Minneapolis School District Needs ‘Permission’ to Suspend Any Black or Hispanic Student

11/12/2014

Racism is still alive and well in the United States, especially if you look among the liberal progressive elites. Case in point? The Minneapolis school system now needs approval to suspend any black or Hispanic student from the superintendent, Bernadeia Johnson — but suspending white students is A-OK.

The Minneapolis public school system announced a major new district-wide policy for disciplining students: any suspension of a non-white student requires the district superintendent’s approval.

The MPS has been stung by reports that students of color are 10 times more likely to receive a suspension than white students. The Minneapolis school system has an enrollment of over 32,000 students. Seventy percent are non-white.
School superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, a black woman, maintains that she wants to “disrupt” the current suspension trends.

Superintendent Johnson says that her new policy is aimed at forcing local school administrators to deeply “probe” the reasons for issuing a suspension before that punishment is handed out.

Johnson claims that suspensions meted out to minority students were all too often based on behavior that would not have led to a suspension for a white student.

So, starting on Monday, November 10, every suspension of a black, Hispanic or American Indian student that does not involve violent behavior will be reviewed by Johnson’s office before being approved.

Minority students are also statistically significantly more likely to come from broken homes, which very likely explains their misbehavior in schools. But instead of attempting to tackle the real problem, apparently Ms. Johnson would prefer to just engage in some good old-fashioned racism instead, while also playing the worn-out, overtired victim card.

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