Friday, June 24, 2022

Lying by omission

The abstract of the paper says "We find that SROs do effectively reduce some forms of violence in schools, but do not prevent school shootings or gun-related incidents. We also find that SROs intensify the use of suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, and arrests of students. These effects are consistently over two times larger for Black students than White students."

Liz King, the senior program director for education at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said: "She thinks the guidance should reflect recent research showing police in schools don’t reduce gun violence but do increase suspensions, expulsion and arrests of students — especially for Black students."

Lying. I hoped that maybe I'd learn something, maybe even something counterintuitive. But no.

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3 comments:

  1. Assistant Village Idiot8:36 PM

    Perhaps lying to herself, and thus us as a downstream consequence.

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  2. Mind your own business12:16 PM

    So what was the lie?

    I have no trouble believing that Black students get in trouble at a much higher rate when police are present in schools. The reason isn't discrimination; it's differences in the average behavior of the students.

    We have a large cohort of ill-behaved, ill-disciplined minorities in public schools. They've been raised in a violent toxic culture and trained to be belligerent and entitled without any respect for authority. Many are just on a short stopover on their way to prison.

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  3. Korora7:40 PM

    @Myob:
    "That everything I do that's wrong/Is/Someone else's fau-ault" -- Anna Russell, "Jolly Old Sigmund Freud"

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