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Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by vlyan on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:19AM (#49879443)
I'll volunteer: in every single video of American teachers being assaulted I've glimpsed over the years, the assailants were black.

I'm sure someone could take their time and find a few rare instances of that not being the case (if they can manage to do it before I inevitably get -4 points [flagged][dead] for this callous sacrilege), to which I will preemptively reply that someone equally invested in the argument could easily find ten videos confirming my anecdotal observation for each one you provide.

Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by zdragnar on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:30AM (#49879613)
I am reminded of a former boss's niece who was a kindergarten teacher in a rural, very white district. No physical abuse, but she was very surprised the first time a kid started cussing her out.

It's not a race issue so much as a poverty and cultural issue. Any racial correlation is a proxy for those two things.

Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by phoghed on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:31AM (#49879636)
Have to be careful forming your world view based on worldstar TikTok, you might be getting Chinese psy-opped
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by DaSHacka on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:22PM (#49880459)
Right, as opposed to other media where you wouldn't be?
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by phoghed on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:40PM (#49882507)
Sundar, Elon, and Zuck have my best interests in mind and at the forefront of their goals. Xi wants nothing more than the downfall of my glorious Western values. He’ll stop at nothing, even stooping so low as to violate the Anthropic terms of service.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by mahboi on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:10PM (#49881161)
Wouldn't be Chinese I guess
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by hasviolence on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:59AM (#49880124)
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by palmotea on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:01PM (#49880159)
> CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Yeah, no.

Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by mahboi on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:26AM (#49879543)
What's the metric optimized here, minimize black students expelled?
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by DaSHacka on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:21PM (#49880447)
Yes, or rather "minimize frivolous civil rights lawsuits", which would come as a downstream of having skewed racial expulsion rates.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by mahboi on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:58PM (#49881854)
If it's really this, seems there needs to be some state or federal pushback against these lawsuits. Cause idk about schools, but it's gotten out of hand elsewhere. We've already seen the SCOTUS ruling against DEI very quickly having a positive impact on universities and even corps.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by criagsbkbk on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:33PM (#49881476)
To some degree it's a concern for "problematic" statistical outcomes, but it's also anti-bias training, both explicit and implicit, giving individual decision makers hesitancy when dulling out punishments.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by mahboi on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:06PM (#49887597)
Wonder if "problematic" and bias training are still a thing or if that went away 2 years ago. Did notice we stopped getting those trainings at work.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by zug_zug on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:58PM (#49880995)
So what?

Let's take aside the charged component of this and just suppose hypothetically that 100% of the assaulting students belonged to some subgroup. So what?

They may be 100% black, or 100% male, or something, but it's not like you can reasonably just say "So no males at our school." Regardless of whether you can find a subgroup who this belongs to with a very low specificity, you still need policies that tackle the behavior itself rather than trying to find some really weak predictor.

Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by criagsbkbk on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:21PM (#49881338)
I'll bite. The importance is this: if you do not acknowledge a disproportion of a certain group committing the offenses, then you cannot enforce punishments without them seeming inequitable. If 90% of the suspensions of students come from a certain protected group, if you refuse to believe they are 90% of the offenders, we must roll back the policies because they are clearly bias.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by mahboi on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:52PM (#49881764)
Or the simpler way is to not acknowledge what group is committing offenses and not care what group is receiving punishment. People rightfully get suspicious when it's about groups.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by casefields on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:00PM (#49881022)
As if that wasn't bad enough, Trump revoked the Obama/Biden which didn't allow schools punish black students unless they punished an equal amount of whites:

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/education-department-...

Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? by nitwit005 on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:14PM (#49882096)
Saying you're too lazy to actually check if these videos are genuinely all black students, but someone could do it, and you know the answer even without checking somehow, isn't exactly convincing.

There just aren't enough blacks in the US for them to completely dominate any crime. To be at your imagined rate of 90% of instances being black, when only 13 or 14% of the population, would require a ridiculously high rate compared to every other group.