Posted on 01/09/2014 8:08:37 AM PST by shortstop
It took seven sentences for them to inject the word ‘race’.
Come on now, getting slack....
This just ensures that mass murderers that go into schools and shootem up will stick to predominately ‘white’ schools.
It’s too dangerous for them in predominately ‘black’ schools.
These students, even a few Oriental students, recognize that white teachers fear the repercussions that may come to the teacher if discipline is used and behave accordingly.
One does not give children a license to steal unless they plan to allow theft.
I am just thankful I grew up in a genereation where, if you messed up at school, you got your tail tore up. Then when you got home you got it tore up again. Then you went back to school and all was forgotten.
“One does not give children a license to steal unless they plan to allow theft.”
If bad behavior is tolerated you will get more of it. Its just common sense. It seems that every rule put in place is purposely designed to make schools fail.
Schools are unduly harsh on blacks!?!?! That is news to me.
I taught at the university level where I had a black student turning in work at the last minute. The work was substandard, largely because no effort had been made. I stopped the student as he was leaving class I told him I would not read his paper, that he needed to put the time into it and do his best and turn in a rewrite.
I explained that the process he was going through was not a four year process, but a life long process; you get out of your endeavors what you put in. In other words, this is your education, it is life long, go about it with that goal, do not go through it as though you are merely hoop jumping to get the sheepskin.
His performance improved dramatically. He was one of the best students, a joy to have in class, and a genuinely good guy. He called me three years later to tell me he had gotten a good job, a low level management position and was in a program to educate him for advancement.
He thanked me, but I pointed out it was his own doing, his own effort and attitude that propelled him. He told me he always got good grades, whether he did the work or not, that I was the only teacher in ALL of his education, grade school H.S., college, who ever pulled him aside and said knock off the B.S. He said he knew everyone was essentially giving him a pass because he was black.
He was a good person who saw that he had a choioce; ride the gravy train or actually improve himself.
As educators, it is not uncommon to be told to make allowances for certain students. My students believe they should be graded on effort. I point out that a student with dislexia or a exchange student with a new knowledge of English works harder than my native born students. With that in mind, my dislexic, Greek immigrant gets the “A” and I grade down from there. They didn’t care for that idea.
I pointed out that when they go to a doctor they prefer to go to the best, not the hardest working. You buy the best car for the dollar, not the one where they worked hardest in the factory. You buy music from the best musicians (theorhetically) that my effort to sing the Ring would be considerably greater than Pavoratti’s, or my effort to play “Voodoo Child” on the guitar similarly more difficult than Hendrix’s, so I should be rewarded accordingly?
No, you are graded and awarded on ability. THis egalitarianism is crap, and in a world where everyone is considered to be a Mozart, no one is a Mozart.
We get a lot of the same stuff from serial killers who say they were abused as children. My guess is that they were physically disciplined for really ghoulish stuff, and they considered that abuse.
This filthy Marxist punk failure Obama just won’t go away, like some creep breathing heavily into my phone every time I answer.
Lonsberry makes sense. I’m glad to see his columns pop up on FR from time to time. Lonsberry lost his WHAM show some years back over a comment perceived by some to be politically correct. Then he lost his Utah show for backing the conservative in a GOP primary. Rochester listeners and sponsors got his WHAM show restored, but a reorganization cut his hours. He now also has a Syracuse show.
I’m glad to see Lonsberry still has courage of his convictions, no matter the topic.
Where objectivity and informed policy is concerned... “O” is the perennial debutante.
He NEVER learns but he KEEPS ON shooting off his mouth.
One lesson most intelligent people learn at a young age, if you don’t know what you are talking about ...STFU...and NO ONE will find out how stupid you really are.
It’s practically the main hurdle in the maturity process. What adult do you know and RESPECT who has NOT learned this?
I’ve noticed that when there is a report of a Zero-tolerance policy, the student is usually described as never having been in trouble before. We are moving to a situation where the good kids are afraid to blink at the wrong time for fear of punishment, while the not so good kids are free to do as they please.
Isn’t this the same type program that Travon was participating in, creating the illusion of angel to MSM and his community?
That, IMO, was the whole purpose of zero tolerance policies.
Because it “wasn’t fair” that everyone didn’t get into trouble, just the “at risk” kids.
That, and taking all responsibility away from administrators for making disciplinary decisions which could get them sued.
Yes it is —
Worked so well there /sarc. Setting up the scenerio for more dead yutes.
Actually their argument is otherwise —
If he had not been suspended from school then he would not have been in Sanford smokin dope and hittin crackas.
Instead he would have been down in Miami doing his homework, laying out his clothes for school the next day, and packing his lunch.
Liberals are the biggest haters and dividers out there. White liberals hate that they are white and feel so guilty about it they must force this kind of crap down our throats.
Ugh.
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