To the editor: These guidelines easing penalties for “willful defiance” rely on the belief that college students of coloration are innately much less in a position to management themselves due to their minority standing (“State discipline law keeps Black, Latino kids in class. Trump says it’s illegal,” Might 1). This assumption is grossly racist on its face! It’s a paternalistic insult to carry minorities to a lesser customary of public habits than the remainder of society. Would it not be acceptable for extra severe violations like felonies?
As a die-hard left-winger, I insist that minorities aren’t any much less inherently able to self-control than anybody else, and must be held to the identical societal requirements as everybody else — no stricter and no extra lenient.
Harvey S. Frey, Santa Monica
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To the editor: California largely ended suspension guidelines that some say disproportionally affected Black and Latino college students. Trump says it’s unlawful. I agree with Trump. When one or two unruly college students of any ethnic group frequently disrupt the classroom and neither the principal nor the trainer can do something about it, then chaos ensues.
My query is that this: If public schooling is utilitarian, then why enable just a few knuckleheads to supersede the correct of nearly all of college students to get a great schooling?
Mark Walker, Yorba Linda
