LETTER: Controlling the classroom.

Lilia Martonak Las Vegas September 20, 2026 - 9:01 pm As the caller’s editorial on schoolhouse policing explains, it is easy, swift—and mistaken—to attribute schoolhouse radical subject disparities to basal causes of “bias” and “lack of administrative consciousness of disproportionality.” In a March 1 column, Victor Joecks of the Review‑Journal reported that the American First Policy Institute’s deliberation vessel recovered that “children surviving absent their biologic begetter are 2 to 3 times much apt to beryllium expelled oregon suspended.” About 70 percent of Black children are calved to unmarried mothers. Mr. Joecks concludes that possibly the existent basal origin of radical disparities is fatherlessness.