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Wheeler stands by his comments, saying people should get serious about education and put their children first.
Bravo.
What do you think of this? I say good for this guy!
Finally. A good man!
Don’t mess with my(six-pack)stimulus package!
This guy tells it like it is. He says what many of us have been thinking but might be afraid to say. He has my support.
what percentage of your students are ILLEGAL???
And lottery tickets.
“Wheeler stands by his comments, saying people should get serious about education and put their children first.”
If they put their children first, they would be educating them at home and not sending them to the government indoctrination center. As for Wheeler, what does he expect from the parents, given that they were largely products of government indoctrination centers, where self-direction and taking responsibility for one’s own destiny are hardly one of the lessons being taught.
http://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/SevenLessonsTaughtInSchool
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
The Underground History of American Education
A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/historytour/history1.htm
The Makers of Modern Schooling
The real makers of modern schooling weren’t at all who we think.
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Finally a school board member who isn’t afraid of speaking the truth. I have kids in my classroom that want to dress like gangbangers and hip hop artists. I swear this generation of boys will be walking fun when they grow up. They won’t know how to walk properly when they start wearing pants that actually sit where they are supposed to sit.
We have a school policy dress code as well: no baggy pants, no undies (male or female) showing, skirts to bottom of finger tips, but it does little use. I live/teach in a middle class suburb of Illinois and most of the parents side with their children. They think we are being too strict. The parents are part of the problem...stop buying them inappropriate clothing. The school is left to be the solution. Some of the kids feel they have the right to say, “stop looking if you don’t want to see them” and parents support that behavior.
Truth hurts, I think. And that's why people are so ticked off about it. They don't like having their noses rubbed in their own poor choices.
Putting children first is now controversial?
I would have liked Wheeler to have focused on the cell phone connection. There is an inner city junior high school where I live. The caucasian and African-American population is nearly divided equally. But the demographics are such that over 90 % are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. There is no official count on how many students have cell phones but from people who work there on a daily basis, I am told it is easily over 60 per cent. As far as academic achievement goes, the school’s statistics are dismal.
A neighbor (rental cabin) got tossed from his rental cabin due to not being able to keep up with the rent. Never seen without cigarette. Spent as much on cigarettes as rent.
I agree with the spirit of what he said- but I will say money was tight at my house when my children were little and the school used to nickel and dime us to death with this that and the other. By the time you buy school supplies and clothes you catch your breath and they start putting there hand out for things you had no clue about.
Another thing- about the poor kids having all the goodies- my daughter is a single parent- gets no child support; her ex’s family will buy my grandson the latest video games, camera- yes and toys, etc. but not help with school supplies, etc. Sometimes it is not the parents buying the expensive goodies.
This man deserves a presidential medal. Way to go!
Yesterday my wife and I had to go to Walmart to get a prescription for me. We walked through the food section. There were so many snack foods and chips and pre-made meals, and very little canned meats and vegetables or pasta and oatmeal.
We became a society of telephone sterilizers and marketers a while back, all riding the “B” ark to nowhere. With adversity, maybe people will think about what's important.