That’s because the problems are cultural, not genetic. And our government wants to make this all about egalitarianism.
Girls make up 50% of the student body. But boys account for 71% of all school suspensions.
Why is no one crying about that?
Oh, that’s ok. Those are boys. From the Spokesman Review:
African Americans, special education students and other groups in Spokane Public Schools are facing much higher rates of discipline than their peers, the district board was told last week.
“Exclusionary consequences” is the district’s terminology for suspensions and expulsions. Reversing a three-year decline, they rose 8.5 percent during the 2017-18 school year.
And despite the district’s efforts to educate staff on implicit bias, they fell disproportionately heavily on the same groups as before.
African Americans comprise 3.2 percent of the Spokane Public Schools student body, yet represent 5.6 percent of the disciplinary action. Students identifying as multiracial make up 13.8 percent of students, but faced 20.4 percent of the roughly 4,079 suspensions and expulsions.
Students who qualified for free and reduced-price lunch accounted for 86.1 percent of all district discipline, yet make up only 57.4 of the student body. Special education students comprise 17.8 percent of the student body but received 32.8 percent of the suspensions and expulsions.