WE DIDN’T have high expectations for the school safety commission established by President Trump following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The Federal Commission on School Safety, convened after 17 students and staff members were shot to death Feb. 14 in Parkland, Fla., released its final report last week. Most school shootings are committed by white males. Black students, starting from preschool, are more often disciplined in school and receive harsher punishments than white students for comparable offenses. But using school shootings that have been perpetrated by angry young white men to justify punishing black schoolchildren disproportionately is particularly base.

Source: Washington Post December 22, 2018 20:24 UTC