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The Michael Berry Show

This School District Has Told Teachers To 'Check Their Bias' Before Disciplining Students

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Barry show I received from a leaker at Umbul ISD, sorry I can't see that

0:15.4

far away on the big screen because the print is very small but I'm going to read this

0:19.5

out, it's a message that was sent to teachers for the school year started.

0:29.9

It says goal number two study plan and implement best practices in school safety to provide

0:37.6

the most safe and secure schools possible. Okay. Item number three to Umbul ISD teachers.

0:50.4

There is a disproportionate number of African American students that are suspended,

0:58.1

open parent in school or out of school close parent compared to Hispanic and white student

1:06.2

populations. AMS must use culturally responsive discussions among staff to reflect upon our

1:21.6

perspectives and resulting responses. Plus our discipline processes that may be disproportionately

1:32.6

impacting African American students. Well, let me ask you this. Do you think that the policies of

1:43.6

the MBA are disproportionately affecting whites because they're hardly any whites left in the NBA?

1:55.9

Is the NBA's practice of choosing players who can perform at the highest level,

2:02.9

hurting white players? Yeah because the black players are better.

2:10.0

So would you say these policies are disproportionately affecting the white players

2:18.2

so don't put black players on your team, put white players on your team.

2:22.7

When you say more black kids given their size of population are being suspended than white kids,

2:32.4

do you ever stop to ask, well, what are the black kids doing?

2:40.5

Anybody ever ask that? Because by the way, by every crime measure,

2:47.9

every crime affects blacks more than whites as conducted by blacks.

2:58.3

So what we've done on the back end is say, well, only reason all these black kids are getting in

3:05.4

trouble is because the teachers and administrators are out to get them. Well, maybe,

3:15.2

but what if we could also see a corresponding higher percentage of single moms as opposed to

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