Tucson schools create race-based system of discipline

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Tucson schools create race-based system of discipline

by Doug MacEachern - Sept. 19, 2009 08:22 PM
The Arizona Republic

It has been a busy summer for our friends running the Tucson Unified School District.

As always, the annual Institute for Transformative Education summer seminar, hosted by TUSD's amply funded Mexican/American raza-studies program, was fun. So much racial bitterness to obsess over.

Tim Wise, the ultra-angry Tulane University poli-sci grad who has made a great living finding racism under every doormat, was the featured speaker. Everyone was wowed.

In a year in which hundreds of district teachers received pink slips, meanwhile, TUSD spent thousands on recruiting teachers from out of state.

And it hired a coordinator at $80,000 per annum to lead the effort.

The recruiting was prompted by what is fast becoming the consuming passion of the TUSD governing board and its allies - to establish a corps of teachers that precisely mirrors the racial make-up of its heavily minority student population.

You can argue the efficacy of such issues legitimately, certainly.

On a certain emotional level, it is a good thing for a minority student with few incentives to achieve much academically to see others who have.

But, as always, TUSD's race-obsessing board of governors is taking racial bean-counting to preposterous extremes.

This summer, the TUSD board adopted a "Post-Unitary Status Plan" that it expects will help the district escape a decades-old federal desegregation order.

The plan includes increasing the number of minority teachers - per the summer hiring spree, which netted 14 special-education teachers and one math-science teacher.

It also includes a vast expansion of the district's controversial Mexican-American studies program.

Despite the budget-enforced closing of school libraries, the shuttering of arts and music programs and the layoff of teachers and counselors in other disciplines, the Post-Unitary Status Plan calls for a vigorous expansion of the program run by TUSD's happy band of unrepentant political leftists.

The board's plan also calls for changes intended (however counterproductive those plans may be) to improving the lot of minority students.

It wants to see more minority students enrolled in advanced-placement programs, for example - a laudable goal, certainly. But consider one significant part of the plan for "improving" the academic status of TUSD's Black and Hispanic students:

The board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black and Hispanic students; one for everyone else.

With the goal of creating a "restorative school culture and climate" that conveys a "sense of belonging to all students," the board is insisting that its schools reduce its suspensions and/or expulsions of minority students to the point that the data reflect "no ethnic/racial disparities."

From the section of the 52-page plan titled "Restorative School Culture and Climate," subhead, "Discipline":

"School data that show disparities in suspension/expulsion rates will be examined in detail for root causes. Special attention will be dedicated to data regarding African-American and Hispanic students."

The board approved creating an "Equity Team" that will oversee the plan to ensure "a commitment to social justice for all students."

The happy-face edu-speak notwithstanding, what the Tucson Unified School District board of governors has approved this summer is a race-based system of discipline.

Offenses by students will be judged, and penalties meted out, depending on the student's hue.

Certainly, from the point of view of a public-school administrator, such a policy is beyond insane.

TUSD principals and disciplinarians (assuming such creatures still exist) are being asked to set two standards of behavior for their students.

Some behavior will be met with strict penalties; some will not. It all depends on the color of the student's skin.

It is an invitation to chaos.

The students of the Tucson Public School District certainly deserve more.

They deserve a chance to excel academically.

Instead, they get this. Genuine apartheid.

Reach MacEachern at 602-444-8883 or doug.maceachern@arizonarepublic.com.

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[topper]

Did anyone ever not think that race would become a highly valued factor in society after LBJ and his "Great Society" BS. When forced integration came about, i thought right then that something like racism would one day rule our once great country and it has come to be. Integration should and could have been done naturally by the people's will, NOT forced by the government. More meddling in my thinking. Eventually total integration would have taken over as it was beginning to come about in the 1950's ( it could have been done many decades earlier) and it had to come to pass, but not be forced. No one likes to be forced to do anything. If not for the government's meddling, IMO, our society would have made an integration much better, faster than being forced. People should be hired, promoted, demoted, fired, and otherwise recognized by their merits not color and that's what the government touted, but did the opposite, as usual. Let the people run the country, not the government running the people. Natural processes work much better.


Keep both barrels loaded!

[Kieran McCaig]

They started a black only school up here last year.Seems to me they wanted equal right not to long ago .

[ampaterry]

Let me see if I have this figured out correctly. I will outline the way this policy seems to be set out with an example. Now, these figures are off, but the PRINCIPLE is what I am trying to illustrate, and I would appreciate it if you would all tell me if I have it wrong or right.

Let's say:

I am in school district X.
School district X has historically taken disciplinary action on 10% of it's students.

I am the principal of School Y, a part of district X, and have 1000 students The racial mix is 300 black, 300 white, 300 Hispanic, 50 Oriental, and 40 Norwegian and 10 Native American.
Under these guidelines, I must punish 30 blacks, 30 whites, 30 Hispanics, 5 orientals, 4 Norwegians and 1 Native American.

So, if all 40 Norwegian students get hopped up on sugar from eating too much Kringler for lunch and all urinate on the wood floor of the gymnasium, I must measure the volume of urine from each student and let the 36 with the lowest volume go unpunished.

And at the same time, the 50 oriental students are the picture of decorum, spending every second of the day working on their studies. I must sort through these 50 and select 5 to punish anyway.

Is that about the size of it?

[Trouble 45-70]

So much for equal protection under the law. If one group of individuals has a predisposition to create violence or shove others around only a small number of miscreants can be punished. Due to zero tolerance the pushee must be punished along with the pusher. "Catch 22' for the pushee. When the argument is about numbers, justice cannot prevail. Social Justice my rear end. Pure Marxism in action using numerical disparities as a wedge to destroy what is left of the Public School System and put more Marxists in positions of authority. Everyone might want to check their local School Boards for teacher purges.

[Tom Militano]

The government is turning me into a racist.

[Trouble 45-70]

Originally Posted by Tom Militano

The government is turning me into a racist.

According to the Govt. I was born a racist. It is so much easier when you finally admit your guilt.

[artabr]

I heard about this last night. What in the hell are these people thinking?

Damm them all to hell.
I'm talking about the IDIOTS responsible for this.


Arthur A. Brady Jr.

[Terry_P]

Good analysis by AT. All it should take is one court challenge and that system will disappear.

[obxned]

I know it's silly, but if the school district is so worried about minority studends, why don't they teach them enough of the Three Rs to be able to get jobs when they graduate.

[GMFWoodchuck]

So much for the anti-segregation laws.

[bcj1755]

Originally Posted by obxned

I know it's silly, but if the school district is so worried about minority studends, why don't they teach them enough of the Three Rs to be able to get jobs when they graduate.

Because actually teaching students the skills they need to get a job cuts into the time they have for brainwashing. Besides, if they are able to get a job upon graduation, where's the impetus for them to get on welfare?

[Carne Frio]

What this school board is implying is that the non-whites
are inferior and can only succeed with special help from
the system. That is blatant racism. The first white student
that is disciplined under this rule will have grounds for a
great lawsuit.

[Insulation Tim]

Originally Posted by Kieran McCaig

They started a black only school up here last year.Seems to me they wanted equal right not to long ago .

That school will become a war zone and gangland very shortly.

Who are these morons who come up with this idiocy?

[armedandsafe]

What this school board is implying is that the non-whites
are inferior and can only succeed with special help from
the system. That is blatant racism. The first white student
that is disciplined under this rule will have grounds for a
great lawsuit.

Bingo...We have a winner. You, sir, are a thinking, analytic person. Therefore, you are an obvious danger to the O's Regime and must be silenced., Stock up, load up, bunker down. They'll be coming for you.

Pops

[Bobitis]

Originally Posted by Trouble 45-70

According to the Govt. I was born a racist. It is so much easier when you finally admit your guilt.

Hmmm....
So being born gay is a cause for revolution.
Being born racist is a cause for condemnation.?

How does that work?

[Carne Frio]

Originally Posted by armedandsafe

Bingo...We have a winner. You, sir, are a thinking, analytic person. Therefore, you are an obvious danger to the O's Regime and must be silenced., Stock up, load up, bunker down. They'll be coming for you.

Pops

Thanks, I am retired, stocked up, usually loaded and have a fine bunker.
C O M E A N D G E T I T !