Posted on 01/17/2016 7:22:54 AM PST by Gigantor
A brain-dead liberal tries to "change the world" on a one-year break from his cushy lifestyle only to emerge as brain-dead as before he began.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A gay metrosexual leftist, seeing the consequences of his ideology.
the words we are looking for are “cognitive dissonance.”
Why does it seem that these stories only come out of cities the Democrats have been running for the past 50 years or more? And Bloomberg was no Republican. He only ran as one because the Rat fiels was so crowded.
Conclusion says it all: “Boland ends his book with familiar suggestions for ÂÂreform: Invest more money, recruit better teachers, retool the unions, end poverty. But there’s no public policy for fixing a broken kid from a broken home, or turning fear into resilience, or saving kids who can’t, or won’t, be saved.â€
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The government keeps breeding the animals and making the rules that turn these schools into war zones. Nothing will change until the root problem is recognized.
Yes, that’s the unfortunate individual.
Gee, the ‘80s were longer ago than I thought.
Thank you both.
Yes, and very good, but the teachers' union doesn't exactly help out, does it?
Yes, I am a teacher, and I hear what you are saying. It's not the kids who make the job difficult, it's the grown ups.
A very enlightening piece. Thank you for posting. I was especially interested in the honesty of the author - “resenting their poverty, their ignorance, their arrogance.”
He tried to help...
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Thomas Sowell said that when he was growing up in Harlem in the 1930s, the schools there were excellent.
What a sad, disastrous story. This is the world LBJ created.
This is the world the plantation owners created, should have picked our own damned cotton.
I agree. And Boland is now with an educational access organization trying to get gifted kids of color into private schools. The work continues but that seems to be a milieu in which he is more comfortable.
Fools trying to turn savages into civilized humans.
No good deed goes unpunished!
In his case, I would say the boys. He is not interested in girls.
And almost all of the children had a mother and father with a nurturing and work ethic.
I have never had to have any dealings with the union. My experience (and I'm on my 12th year) is that if you have a good relationship with the principal and the counselor, and you all work together, you can arrange little pockets of sanity for the good kids.
ends his book with familiar suggestions for Âreform: Invest more money, recruit better teachers, retool the unions, end poverty.....They’ve been trying this since 1968. M0’ m0ney, M0 money. Throw a fence up around these schools and let anyone who cares about these dregs feed’em. Don’t bother the working people.
Period.
Again, very good!
I know someone - very liberal - who lives in a divided town in a northeastern state. By "divided," I mean half the town is very well to do, and the other half is starkly low-income.
He was delighted when - just before his only child was to begin kindergarten - a "magnet school" opened on the low-income side of town. He was delighted because he lived on the high-income side, and he was concerned that if his son had gone to school in his nearby neighborhood school, he (the son) would have been robbed of the sort of diverse educational experience my friend desired for him.
Anyway, the "magnet school" didn't last long. The teachers' union worked with a local "advocacy organization" to demonstrate that a disproportionate number of the children admitted to the lovely magnet school were not "of color."
The parents didn't like the magnet school because too many of their children weren't admitted because they didn't score well on the required aptitude tests, and the teachers' union didn't like it because of the favoritism shown to those teachers who got the comparatively pleasant task of teaching the more highly-motivated students with attentive and involved parents.
So after a year or two, the whole enterprise collapsed in a melee of race-baiting and finger-pointing.
Around that time, my friend stopped being my friend, also.
I had expressed skepticism about the "magnet school" in the nasty neighborhood, but there may have been other factors involved. To this day, I don't know.
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