![Arne Duncan Image: Time.com](https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/360_arne_duncan_0824.jpg)
This is a familiar refrain. Social engineers suggest a policy prescription and share their blueprint with the public. But the actual results are something entirely different.
In today’s example, Obama’s Department of Education decided that too many public school suspensions were discriminatory. They targeted black students.
From Walter Willimas, writing at The Daily Signal,
According to former Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the “huge disparity is not caused by differences in children; it’s caused by differences in training, professional development, and discipline policies. It is adult behavior that needs to change.”
So they demanded change.
Driven by Obama administration pressures, school districts revised their discipline procedures by cutting the number of black student suspensions. …
The new discipline imposed on public schools is called restorative justice. Rather than punish a student through exclusion (suspension), restorative justice encourages the student who has misbehaved to reflect on his behavior, take responsibility, and resolve to behave better in the future.
The results of this new policy are increased violence, drug use, and gang activity.
Restorative justice turned inner-city public school classrooms into, to borrow a progressive phrase wielded liberally in other context, The Wild West!
“…violence increased in 50 percent of schools and decreased in 14 percent. Gang activity increased in 39 percent of schools and decreased in 11 percent. For drug and alcohol use, there was a 37 percent increase while only 7 percent of schools improved.”
Every good Keynesian knows that violence is good for an economy. Break a window; the glazier gets to work. Break a culture or society and several someones paid by the government get to come up with another ‘fix.’
Seeing as the left broke the inner-cities are they meddling out of guilt or is this just more utopian trimming? Contraception was the progressive era’s solution to trim the scourge of the so-called inferior classes by preventing pregnancies. When that failed, they made killing them in the womb legal. Inner city violence does additional damage when abortion fails, and if schools were ever safe spaces, policy meddling has done even more damage.
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many Democrat-Socialist meddlers expected a different outcome from decades of failed policies or are they all in on the “joke?”