Posted on 06/30/2020 4:09:15 AM PDT by C19fan
The fault lines are open and fractions are rising in the United States. Inequalities, which have always been there, are now fully exposed because of COVID-19, including its effect on marginalized communities. The death of George Floyd shined the spotlight even brighter on the racial inequality and segregation embedded in this country's education system.
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School choice has a lot to answer for. When white parents choose schools, they use racial composition and factors for which race is a proxy, such as school safety, quality of facilities and academic performance. These choices could trickle down to their children, shape their values and, presumably, they could grow up blinkered to the reality of the United States demographic composition today, which is diverse.
I plead guilt on all counts. You are damn right I did not want my children to go to some school where the teachers spend the majority of the time just trying to maintain something of a semblance of order. Guess what Mr. Antoninis that is a universal feeling of all families regardless of race. Why do you think Middle Class and above minority families flee when they have the opportunity.
Mr. Antoninis why is it that magnet programs at minority majority schools basically segregate the gifted kids from the general population?
I went to public school in Wilmington, DE. (Dr. Dementia’s wife taught there) I saw tons of racism, by Blacks. I saw drugs, violence, and mass stupidity. The few Blacks that were studious were “acting White”. Of course they lived in the suburbs because their successful Black parents moved away from other Blacks.
I treat everyone as an individual, but Blacks in general suck.
They are a failure everywhere in the world.
They have ruined every city in America.
Clean your side of the street.
End of discussion.
My question is, is there racism in all black inner city urban schools? Dont you need white people to create a racism condition? And parents be for warmed your white privileged children will be attacked, misaligned, ostracized and degraded by the administrations of your schools to fall in line with the mobs marching orders. The physical attacks will be ignored and not addressed or prosecuted and there will be many
I retired from teaching after many years, the majority spent in public schools. There is NO teaching there. The system in Texas is under control of extreme leftists and they have an agenda which, if bucked, gets you fired. It’s that simple.
Mr. Antoninis is from Greece as he received his BA from Athens University. He comes into this having no real life experience of what disruption from single parent African-American children can cause in the class room.
Here in Indianapolis our city school system, IPS, just voted on a resolution to address systemic racism in the corporation. The funny thing about it is that the school board is 6-2 Black, the super is a Black woman, the in building administration is overwhelmingly Black, the teaching staff is over 50% Black and the student body is 73% Black. So being the smart ass that I am I asked one of my liberal white neighbors, how with that demographic, the system could be racist. He said it was a historical thing, going back to when there was a separate Black HS. We’re talking a school that was opened in 1922 and closed as an all Black school in the 70’s.
They also at the same meeting passed a resolution supporting and accepting the tenants of BLM’s education reform.
IPS has a graduation rate of about 60% overall and less than 25% for Black Boys. So I’m glad to see they’ve found an excuse for their failure. It’s always racism. It’s so easy for them.
I’m not going to send my kids to school to be abused, and have their minds filled with hateful, seditious ideology.
Yes Mr. Antonino’s parent’s, any good parent with a choice, will pick a school based on safety, quality of facilities and performance. It’s not a White thing.
We need to talk about teaching students what they need to learn in school. We need to talk about school choice.
Spot on! I went to D.C. public schools...one word: CHAOS!
The three R’s:
Racism
Russia
Reproduction
If we want to address ‘isms’ in our schools, maybe we should start with the marxism!
I love the liberal response to everything is the “misery lives company” motto: If I can't have it, you can't have it, even if you earned it and I didn't. If I'm miserable, you must be too.
Where once there was white flight from American cities, after this season of riots, there will be middle class flight by people of all races.
I call it, “Producer Flight”. Color has nothing to do with it, black producers want the same things any other producer does.
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