A federal commission on school safety has repudiated the use of disparate-impact analysis in evaluating whether school discipline is racially biased.
In the area of school discipline, disparate-impact analysis results in the conclusion that racially neutral rules must nevertheless contain bias, since black students nationally are suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students.
More than four times as many high-minority schools reported weekly verbal abuse of teachers compared with schools with a minority student body less than 20 percent.
In Des Moines, for example, students hit teachers and other students with little consequence, according to the Des Moines Register, leading to a teacher exodus.
A nine-year-old boy was repeatedly struck by a fellow student, but the teacher felt powerless to do anything lest she be accused of discriminating against a minority student.
The dean then interrogated the teacher about why the student was not "Jibing with her." An instructor from Miami-Dade County told Henderson: "It is virtually impossible to discipline a student. I know we are losing a generation of kids of color as a result of allowing them to run wild."
Not all of the administration's social policies are as farsighted as the rescission of disparate-impact analysis in student discipline.
https://www.city-journal.org/disparate-impact-analysis
In the area of school discipline, disparate-impact analysis results in the conclusion that racially neutral rules must nevertheless contain bias, since black students nationally are suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students.
More than four times as many high-minority schools reported weekly verbal abuse of teachers compared with schools with a minority student body less than 20 percent.
In Des Moines, for example, students hit teachers and other students with little consequence, according to the Des Moines Register, leading to a teacher exodus.
A nine-year-old boy was repeatedly struck by a fellow student, but the teacher felt powerless to do anything lest she be accused of discriminating against a minority student.
The dean then interrogated the teacher about why the student was not "Jibing with her." An instructor from Miami-Dade County told Henderson: "It is virtually impossible to discipline a student. I know we are losing a generation of kids of color as a result of allowing them to run wild."
Not all of the administration's social policies are as farsighted as the rescission of disparate-impact analysis in student discipline.
https://www.city-journal.org/disparate-impact-analysis
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