This Michael Brown?
This year, they were told they had to stay at Normandy High. The school didn’t have the same advanced classes they had been taking. And on Day 5 of the academic year, they told their mother they had been “jumped,” or beaten up.
Can't have any of them "acting white" or there will be severe consequences. Only hoodlums are allowed in the hood.
“...before his hard-won graduation ...”
This is a public school.
Hard won, my as...er...my Obamaregion.
Hurl alert.
The Post is drilling for a new low point.
If this is true, then this "school" isn't really a "school," and needs to be closed down immediately. What's the point of funding a failed endeavor?
Washington Post = Pravda.
Hard won graduation? They all graduate if they finish out their time.
“Teachers rush from class to weep, behind closed doors, in faculty restrooms.”
I’d weep too if I had to teach there.
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When was the last time the left and the black community mourned and protested about some injustice to someone who was NOT a budding thug, ‘aspiring rapper’, or stripper/prostitute?
Where is their best and brightest?
The fact that 80% of the “graduates” are functional illiterates says it’s time to abandon the government school paradigm.
Meanwhile the people in this community continue to elect and re-elect the same far left liberal extremists who created the situation and keep these people impoverished. Go figure.
Voucher programs are tailor-made for Ms. Clemons’s sons. Instead, they are sentenced to failing schools and all the pathologies that come with it.
I taught in a school system similar to Normandy for three years after retiring from the military. I still remember the students who tried to get an education against all odds.
I wonder what Michael Brown’s academic school disciplinary records looked like? I’m sure the “gentle giant” and aspiring strong-arm robber was a model student and a role model for the other “yuts.”
The only way to “fix” schools like the ones in Ferguson is with rigid discipline and liberal expulsions of the young thugs—most of them on a permanent basis. Get rid of the hoodlums and schools will improve overnight. Roughly 6% of the students are responsible for almost 70% of the serious disciplinary problems at school. Most federal judges would disagree, but those thugs do not have a right to a “free” education on the taxpayer’s dime.
Can we throw up a little now, all together.
Cry me a river. The WaPo doesn’t know that it’s them and their pals on the Left who rule “public education”, and have always used race baiting of especially blacks in poverty as their A-team in their race to the bottom, to advance communism?
Maybe the WP should take their case to the
source— the Leftists in charge— from top to bottom. The rent a riot mentality is alive and well at the Post, soaked in sentimentality.
How else can rent a riot enjoy such cover?
Isn’t the proper rearing of children the parents job. Guess where these kids are learning to be abusive.
Average Normandy spending per student per year (in 2009): $13,609.00 http://visionforchildren.org/infocenter/explore/zipdetail
Average Catholic School Spending per student per year: $6,890
http://www.capenet.org/facts.html
So go find something else to cry about!
We already knew all of this from watching “The Wire” which ended six years ago.
These problems have yet to be fixed in a SINGLE big city, cities invariably controlled
for Democrats for decades. How come?
Oh, yeah. “No Tracking” and “social promotion” for starters. “No Tracking” assures that a few actual criminals in each class prevent everyone from leaning anything, and “social promotion” shoves everyone down the ladder of ignorance one step at a time each year until they finally hit bottom and are carted away.
And that’s just for starters.
LAST WEEK HIS TEACHER SAID HE WAS A YEAR AND A HALF BEHIND!!!!!
Stupid reporters (I won't call them Journalists) just cherry pick what ever information that floats by on the net
Normally I rant on about FReepers who post too little of an excerpt. They post too little info forcing one to click the link to form even a vague idea of what the author wants to say.
In your case.. You posted TOO MUCH! And you didn’t post a Barf Alert.
“The American flag at the entrance of Normandy High School flies at half-staff. “
Who ordered that? Obama? The governor doesn’t have the authority to do it as far as I know. Or did the school decide to do this on their own.
I realize that with all the rioting & looting going on that this may seem like a small thing. But symbolism is important.
Here we go....young black man is dead because our public schools are “underfunded”...
The American flag at the entrance of Normandy High School flies at half-staff.
HUH? Who authorized that?
The flag is lowered for heroes not for criminals. This is insane...............
Whatever set young Brown off on the day of his death, his reported conduct strongly suggests a behavior that no society, anywhere on earth, would tolerate. He first, apparently, brutalized a shop-keeper, to satisfy a whim; then walked up the middle of a fairly busy street--if not reflecting an obvious death wish (at least sub-consciously) from a motorist unable to stop in time, certainly a total contempt for the rights of others.
Then when admonished by an officer doing his duty in respect to that self-destructive behavior, he savagely attacked that officer. An experienced law officer in any place on earth, would have responded with whatever force was necessary, to control this grossly anti-social & menacing behavior.
What the Washington Post is aiding & abetting in this "red-herring" journalism, is intervention into a local incident by out-of-town Leftists, which is going to have a chilling effect--just think about it--on young men of decent calibre, who are considering careers in law enforcement. Who, with a sense of the public good & personal honor, want to be put into a position, where they must allow an out-of-control thug--one behaving in an absolutely crazed manner--the clear advantage in a desperate confrontation; or, alternatively, subjecting themselves to a public lynching by a collection of quack journalists and experienced hate-mongers.
Of am I being unfair?
William Flax