Posted on 05/27/2009 6:41:58 AM PDT by decimon
A “thug” mentality is considered “cool”.
“learning” is a “white thing.”
They've got it backwards and ALWAYS want to blame skin color.
I often wonder ... if any of them study Lincoln ... he was dirt poor with tragedy and look what Abraham Lincoln accomplished. There truly is no excuse. They ALLOW themselves to STAY DOWN.
Maybe he means that the reason is hard for an “educator” to say out loud without scuttling his or her career.
Go ahead and give it a shot Dr. Since the black teachers left too we know it can't be racism. Could it be culture?
Sorry about the multiple posts — our cat stepped on the keyboard!
Yours are exactly this economist first thoughts on the results. If a group of students transfer in from a group that view study and education as “acting white” why wouldn’t teachers who can leave, leave.
“Just what it is about black students that pushes high-quality teachers away is hard to pin down, Dr. Jackson says. It could be that teachers are reacting to notions about black students’ achievement or income levels.”
Notions about achievement or income levels?
How about “Teacher effectiveness, as measured by teachers’ previous ability to improve student test scores”
The study answers itself. Probably spent taxpayer money for it also.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
I see you are an advocate of rote learning. ;-)
Your pet goat ate your homework. The check is in the mail...
Let me give you an example of their behavior. One girl, in fourth grade likes to throw scissors at “butts”, literally tackle a fellow student for a marker and bite you if she's not happy with something you have done. A black boy likes to strip down in the locker room and run after other boys and threaten them with his “private parts”. All this is uncivilized behavior. I kid you not, ALL the kids from Africa have the same or similar behavioral problems. The parents think their kids are being “picked on” because of their kin color.
I just say to our daughter, “be nice, get along” but DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH THESE KIDS. They are BAD NEWS.
The school will NOT throw them out. They will NOT issue behavior reports. They will NOT issue demerits. If if were a white kid they'd get all the above. Eventually the expense drives them out as they go up in grades and the school is proud of its “diversity”.
I teach in a low performing, high poverty school.
Some of my most dear students are the A. American ones. Show them some tough love and a bit of TLC and they will try to walk on water for you. Some of them are the hard core, wanna be thugs, but are willing to work hard for me.
I do have those that will not perform or cannot perform, but they are few and far between.
Am I a good teacher? Scores seem to say so, considering I teach the lowest performing (before special needs) in the school, so I get a lot of those self same students.
But, by most on this board, I am a fool for doing what I feel called to do, with the students that I choose to work with.
At our house, it wouldn't matter what school the kids went to since we stay on top of what they are doing, learning and MOTIVATE them. This is missing from the kids they speak of.
Maybe they grow weary of the constant barrage of racial epithets and get no support from the administration (according to the experiences of 2 of my teacher friends).
Gee, imagine that?
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