Fuzzy math

We've got some fuzzy math from Mark Channell, the assistant superintendent for student services for Oconee County.

He was responding to a report regarding a disparity between suspensions and population size regarding African-American students in Georgia, and how 20 percent of Oconee County's suspensions were African-American as compared to only five percent of the total student population.

Channell told The Oconee Enterprise the actual percentage of suspensions for African-American students was 10 percent. Yet, he offered no data to validate that claim.

Oconee County suspended 186 students in 2007-2008, and 36 of those students were African-American. That equals 19.3 percent which is roughly 20 percent (or twice as much as the 10 percent Channell was arguing for).