To the editor: These rules that relieve sanctions for “intentional challenge” depend on the assumption that color students are innately less capable of controlling due to their minority status (“The State Discipline Law keeps black and Latin children in class. Trump says it is illegal,” May 1). This assumption is very racist on your face! It is a paternalistic insult to keep minorities a lower standard of public behavior than the rest of society. Would it be acceptable for more serious violations such as serious crimes?
As a staunch left hole, I insist that minorities are not less inherently capable of self -control than anyone, and must be maintained at the same social standards as everyone else, neither strict nor more indulgent.
Harvey S. Frey, Santa Monica
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To the editor: California largely ended the suspension rules that some say that some disproportionately affected black and Latin students. Trump says it is illegal. I agree with Trump. When one or two rebel students of any ethnic group continually interrupt the classroom and neither the director nor the teacher can do anything about it, then chaos occurs.
My question is this: if public education is utilitarian, why allow a few knuckles to replace the right of most students to obtain a good education?
Mark Walker, Yorbto Linda
