The Patriot Post® · Racism in Discipline

Investor’s Business Daily: “With great media fanfare, the president last week rolled out his ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative. He says it’s a voluntary program to help at-risk black teens. Sounds great, but that’s not the whole story. Turns out the program’s centerpiece is ‘school discipline reform,’ which entails a lot of involuntary compliance by school districts. Obama complains ‘black kids are nearly four times as likely’ to be suspended from school as white kids, suggesting (wrongly) this is due to racism. To that end, Obama says he’s ‘been working with schools on alternatives to suspensions.’ No, he’s been threatening them. … The president didn’t mention in his speech that a new Education Department rule will require every public school district to report suspension and expulsion data by race. Nor did he say the department also wants to know how often black students are put in ‘handcuffs’ or other ‘restraints’ on campus vs. white students. Once Obama’s race cops compile their discrimination database, every school district in the country will come under intense political pressure to scrap discipline at the expense of classroom safety. And every black kid will have a built-in excuse for bad behavior: racism.”