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"The wide-ranging series of guidelines issued Wednesday in essence tells schools that they must adhere to the principle of fairness and equity in student discipline or face strong action if they don't. The American Civil Liberties Union called the recommendations "ground-breaking." "A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal's office, not in a police precinct," Attorney General Eric Holder said."
I really don't care WHAT Eric Holder is saying one way or the other but the DOJ doesn't have anything better to do than to issue guidelines to school principals regarding discipline? Talk about an overreaching federal government...
There was recently another thread on this. Yes, this is an example of federal government overreach. Education is supposed to be the responsibility of the states.
The police don't come for "routine discipline" but will show up for weapons and drugs.
And "resource officers" are the police and are in the schools and that's what the people wanted.
They also wanted the drug sniffing dogs (police) to come to the schools on a regular basis and also wanted metal detectors installed at doors.
Now that too many minority Black students are being swept into the legal justice system they want this stopped ?
Heck, throw all discipline out the window. Let the lunatics run the asylum and then there will be no more "discrimination" against minority Black students.
Does it really make a difference when they are recommendations and guidelines? Just say okay, sure, thanks and move on. Was there such conservative outrage over NCLB, which placed actual requirements on schools?
Does it really make a difference when they are recommendations and guidelines? Just say okay, sure, thanks and move on. Was there such conservative outrage over NCLB, which placed actual requirements on schools?
NCLB wasn't a recommendation.
So rather than express outrage people pulled their kids from public school and went to alternative methods of educating them.
Common Core is going to make NCLB look like a walk in the park my friend.
Give CC a few years.
Does it really make a difference when they are recommendations and guidelines? Just say okay, sure, thanks and move on. Was there such conservative outrage over NCLB, which placed actual requirements on schools?
We're talking about the Dept of Justice, not the Dept of Education involved in the schools.
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