Impact

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" Jeremy Carl, explaining how this worked in his The Unprotected Class (which you should read), said: "The Obama administration went out of its way to emphasize the importance of disparate impact in school discipline. Because they effectively threatened schools' funding if students were disciplined at substantially different rates than their race's share of the population (ignoring the fact that some groups have objectively worse behavior in schools), white and Asian students became victims of violence in schools at increasing rates. Just as in the adult world, not punishing students who engage in violent and even criminal behavior makes life more dangerous for everyone." Continuing, he notes: "The disparate impact disciplinary strategy was a classic example of real "structural racism" at work-but structural racism in the opposite direction from the way it's presented in the media. (As a side note, we arguably should not call this "structural racism," since institutions are not people, do not hold beliefs, and thus cannot be racist. But the term "structural racism" is so woven into the lexicon that it is difficult to discuss these issues without referring to it.)" He further explains: "Attempts to reduce the numbers of suspensions of African Americans (in particular) and Hispanics, who are suspended at far higher ratios than white students, lead to racially unjust policies because these suspensions are invariably a result of different disciplinary offense rates by race. (Asian-American students are suspended at even lower rates than whites but also make up a much lower percentage of students, and thus for this and other political reasons tend to be less a part of the conversation around school discipline.) Federal bureaucrats, however, are on a mission to make suspension numbers by race equal in the name of "equity," though the behaviors of these groups are different. Thus, white students, and disproportionately white teachers, are put at substantial risk." And he notes: "Ultimately, the Obama administration pushed policies that disproportionately put white students and teachers at risk in order to hide facts about the disciplinary records of black and Hispanic students, because Democrats were uncomfortable with the underlying demographics of school misbehavior. These policies put pressure on schools to not discipline kids like Trayvon Martin and Nikolas Cruz, who would reasonably have been expected to have a criminal record had policies been enforced in a race-neutral fashion. They led to not just numerous traumatized students at schools who were the victims of predators, but in some tragic cases, to dead bodies.""