Discrimination against students of color rampant in Louisiana school district

[KamaAina]

A portion of Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans, once elected David Dukkke to the legislature. But West Jefferson, across the Mississippi, has a sizable AA population.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/discrimination-against-students-of-color-rampant-in-louisiana-school-district

Three years after a Southern Poverty Law Center complaint sparked a U.S. Department of Education (DOE) investigation into the disproportionate number of African-American students arrested for minor rule violations in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish Public School System, the problem has worsened, the SPLC told federal authorities this week....

The proportion of African-American children arrested for school-based misbehavior is now higher than when the initial complaint was filed, according to a supplemental SPLC complaint.

One black eighth-grader spent six days in juvenile detention after being arrested for throwing Skittles candy at another student.

“The Jefferson Parish Public School System has continued its destructive practice of arresting and jailing children for minor, and often trivial, violations of school rules and decorum,” said Eden Heilman, managing attorney for the SPLC’s Louisiana office. “It’s nothing less than a racially biased system of criminalizing African-American children. It must stop now.”

Skittles? He's lucky to be alive! Imagine if George Zimmerman worked security for the JP schools!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Racism no longer exists in America or on DU so you must be wrong, I know, trust me

[KamaAina]

2. Oh, right! The post-racial society!