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Kansas' biggest school district is required to overhaul its discipline system under a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) following an investigation into disability and race discrimination.

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... The big picture: Wichita Pubic Schools agreed to eliminate seclusion, restrict restraint and reduce law enforcement's involvement in student discipline. The settlement is a part of a larger DOJ effort to combat improper isolation of students. ...

Zoom in: Black students in Wichita schools were disciplined more frequently and more severely than white students who engaged in similar conduct.

- - - Black girls, especially, received harsh punishment. They were referred for insubordination at more than 4.5 times the rate as white girls.

- - - Schools unnecessarily referred Black students to law enforcement for routine or minor misbehavior, investigators said. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-03 03:49 PM | Reply

In schools for students with behavioral disabilities, the investigation revealed "inferior facilities devoid of furniture, educational equipment and the kinds of decor commonly found in schools, and staff who could not meet the needs of students," the DOJ said.

The Wichita system in general has long been characterized by a foot dragging, we've always done it this way so why change attitude when it comes to special needs. The kids, of course, get effed but, hey, let's not dwell on it and it'll be okay. Kansans actually used to be fairly committed to education. But that was them and this is now.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-04 06:42 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#2 ... Kansans actually used to be fairly committed to education. But that was them and this is now. ...

Yeah.

Now, instead of educating, the goal seemed to be indocrinating and punishing those who do not agree. With, well, as the article states, "Black students in Wichita schools were disciplined more frequently and more severely than white students who engaged in similar conduct."

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-05 12:00 AM | Reply

I'm shocked to learn that schoolteachers, the most liberal profession of all, are such racists.

#4 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-07-05 01:20 PM | Reply

Does the Negro need Separate Schools?
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

nationalhumanitiescenter.org

#5 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-07-05 01:24 PM | Reply

Your child-raping hero's school was shut down for being fraudulent.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-07-05 01:27 PM | Reply

#4
Well, see, there are teachers and there are teachers, aides and aides, admins and admins, localities and localities, and so on. The profession is considerably broader in outlook and perspective than you appear to warrant. Or were you just laying out the foool's argument for purposes of discussion?

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-05 01:28 PM | Reply

#5
Hahahahahaha

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-05 01:31 PM | Reply

If "The Wizard of Oz" took place nowadays, how much you wanna bet that Dorothy would get back home to Kansas, have a look around, and then click her ruby slippers together and say, "GMTFOOH!! There's no place like OZ, there's no place like OZ!"

#9 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-07-05 01:40 PM | Reply

degalantha.livejournal.com

Essay by a teacher in a black high school

#10 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-07-05 01:41 PM | Reply

#16
Ho boy, this rich. Your source is "a repost from the rants and raves section from the Mobile, Alabama, Craigslist.)" on a Russian-owned social networking site. Very impressive. When you feel like getting serious, pull the other one: there's a taco. Lol.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-05 01:47 PM | Reply

Does the Negro need Separate Schools?
W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
#5 | POSTED BY LOOK_INWARD

Do you need your head examined?

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-05 01:49 PM | Reply

Project 2025 wants to do away with standards that want to prevent discrimination in discipline.

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-05 02:12 PM | Reply

#10 POSTED BY LOOK_INWARD

I read the entire link and it conforms 100% to what I've been told by several former teachers regarding black behavior in school.
you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear and the kids come to school so woefully unprepared on so many different levels.
just another problem that hasn't been addressed...actually a problem that hasn't even been honestly identified.
would you accept project 2025 if it meant kids graduated high school reading at grade level?

I ask that because obviously project 2025 engenders strong negative responses on this site...should the outrage be better served directed toward the state of public education, specific to the article, black education?

We have a lot on our plates

#14 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-07-05 05:00 PM | Reply

home of Pastafarianism.
pray the FSM! Kansas repent!

#15 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-07-05 05:00 PM | Reply

#14 "behavior" ... what else did they say?

#16 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-07-05 05:02 PM | Reply

the kids come to school so woefully unprepared on so many different levels.

Thanks Jim Crowe, redlining and systemic racism!

Mission Accomplished!

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-05 05:03 PM | Reply

would you accept project 2025
#14 | POSTED BY BRERRABBIT

As readily as I would homophobia, xenophobia, ignorance and intolerance.

So. No. Not at all.

Project 2025 is a far right, white supremacist, Nazi manifesto.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-05 05:07 PM | Reply

I read the entire link and it conforms 100% to what I've been told by several former teachers regarding black behavior in school.
you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear and the kids come to school so woefully unprepared on so many different levels.
just another problem that hasn't been addressed...actually a problem that hasn't even been honestly identified.
would you accept project 2025 if it meant kids graduated high school reading at grade level?
I ask that because obviously project 2025 engenders strong negative responses on this site...should the outrage be better served directed toward the state of public education, specific to the article, black education?
We have a lot on our plates

#14 | POSTED BY BRERRABBIT A

Serious question, how will denying the existence of the underlying causes (which is an essential tenant of Project 2025) of the alleged problems with black students aid in improving the educational results of black students.

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-05 05:18 PM | Reply

"Project 2025"

Because de-Baathification worked so well!
~Today's Republicans

#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-07-05 05:20 PM | Reply

{SNIP}
you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear and the kids come to school so woefully unprepared on so many different levels.
just another problem that hasn't been addressed...actually a problem that hasn't even been honestly identified.
{SNIP}
#14 | POSTED BY BRERRABBIT A

You do understand that this is the underlying theory classified and studied as Critical Race Theory, right?

You get that right?

CRT being the study of the causes of disparate outcomes for different races.

Conservative "values" truly flummox me.

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-05 05:20 PM | Reply

" and the kids come to school so woefully unprepared on so many different levels."

Amazing, what slashing early childhood education will yield.

Are you actually surprised?!?

#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-07-05 05:22 PM | Reply

" Kansans actually used to be fairly committed to education. But that was then and ...

... AND THEN CAME BROWNBACK!

FTW, Bownback shot himself in the foot exempting KS income tax for pass-thrus, i.e., some self-employed folks, but more likely Koch Brothers' subsidiaries. He called it "the Kansas miracle", and predicted growth would go through the roof.

When revenues cratered (surprise!), Brownback doubled down, and extended the tax cuts, all while privately asking his Republican constituency to OVERRIDE HIS VETO.

They complied, but only after 1 billion had been taken from the employees' retirement fund, 1 billion had been taken from the highway fund, and, of all things, the early childhood development fund was raided.

"The Kansas Miracle!"

#23 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-07-05 06:02 PM | Reply

the kids come to school so woefully unprepared on so many different levels.

Thanks Jim Crowe, redlining and systemic racism! Mission Accomplished!
#17 POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

and that's the reason that parents apparently bear no responsibility to send kids to school with a respect for authority or interest in learning?

#24 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-07-05 09:29 PM | Reply

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