Idiot Educators

Remember school?  Depends on how old you are, of course, but surely you remember the 'disruptive' students.  How were they dealt with?  Well, in my day, they were punished.  Sometimes all they needed was a chewing out and they straightened up.  Sometimes they needed a suspension or some kind of embarrassing thing like standing in a corner.  The idea was, you see, to get them to stop being disruptive.  The punishments were supposed to benefit them, by teaching them how to behave.  You know, just like teaching them other stuff, like arithmetic, was also supposed to benefit them.  Well, that's all in the past.  Punishments today are seemingly considered to be a bad thing, so if you punish one group more than another —never mind if their behavior calls for it — you're in lawsuit/political correctness territory, and instead of teaching students, particularly minority students, that misbehavior is a bad idea, we now teach them that they can whine and complain their way out of any punishment for it, and continue with the misbehavior, which, after all, is fun.  Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing it.  Fact is, folks, all students tend to misbehave till they learn otherwise.  Minority kids — Black and Hispanic — tend to misbehave more than do White and Asian kids.

There's a whole industry out there, from Sharpton down to some of the actual teachers, dedicated to making sure that, despite their bad behavior, these minority types must not be punished in proportion to their behavior, but in proportion to the punishments handed out to White students.  If your school is fifty-fifty minority and non-minority, whenever you suspend a Black kid, you have to suspend a White kid, too, and so on.  Never mind the fact that suspending a given Black kid might be the best thing for him, teaching him that bad behavior has bad results.  No, to keep egalitarianism the top priority, we're instead going to teach the Black kid that his Blackness means he doesn't have to behave as well as the White kids have to.  So he grows up to be nice and dysfunctional, while his misbehaving White counterpart, who did get suspended, has more incentive to straighten up and fly right.  You see, all of this phony evenhandedness harms Black kids.  Harms them.  And of course totally screws up discipline for the whole school, when the other kids catch on that there's a double standard at work.

Like Joel (or Mike) and the Bots watching a cheesy movie, the inimitable Steve Sailer reads the New York Times every day and deconstructs and makes fun of its dopier articles.  Today he deals with an article about deep-thinking educators who can't figure out, just can't figure out why minority students get punished more often than others, but identify it as another "problem" to be "solved." Read it all Here.