Yesterday (08-18-13) Paul Mirengoff of Powerline–a site you should have in your favorites if you don’t already–posted an article on the civil rights movement’s attempts to establish race and statistics based school discipline.
The basic idea is that schools should not be allowed to discipline students of color at any rate larger than their distribution in the school population. So if a school has an 18% black population, but 37% of disciplinary infractions are committed by black kids, too bad; 19% of those infractions will just have to be ignored.
I wrote to Mr. Mirengoff, letting him know about my August 30, 2012 PJ Media article on the same topic, focusing, however, on the Obama Administration’s efforts on the same lines, including the ability of the Holder DOJ–and others–to sue schools for alleged violations. Mr. Mirengoff was kind enough to link to my article in an update to his original post.
Powerline, written by three Minneapolis lawyers, came to national prominence with its excellent coverage of Rathergate, and is a must-read blog. By all means, read Mirengoff’s articles, and if you have the time, take the link and catch up with my PJ Media article if you haven’t already seen it.
Stately McDaniel Manor 
Both articles are extremely good. It seems to me that a big “push” to keep all kids in school, regardless of their poor behavior, has caused much of this problem. So long as children are never taught that there are consequences for their actions, both good and bad, the problems will never end.
Obama and Holder continue to set such poor examples for young people.
Only a firearm obsessed lunatic would advocate arming teachers. I seriously doubt the author has ever been in a firefight.
As a teacher for 40 years, and a soldier for two (one of them on active service in SVN in 1970) I can assure you that arming teachers makes about as much sense as white boards used as shields.
Both are fantasy.
The only way this problem will ever be dealt with is to lower the prevalence of firearms in community in the USA to that which holds in civilised western societies.
By definition, the USA is not a civilised society, purely because its gun laws are based on nostalgia – not reality.
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