Posted on 06/12/2005 7:34:54 AM PDT by southernnorthcarolina
The obvious answer has escaped them.
Suspend a whitey if he looks at you funny. If they inhale too deeply, kick them out. That should help even out the disparity < /yes, sarcasm intended>
Incredibly (in a sane world) the article would at least raise the question as to whether those suspended students DESERVED suspension.
But alas, we do not live in a sane world, therefore the OBVIOUS is never discussed, as it isn't very PC.
No, it didn't escape them...they are not that stupid.
Just referring to it (the obvious) would bring instant charges of racism, classism, etc.
Myers Park's Bill Anderson called the gap "absolutely not" acceptable. He wants to expand training for teachers to better understand the culture of poverty, which he believes plays a role.
How stupid can these clowns be?
The problem is NOT the teachers. As pointed out earlier in the article:
"A lot of children don't show behavior appropriate for school," she says. "We have kids who haven't learned that you're respectful to teachers, you don't curse in class, you don't get up and walk around."
The lefties are not helping the underprivileged by sanctioning antisocial behavior. Doing that only perpetuates their plight.
Sounds like the crime rate.
Here's a similar question; what are the minority/majority expulsion numbers? I. e., How many of the reported 30% blacks expelled are expelled more than once?
In my observations as a teacher in a black majority school district for nine years, I would say it is because the black kids misbehave more often.
I just love it when a plan comes together.
There is an excellent story a few items down from this on how Indian and Asian students are excelling in school; while America uses schools to coodle Mexicans and Blacks.
To paraphrase: 'America staggers towards something called diversity, like a bum will drag himself to a bottle of cheap booze on the sidewalk'. And we have the other gem; Chinese and Indian schools don't have time for loosers, they focus on the hard working, smart kids. America places it's emphasis on making life easier on the loosers, thus making the successful kids little more than the elite among the loosers.
And to take it a step further, many black kids are raised without the influence of a father in their lives. Discipline is lacking and therefore, at school, they get into more trouble.
They won't get their butt whupped for bad behavior in school, though, and therein lies the problem.
Well Maury Povich is getting to the bottom of the problem of no father in the home - he has given DNA tests up to as many as 25 guys to find out who the father of one child is.
And he does this day in and day out - it is a tough job.
And to take it a step further, libralism is a mental disorder. I would guess that the children of black Republican voters would be LESS likely to get in trouble than the average white kid. Give me some funding, I want to do a study!
I didn't know standing up in church on Sunday and calling the minister a "punk-ass b*tch" or a "motherf*cker" was "engagement."
So the students who were taught correct behavior prior to Kindergarten are now supposed to suffer by having troublemakers in the classroom to disrupt their education to satisfy these lefties. I dont think so. Maybe some kids need a little extra attention in the early grades to teach them right from wrong.
Yes. I am a public high school teacher. This "hip-hop" culture where young black men associate themselves with criminals and gang members is killing them. It's killing them academically and socially. In my school, we don't allow the F word in the hallways; when it's heard the kid (usually black) is written up and often suspended. What else are we to do? If we allow that kind of language the parents of the kids who don't use it will pull their kids out and send them to private schools, as maybe they should. As long as young black men have gangbangers as their heros and prefer to bring $150.00 sneakers to class tied around their necks instead of pencils and paper, this is going to go on.
Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
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