Eric Holder Gives Black Students a License to Screw Up

DOJ: “Even-Handed Implementation” Of School Discipline Can Still Violate Federal Law If Has Disparate Impact Along Racial Lines

To be fair to Holder, it's a license for all protected minority students to screw up, not just black ones. Now, does he come out an officially tell black students they they can misbehave with impunity? No, but he set's up a logic chain by which a small number of minority students in any school can manipulate the system so that their infractions are overlooked.

So understand very clearly what the DOJ is explicitly saying: if there is more discipline meted out to black students, even if warranted, it violates Federal law.  It will cause schools not only to not discipline those who should be disciplined, but to discipline those who should not be…to make the numbers “fair”. This is lunacy.

What teacher will then ever discipline any black student, with that as a standard? It is a recipe for anarchy.

Via Daily Caller:

Education experts decried a new memo from the Departments of Justice and Education that instructs public schools throughout the country to cease punishing disruptive students if they fall into certain racial categories, such as black or Hispanic.

The letter, released on Wednesday, states that it is a violation of federal law for schools to punish certain races more than others, even if those punishments stem from completely neutral rules. For example, equal numbers of black students and white students should be punished for tardiness, even if black students are more often tardy than white students.

That's exactly wrong, in my estimation.  Faced with the eventuality of being called racist if they enforce the rules equally, they will not enforce the rules more strictly on white students; they will simply cease disciplining any students.  It's already close too to that.

Here is the relevant section of the letter:

“Schools also violate Federal law when they evenhandedly implement facially neutral policies and practices that, although not adopted with the intent to discriminate, nonetheless have an unjustified effect of discriminating against students on the basis of race.

You might argue that black students would be too stupid to take advantage of this "advantage", but that would be racist.