Saturday, October 9, 2010

Racialist nonsense

Via Joanne Jacobs:

If schools discipline more blacks or Hispanics than white students, federal officials warn they’ll use “disparate impact analysis” to charge civil rights violations, reports Education Week.

Under “disparate impact,” schools can be in violation if discipline policies affect one racial group more than others, even if there’s no evidence of unequal treatment for the same offense or an intent to discriminate. An education agency would be found out of compliance if an equally sound policy would have less of a disparate impact, Russlyn Ali, an Education Department official, told Ed Week. [emphasis mine]

So it's racist to enforce discipline policies, even when they're not, you know. . . racist.

Are there any sane people left in the world? Anywhere?

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