Today’s Sun-Times editorial, “Suspensions fail test of fairness,” baffles me with its discussion of blacks’ being suspended in Chi public schools more than whites without reference to their deserving it, not even to shoot the idea down.
Still overdue [after various adjustments] . . . are answers for the reasons behind [for?] the divide. Because even when the number of suspensions declined, the rates remained the same: African-American students were still suspended 3-1 over whites and Hispanics.
“There is something out there that we’re missing,” admits James Bebley, first deputy general counsel for the Board of Education.
There’s also something that we readers are missing, namely what constituteness unfairness in this matter. Sheer “disparity,” as Sun-Times says? Really? What if black kids misbehave more often?
Nothing is said about that. Nor is anything said about racial discrimination in suspending kids, which would be the point, would it not? If not, why not?
Blithe Spirit 
I’m surprised they don’t take the tack that SCWs (socialist/communist/whatevers) take regarding blacks’ greater presence in jails and prisons, of lying and saying that whites get lesser sentences for the same crimes and number and magnitude of priors.
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