# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/258 "2019-09-13T22:24:42Z")

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These are really funny. In the GD thread about a new California regarding suspensions:

> [@California Schools not allowed to ban students, your opinion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-schools-not-allowed-to-ban-students-your-opinion/840011/147):
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> ETA: This is something about which my wife, a high school special-education teacher, and I vehemently disagree. You might say she is much more qualified to judge, but I spent several years substitute teaching mostly in middle school and high school.

So. His wife, a career teacher, disagrees, but he subbed for a couple years. So, you know, he knows everything.

> [@California Schools not allowed to ban students, your opinion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-schools-not-allowed-to-ban-students-your-opinion/840011/152):
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> I haven’t read the whole thread or really anything from before I started posting on page 5 or whatever it was. If this is not about eliminating suspensions\* then cool. I’m not strawmanning, just going with what I assumed we were talking about based on the title of the thread.
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> \*Or, almost as bad, insisting on racial quotas for suspensions.

And, he didn’t bother to even skim the OP, let alone read the whole thread before he jumped in.

That thread is a fucking troll orgy. It’s like fucking red meat. It’s basic enough for people to understand (back in my day . . .) and it gives them all the chance to bitch about what incorrigible animals black kids are. Because if black kids are inhuman trash starting in Kindergarten, if we can dismiss them because “they had the opportunity to show they cared about an education and they threw it away” before they are even old enough to write their name, then we are off the hook for anything that happens to them after.

The idea of little black kids\* getting away with something\* and white teachers _powerless to stop them_ just activates the fuck out of our usual suspects.

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