Maxwell’s article is quite sad.Stillman College sounds like a typical ghetto high school rather than a four year institution of higher learning.I have to think that at higher level colleges like Howard,Fisk and Morehouse that standards are much stricter.
Yet from my own experience in our school systems,these young black kids are being shorchanged by the system and then doing more damage by shortchanging themselves.Example-I’m on the Westside today about One O’Clock or so and see dozens of kids on the corner just “chopping it up”.Lunch officially ended 15 minutes earlier.Two security guards are sitting across the street having a smoke.No administrators are out there cajoling the kids back to class.Two weeks ago when I was over there students would walk in an out of class at will.Anytime during every period you would look out your door and see the hallway filled with small groups and individuals cutting class.
They would never let these antics go on at a white school.Black kids have to own up to their part in letting this nonsense continue.Yet where are the ADULTS who condone and enable this behavior?Are they THAT lax in doing their jobs?
When I read Maxwell’s articles, I was sort of reminded of the lax attitude that was taken toward Cho (the VaTech killer.) I had read articles that said teachers gave him A’s because they were afraid of him. I didn’t get the impression that teachers were afraid of the kid’s at Stillman, but just that they didn’t see any “hope” of changing things, so they were just passing them, in order to move them out of their classes.
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Yes, they are that lax.
What these “ADULTS” are doing is raising feral children. It is almost as abusive as locking a kid in a closet for years on end. These so-called “students” ( I use that term loosely) are educationally, socially, and emotionally retarded. “ADULTS” in their government schools have done this to them.
It is child abuse. It is also abusive for any parent to send their child into an environment like this.
Uh..oh! I have just criticized the government schools. Some nitwit of a teacher or parent will now post that I have **personally** insulted them, and post that I have **personally** called them a child abuser.
“They would never let these antics go on at a white school.Black kids have to own up to their part in letting this nonsense continue.Yet where are the ADULTS who condone and enable this behavior?Are they THAT lax in doing their jobs?”
I don’t think it’s laxity as much as an acknowledgement that the risk of discrimination based litigation is running matters. For someone to discipline a minority student or staff member is to accept the risk of discrimination complaints and/or litigation. So before taking disciplinary action, the person doing so has to ask themselves the question: is this really worth the potential grief to me? More often than not, the answer is no. So the disciplinary action isn’t taken, the situation gets just a little bit worse, and so it goes.
He certainly shocked me..I have considered him an Ol' Chip on the Shoulder type for years....Seems he 'fell into' the real world and is having great difficulty facing it?
Two security guards are sitting across the street having a smoke.No administrators are out there cajoling the kids back to class.
Don’t blame them. They probably don’t want to be sued or killed.