Posted on 07/18/2013 8:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That is an interesting anecdote you told accompanying the above opinion. I once worked with an educator who was using Myers-Briggs testing to help teachers diagnose the learning styles of their pupils. The black males tended to be sensing-feelers, requiring personal attention more than the white males, who tended to be thinking-judgers.
I do not know if this kind of finding has been replicated or if it indicates genetic, intellectual or environmental factors, or likely a little of all three. I do know that I have changed parts of my own Myers-Briggs profile over the years as I mature, from extroverted to introverted, and more towards the center than on the outer reaches of a trait.
I don't have a TV, by choice, but I had the misfortune yesterday to watch some of Miss Jeantel's testimony at the trial.
She is pathetic and I am not sympathetic. I have known cabbages that were more intelligent.
Fo' shizzle...
Don’t be niggardly in your condemnation of 0bama, Holder or Trayvon.
:-)
She exposes a lot about public school education in her school district.
One of the most inspiring movies I've ever seen was the film Stand and Deliver, about the real-life educator Jaime Escalante, who took a group of kids at a failing, impoverished school district in gang-infested Los Angeles and taught them calculus so intensively that they outstripped all expectations on their SATs, and were re-tested to make sure they really knew the material. The kids were Hispanic, but the principle is universal, in my opinion. Children tend to rise to our expectations of them.
Ms Jeantel is a sad example of the average, politically correct public schooling. But this experience may inspire her to go forward. Look at the inspiring story of our conservative commentator Star Parker:
Parker was born to mostly absent parents and raised in a nonreligious home; she says she was raised "by the secular 'I'm okay, you're okay' doctrine that says people should be allowed to make their own rules and shouldn't judge other people's lives." She lived in Japan for three years and returned to the U.S., moving to East St. Louis, Illinois, at twelve, at which point she says she "just joined right in" with the "anger and tension among blacks" in the area. "I bought into the lie that there was nothing in America for me except institutional racism and glass ceilings that would keep me from getting promoted," she said. She said that after one arrest for shoplifting, her white high school guidance counselor told her "not to worry about it, because I was a 'victim of racism, lashing out at society.'" After attending church at the behest of her friends, she became a Christian and her life turned around. She enrolled in Woodbury University and graduated with a degree in marketing. She began advocating for conservative social and political causes. She founded CURE [Center for Urban Renewal and Education] in 1995, and took it on full-time after being laid off from her job as a host on Los Angeles radio station KABC after it was purchased by Disney....
That's a good start. Now let's re-edit all works of literature going back to Homer so that they don't offend any of us any more.
I suggest we outlaw offensive words such as ‘bigger’, ‘digger’, etc, anything that rhymes with, uh, African-American.
“Aw hell naw, I can’t read this. It isn’t in iPhone. We the new school.”
She’ll still make thousands on the lecture circuit.
What's up, Sigur?
Warren Smith’s classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH4Ghl77rlU
Hmm, according to that dictionary, abortion ALMOST rhymes with orange.
http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=orange&typeofrhyme=nry&loc=perfnry
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