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The headline is misleading. "won a large settlement ... over retaliation he faced for speaking out against the district’s race-based student discipline policie
by rahimnathwani 4y ago
The headline is misleading.
"won a large settlement ... over retaliation he faced for speaking out against the district’s race-based student discipline policies"
- hartator 4y ago> The discipline policies aimed to reduce suspensions of black students by lowering the expectations for behavior and increasing the threshold for suspensions What an idiotic policy.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoThere are plausible reasons on both sides. One side says that, if X% of black students are suspended in a given period, compared with Y% of all students, and if X>Y, then this is prima facie evidence of systemic racism, which must be corrected. The other side says that standards of behaviour are objective and, more importantly, not suspending disruptive students harms all other students, including black students.
- dhzhzjsbevs 4y agoHow is the title misleading? Isn't that what happened? The discipline policies were pushed by the race training.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoThe headline makes it sound like he took a stand against some training he was forced to attend but actually he took a stand against a policy that he was forced to implement. The training did not cause the policy. They likely had a common cause.
- anoonmoose 4y agoHe would likely have won the settlement regardless of what his objections were. The settlement is payment for being harassed out of a job, the "whys" of which only serve to inflame and engage the tribes.
- getthisgone 4y agoThe whole article is misleading. But that's not unexpected from an extreme right wing propaganda site like The American Mirror. Their front page has things like, Obama discovered wearing Muslim clothing! This sort of garbage is purely rage bait for the right and it's pretty weird seeing it on the front page of HN.