put ALL the thugs in separate classes and hire retired law enforcement or military as teachers... after that, three strikes and you're out
Posted on 02/26/2014 4:36:01 AM PST by Kaslin
A fortnight ago, my column focused on how Philadelphia's schoolteachers have joined public-school teachers in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York and Washington in changing student scores on academic achievement tests. Teachers have held grade fixing parties, sometimes wearing rubber gloves to hide fingerprints. In some cases, poorly performing students were excused from taking exams to prevent them from dragging down averages. As a result of investigations, a number of schoolteachers and administrators have been suspended, fired or indicted by states attorneys general.
Most of these cheating scandals have occurred in predominantly black schools across the nation. At one level, it's easy to understand -- but by no means condone -- the motivation teachers have to cheat. Teachers have families to raise, mortgages, car payments and other financial obligations. Their pay, retention and promotions depend on how well their students perform on standardized tests.
Very often, teachers must deal with an impossible classroom atmosphere in which many, if not most, of the students are disorderly, disobedient and alien and hostile to the education process. Many students pose a significant safety threat. The latest statistics available, published by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, in a report titled "Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2012," tell us that nationwide between 2007 and 2008, about 145,100 public-school teachers were physically attacked by students, and another 276,700 were threatened with injury.
Should any of this criminal behavior be tolerated? Should unruly students be able to halt the education process? And, a question particularly for black people: Are we in such good educational shape that we can afford to allow some students to make education impossible? A report supported in part by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, titled "Reducing Suspension among Academically Disengaged Black Males" (http://tinyurl.com/my95jh3), suggests a tolerance for disruptive students.
There are some members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP and the National Urban League who attended school during the years I attended (1942-54). During those days, no youngster would have even cursed a teacher, much less assaulted one. One has to wonder why black leaders accept behavior that never would have been tolerated by their parents and teachers. Back then, to use foul language or assault a teacher or any other adult would have resulted in some form of corporal punishment in school or at home or both. Today such discipline would have a teacher or parent jailed. That, in turn, means there is little or no meaningful sanction against unruly or criminal behavior.
No one argues that yesteryear's students were angels. In Philadelphia, where I grew up, students who posed severe disciplinary problems were removed. Daniel Boone School was for unruly boys, and Carmen was for girls. Some people might respond: But what are we going to do with the students kicked out? Whether or not there are resources to help them is not the issue. The critical issue is whether they should be permitted to make education impossible for students who are capable of learning. It's a policy question similar to: What do you do when you have both drunken drivers and sober drivers on the road? The first order of business is to get the drunken drivers off the road. Whether there are resources available to help the drunks is, at best, a secondary issue.
There is little that the political and education establishment will do about the grossly fraudulent education received by many black youngsters, and more money is not the answer. For example, according to findings by Cato Institute's Andrew J. Coulson, Washington, D.C., spends $29,409 per pupil (http://tinyurl.com/mpc82dq). In terms of academic achievement, its students are nearly the nation's worst. The average tuition for a K-12 Catholic school is $9,000, and for a nonsectarian private K-12 school, it is $16,000. A voucher system would empower black parents to remove their children from high-cost and low-quality public schools and enroll them in lower-cost and higher-quality nonpublic schools.
Ignore them? Manual labor? Shoot them when they rob people?
Oh wait I have the answer: Give them "free" housing, "free" food, "free" medical care, pay them to have bastards, and of course let them have a cash benefit too, all at the expense of the people who actually work for a living
This interactive map, together with its links to listings by school districts and other cheating scandals, is a good starting resource in my opinion.
If Prof. Williams (correctly) believes that separating the unruly animals from the normal students is the key to improving the education of black students, then the better approach would be something I've recommended for a long time: Eliminate the entire concept of compulsory education in this country. That would put an end to this silly farce that everyone somehow "deserves" an education, which is the legal basis under which we treat public school students like herds of animals.
A brilliant self-made man like Frederick Douglass would roll over in his grave to see what has happened to the unassimilated former slaves in this country.
Those facts (the truth) are racist.../s
Walter lays it out clearly. I wonder if any of the CBC could read this and get it?
put ALL the thugs in separate classes and hire retired law enforcement or military as teachers... after that, three strikes and you're out
“A voucher system would empower black parents to remove their children from high-cost and low-quality public schools and enroll them in lower-cost and higher-quality nonpublic schools.”
So transfer the unruly, educationally hostile undisciplined kid to a non traditional school to bring his/her infection to that system. Brilliant.
How about making it OK to say so-called black culture sucks and keeps blacks down ?
Mandatory busing revisited.
Living in this country is a fabulous gift and opportunity. People that refuse to work, behave civilly, or act with honor should be stripped of their citizenship and deported. Decent people that work should not have to provide for these cretins nor contend with their wild and often deadly conduct.
It is a shame that there may be several congressfolk in the CBC who would still not get it, blinded by partisanship or other debility.
It is a larger shame ... a TRAGEDY in fact ... that a large majority DO GET IT and still condemn vast numbers of black youngsters to failed low-quality government schools by backing the teacher's unions and blocking vouchers, kowtowing to the partisan liberal ideology to the great detriment of black youngsters.
Shame on you CBC!
Eliminate welfare. If young girls faced the prospect of supporting any kids they had, though having to work, they would not have kids they could not support.
it’s a sad assumption some take that all kids enter school prepared to learn.
They aren’t and magic doesn’t occur when an unruly kid gets a voucher to go to a non public school. The kid is still a discipline problem and still has the lack of preparation to be educated. Nothing has changed except location.
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