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		<title>Dept. of Ed. Supports Classroom Memorials to Michael Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lynch mob justice trumps education.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/53f7dd490fbb5.preview-620.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246748" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/53f7dd490fbb5.preview-620-436x350.jpg" alt="53f7dd490fbb5.preview-620" width="283" height="227" /></a>If you are mystified as to why the left strives so hard to make martyrs out of such unlikely role models as Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, both killed in self-defense, just keep in mind Rahm Emanuel’s credo: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”</p>
<p>Within days of the shooting of Brown in August, a “Professor of Science and Education” named Christopher Emdin posted (and then updated in October) a piece for <i>Huffington Post</i> entitled “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-emdin/5-ways-to-teach-about-michael-brown-and-ferguson-in-the-new-school-year_b_5690171.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">5 Ways to Teach About Michael Brown and Ferguson in the New School Year</span></a>.” That article was given new life when a link to it was <a href="https://twitter.com/AfAmEducation/status/538433447945961473"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tweeted</span></a> by the White House Am-Af Ed just after Thanksgiving. It included the acronym for “in case you missed it” – indicating that the administration thought the article’s content important and valid enough to bring to people’s attention once again.</p>
<p>What is <a href="http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/whieeaa/about-us/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Am-Af Ed</span></a>? It is the U.S. Department of Education’s Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, an Obama creation designed to improve educational opportunities for blacks in America. But of course, educational excellence doesn’t mean the same thing to the Alinsky protégés in the White House as it does to most Americans. To the radical left, education is about mobilizing, galvanizing, and deploying armies of social justice warriors.</p>
<p>The Am-Af Ed tweet also included Twitter links to: left-leaning PBS; Teaching for Change, whose motto is “Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom”; and <a href="http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rethinking Schools</span></a>, whose mission is “social justice teaching and education activism… to build broad democratic movements for social and environmental justice.” See a pattern developing there?</p>
<p>Teaching for Change devotes an entire page to “<a href="http://www.teachingforchange.org/teaching-about-ferguson"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Teaching About Ferguson</span></a>” to help indoctrinators – I mean, educators – enable students to “be proactive in their own communities” – because apparently it’s less important to give students of color an education than it is to pump them up for community action. The page is replete with items about the history of racism in America, along with positive references to Malcolm X, radical historian Howard Zinn, and the Black Panthers. That would be the same Black Panthers whose recent plot to bomb the Gateway Arch and murder the Ferguson police chief and a St. Louis prosecutor was stalled because <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/27/two-black-panther-members-unable-to-buy-bombs-because-ebt-card-didnt-have-enough-money/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the racist thugs ran out of EBT credit</span></a>. What a standard for academic excellence they set.</p>
<p>Emdin’s <i>Huffington Post</i> piece urges that educators “set the appropriate tone for the school year” by focusing on “events and issues that mean something to students,” especially “youth of color” – by which he means the Michael Brown shooting and what he calls “the recent events in Ferguson.” Those “events” now have expanded beyond Ferguson and include rioting, burning, looting, and murdering, and the <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/29/absolutely-terrified-young-christmas-carolers-burst-into-tears-as-michael-brown-protesters-surround-them-shut-down-show/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">harassment</span></a> of Christmas-caroling children for good measure. It is “imperative that teachers find a way to bring this issue into the classroom,” he writes, otherwise “we are loosing [sic] opportunities to make powerful connections” – because successful community organizing depends on ramping up racial grievances and victimhood. Never mind the powerful connections that a good education would instill in students’ minds.</p>
<p>His 5 steps to not letting this crisis go to waste begin with asking students what they have heard or know about Brown and Ferguson. From there the indoctrinators – oops, there I go again – are to connect the Brown shooting to other, similar controversial black deaths such as those of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, to make students “more sociopolitically aware” and to develop “emotional awareness, empathy, and other skills necessary to be informed citizens.” Actually, emotional awareness, whatever that is, and empathy are unnecessary to be an informed citizen; they are, however, necessary in order for youth to be manipulated by progressive race-mongers into believing that <i>feeling</i> trumps <i>facts</i>.</p>
<p>Third, Emdin recommends that students “write letters to all those who are involved in the shooting. This includes politicians, police officers, the families of victims of the violence, and even the deceased.” This apparently helps “students lean [sic] how to write while conveying emotion” – because again, emphasizing emotion is a critical element in community organizing. And while the students devote all this time to writing emotionally-charged letters to everyone involved in a case in which the evidence supports the white officer’s story and demolishes the racially self-serving lies initially spread about the shooting, the rest of their education languishes on the sidelines.</p>
<p>Emdin’s fourth proposal would ordinarily beggar belief, except that by now, nothing that emerges from leftist propagandizing in the American educational system should surprise anyone. He recommends that students <i>create a memorial to Brown</i> on a classroom bulletin board, to “honor Michael Brown and other people who have been victims of police and other violence.” That’s an actual memorial to a man who <i>initiated</i> violence against a cop after strong-arming a local storekeeper in the commission of a crime. That is the man that Emdin and the Department of Education want to hold up as an inspiration to youth of color. This, Emdin claims, helps teachers to “<i>form classroom solidarity</i>” [emphasis added] – because classroom solidarity, and not the development of individual critical thinking skills, is crucial to “rethinking schools.”</p>
<p>Finally, Emdin wants teachers to “carry the theme for the rest of the year” to get the students “beyond meaningless assignments like writing and talking about what they did over the summer&#8230; [They] begin to see the classroom as a space where the teaching affects real life, and where assignments have meaning” – because without the transformative goal of racial payback and social justice, readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic obviously have no real life applications.</p>
<p>Are such recommendations really ways in which Af-Am Ed intends to produce educational excellence in students of color? For all of Christopher Emdin’s lip service to the “critical thinking skills” he claims his plan promotes, it will produce not academic excellence but more dumbed-down youth animated by racial anger – just the way the Alinsky protégés want it.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s School &#8216;Punishment Equality&#8217; Folly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The racism of the Left is revealed in a new Department of Education policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/800px-Japanese_high_school_classroom.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223583" alt="800px-Japanese_high_school_classroom" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/800px-Japanese_high_school_classroom-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled &#8220;Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths.&#8221; The subtitle is &#8220;School Discipline Rates Must Be &#8216;Proportionate.&#8217;&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/mxnlg9h). Let&#8217;s examine some of the absurdity of the Obama administration&#8217;s take on student discipline.</p>
<p>Last January, the departments of Justice and Education published a &#8220;guidance&#8221; letter describing how schools can meet their obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. Its underlying threat is that if federal bureaucrats learn of racial disproportionality in the punishments meted out for misbehavior, they will descend upon a school&#8217;s administrators. If schools cannot justify differentials in rates of punishment by race or ethnic group, they will face the loss of federal funds and be forced to undertake costly diversity training.</p>
<p>The nation&#8217;s educators can avoid sanctions by adopting a racial quota system for student discipline. So as Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, predicts, &#8220;school officials will either start disciplining students who shouldn&#8217;t be, or, more likely, will not discipline some students who ought to be.&#8221; I can imagine school administrators reasoning this way: &#8220;Blacks are 20 percent of our student body, and 20 percent of suspensions this year have been of black students. In order to discipline another black student while maintaining our suspension quota, we will have to suspend some white students, whether they&#8217;re guilty or not.&#8221; Some administrators might see some injustice in that approach and simply ignore the misbehavior of black students.</p>
<p>Leef cites Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Heather Mac Donald, who wrote in City Journal (http://tinyurl.com/9k648fj) that &#8220;the Departments of Education and Justice have launched a campaign against disproportionate minority discipline rates, which show up in virtually every school district with significant numbers of black and Hispanic students.</p>
<p>The possibility that students&#8217; behavior, not educators&#8217; racism, drives those rates lies outside the Obama administration&#8217;s conceptual universe.&#8221; She quoted Aaron Benner, a black teacher in a St. Paul, Minn., school who abhors the idea that school officials should go easy on black students who act up because (as a &#8220;facilitator&#8221; said) that&#8217;s what black culture is. &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to pull one over on us. Black folks are drinking the Kool-Aid; this &#8216;let-them-clown&#8217; philosophy could have been devised by the KKK.&#8221; Benner is right. I can&#8217;t think of a more racist argument than one that holds that disruptive, rude behavior and foul language are a part of black culture.</p>
<p>If Barack Obama&#8217;s Department of Justice thinks that disproportionality in school punishments is probative of racial discrimination, what about our criminal justice system, in which a disproportionate number of blacks are imprisoned, on parole or probation, and executed? According to the NAACP&#8217;s criminal justice fact sheet, blacks now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million people who are incarcerated. Blacks are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. The NAACP goes on to report that if blacks and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rate as whites, today&#8217;s prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50 percent (http://tinyurl.com/7g2b32h).</p>
<p>So what to do? For example, blacks are 13 percent of the population but over 50 percent of homicide victims and about 46 percent of convicted murderers. Seeing as the Obama administration is concerned about punishment disproportionality, should black convicts be released so that only 13 percent of incarcerated murderers are black? Or should the Department of Justice order the conviction of whites, whether they&#8217;re guilty or not, so that the number of people convicted of murder by race is equal to their number in the general population? You say, &#8220;Williams, that not only is a stupid suggestion but violates all concepts of justice!&#8221; You&#8217;re absolutely right, but isn&#8217;t it just as stupid and unjust for the Obama administration to seek punishment equality in schools?</p>
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		<title>Department of Education Orders Colleges to Ban Dirty Jokes on Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mandate applies to every college receiving federal funding—virtually every American institution of higher education nationwide, public or private. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/15767.html">The Department of Education. What would</a> <a href="http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/22159-FEDERAL-GOVERNMENT-MANDATES-UNCONSTITUTIONAL-SPEECH-CODES-AT-COLLEGES-AND-UNIVERSITIES-NATIONWIDE.html">we possibly do without it</a>? Sure, we might actually be producing graduates who can read, write and take us to the moon. But this is so much better.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a certain irony in the veterans of the counterculture overseeing the transformation of the college campus into a strange split personality in which sensitivity rules all, but obscenity is art. <a href="http://www.volokh.com/2013/05/13/the-administration-says-universities-must-implement-broad-speech-codes-2/">Until someone from a protected victim group is offended</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a letter sent yesterday to the University of Montana that explicitly states that it is intended as &#8220;a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country,&#8221; the Departments of Justice and Education have mandated a breathtakingly broad definition of sexual harassment that makes virtually every student in the United States a harasser while ignoring the First Amendment. The mandate applies to every college receiving federal funding—virtually every American institution of higher education nationwide, public or private.</p>
<p>The letter states that &#8220;sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as &#8216;any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature&#8217;&#8221; including &#8220;verbal conduct&#8221; (that is, speech). It then explicitly states that allegedly harassing expression need not even be offensive to an &#8220;objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation&#8221;—if the listener takes offense to sexually related speech for any reason, no matter how irrationally or unreasonably, the speaker may be punished.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you want a sample of <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57575727-235/dongle-jokes-and-a-tweet-lead-to-firings-threats-ddos-attacks/">what this type of standard looks like in real life.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>It all started Sunday at the PyCon event in Santa Clara, Calif., when Adria Richards, a developer evangelist for e-mail vendor SendGrid, overheard some jokes being told by two men seated immediately behind her at the conference.</p>
<p>After tweeting the photo, she sent a followup tweet that said &#8220;Can someone talk to these guys about their conduct? I&#8217;m in lightning talks, top right near stage, 10 rows back #pycon.&#8221;</p>
<p>She notes on her blog that the conference&#8217;s code of conduct states that &#8220;offensive jokes are not appropriate for PyCon.&#8221; Richards concluded her blog by saying she was taking a stand for the next generation of coders. &#8220;Yesterday the future of programming was on the line and I made myself heard,&#8221; she wrote</p>
<p>The man on the left side of the image was subsequently fired by PlayHaven, one of the sponsors of the conference. His dismissal was confirmed by PlayHaven CEO Andy Yang in a blog post today.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now apply these same standards to the <a href="http://www.volokh.com/2013/05/13/the-administration-says-universities-must-implement-broad-speech-codes-2/">college campus and things get interesting</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The OCR has long taken the view that, just as Title VII’s ban on employment discrimination has been read as prohibiting speech or conduct that is “severe or pervasive” enough to create a “hostile, abusive, or offensive environment” based on sex for plaintiff and for a reasonable person, so Title IX (the educational analog) does the same for speech and conduct in educational institutions. Colleges and universities, according to the government, must therefore institute speech and conduct codes that ban such speech and conduct.</p>
<p>The government’s pressuring the creation of such codes in either public institutions or private institutions would likewise violate the First Amendment. But the government takes a different view. Though it agrees that “harassment” codes shouldn’t be read in ways that violate the First Amendment (which is tautologically true), they apparently think that a great deal of speech “of a sexual nature” on campuses is unprotected by the First Amendment</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama Inc. doesn&#8217;t think the First Amendment protects Catholics and Jews from being forced to violate their religion for abortion&#8217;s sake, so why should it imagine that it protects campus speech?</p>
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		<title>Department of Education &#8220;Kids Zone&#8221; Features Communist Quote from Mao</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn't a generic quote about education being a good thing. It's actually a quote about the need for Communist indoctrination among Communist Party members.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/22/department-of-education-website-quotes-mass-murdering-socialist-mao-zedong/">still waiting for the Hitler quote</a>. Or is there a minimum number of people that a dictator has to murder before he gets placement on a part of the Department of Education website devoted to kids.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/department-of-education-kids-zone-features-marxist-quote-from-mao/enhanced-buzz-wide-26058-1363969575-8/" rel="attachment wp-att-182789"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-182789" title="enhanced-buzz-wide-26058-1363969575-8" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/enhanced-buzz-wide-26058-1363969575-8.jpg" alt="" width="990" height="541" /></a></p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a generic quote about education being a good thing. It&#8217;s actually a quote about the need for Communist indoctrination among Communist Party members.</p>
<p>The full quote that the Department of Education cut down comes at the end of an essay on &#8220;The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Whoever refuses to study these problems seriously and carefully is no Marxist. Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. Our attitude towards ourselves should be &#8220;to be insatiable in learning&#8221; and towards others &#8220;to be tireless in teaching&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>The context for this conclusion comes earlier on.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our Party&#8217;s mastery of Marxism-Leninism is now rather better than it used to be, but is still far from being extensive or deep&#8230; For us therefore, the spreading and deepening of the study of Marxism-Leninism presents a big problem demanding an early solution that is possible only through concerted effort.</p></blockquote>
<p>We&#8217;re not talking about generic knowledge here, but Communist indoctrination. Though undoubtedly whoever put up the quote already knew that.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s worse is that the cut-down Mao quote that the Department of Education used was actually partly plagiarized by Mao from Confucius. If the Department of Education had really wanted to convey that message, they could have used the original Confucius quote. Instead they chose to promote a Communist mass murderer of millions.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s nice to see that under Obama Inc, American kids are also being expected to study Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book.</p>
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		<title>Disciplining Students Is Racist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael P. Tremoglie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama administration wants school order enforced by race quotas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/students-taking-test.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142778" title="students-taking-test" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/students-taking-test.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>Among all the bizarre ideas that emanate from the callow and sciolistic mind of the modern American liberal, the statistical disparity argument is one of the most fallacious. It has permeated and destroyed so many aspects of society. It is now being offered by Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, in the area of disciplining school students.</p>
<p>I first ran across this during the 1970s as a night school accounting student taking a sociology course. The professor announced the canard that America has something like five percent of the world’s population but uses twenty-five percent of the world’s resources. Do not quote me on the exact words and figures. You get the idea.</p>
<p>But the fallacy of the argument is lost on the holier-than-thou liberal. Omitted is the fact that America produces thirty percent of the goods and services that the world uses. Or that America is the biggest economy in the world and is the market that other countries need to acquire wealth through trade.</p>
<p>One of the worst applications of this has been in crime. The ACLU, as well as the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world, use the fact that blacks are arrested and imprisoned in higher percentages than there are blacks in the general population as proof of racism.</p>
<p>The whole story is not told though. What the leftists omit is that blacks are also crime victims in higher percentages than they are in the general population. So unless the ACLU et al. are willing to admit that the black criminals are preying on black victims because of racism, then this obviously proves that more blacks are in prison because more blacks are committing crime in greater numbers.</p>
<p>Maybe the liberals should confine their efforts to why this is rather than try to excuse this with specious claims of racism.</p>
<p>Gail Heriot, a commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), makes this same argument in rebuttal to the policy being implemented by Duncan, which essentially demands that a quota be developed for disciplining school students.</p>
<p>Duncan, in 2010, dramatically announced that the Dept. of Education (ED) “will be issuing a series of guidance letters to school districts and postsecondary institutions that will address issues of fairness and equity. We will be announcing a number of compliance reviews to ensure that all students have equal access to educational opportunities, including a college-prep curriculum, advanced courses, and STEM classes. We will review whether districts and schools are disciplining students without regard to skin color. … African-American students without disabilities are more than three times as likely to be expelled as their white peers. African-American students with disabilities are over twice as likely to be expelled or suspended as their white counterparts. Those facts testify to racial gaps that are hard to explain away by reference to the usual suspects.”</p>
<p>Are they not explained by the usual suspects?</p>
<p>Heriot does not think so. She wrote in her rebuttal contained in the USCCR’s <a href="http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/School_Disciplineand_Disparate_Impact.pdf">briefing report</a>, which was derived from 2011 testimony the USCCR heard examining the effect ED’s &#8220;Disparate Impact&#8221; initiative had on schools and school districts across the country.</p>
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		<title>Obama Administration Undermines Black Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How racism paranoia is threatening black students' futures. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-9.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125395" title="Picture-9" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-9.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>There have been many frauds of historic proportions — for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was praised in the 1930s, when he called it Social Security. In our own times, Bernie Madoff&#8217;s hoax has made headlines.</p>
<p>But the biggest hoax of the past two generations is still going strong — namely, the hoax that statistical differences in outcomes for different groups are due to the way other people treat those groups.</p>
<p>The latest example of this hoax is the joint crusade of the Department of Education and the Department of Justice against schools that discipline black males more often than other students. According to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, this disparity in punishment violates the &#8220;promise&#8221; of &#8220;equity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just who made this promise remains unclear, and why equity should mean equal outcomes despite differences in behavior is even more unclear. This crusade by Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is only the latest in a long line of fraudulent arguments based on statistics.</p>
<p>If black males get punished more often than Asian American females, does that mean that it is somebody else&#8217;s fault? That it is impossible that black males are behaving differently from Asian American females? Nobody in his right mind believes that. But that is the unspoken premise, without which the punishment statistics prove nothing about &#8220;equity.&#8221;</p>
<p>What is the purpose or effect of this whole exercise by the Department of Education and the Department of Justice? To help black students or to secure the black vote in an election year by seeming to be coming to the rescue of blacks from white oppression?</p>
<p>Among the many serious problems of ghetto schools is the legal difficulty of getting rid of disruptive hoodlums, a mere handful of whom can be enough to destroy the education of a far larger number of other black students — and with it destroy their chances for a better life.</p>
<p>Judges have already imposed too many legalistic procedures on schools that are more appropriate for a courtroom.</p>
<p>&#8220;Due process&#8221; rules that are essential for courts can readily become &#8220;undue process&#8221; in a school setting, when letting clowns and thugs run amok, while legalistic procedures to suspend or expel them drag on. It is a formula for educational and social disaster.</p>
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