Hey, the “nasty comment” didn’t originate with me. You’ll have to take it up with AuH2ORepublican. I was merely responding by making a logical conclusion. “Who do I think is responsible for the condition and the thought process of those kids in the public schools in DC?”, you ask. That would have to be kids themselves. How is it that the conditions/kids in the Fairfax County public school system have managed to garner a reputation for safe schools while the DC schools are not, as evidenced by the responses in this thread? Aren’t public schools public just schools after all? You claim they don’t teach authority, yet the Fairfax County district doesn’t seem to have the same bad reputation as the DC schools.
I am a teacher who has taught in many public school districts, suburban and inner city. I will never ever teach in an inner city district again. You couldn’t pay me enough. They are definately NOT safe. And it’s not the teachers who pose the threat.
Of all posts not to use spell check. Ouch.
What I meant is that the public schools teach the post modernist meta narrative of victimization, that the students should reject the white man’s system as oppressive and respect their own culture, whatever that is.
I know what you are saying about inner city schools. My nephew just quit a job in a district outside of Philadelphia because it was a lost cause that he didn’t feel like fighting for, especially because there was so little support from the administration.