The Finger

Is this where you call me a Russian and then ban me? I'm stoking the ashes and embers of truth for honest and factual debate. There's going to be some heat, dust and sparks. The real men and women understand.

The school could have acted, even though, and especially because, he had guns. Read the facts presented to find out why nothing as done.

Feel free to reply to the facts, knapplc. Below includes Obama's ACTUAL LAW in the pdf form. I'd try and derail too. I understand. Broward County ‘Inspiration’ for Obama School Discipline Policy to Report Fewer Arrests Suspensions The Broward County school district’s adoption of a school discipline policy that was praised by the Obama administration for seeking to reduce the reported number of school suspensions, expulsions, and arrests may have played a role in the fact that Nikolas Cruz remained under the radar until his shooting rampage in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. “The facts pattern that has emerged strongly suggests it played a role,” Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden tells Breitbart News. “It’s not actually accurate to say that what Broward County did was the result of the Obama policy. It might be more accurate to say that what Broward County did was in some way the inspiration for Obama’s policy.” The Obama-era Departments of Education and Justice – under education secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder –issued school guidelines in 2014 that claimed students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a situation they said leads to a “school-to-prison pipeline” that discriminates against minority and low-income students. “Broward County was the first to have the goal of lowering suspensions, lowering expulsions, lowering arrests,” explains Eden. “And, so, they decided to reduce police involvement by not bringing in cops to arrest kids for a whole range of serious offenses, and then, as you would expect, the arrests go down when you stop arresting. That was taken to be a sign of success, based on that metric alone.” Eden explained at National Review in November how the Obama-era school discipline policy “extended Black Lives Matter’s ideology down into America’s classrooms”: Social-justice activists assumed that just as racial disparities in the criminal-justice system must be evidence that cops are (at least implicitly) racist, so too racial disparities in school suspensions must be evidence that teachers are (at least implicitly) racist. Therefore, teachers — like cops — have to be restrained. Several years before the Obama school discipline policy appeared, however, the Broward County school board hired as superintendent Robert Runcie – who had worked for Duncan in Chicago – and also joined with the NAACP, law enforcement, and government agencies to adopt the district’s Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline, dubbed PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support, and Education). As M. Catharine Evans reports at American Thinker, in academic year 2011-2012, just prior to the school board’s decision to hire Runcie, the Broward County public school district had 1,062 school-related arrests – the highest number in Florida. Evans continues: The Obama administration’s Department of Education was also involved in implementing PROMISE. Obama, who routinely dangled carrots in the form of matching federal grants to local districts for their participation in Common Core and Race to the Top, doled out millions to Broward. With the promise of federal monies, it’s no surprise that Superintendent Runcie (annual salary: $335,000) was happy to oblige his friends in D.C. Within a year of Runcie’s arrival, student arrest rates were down 66 percent, and Broward County Schools were about to hit the federal jackpot. One of the premises of the PROMISE program cited in the agreement and supported by data from the Obama Department of Education Office for Civil Rights reads: WHEREAS, across the country, students of color, students with disabilities and LGBTQ students are disproportionately impacted by school-based arrests for the same behavior as their peers. [SNIP] "Page 3 – Dear Colleague Letter: Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline who were involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement are Hispanic or African-American. The Departments recognize that disparities in student discipline rates in a school or district may be caused by a range of factors. However, research suggests that the substantial racial disparities of the kind reflected in the CRDC data are not explained by more frequent or more serious misbehavior by students of color.7 Although statistical and quantitative data would not end an inquiry under Title IV or Title VI, significant and unexplained racial disparities in student discipline give rise to concerns that schools may be engaging in racial discrimination that violates the Federal civil rights laws. For instance, statistical evidence may indicate that groups of students have been subjected to different treatment or that a school policy or practice may have an adverse discriminatory impact. Indeed, t e De me s’ investigations, which consider quantitative data as part of a wide array of evidence, have revealed racial discrimination in the administration of student discipline. For example, in our investigations we have found cases where African-American students were disciplined more harshly and more frequently because of their race than similarly situated white students. In short, racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem. The CRDC data also show that an increasing number of students are losing important instructional time due to exclusionary discipline.8 The increasing use of disciplinary sanctions such as in-school and out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, or referrals to law enforcement authorities creates the potential for significant, negative educational and long-term outcomes, and can contribute to "SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE". Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance and diminished educational engagement;9 decreased academic achievement;10 increased behavior problems;11.... https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201401-title-vi.pdf

Probably the same reason the hundreds/thousands of Democrat gun thugs in Chicago choose to use handguns, which are the most common guns used to kill/mass kill/murder/commit suicide... Give it time though, plenty of LW Hollywood movies fetishizing and glorifying shotguns slaughtering everyone, and one day that'll happen too. Bet the BB's won't bounce off kids. I'm sure that level of Hollywood, Rap Videos, Silicon Valley video games.... (all the domain of the Left, btw) never has any effect on anyone, ever, anywhere, so we should continue to do nothing about all that. You could be right about Hussein not winning the argument here, because his Promise program is so intricate and intertwined, down there in Broward, and it DID indeed allow Cruz to kill, that I started an entire new thread with more details discussing that. I'll let those who want to discuss that decide for themselves.

Nice. You sound like a really smart guy who disregards shotguns and their shot. Please continue to stand in front of shotguns. Maybe post a youtube of this, for all of us to enjoy.

As Dems turn to children for policy advice, meantime.... Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled. School system could have done more, but chose to let Cruz slaughter 17 students. At times, Nikolas Cruz’s behavior could be a school administrator’s nightmare: Teachers and other students said he kicked doors, cursed at teachers, fought with and threatened classmates and brought a backpack with bullets to school. He collected a string of discipline for profanity, disobedience, insubordination, and disruption. In 2014, administrators [Obama] transferred Cruz to an alternative school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities — only to change course two years later and return him to a traditional neighborhood school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Cruz was banished from Douglas a year later for other disciplinary violations — then toggled between three other alternative placements, school records obtained by the Miami Herald show. Survivors of the Florida school shooting and hundreds of others descended upon the state capitol Wednesday to demand action on gun control and mental health issues. The rally comes exactly a week after 17 students were killed when a former student opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Emily Michot The Miami Herald If the frequent transfers — records show there were six in three years — did little to stanch Cruz’s disruptive behavior, they eventually became the only option left in the school district’s toolbox. Contrary to early reports, Cruz was never expelled from Broward schools. Legally, he couldn’t be. Under federal law, Nikolas Cruz had a right to a “free and appropriate” education at a public school near him. His classmates had a right to an education free of fear. Their rights often collided. Long before Cruz carried an AR-15 assault rifle into Stoneman Douglas and carried out one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, the awkward, socially isolated youth puzzled, disrupted and sometimes terrified his schoolmates. Expelling Cruz from the Broward school system altogether was never an option, and what little is known of the teen’s educational history illustrates the sharp limitations that confront school administrators who must deal with profoundly troubled students. “You can’t just kick kids out of the public schools because you are afraid of them, or because they are hard to educate,” said Stephanie Langer, a Miami special education lawyer and advocate. “It has to be a balance, and I think it’s a really hard one.” Since the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first law that articulated a federal role in enforcing the rights of disabled people, the laws surrounding the education of children with special needs have evolved. In general, school districts are required to provide kids with physical, emotional or intellectual disabilities a free education in the “least restrictive” setting, and to accommodate the needs of such students. Defining the word “accommodate” has kept judges busy for decades. The tension between schools and parents has created a cottage industry for lawyers and advocates. For the budget year 2017, the state Division of Administrative Hearings docketed 244 appeals of Florida school board decisions, with the largest number of them being filed in South Florida. The Broward County School Board defended 38 appeals, the most in the state, followed by Miami-Dade with 37, DOAH reported last month. Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie wouldn’t discuss Cruz’s school records, citing a federal law that protects student privacy, but said he didn’t think providing Cruz with more school services would have prevented the shooting. “Based on what’s reported in the media, here’s a kid who’s lost both parents, he’s obviously got some mental health challenges,” Runcie said. “Let me just say if we provided every service that we could and did all that in exemplary fashion, if he can still get access to guns what’s the point of all this?” “This is a systemic problem we have that isn’t about blaming one agency or the other,” he added. “What we need to do is move from trying to play the blame game and find real solutions.” Absent Cruz’s school records, it is hard to say precisely when Cruz’s behavior became an acute problem for teachers and administrators. Disciplinary reports obtained by the Herald show that at Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he’d been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations. Records show the behaviors continued at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, which he attended in 2016 and 2017 before being transferred, with discipline being dispensed for fighting, profanity, and an “assault.” It appears the Jan. 19, 2017 assault resulted in a referral for a “threat assessment.” A few months later, Cruz landed at an Off Campus Learning Center, where he remained for only about five months. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article201216104.html

Someone saw something, someone said something and Baarack Hussein's "Promise" program and the FBI did NOTHING.

They are, when they're in front of ignited; high velo, max burn rate, 1,120 fps gun powder. Are you actually claiming that shotguns don't kill? Because you couldn't possibly be claiming that, and still expecting to be taken seriously, despite the fact that you projected non credibility, in a vain and silly attempt to eek a mini win here today.

Shotguns, designed w/ hundred to thousands of BB's, all designed to kill, are "assault" weapons too. Rack a Mossberg and another spray of death, disperses in order to kill more. Joke Biden, from his very porch could kill hundreds this way.

Good morning Huskers. I was invited here by one of your members. While I love the Huskers, I am following my self imposed ban of football due to the NFL, racist, race monger, cop killing gerbils. Most, if not all, of my posts will be down here in the bloody trenches. It is at this point where you mods should ban me because my first post threatens and frightens you. If not, if you're a brave warrior for the truth like many here, then it's at this point I invite the leftist Cop Killing Gerbils to immediately rush to calling me a Russian Troll, as is the common reflex of the Russian Communist Pinko Red Sheep since president Winning was elected. If I get banned for speaking the truth, you can see me with this user name , my 100 followers and my avatar (which I might need to re-upload) at The Hill and other sites carrying the Disqus plug-in. Ready? Here we go- Hey, Libs where you going with those assault rifles in your hands?