Posted on 11/27/2014 11:49:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Nov. 25th, a grand jury in Ferguson voted not to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in the shooting of an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown, last August in a case that has stirred civil unrest and accusations of racism by white law enforcement officials. The next day, Steve Singer, a teacher in suburban Pittsburgh went to school and realized that he could not carry on as usual but that he had to address what was transpiring in Missouri. This is his account of what happened that day. Singer is a husband, father, blogger and education advocate who teaches eighth-grade Language Arts at a suburban school near Pittsburgh, Pa. He is an administrator with The Badass Teachers Association and serves on the Yinzercation Steering Committee. He gave me permission to republish this post, which first appeared on his blog, at http://www.gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com, where this appeared.
Singer teaches the academic, or middle-track students at his school. His classes are made up of roughly 70 percent minority students, and an even higher percentage of his students come from low socioeconomic status households. Not surprisingly, standardized test scores are low, but creativity, passion and critical thinking skills are high. Singer says he believes in every one of his students and would do almost anything to help them succeed....
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Punch a cop, grab for his gun, get shot. End of lesson.
I started to read the article, but I did not get very far, as I am sure you can imagine. It sounds like he has a lot of white guilt. I do not suffer from that disease. If these dip wads have so much guilt, why don't they just off themselves?
Oh, cry me a frickin’ river, already......
This “teacher”, along with other such idiots populating the ranks of our public school teachers, has no idea of the degree of his willful ignorance and he had no idea of the damage he is doing to his charges. He’s crippling those young minds and filling them with the idea that they are victims and nothing more.
And he does this while playing the role of the noble white man “helping” the downtrodden black community. A community he is helping to damn to a lifetime of self-imposed isolation and unwillingness to accept responsibility.
Surprisingly, the comments are overwhelmingly against what this POS “teacher” did.
He might be a bit on the Rachel Corrie side. A self appointed do gooder, and when the down trodden, disenfranchised masses rise up, he will be the first one lined up against the wall. Would that be called karma?
Jiminy Tap-Dancing Christmas, there they go again.
My version.
Gang enforcer and protection collector visit store to remind owner to pay protection.
Customer calls police. Gang members walk down middle of street like they own it,come across cop not on take, try to scare him, he is not impressed and tries to shoot in car.
Gang members walk away and are annoyed when police officer exits car and wants to arrest them. One gang member charges at police officer thinking that will scare him. It takes multiple shots to stop attacking gang member.
Gang ups protection fees. Businesses that didn’t pay get burned down.
Both of these things cannot be true, which attests to the "critical thinking skills" of the author.
Michael Brown is dead because of black race baiters and white enablers like this self-hating teacher. The blood of his death is on the hands of people who excuse and even encourage uncivilized behavior, and most of the time the killings are not committed by white, brown, black or yellow cops, but by other Michael Browns. One fourth of the children in this man's class will be under the supervision of the criminal justice system in some form by the time they are twenty-five. That isn't the fault of white policemen.
This “unarmed teenager” thing is going to give me serious liver damage. Oh, well, cheers!
Better be careful, you’ll end up with a Whiskey, er, drill.
This video sure is memorable.
Unfortunately I know many a male relative who have a police record cause their crazy girlfriend used the police to throw them in jail.
Look at me, look at me, everybody! I’m a good person!
“If these dip wads have so much guilt, why don’t they just off themselves?”
They prefer to be beheaded by “peaceful” Muslims so they feel like they’re getting what they deserve.
Interesting point. I wonder if some of these idiots are so perverse in their thinking, that they actually believe that? I wouldn't be surprised if some of them really did.
Not surprisingly, standardized test scores are low, but creativity, passion and critical thinking skills are high.
Really? An intelligent person might think that a student that has creativity, passion and critical thinking skills should be getting good scores on tests. If a student like this is not might that issue fall on the teachers or the subjects being taught?
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