[2ndDivisionVet]

[The_Media_never_lie]

Exactly why we need school choice!

[A CA Guy]

The big issue is a child with parental priveledge, which is where the parents give a shit.

[Moonman62]

It’s not about privilege, it’s about morality.

[petitfour]

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.

[ThunderSleeps]

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.

[Zeppo]

This public school teacher often blogs anonymously under the name Shakespeare’s Sister at Daily Kos.

So the teacher is a Communist extremist and an idiot.

Well, isn't that special...

[Teacher317]

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.)

[ConorMacNessa]

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)

[Cicero]

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.

[MNDude]

Often about $20k or more is spent on each student per year in these poor minority schools.

[oldbrowser]

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.

[digger48]

#Whiteys Fault

[Secret Agent Man]

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.

[UCANSEE2]

“Almost every day, I slip food to one of my students. “

Does Michelle Obama know about this ?

[Secret Agent Man]

HOW FAR ARE YOU GOING TO GO WHEN STUDYING IS “ACTING WHITE”?

Deal with reality you “teacher”/indoctrinator.

[tumblindice]

I think I may have knocked boots with her in Rancho Cucamonga, 1998.
She said she was disappointed, unhappy and thoroughly disgusted.
Oh well. What cha gonna do?

[Boogieman]

Every argument about “privilege”:

Life isn’t fair so you need to feel guilty!

[kvanbrunt2]

from the article “ They are less likely to have support at home”
no home. fix this. these kids are homeless. welfare mom don’t care f***ing bf and smokin dope. next kid sorry repeat. and this ain’t a black thing. its white hispanic urban crap.

[PGR88]

All the money in the world will not help the kids she describes.

Progs have destroyed their families, and other people’s money is the only answer they have.

[Impala64ssa]

I’m ready to give up my White privilege in exchange for the combined net worth of Sharpton, Jackson and Oprah.