"Why is everything always about race?"

Could it be that, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail?

Big government liberals, like Arne Duncan and his boss, the idiot-in-chief, are so invested in creating their utopian society, that they have a very hard time handling the real world, when it intrudes on their fantasies.

So, they fall back on their tried-and-true strategy: screaming "racism", at every turn.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

"The data doesn't explain why the disparities exist…" Really!!! How stupid are these people? We are really getting a lot of value out of this pack of nitwits at the education department…...I wonder if they considered looking for anything other than race when looking at their data..I bet not.
Consider that 72.3 percent of non-Hispanic blacks are now born out-of-wedlock verses’ 29.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites why is it a shock that black children are acting out in school. If their mothers care so little about them that they fail to make sure that daddy is going to be around to help raise them, why does anyone think they would give a damn about what their little darling does at school.
When the white kid does something wrong at school the mother…and father…are likely to say something like “Why did you do that? ….don’t do it again!!!
The single minority mother is likely to say something like “Why is that White Bitch teacher always after you?” This sort of racist “us against them” attitude is strongly re-enforced by the current administration.

Now I realize that I will get tarred by the race brush for having the effrontery to point out that “The emperor has no clothes” But THAT DOES NOT STOP THIS FROM BEING TRUE!

Why? Because how else are they going to keep milking the racism card unless they keep up their postings about "evil racists" while being a racist in the process...

I remember once, yeas ago, the ideal was to be "color blind"... And for a while, it actually happened, at least where I was from...

Except those trying to suck power out of "racism" realized it would kill their power structure... so they keep stirring the pot (or actually, catalyzing it to separate like oil and water) to keep racism alive and well.

Typical pullmonger trick, make someone "poor and opressed" to guilt you into their policies. Makes me ill...

At that age children need individual attention and individual application of appropriate discipline. That requires a low ratio of students to teachers. Properly run, a classroom of pre-schoolers can be taught appropriate behavior, response, respect and self-discipline. That is hard to do in a public school environment.

every kid who is suspended points like a arrow to the fact that preschool has FAILED as a concept. It is not school, it's a baby sitting service that exists to free up moms so they can go back to work. OK if that's what we want, but lets be honest.

What we are missing is the these minority children have a much higher percentage of mothers who don't work. Since that is also the case, why does it exist?

The REAL PC reason preschool was started was to help these kids get a equal start with white kids. Now minority kids are being kicked out for acting out and disobeying the rules?? Why not put it in the lost flight's black hole and make it disappear. Why are you surprised and why not admit it's a failure?

Maybe they're just not taught discipline and manners at home. Could that have anything to do with it?

If there are behavioral problems it should go back to the parent's lap to deal with, that's the point of the suspension. Stay home with the parents, and not allowed into class because of his/her disruptive or mean behavior towards others. Unfortunately the parent is usually the problem to begin with. And this has NOTHING to do with color. Race is used as a reason to blame something other than what the real problem is...which is usually bad parenting. Once we figure out how to fix stupid out of existence, we won't have this problem.... or many many other problems this country currently has. Any ideas on how to fix THAT?

agreed. but why are preschoolers getting suspended? I think it's more about controlling parents than educating.

Because a reverse racist resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. No matter the cost or who gets hurt. When king George III ordered the Stamp Act did it matter to who or the cost? No. Same acts are in motion today.

Uh wait a minute here:
Earlier this year, the Obama administration issued guidance encouraging schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal's office. But, even before the announcement, school districts have been adjusting policies that disproportionately affect minority students.
1. Most administrators are just as incompetent as most politicians (based on personal observation, I know generalization is a bad thing, but no one has ever shown me how someone who has been in the "education system" all their life ever picked up the 2oz of common sense people get when they have to work a real job for a living) I am willing to be proved wrong.
2. Sending a violent kid with a weapon to the principal is not a good option, Arne and Eric pls take note.
3. Most courts don't get someone in them unless there is some kind of proof of a crime, like step 2 above.
4. They conveniently left out any facts, and relied on good ol' generalization.
Maybe Holder feels that if no one has held him accountable for his little bag of bad deeds, why should anyone else be held accountable?
"Racisim" is just a component of the "smoke and mirrors" package they use to confuse the large amount of people who have not uidentified the fact they are angry because of the the violation of one of Ayn Rands philosophies: Value for Value
What value did I get from any of the things in that article?

Putting everything on race enables some to avoid the obvious question, viz., why are blacks and other minorities worse performers than others? Putting it in a racial context makes it look like the minority is being picked on. Besides, this is a non-issue. 5,000 kids out of 1 million is 5/1000, or 1/2 of one percent. If half of them are minority, then 1/4 of one percent are causing problems. If blacks are 18% of the total, then that's 2,500/180,000, or 1.39%; that means that 98.61% of the black students aren't a problem at all. If we do the same analysis using the smaller number (of students being punished more than once), the numbers are cut in half. The article is creating a mountain out of a molehill.