Original: https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1915233075455521020 (thread)
Archive: https://archive.is/PRj1h
This snuck by me yesterday.
In case you have been living under a rock, disparate impact has long been a tool which the feds use to come in institutionalize rules that favor minorities over whites, and has been used to turn school districts into the worst sort of lord of the flies institutions you can imagine. How it worked was that the mere appearance of disparate impact on any minority by policy was de facto assumed to be racist, and draw federal investigations. I can think of two school districts that were utterly destroyed by this, Minneapolis and Orange County, FL. Blacks now run the halls in Minneapolis violently assaulting people at will, and they know they won't face any discipline because of the policies the school district had to institute at the point of Federal agent guns. Treyvon Martin was suspended from school after being caught with stolen jewelry, instead of expelled and referred to police for indictment.
It is my hope that this EO starts us on the long road to overturning Griggs vs Duke Power.
Could you recommend any reading on the effects of disparate impact theory (and related ideas) on education in particular? This is one of a few topics I'm attempting to wrap my head around lately. For example, I swear I can recall one of the pedagogical architects of No Child Left Behind stating at a conference (years after the fact) that one of their goals was reducing the achievement gap between whites and minorities, even at the cost of overall lower outcomes. But can't find that one anymore.
I will check my bookmarks, but a quick search did find this:
https://archive.is/OHk9q
As I find more I will edit them into this post:
https://archive.is/XGCJl
http://archive.is/hcsSa
http://archive.is/FVB4s
http://archive.is/PzIQB
http://archive.is/RG1bP
http://archive.is/FrZfP
https://archive.is/YuEGt
https://archive.ph/fwTD6
Note how many of these are archive links. I bookmarked archives as much as I could because, as you can see by the age of some of these, I made these bookmarks a long time ago.
http://archive.is/YuzVC
The Obama era Dear Colleague letter that made disparate impact official policy is here:
https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201401-title-vi.pdf
Trump rescinded it in his first term, and I don't know what Biden did after he took over.
Damn, you weren't kidding. Thanks, I'll work though everything you have the time to post.
Another one: https://archive.is/VOxE7
Note the particular school involved, and the date...
Yes, you are reading that right, the shit head that did the Parkland school shooting was on a diversionary discipline program thanks to disparate impact based school discipline policies adopted in that school district.
Read this CTH article about Broward County schools:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2018/02/23/broward-county-sheriffs-office-did-not-miss-warning-signs-or-make-mistakes/
You know, I love the English language because it it both subject to and surprisingly resistant to Newspeak. This is also why I hate Ebonics; its purpose was subjugation rather than liberation. I knew a guy that worked at a Fortune 100 in the late 80s when HR speak was first popular (listen kids, woke ain't new); his English coworker complained "English is a perfectly fine language, why are you trying to change it?"