Black & Mexican criminal breeding L.A. schools will no longer suspend a student for being defiant

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lausd-suspensions-
20130515,0,442761.story

Los Angeles Unified has become the first school district in the state to
ban defiance as grounds for suspension.

In a 5-2 vote that was met with cheers, the school board banned
suspensions for defiant students, directing officials to use alternative
disciplinary practices instead.

The action comes amid mounting national concern that removing students
from school is imperiling their academic achievement and
disproportionately harming minority students, particularly African
Americans.

"Now we'll have a better chance to stay in school and become something,"
said Luis Quintero, 14, a student at Augustus Hawkins High School in South
Los Angeles. He attended the board meeting along with dozens of other
students and community activists who have been pushing the proposal by
board members Monica Garcia and Nury Martinez.

But the vote came after an impassioned discussion over whether the
proposal would give a "free pass" to students and shield them from the
consequences of misbehavior. Board member Marguerite LaMotte, who voted
no, told students that they needed to pay for their mistakes, while member
Richard Vladovic said no student had the right to disrupt learning
opportunities for classmates.

"I'm not going to give you permission to go crazy and think there are no
consequences," LaMotte said.

Board member Tamar Galatzan voted no without comment, while Vladovic
supported it as an experiment, saying he would be "the first to stop it"
if it proved disruptive to learning. Garcia, Martinez, Steve Zimmer and
Bennett Kayser supported the proposal.

The action marks a decisive step back from "zero tolerance" policies that
swept the nation after the Columbine school shooting in Colorado more than
a decade ago.

The proposal would ban suspensions of students for "willful defiance," an
offense criticized as a subjective catch-all for such behavior as refusing
to take off a hat, turn off a cellphone or failing to wear a school
uniform. The offense accounted for 48% of 710,000 suspensions issued in
California in 2011-12, prompting state and local efforts to restrict its
use in disciplinary actions.

School officials will instead focus on positive behavior incentives, which
have reduced office discipline referrals by up to 50% in 13,000 schools
using them nationwide, according to Fix School Discipline, an initiative
of the Public Counsel Law Center of Los Angeles.


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