To the editor: These guidelines easing penalties for “willful defiance” rely upon the belief that college students of colour 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 normal 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 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 instructor can do something about it, then chaos ensues.
My query is that this: If public training is utilitarian, then why enable a couple of knuckleheads to supersede the appropriate of nearly all of college students to get training?
Mark Walker, Yorba Linda
