The U.S. Education Department released yet another study
Friday documenting the fact that black students are suspended and
expelled at higher rates than white students. The Obama administration
and civil-rights advocates routinely trot out this disparity to justify a strong federal hammer against allegedly racist school districts.
This
latest Civil Rights Data Collection Snapshot includes preschool
suspension rates for the first time, and they, too, are racially skewed:
Black preschoolers are 42 percent of the students suspended once, and
48 percent of the students suspended more than once though they are only
18 percent of preschool enrollment. Pre-K suspensions are exceedingly
rare, however: Fewer than 5,000 students out of over 1 million
preschoolers were suspended once in the 2011 school year, 2,500 students
more than once.
The media and the civil-rights complex responded on cue with the usual handwringing about racial “inequity.”
“To
see that young African-American students — or babies, as I call them —
are being suspended from pre-K programs at such horrendous rates is
deeply troubling,” Leticia Smith-Evans, interim director of education
practice at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, told the New York Times.
(Ms. Smith-Evans ignored the fact that “such horrendous rates” only
affect a little over a thousand black “babies” nationwide.) “It’s
incredible to think about or fathom what pre-K students could be doing
to get suspended from schools.”
Actually, what Ms. Smith-Evans
should be trying to fathom is the black crime rate, which explains the
school-suspension rate. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit
homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males of the same
age combined. Given such high crime rates, what do the civil-rights
advocates and the Obama administration think is going on in the
classroom — docile obedience and strict self-discipline? In fact, the
same weak impulse control that leads to such high crime rates among
young black males inevitably means more disruptive behavior in school.
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