Thanks for the link.
No more info about the guy who got his head bashed, but it wasn’t really that kind of article.
I like how our author totally buried the lead, as they say, putting the 2 mom’s desire to take their kids out of the public schools until the very end of the piece.
But I must say, even leaving God and religion aside, the difference between schools that work and schools that don’t isn’t just a coat of paint on the walls.
I’ve been listening to NPR a lot, because I have a long and arduous commute now and for whatever sad reason NYC drive time radio is dead. (Who let THAT happen?) Right now, imho, Fresh Air with Terri Gross which I hear on Sirius, is the best show available.
But of course sometimes it’s just unlistenable liberal swill, like the fellow she had on the other day. I turned him off almost immediately, so I don’t know his name or the name of his book or anything.
His theory is (and he may be right in part) that criminals have some mental problems and these affect them through their whole lives. His recommendation was to put these violent people in nicer places than prisons, that a better environment could help them.
And I’m thinking, boy you are an idiot, prisons are violent places because they are filled with these violent people. And if his theory is correct, that there are physical brain issues involved there may be even less that can be done with these people that we’ve thought.
No matter where you would incarcerate these people, it would soon end up just like the prisons of today are, because the inmates themselves would make it that way.
This piece reminds me of that mind-set.
I apologize in advance if I’ve mi-represented the man’s views, but I don’t think I have. I’m sorry to say I think he had the intellectual power of the hot-chocolate drinking, plaid onesie wearing, Obama-boy.
If the people in the inner cities think people like that are ever going to change their lives, schools, or neighborhoods for the better, they should think again. Liberals are, at the very best, useless.