Nigger students everywhere go to jail

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Schools faulted for calling cops on students

The Chicago Public Schools funnel alarming numbers of African-American students into the Cook County Juvenile Court system through a zero tolerance policy that criminalizes them for minor misbehavior, a national study to be released today charges.

In Chicago, 8,539 CPS students were arrested in 2003 -- 43 percent for simple assault involving no injuries or weapons and often for nothing more than a threat or minor fight. Thirteen percent were arrested for disorderly conduct, according to the study, "Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track."

The policy disproportionately affects African-American student
s, who represented 77 percent of the 2003 arrests but only 50 percent of the student population, according to the study by the
Washington, D.C.-based civil rights group Advancement Project, Northwestern University Law School's Children & Family Justice Center and the locally based Southwest Youth Collaborative.

'We will not ignore any threats'

Of the 2003 arrests, almost 10 percent were children age 12 and under, the study found.

"Information we were able to obtain primarily through the police department indicates large numbers of children are being arrested for behavior that should really be dealt with in school rather than in the criminal justice system," said Lauren Adams, who represents many of those students at Northwestern's Bluhm Legal Clinic.

CPS officials defended the district's policy.

"We have a Uniform Discipline Code in place that clearly spells out what's expected of our students, and we will not ignore any
threats to the safety of anyone in our schools," said CPS spokesman Michael Vaughn. "Our schools have never been safer. And that's because we've made our message clear to students
."

The study also found the CPS policy resulted in skyrocketing suspensions and expulsions. Suspensions of elementary school students more than doubled between 1994 and 2003, from 8,870 to 20,312. Expulsions jumped from 172 in 1997 to a reported 712 in 2003.

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It is pointless to send niggers to skewl. Send niggers directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

T.N.B.

 

[Tyrone N. Butts]

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Palm Beach County scolded for `petty' arrests of students

A high school boy stood before Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Ronald Alvarez a few weeks ago on a charge of committing sexual battery of a girl in the middle of class.

The boy's arrest apparently stemmed from putting his shoe up on the girl's chair and then her backside.

"It's just ludicrous," Alvarez said, recalling a case he cites as a typical example of unnecessary criminal prosecutions. "Isn't that going overboard?"

A national civil rights watchdog group agrees in a scathing report issued Thursday that condemns the Palm Beach County School District and the State Attorney's Office -- al
ong with public schools in Chicago and Denver -- for the "needless criminalization" o
f children, especially black students.

The Washington, D.C.-based Advancement Project, updating a 2003 study, claims that in Palm Beach County "the number of arrests has slightly declined but complaints remain that the district is suspending and arresting too many youths for petty acts that would never result in an arrest and prosecution in the real world; that is, beyond the schoolhouse doors."

An outraged school district Police Chief Jim Kelly called the report "slanted" and "full of generalities" that paint a negative, inaccurate view of how his officers keep campuses increasingly safe and prevent arrests whenever possible.

"They just glossed over all the wonderful things this district is doing," Kelly said after reading Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track.<
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The chief says the "irresponsible" report misstates that juvenile arrests had "slightly declined," since the actual drop from 1,287 in 2001 to 1,105 in 2003 is 14 perce
nt.

"That's a substantial drop," Kelly countered, noting that the district's student population grew by 10,000 over the same period, reaching more than 170,000 pupils. "Come on, now. Is that not significant?"

What's noteworthy is that most of those 1,105 arrests largely are unnecessary and brought on by the use of a zero-tolerance policy that criminalizes "harmless youthful conduct," said Judith A. Browne, the Advancement Project's senior attorney and report author.

Zero tolerance, for example, means that students are expelled for bringing weapons on campus. Also troubling, says Browne, is that blacks accounted for 64 percent of the arrests while they are only 29 percent of the total district enrollment
. She blames it on stereotyping by school administrators and police.

While arrests dropped, out-of-school suspensions rose from 16,238 in the 2000-01 school year to 18,205 in the 2003-04 school year, according to district
tallies.

Citing Florida Department of Law Enforcement statistics, the report found that the youth arrests usually are not for serious crimes. Weapons violations and drug offenses accounted for only 9 percent and 16 percent of arrests, respectively, with no rapes or murders.

"It may be a small percentage (of students arrested) but it's still too many youths going into the criminal-justice system unnecessarily," Browne said.

The report cites the case of two students arrested for robbery after forcing down a classmate in the school cafeteria and taking $7 in lunch money. The report called it typical of the State Attorney's &qu
ot;aggressive, and often ridiculously strict, stance on even the most mundane school cases."

But Kelly praised the prosecution, insisting that any parent whose child was robbed in that way would agree with the criminal charges.

"That's a strong-arm robbery. That's all there is too it," he said.

Mike Edmondson, spok
esman for State Attorney Barry Krischer, said prosecutors "simply respond" to whatever cases come their way from any police department.

School district police "establish their policies for which cases they will arrest and refer for prosecution and which ones they don't," Edmondson said.

County Public Defender Carey Haughwout said she had not read the report, but was impressed by the Advancement Project's "fair review" two years ago.

"We continue to be concerned about children coming into the criminal-justice system, rather than b
eing handled in the school system or elsewhere," Haughwout said.

Chief Kelly said the 1,105 arrests came only after 14,000 school police investigations, indicating that criminal prosecutions are done only when necessary. He blasted the report for neglecting to showcase district violence- and drug-prevention programs.

"They downplay the positives or totally ignore it," Kelly said.

School Board member Debra Robinson said she shares the concerns
addressed in the report.

"We are not doing a good job of telling the difference between criminal behavior and overzealous youthful behavior," Robinson said.

Browne said her report -- sponsored by six private foundations -- is intended to spur discussions in the community to stop the unnecessary arrests. Palm Beach County was studied because of its diverse population and the school district's control of its own police department.

Judge Alvare
z said he wishes his courtroom would no longer see a steady stream of cases such as the boy arrested for placing his foot on a girl's rear.

"If these children presented danger to others or themselves they should be removed" from school, Alvarez said. "But where was the harm to this young lady?"

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A national civil rights watchdog group agrees in a scathing report issued Thursday that condemns the Palm Beach County School District and the State Attorney's Office -- along with public schools in Chicago and Den
ver -- for the "needless criminalization" of children, especially black students.

The truth is, niggers can't behave
themselves. Personally, I feel it is pointless to send niggers to skewl in the first place, but if a nigger does something in skewl that is against the law, that nigger should be charged with a crime and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Zero tolerance, for example, means that students are expelled for bringing weapons on campus. Also troubling, says Browne, is that blacks accounted for 64 percent of the arrests while they are only 29 percent of the total district enrollment. She blames it on stereotyping by school administrators and police.

No nigger has ever taken responsibility for it's own TNB, EVER, and they never will.

T.
N.B.

 

[The Bobster]

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I knew a nigger school in Newark with bars on its windows. It seemed very appropriate. We all thought the bar were there to stop the boons from playfully tossing so-called students out the windows. I'm not sure we were wrong.