Baltimore Schools To Teach The Three Rs: Readin’, wRitin’, and Redistribution

RedState ^ | 4/29/15 | Caleb Howe

[absentee]

The Baltimore riots have captured America’s attention this week. Buildings have burned, people have been injured, reporters have been robbed, and there was even a failed attempt at setting off an IED. Yes, seriously.

There will be lessons learned from the events stemming from the terrible and tragic death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, and changes will be made in Baltimore at many levels. One hopes some of these changes will help the community and the police find common ground again. One expects from government, as one does, that there will be a lot of unnecessary gesture-making and grandstanding too.

But among all the pontification and “analysis” we’re seeing, perhaps nothing is more absurd than what is coming out of the Baltimore School District. Witness the following statement issued this week:

We are also communicating with each one of our school leaders around effective instructional strategies to heighten student awareness and understanding of social justice issues. We are deeply concerned about our students and community, and we hope to treat this situation not only as a teachable moment but also a time for thoughtful reflection on how we can reduce conflict and violence in our society. We will continue to be vigilant in our support for all of the city’s young people.

Did you catch that? They’re going to “heighten student awareness and understanding of social justice issues.” For those of you blissfully unaware, “Social Justice” and its proponent.are the pseudo-communist, redistributionist, revisionist, race-baiting, Orwellian, anti-free speech, socialist, political correctness modern übermensch leftists, masquerading as concerned liberals who believe that America is bad, white people are worse, all men are rapists, and basically every other preposterous, exaggerated cartoon-like fever-swamp fantasy you might find at ...

[absentee]

SOCIAL JUSTICE. Everyone here knows what the SJWs and social justice et al are all about: redistribution. socialism. They just aren't going to stop pushing it.

[rktman]

Uh, if they’re just now starting, they are way behind the curve. Maybe it’s Rebelling, Rioting and Redistribution.

[envisio]

Redistribution
Racism
Reparations

[MrB]

22 TRILLION dollars isn’t enough for you to catch up?

Seriously?

[Suz in AZ]

My sophomore year of high school, I had a class taught be the football coach (of all people), who showed us Milton Friedman videos. He made so much sense and I never forgot it.

[Col Frank Slade]

Reading, Writing, & Rioting.

[Iron Munro]

Rapping, Rioting, Ransacking and Redistribution

Extra credit for Arson-101

[sauropod]

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[spodefly]

I don’t want a race war because I know and like and work with several fine people who have more melanin than me ... but the social justice warriors? I would love to go to war with them.

[KeyLargo]

Add:

REPARATIONS, RACE HATRED, RIOTING, and ROBBING

[PGalt]

Race-baiting
Rioting
Redistributing

10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician as the knife he carries in his pocket.

11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.

http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm

Amplify the event, elevate it to “crisis”…don’t let it go to waste…offer the solution...effect the desired change.

[BitWielder1]

A better word for Redistribution is Robbery.
One sounds kind of noble, the other says what it really is.
Taking from people who work and give to people who don't sure isn't justice.
If your soul is poor, no amount of cash given to you will make up for it.

[PGalt]

Battlemore…

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[MrB]

One thing I make sure that any liberal has to hear when they talk about how much they care -

everything they do that involves government coercion, they are authorizing the pointing of a gun in someone’s face.

Every policy or program they advocate for involves theft, at gunpoint, from a fellow citizen to fund it.

They’ll deny it and try to weasel around it but that’s what it comes down to.

You are NOT a “good person” for advocating these things.

[driftless2]

I had a world history teacher (also a football coach) who used to rail against creeping socialism.

[Lou L]

and there was even a failed attempt at setting off an IED.

You mean to tell me in their furious rage and anger, where their emotions took over and the rioters lost all control, a few of them took a time-out to do this? These people were able to calmly research the materials they would need, then collect or procure those bomb-making materials, take the time to assemble this device and then carefully plant it somewhere?

Sure, they lacked the brainpower, or perhaps the luck needed for the IED to go off, but don't tell me these people were acting out of an uncontrolled rage. These people knew exactly what they were doing. They had planned to do this all along. They were activist rioters, looking for an excuse to riot.

As in Ferguson, where after a multitude of in-depth investigations (including those by a hair-trigger Department of Justice) revealed that the facts didn't support the claims, so goes Baltimore. It doesn't even have to make logical sense any more. We could see video tape of Freddie Grey, perhaps amped up on methamphetamines, bashing his head into the side of a paddy wagon. The Obamas, Sharptons and Jacksons of the world would dismiss it saying, "It doesn't matter if the facts support the claim or not, these people (rioters) have a point, and we must all listen."

[Opinionated Blowhard]

One lesson will be hard for them to learn — when you destroy everything and aren’t willing to work to rebuild it, there will be nothing to redistribute.

[Sooth2222]

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

The Baltimore school system ranked second among the nation's 100 largest school districts in how much it spent per pupil in fiscal year 2011, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

[Mastador1]

What we need is for them to teach Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, and Responsibility. But considering that the schools have refused their own Responsibility for the first three, expecting them to hold the children to the third is beyond hope. Actually considering that a majority of the teachers seem to be lacking ability in all the above categories it is not unexpected that so many GibeDats are churned out of the school system.

[absentee]

There is a professional “Ferguson” industry just waiting for the next video to surface or statement to be issued or any other possible reason. And when that reason happens they are already prepared to resist. These “Baltimore Uprising” protests in other cities didn’t just “pop up” out of sympathy.