)1. Of course they are, and DeVos should be in prison along side of Rick Scott
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)2. Of course they are.
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)3. Who is surprised by this?