December 16, 2013

Hotbed of racists uncovered: Minnesota schoolteachers

One of the weirder aspects of our never-ending War to Sniff Out Racists is that many of the accused witches are nice liberal anti-racists themselves. For example, what percentage of Minneapolis-St. Paul public schoolteachers voted for Obama? Maybe 75%, right?

Well, they still smell racist. Just look at 'em. And we can prove they're evil because Data.

Thus, the big front page package on Sunday's Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
In Minnesota, race drives school labels, discipline 
Article by: JEFFREY MEITRODT 
Star Tribune Updated: December 15, 2013 - 9:25 PM 
The little yellow buses line up every morning outside Harrison Education Center in north Minneapolis, discharging dozens of teenagers to a high school no parents choose for their child.  
Classrooms are kept locked at all times. Fights and suspensions are common. No one has graduated in a couple of years. 
The school is where Minneapolis sends special education students with the worst behavior problems, kids who typically failed everywhere else they went. 
Administrators say the high school is supposed to be a temporary stop for students to learn self-control before going back to a less restrictive setting. 
But few ever leave. And nearly 90 percent of the students are black. 
Discrimination in the way students are labeled and disciplined has plagued special education across the country for decades, but a Star Tribune review of state and federal enrollment records shows that the problem is especially acute in Minnesota.  ... 
Similarly, black students account for 13 percent of special-ed enrollment but more than 40 percent of discipline measures. 
Minneapolis and St. Paul have been cited twice by state officials for suspending or expelling a disproportionate number of disabled black students since the state started tracking such data in 2009.  
The federal Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Minneapolis’ discipline record. 
“This is at a crisis level,” said Liz Keenan, who oversees special education programs in St. Paul. “We can’t keep ignoring the fact that racially driven practices are occurring every day in school systems that are not benefiting our kids of color. … We can’t keep saying we didn’t know when we have the data right in front of us.” ...
In Minnesota, she said, mostly white educators decide who has a disorder and who doesn’t. ... 
St. Paul administrators have decided to confront the problem, and this fall, the district moved about 270 EBD [Emotional or Behavioral Disturbance] children out of their self-contained “learning centers” and into mainstream classes. The move affected 19 schools across the district, including seven elementary schools. 
That change in approach came after the district slashed suspensions of black students by 25 percent last year, well above its target of 10 percent, said Michelle Walker, CEO of St. Paul schools. Walker said the key was holding teachers and other school workers accountable for “their role in escalating the incident.” ... 
But the approach has polarized the district, leaving many teachers unhappy. They say the switch has compromised the quality of instruction and jeopardized the safety of students and staff members.  
“I have never been assaulted more in my entire career,” said one St. Paul teacher, who joined colleagues to protest the switch at a union meeting.  
Teachers at Hamline Elementary cite problems: A first-grader was slapped in the face by a newly mainstreamed EBD student; a disabled kindergartner took advantage of looser controls and ran away; nearly half of students in one class are EBD, causing frequent disruptions. 
Craig Anderson, Hamline’s principal, acknowledged the transition has been rough. He said it was too ambitious to think that every EBD student could handle a mainstream class all the time, and he agreed it was a mistake to put 11 kids with behavioral problems in a fifth-grade classroom. 
But he said his teachers, and most of his students, are making the adjustment. “This is the right thing to do. The kids are proving time and again that they can do it.” 
The transition dominated a St. Paul school board meeting in early December. Several board members said they had been inundated with calls and e-mails from teachers questioning the new approach. 
Board Member John Brodrick, a former teacher, said his impression was that moving so many EBD children into mainstream classes “is not working.” 
Administrators refused to back down, noting that 80 percent of the children who made the switch have been able to spend most of their time in the classroom. 
“The adults are the ones who are struggling,” not the kids, Frost Lake Principal Stacey Kadrmas said. ... 
Federal officials first notified Minnesota about that issue in 2010, concluding that the state’s ratio for defining unequal treatment was “too high.” At the time, a school district could face consequences only if minorities were disciplined five times as often as whites or dominated a disability category, such as EBD, by a ratio of 5-1. Under Minnesota’s rules, a district also has to be cited three years in a row and must have practices that caused the problem. 
Minnesota lowered its ratio to 4-1 in 2011. That remains among the highest thresholds in the country, according to a report this year from the Government Accountability Office. At least six other states use a similar ratio. 
By contrast, Louisiana regulators require action when racial groups are identified for special education at twice the rate of other students in any given year. They recently demanded changes in 73 school districts, according to the GAO.

You know, maybe there's a difference between white people in Lake Wobegon and white people in Louisiana? At least that's my impression from listening to Prairie Home Companion and Born on the Bayou. (Yes, I know CCR was from the San Francisco Bay.)

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

All the 'good' white kids in LA are in private school...

anony-mouse said...

The Feds Education Dept Civil rights Div. vs Minneapolis teachers?

What did Kissinger say about the Iran-Iraq war?

Greg Fannin said...

'Minneapolis and St. Paul have been cited twice by state officials for suspending or expelling a disproportionate number of disabled black students since the state started tracking such data in 2009.'

I'd give them a citation, too! Great work! Keep it up!

Anonymous said...

Just as stop and frisk was a revolutionary police technique, finally a revolutionary education reform, housing of diversity in an institution separate from the general population.

Big Bill said...

Why on earth do they figure they can import a bunch of semi-psychotic kids from Somalia and Chicago and expect them to behave like Minnesota Nice kids?

I say they should respect Chicago ghetto culture and Somali Warlord culture and set them up in schools where they can learn (or not) as they see fit.

Don't try to change them.instead, get them to celebrate diverse cultures and behavioral patterns.

Just give white parents the right to opt out and send their children to classrooms that celebrate white culture and civilization.

It is the liberal refuse to accept blacks for what they are that causes the problems.

The white liberals are trying to turn savage aboriginal kids into farmer/worker/nice folks just like they did the Indians a hundred years ago.

All that does is breed dope use, alcoholism, violence and resentment.

Anonymous said...

The sad effect is going to be that more troublemakers will be allowed to stay in class, causing more disruptions, and more white-flight to the cities.

I live in Minnesota. That same Sunday paper had this as the cover story, and a prominent opinion piece celebrating the benefits of diversity.

John Cunningham said...

Yeah, the idea of solid NEA cadre being raciss is hilarious...but the comparison to the Iran-Iraq war is a classic. the only downside is the catastrophic effect on the white kids and the few minority kids who want to learn.

Luke Lea said...

Web cameras in all classrooms is the only way to document this problem.

slumber_j said...

"What percentage of Minneapolis-St. Paul public schoolteachers voted for Obama? Maybe 75%, right?"

75% sounds low to me...

Anonymous said...

The federal Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Minneapolis’ discipline record.

Unions are needed to keep the diversity and inclusion Nazis at bay if you deal with the general public. Otherwise, select your customers carefully.

Auntie Analogue said...


What struck me is the teacher who said, "I have never been assaulted more...." Which begs the questions: how many assaults ought a teacher to be expected to suffer and tolerate? If your answer to that question is more than "none," then you are what is wrong with our schools and with what remains of Western Civilization.

ben tillman said...

Yes, I know CCR was from the San Francisco Bay.)

Yeah, the East Bay, and it's kind of embarrassing to hear them plugging their album at the closing of the Fillmore, but they did rock.

ben tillman said...

What struck me is the teacher who said, "I have never been assaulted more...." Which begs the questions: how many assaults ought a teacher to be expected to suffer and tolerate?

Yes, I thought the same thing.

Anonymous said...

What the % of males in those EBD schools? I bet it's over 75% and that does not bother anyone...

Anonymous said...

I can't lie about it, I confess the ole Southern Bubba within me is saying "good, good... nothing like lots of first hand experience to knock some sense into innocent and credulous Minnesota school kids. Surely they can mainstream more of the problem kids!"

Course, students may loose a few teeth, but the more authentic the experience the better. Like they always say, experience is a dear teacher, but fools learn from no other. And it seems like we're all fools, bottom-line.

The Guy Who Says "Homeschool" said...

Homeschool.

Anonymous said...

My nice friend lives in Minneapolis. I had no idea his rabid support of Democrats and Obama was a cover for seething racism. I will have to let him know what he is. Thanks for posting this.

Anonymous said...

Yes

Human-Stupidity.com said...

More pitbulls then collies are apprehended for mauling people and other dogs. A clear case of dog racism. And worse, in some jurisdiction they are required to wear muzzles.

Is this world crazy? Whenever Blacks score worse then Whites, it MUST be bias and racism. And this is official policy in a non-religious country, with scientists, statisticians, and researchers.

A graduate student term paper could test this hypothesis, and prove it false.

And we do pay professors that deconstruct all real research and invent logically sounding arguments why Black students perform equal as white ones.

And the average and above average students get held back, intimidated. In the long run, everyone loses.

Anonymous said...

The Philip Chism rape-murder case in Massachusetts has been a revelation to a lot of people without an HBD clue. They're looking at this kid and saying, "He's 14?!"

Is it asking too much that they connect the dots?

Mr. Anon said...

Serves 'em right for electing Al Franken and Barack Obama.

Mr. Anon said...

“This is at a crisis level,” said Liz Keenan, who oversees special education programs in St. Paul. “We can’t keep ignoring the fact that racially driven practices are occurring every day in school systems that are not benefiting our kids of color...."

Any time a liberal uses this construction "our kids" it needs to be pointed out as false - "We" do not have kids. "We" certainly do not have "kids of color".

Unknown said...

"I can't lie about it, I confess the ole Southern Bubba within me is saying "good, good..."

I was thinking the same thing, but more so for the DWL, Obama voter teachers. It will help to shave off a few years of the real-world learning curve for the students or at least ramp up the cognitive dissonance. It will be useful as they encounter the inevitable multicultural indoctrination awaiting them in college and the workplace.

Anonymous said...

White, middle-class public sector employees are an anomalous element of the Democratic hi-low coalition.

They're Democratic mainly because the Dems butter their bread. Personally, I find the relationship between politicians and public-sector unions to be sordid and venal, but you can't blame such people for voting their material self-interest.

But, not being lumpen-minorities or white elites themselves, they remain schematically outside the Axis of Cultural Marxism. In the long run, these nice white public-sector Democrats have as much to lose as anyone else from the imposition of Diversity. Say what you will about immigration importing more clients for state employees, I bet all the teachers at my public high school quietly thanked their lucky stars they were teaching in a rich whitopia.

As the political left becomes an increasingly elite-driven enterprise and the demographics of the left become browner, nice white Minnesota types are increasingly superfluous, and the left is increasingly free to show what it thinks of such people, just as it has done with the "bitterly clinging" white working class.

I sympathize with the "Let them both lose!" reaction to this article. And, yes, some of these folks are surely true believers who will (deservedly) go down with the PC ship.

Personally, though, I'd prefer to ponder how we can get people like Minnesota schoolteachers on our side. I'd like to think that the Overclass is making itself vulnerable by burning its bridges with white Democrats before it has succeeded in electing a new people.

Anonymous said...

"Our kids of color"

Take up the Nice White Lady's burden!

Anonymous said...

Federal officials first notified Minnesota about that issue in 2010, concluding that the state’s ratio for defining unequal treatment was “too high.” At the time, a school district could face consequences only if minorities were disciplined five times as often as whites or dominated a disability category, such as EBD, by a ratio of 5-1. Under Minnesota’s rules, a district also has to be cited three years in a row and must have practices that caused the problem.

Imagine that! They have to actually have *practices causing the problem*. What an awful, reactionary criterion! Don't they know that they're guilty of disparate impact whether they actually cause it or not? It's the Original Sin of secular liberalism.

Anonymous said...

If a black kid hits a white kid, blame the white kid for getting hit and making the black kid look like a bully. Damn 'racist'!

jody said...

75%? i'd call that a low estimate. probably 90% of the teachers voted for obama.

europeans try to help africans, africans turn around and call them racists, then punch them in the mouth. this is how race works. this is how it worked in the past, this is how it works today, and this is how it will work in the future. helping africans = total waste of time.

what minnesota actually needs is A LOT more africans. like 5 million more. then they can really enjoy the benefits of diversity.

after a decade or two of that, i get the feeling minnesota will suddenly start voting republican for the first time ever. things magically change when you're reduced to a 1:1 ratio with the africans. attitudes magically...improve.

Different Mr. Anon said...

Mr. Anon said...Serves 'em right for electing Al Franken and Barack Obama."

I thought the same thing. Then I realized there wasn't anything Norm Coleman or McRomney would have done to help them either.

Just because the Democrats hate whites doesn't mean the GOP is our friend.

Anonymous said...

"Personally, though, I'd prefer to ponder how we can get people like Minnesota schoolteachers on our side."

Indeed. If the conservative movement can't get boring, white, middle-class Mid-westerners on its side, it should pack up and go home.

Anonymous said...

Next to Jews and Irish catholics, the biggest PC group in the USA is Scandinavians. These Left-wing loonies go down with the PC ship rather than admit their assumptions about race are incorrect.

What can you say about a bunch of clowns that would elect a failed NYC comedian as their Senator?

AmericanGoy said...

"But he said his teachers, and most of his students, are making the adjustment. “This is the right thing to do. The kids are proving time and again that they can do it.” ".

Dialectics, of the marxist kind.

This is what communism is all about.

When something upsets or is a danger to the narrative, to the system, it is a danger.

But... it is not a danger if it does not exist.

An inconvenient fact which contradicts the narrative, or set of statistics, or a study, or a book, or real life anecdotes, are a danger... but not a danger if they do not exist.

A person who was critical of the communist system did not exist. They simply were not acknowledged officially, and physically they were disappeared.

Later, more "humane" method of "curing" the "unwell" were implemented, with special KGB psychiatric prisons administering "treatement" to make the dissidents "healthy".

Such treatments involved copious amounts of brain altering drugs, something that Americans do to themselves when such are proscribed by "experts"/psychiatrists/school nurse.

But the effect was the same - the person was disappeared, and a "healthy", "well grounded" individual replaced him.

That this "cured" man was literally a drooling idiot who could barely speak a complete sentence together (and dissidents were usually high caliber people - scientists, professors) was just a side effect.


What we have here in this short Steve-o article is a very obvious example of this.

Observe and compare:

"“I have never been assaulted more in my entire career,” said one St. Paul teacher, who joined colleagues to protest the switch at a union meeting.

Teachers at Hamline Elementary cite problems: A first-grader was slapped in the face by a newly mainstreamed EBD student; a disabled kindergartner took advantage of looser controls and ran away; nearly half of students in one class are EBD, causing frequent disruptions. "


Versus

"But he said his teachers, and most of his students, are making the adjustment. “This is the right thing to do. The kids are proving time and again that they can do it.” ".

NOTA said...

Wow, it's like watching a whole civilization form their firing squad up into a nice, tight circle and take aim.

Anonymous said...

I vote for the recent rise of the aphorism" of color" as worst marxist crime against the english language for 2013

Simon in London said...

"A first-grader was slapped in the face by a newly mainstreamed EBD student"

I can't help thinking that the extreme feminisation of education is a factor here. Six year old boys will hit each other, and if it's in class they should be punished, but not expelled.

keypusher said...

Steve, haven't you posted stats on the ratio of black to white imprisonment (or maybe arrests) by state? Doesn't Minnesota have one of the highest rates in the country?

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