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Posted on 01/17/2016 7:22:54 AM PST by Gigantor
This is why we should pay the dysfunctional not to have children, rather than for having children.
Correct.
Whatever. I’m sure those big city liberals several thousand miles away will solve their dazzling urbanite problems eventually.
What I mean is: a magnet school is for better students. Liberals want their kids with the better kids, but then they have to face the fact that there IS a such thing as "better." They want the meritocracy... but it's anti-egalitarian. But they want it. But they hate it. But they WANT it. But they HATE it.
And the rich. They hate the rich. But they want the poor to have what the rich have. But then the poor would be like the rich. And they HATE it. But they WANT it. But they HATE it. It drives them mad.
I didn’t read it. I have best friends who have taught in gang schools. I know these stories. I’ve seen the de civilization that goes on due to political correctness. We need a new MLK, and he doesn’t need to be any certain race. We need someone to risk his life making speeches that wake people up to the worst prejudice of all, that of low expectations.
When civilization shares space with feral animals, really smart ones, civilization has to win or we lose it altogether. If the meme is that civilization is bad and racist, and wild greedy lusts are respected, then civilization is on the way out.
We need to choose: behaving like the worst of primates or the best of them. There are species of primate that can’t even make tools. Laws and rules are tools just as leaves and bones can be. We need to expect a higher level of civility for all or we need some pretty painful consequences.
Affirmative action for poor people (of all stripes) must be conjoined with strong ignorance of those who don’t choose the leg ups. Schools must be for willing students, or... There IS no school. Public behavior must be polite and decent or.... You will be fined or jailed. Laws must not be broken or.... The punishment will fit the crime and it will stick, no easy ways out any more. No free lunches. You can’t feed your kids, they starve to death or a kind charity steps in. I love charities, because someone being helped can feel gratitude and also enough of a debt that they push themselves more to pay it back.
We should expect kindness in public from an older white lady and a younger black man and a middle aged Hispanic. It should not matter. As it stands today, if I’m entering a building behind someone, I KNOW the older white person will hold that door for me. I am pretty sure the young white person will, but they sometimes disappoint. I KNOW the young black person will NOT hold the door nor even appear to think about it. At least not in CA. They probably do in the South except Atlanta. Sadly, no matter the age of the middle easterner or Hispanic, the doors will not be held.
Given how he described the girls, he would probably be terrified to go into the girls’ bathroom. I did everything possible to avoid it when I was in high school ... and I can still go longer without a bathroom break than anyone in my family!
Great post.
You've described Singapore.
This is the world the plantation owners created, should have picked our own damned cotton.What a sad, disastrous story. This is the world LBJ created. - posted by bkopto
As to slavery, no argument - but as to the relation between the “sad, disastrous story” and LBJ, there is also no question:.
- Losing Ground:
- American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Charles MurrayBy electing LBJ America snatched defeat from the jaws of victory over poverty and racism.At this point we wish that white American family formation/stability was no worse than that which was being sustained by black society in 1968. The “sad, disastrous story” of the current black family is the legacy, not of slavery, but of LBJ. As Thomas Sowell will tell anyone who will listen.
>>Yes, I am a teacher, and I hear what you are saying. It’s not the kids who make the job difficult, it’s the grown ups.
Exactly. When you hear a black assistant principal tell you, “Sometimes you teachers can’t connect with our black children because you don’t share the same background as them, and this affects your teaching environment,” it’s time to start revising your resume.
The real issue, and admin gets pissed when you say this, is that disciplinary support pays off 100X more than money thrown at professional development and curriculum administration positions, and IT’S FREE. The district may get pissed at your AYP and grad. %, but the benefit is that the kids that WANT to learn leave the school with an actual education.
And they will never say this in the essay, but an openly gay male in a mostly-minority school? They won’t give you a chance. Sorry.
But at the same time, all that talent and wealth accumulated in the hands of the few ... well, it's terrible, isn't it?? Let's give it to the poor...
Ah, but the poor. Well, they aren't nearly as admirable as the rich, are they? I mean, muscular urban black men looking angry in front of a wall of really artistic graffiti intrigues them, but fat white people shopping at WalMart disgust them beyond what they can even articulate.
So they love the poor, except when they utterly despise them, and they despise the evil rich capitalist... except for when they absolutely worship them. Sooner or later they start blowing fuses at the confusion.
Older black folk in the South are usually very polite. And Hispanics in my part of L.A. are very courteous. I’ve had tattooed gang-bangers hold the door for me. But overall, you are right. Young black men are just mean as dirt anymore. And young white folk are so engrossed in their phones, they nearly slam into the door face-first themselves.
They won't at first. But I have seen absolute flamers survive. It's a matter of hanging in there for 3-4 years with your teeth gritted until you become a known entity. When kids start telling their little brothers and sisters, "Oh you got Mr. G for history this year? Yeah, I had him. He's okay." It starts to get easier.
The bathrooms are soooooo unsafe that children will hold their urine and feces all day rather than use the restroom. For the government, or parent, to FORCE a child into such an environment is child abuse. The government can get away with it. If a private individual were to do that to a child they would be arrested.
Double think makes the head explode.
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It’s time to bring back reform schools.
And while I have only met 2 people from Singapore, they were but very sharp, and both sad that they were very average students back in school.
I realized that: that's why it was so brilliant. You've really nailed them.
I understand that the reasoning is that it’s your own fault if you’re too timid to try to push through a line of older students, most of them smoking or sniffing something, to get to the toilet.
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