As we all know, black kids suffer from too much discipline in their lives.
Los Angeles Times: The district moved to ban suspensions amid national concern that they imperil academic achievement and disproportionately affect minorities, particularly African Americans.
But many teachers say their classrooms are reeling from unruly students who are escaping consequences for their actions.
They blame the district for failing to provide the staff and training needed to effectively shift to the new approach — and their complaints are backed up by L.A. schools Supt. Ramon Cortines. He said the new discipline policies, which were pushed through by the Board of Education and former Supt. John Deasy and which he supports, were poorly executed. He compared the implementation to the flawed effort to equip students and teachers with Apple tablets.
“I will compare it to the iPad,” Cortines said. “You cannot piecemeal this kind of thing and think it is going to have the impact that it should have. Don’t make a political statement and then don’t have the wherewithal to back it up.”
COMMENTS AT LATIMES:
* How does this improve academic achievement when one or two students continually disrupt the class, ensuring that no one learns anything?! In order for this type of program to work, it requires funding, and as we all know, Deasy and Broad have gutted monies which support local public schools and classrooms. The article refers to financial management, which in LAUSD is an oxymoron.
* Can’t be the minority kids fault, it has to be the institutionalize do racism due to all the white teachers…ahhh liberalism, you gotta love it.
* Hey libs, we told you this was going to happen.
