To the editor: These guidelines easing penalties for “willful defiance” rely on the idea that college students of shade are innately much less capable of management themselves due to their minority standing (“State self-discipline regulation retains Black, Latino youngsters at school. Trump says it’s unlawful,” Could 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 are not any much less inherently able to self-control than anybody else, and needs to 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 regularly disrupt the classroom and neither the principal nor the instructor can do something about it, then chaos ensues.
My query is that this: If public schooling is utilitarian, then why permit just a few knuckleheads to supersede the best of nearly all of college students to get a superb schooling?
Mark Walker, Yorba Linda
