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DOJ grants $63 million social justice program promoted by Bill Ayers

While you were busy the last week with Christmas and New Years, the Obama DOJ with Eric Holder’s clone Loretta Lynch decided to spend $63 million of your tax dollars. That’s not really all that newsworthy as the Obama regime is spending our money on everything from vacation to gas stations in Afghanistan. But this one is telling. The Obama/Lynch DOJ gave $63 for social justice programs promoted by none other than Obama mentor and communist Bill Ayers.

However, according to a review of past and current restorative justice initiatives in schools, the funding appears to be just another effort to expand whole-child social justice reforms touted by far-left progressive educators like William Ayers.

DOJ grants $63 million social justice program promoted by Bill Ayers
DOJ grants $63 million social justice program promoted by Bill Ayers

Believing that the American education system is inherently racist and oppressive and students of color only act out because they are victims of that system, Ayers began writing about restorative justice alternatives to school discipline many years ago. Examples are his 1998 book, A Kind and Just Parent, and 2001 book, Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools.

In 2012, Ayers led in the writing of a brief titled Increasing Safety Through Restorative Justice: Making Schools Safer for Girls and LGBTQ Students of Color in Chicago’s Public Schools, wherein he again suggests restorative methods like peace circles, student trials, and peer conferences as an alternative to the “disproportionate disciplinary referrals and sanctions” of LGBT students and students of color.

The radical ed organization, Rethinking Schools, says restorative justice in schools is a victory for activist educators like Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, who have been fighting the “school-to-prison pipeline” that they believe exists because of the unfair suspension and expulsion of students of color.