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Teacher: I see the difference in educational privilege every day. I live it. I am disgusted by it.
The Washington Post's Answer Sheet Blog ^
| January 29, 2015
| Valerie Strauss
Posted on 02/03/2015 8:06:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly why we need school choice!
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:07:18 PM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The big issue is a child with parental priveledge, which is where the parents give a shit.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:07:40 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s not about privilege, it’s about morality.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:08:48 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: A CA Guy
You are right——it all comes down to the parents.
Money makes everything easier but it still can be done without money.
.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:09:56 PM PST
by
Mears
(there wasn't much conversation about it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The blogger teaches AP English? I guess they quit failing students for excessive comma splicing? Her grammar is less than stellar and indicative of a lowering of standards. If it feels good, insert a comma.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:11:09 PM PST
by
petitfour
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I taught my kids to value and work for their education. They’ve had google and bad teachers, good and bad fellow students. They are in college now.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:11:43 PM PST
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This public school teacher often blogs anonymously under the name Shakespeares Sister at Daily Kos. So the teacher is a Communist extremist and an idiot.
Well, isn't that special...
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:13:02 PM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is racist garbage, from my experience. I taught in a HIGHLY diverse district, and in the cafeteria, the lines were VERY clearly evident. Black, white, Hispanic, Asian... didn't matter... but north of 49th st and south of 49th St, each had their own side of the lunchroom, and there was VERY little cross-over. The poorer kids on one side, the middle-class and the elite kids on the other. Race had NOTHING to do with it.
Effort, desire, help from home, encouragement from home, expectations from home... those are the main predictors for 98 percent of the results in the classroom.
(I'm less than 10 years removed from public school teaching, so I'm not THAT antiquated quite yet.)
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:14:11 PM PST
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I was greatly privileged as a child - I was brought into the world and nurtured into adulthood by two loving parents whose consciences were formed by traditional Christian doctrine and morals. That was an incalculable advantage I had.
"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:15:11 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: Teacher317
(But it wasn’t the white parents that came to parent-teacher night to tell me that school didn’t matter, and that the kids were only there because the law said they had to be.)
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:16:14 PM PST
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Shakespeare’s Sister? Did she get Shakespeare’s approval to call herself that?
Somehow I doubt it. That alone is enough to turn me off.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:19:20 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Often about $20k or more is spent on each student per year in these poor minority schools.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:22:01 PM PST
by
MNDude
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This teacher is drawing a comparison between highly gifted students and basically homeless teens. Of course there is a huge disparity. She should compare the poor teens to average students in an average socioeconomic situation.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:22:36 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(We have a rogue government in Washington)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:25:55 PM PST
by
digger48
To: oldbrowser
She should compare the poor teens to average students in an average socioeconomic situation.Why would she do something that would prove she is wrong (or at least mixing apples and oranges)?
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:31:21 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What he’s seeing is the results of personal choices made a long time ago, affecting those people’s kids, the choices now being made by those kids, and the fact that life isn’t fair and never has been.
Either take it up with those people who made sucky decisions that now affect their kids, take it up with the kids themselves if they are slacking off, or take it up with God.
We used to live in the most free and opportune country, and relatively speaking we still do for the large part. We have foreigners who legally become citizens that in a few years are doing far better than natural born citizens who have made sh1tty life choices.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:31:58 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Almost every day, I slip food to one of my students. “
Does Michelle Obama know about this ?
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:32:26 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
HOW FAR ARE YOU GOING TO GO WHEN STUDYING IS “ACTING WHITE”?
Deal with reality you “teacher”/indoctrinator.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:33:05 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: petitfour
The blogger teaches AP English? My thoughts as well. I'm defiantly not the grammar police, but an AP English teacher struggling through 10 paragraphs just to beg for more money, for more bureaucracy, for a failed education system?
At some point, people have to understand that "public education" can't fix a totally failed society model. All it can do is make education bureaucrats more comfortable in their retirement.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:33:15 PM PST
by
Ditto
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