The Board of Education in the town where I live in Illinois just announced a revision to the discipline policy across all of its individual schools. Of course, as with every Blue State in America, Illinois is allergic to punishment and personal responsibility, believing children and adults alike should be shielded from consequences, so this latest “solution” is simply part of the larger national pattern of Liberal blame shifting and virtue signaling.
Our school district’s Director of Equity and School Improvement, which is the Woke-Speak job title assigned to the designated apologist for relentlessly lowering behavioral and academic standards in the pursuit of so-called social justice, identified the the problem with the current discipline code as such: 11% of incidents involving White students led to exclusionary disciplines; however, more than double (28%) of incidents involving students of color led to expulsion or suspension.
These disciplinary numbers must be absolutely even because, if they are not, clear and unmistakable racism must be the cause. This is so unfair, right?
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