{"id":5222,"date":"2020-07-06T19:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T23:09:50","slug":"since-when-education-and-discipline-are-systematically-discriminatory-and-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/since-when-education-and-discipline-are-systematically-discriminatory-and-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Since when education and discipline are \u201c(systematically) discriminatory and racist\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/QuestionMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5223\" width=\"211\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/QuestionMark.jpg 657w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/QuestionMark-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 85vw, 211px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We learned the following from a CBC article: \u201c<em>Ontario to end &#8216;discriminatory&#8217; practice of academic streaming in Grade 9<\/em>\u201d (meaning \u201cacademic\u201d or \u201capplied\u201d) or AND \u201c<em>a ban on suspensions for younger students<\/em>\u201d because, according to the Ontario Ministry of Education, this \u201c<em>practice\u2026 has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students<\/em>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-streaming-high-school-racism-lecce-1.5638700\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-streaming-high-school-racism-lecce-1.5638700<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if educators can no longer discipline younger kids when they have to AND if there is no police (abolished\/defunded, etc.) to intervene with our youth when they commit delinquent acts, will our societies be safer? And wiser?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are we doing this to those so-called black students AND their parents who kill themselves to offer them a good education and to discipline them, as needed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we raise children, we offer them love AND discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we love, we discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without discipline, love is not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we no longer can put limits to our children, we\ndo not do them a favour in their healthy development. We do not do a favour to\nour society in the long-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that the vision of the Ontario government for itself\nand for its country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned the following from a CBC article: \u201cOntario to end &#8216;discriminatory&#8217; practice of academic streaming in Grade 9\u201d (meaning \u201cacademic\u201d or \u201capplied\u201d) or AND \u201ca ban on suspensions for younger students\u201d because, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5226,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}