Posted on 02/02/2016 7:57:31 AM PST by C19fan
Ed Boland stepped out of a twenty-year career as a nonprofit executive to teach in a tough inner city school on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His idealism was shattered after a year in urban public schooling and he penned this provocative memoir as 'a radical call to action' to change the system that is failing its students mired in poverty, racism and violence. He believes teachers alone should not be expected to solve the overwhelming issues their students face. Here are some excerpts from Ed Boland's The Battle For Room 314, published by Grand Central Publishing.
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That’s some very unfortunate wording in that headline.
It’s interesting, because they don’t seem to want to look at how the per pupil expenditure is often less in private schools than in the public schools, but there is a difference in outcome. Things like parental involvement and discipline being allowed in the classroom are just two things that are different, but expected in private schools. This is not to say there aren’t problems in private schools, but it is obvious that spending more per student doesn’t yield the desired results, why would you throw more money down the drain? It doesn’t solve the problem, because it doesn’t address the problem.
bfl
People are not “feral,” or to be called that either.
Animals can be feral. People are not animals. That is a claim made by secular humanists.
It is not wrong to discuss things like higher rates of violent crime or lower academic test scores by black people.
But it is wrong to decide that there is some innate inferiority in black people responsible for both, or either.
That is truly judging people, as Christ commanded us not to judge.
I know there are many Bible-believing Christians who are white and who don’t say or believe such things, and they vote Republican. They know about higher violent crime rates and lower academic scores by black people but they still aren’t going to falsely accuse a race of people on that basis. And following that up by making some acknowledgement like “there are some good ones,” with the assumption being they go “against their nature” somehow, is just as wrong.
Such sin creates blindness, a lack of good fruit, and fails to pursue truth.
The kids in the exclusive, beautiful suburb with great schools that I grew up in, which was and still is 98% white, with a median household income today of $150,000, were vicious and vile during the grades of 6-10, especially the middle school years. Discipline was an issue all day long, and physical fights were frequent. And throughout all the high school years and beyond, there were still all sorts of problems with the kids, including risky behaviors, like trying all manner of drugs and breaking into garages to steal alcohol or actual valuables, preoccupation with having a good time and partying, and rebellion against their parents’ authority.
Given just all that, I don’t see how people can expect inner city kids not to have the problems they do or to be the problems many of them are.
Right now as this story is being posted here, we also hear that the thirteen year-old girl murdered by a Virginia Tech student was a liver-transplant recipient who had also survived other serious illnesses.
Yet she had been bullied in school, and when she left there over it, had also been bullied online.
She was a student at Blacksburg Middle School. Blacksburg, depending on what data you go by, is either 75% or 85% white. It is around 5% black. The largest employer is nearby Virginia Tech. And I see the median income is somewhere around $20,000 to $30,000, which was curious until I saw that almost 60% of the population is between 18 and 24, ten times the rate of the town I grew up in.
I have to say, to the right’s shame, we’ve let liberals be the friends to black people. The overall attitude of the right has been like the cold, indifferent step-parent. The attitude has not, on the whole, been Christian.
And because of that, we’ve sacrificed the truth many times, God’s Truth.
Here’s something to think about. While I don’t uncritically accept psychology as is, I accept that it contains some truths in distorted form, along with half-truths and outright lies.
But one thing with some truth is that a certain percentage of the population is “psychopathic.” Now in the white population, you have the low-income, middle, and high-income classes, and those people with no regard for others are found in every class. But because black people in America, strangers in this land, have been oppressed, most of the black people without regard for other people are going to be lower-income.
And something else to consider, too, is that white people here have generations of being able to rise to positions of authority, like the people in the community I grew up in, paths which were denied to black people until only very recently. And the people, including the children, in those communities, benefitted from that. People learn a lot from those experiences, and from having parents, and neighbors, who have them. People pick up a lot that way, indirectly.
On race, God is an impartial judge. So much was uniquely done to black people in this country over so many centuries, including, yes, up until today. And one major part of it that remains to this day is a large number of people who deny that any real wrong was done to black people, or that if it was, that it matters today. That’s wrong on the face of it.
I read a similar article about a do gooder lawyer from somewhere in New England. He decided to move to North Philly to provide legal services to the people who lived there. One year later, he threw in the towel and moved back to where he came from.
Whether Nicole Lovell was bullied in school is irrelevant to the fact that she was murdered by an adult who was mistreating her. All kids get bullied in Middle School. My son played football at BMS and even he had to go through it. It just comes at different degrees.
But the murder points out the willingness of the ferals(which include Keepers and Eisenhauer) to treat human life as if it is insignificant. We have raised a generation of people who are willing to kill without remorse. Which is what animals do.
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The kids in the exclusive, beautiful suburb with great schools that I grew up in, which was and still is 98% white, with a median household income today of $150,000, were vicious and vile during the grades of 6-10, especially the middle school years. Discipline was an issue all day long, and physical fights were frequent. And throughout all the high school years and beyond, there were still all sorts of problems with the kids, including risky behaviors, like trying all manner of drugs and breaking into garages to steal alcohol or actual valuables, preoccupation with having a good time and partying, and rebellion against their parents’ authority.”
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I raised my kids in a similar community. Sure kids acted up,expecially in middle school(hormones)and some stole——but it was NOTHING compared to what is going on in many inner city schools.
No comparison. None.
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All of which are rooted in BEHAVIOR. No change of system will make a bit if difference, only a change of BEHAVIOR.
Hey, dat be rayciss!
And any white student protecting himself or his own would be in worse trouble than the ferals.
By heir fruits shall ye know them. Feral behavior = feral appellation.
I've been around long enough to know that this guy, despite his claims, is a predator and his book is nothing but bait for his trolling..........
This can not be solved without serious cultural change for the black community in the US. It’s only going to get worse. Double that as liberals all over the country halt locking up black criminals, especially gangs.
Wow, you wrote a lot there.
But we all know what feral means in this sense.
It means a human who has cast off their veneer of civilization, to be ruled solely by their base passions and urges.
And my God allows me to judge, and judge I will.
Once again, the first matter to consider is that no one has a right to judge other people. Instead, we are commanded to love other people.
If someone is a Christian, they believe Hell exists. And they believe that they deserve Hell due to their sin, and that only because Jesus suffered and died in our place to pay for our sins do we escape Hell.
And Christians also believe that Hell is something like what it would be like to be trapped on the upper floors of the burning World Trade Center on 9/11, except there’s no escape - endless torment.
If you believe that you’ve been spared from such a fate which you deserved, by God just showing mercy to you, then you will walking humbly before Him, which means being humble and loving towards other - which He commands us to be if we will receive His mercy and be spared Hell.
The Bible is God’s contract with us, in particular the New Testament, or Covenant. And these words “judge” and “love” have to be defined as He tells us to define them.
And we are take seriously every word of God’s Covenant with us. This is Matthew 12:36:
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
The Bible says a lot about how we are to treat others, including when we speak of them, and think of ourselves, and fear God. Jesus preached that. The Bible instructs us on the attitudes we’re supposed to have, and not have, and God’s commands aren’t optional. If we’re going to say negative things about others, then we have to be humble, we have to have love for the other person, take the mote out of our eyes, and remember our own sin against God, and how terrible it is, and our need for His forgiveness.
“Whether Nicole Lovell was bullied in school is irrelevant to the fact that she was murdered by an adult who was mistreating her.”
It’s not irrelevant.
We’re talking about young people here. And you can dismiss bullying as not meaning much, but it does. It’s an expression of the hate in the human heart. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9.
Yes there’s a comparison. Kids in what would be the best natural situations on earth can be heartless and rebellious against what’s good. And it doesn’t just end in middle school or high school. I also worked in many virtually all-white workplaces and was part of similar social circles, like many white people. In those cases, race practically disappears and everything else remains. You don’t think about being with “white people,” but just “people.” And spending all that time with “people,” you see all the things they do, including so many dishonest things. You see their sins. I’ve seen posters here comment that they really don’t like or trust most people. Think about your experiences with “people” and all you’ve seen them do wrong.
Yes there’s a comparison. Kids in what would be the best natural situations on earth can be heartless and rebellious against what’s good. And it doesn’t just end in middle school or high school. I also worked in many virtually all-white workplaces and was part of similar social circles, like many white people. In those cases, race practically disappears and everything else remains. You don’t think about being with “white people,” but just “people.” And spending all that time with “people,” you see all the things they do, including so many dishonest things. You see their sins. I’ve seen posters here comment that they really don’t like or trust most people. Think about your experiences with “people” and all you’ve seen them do wrong.
The part from “yes there’s a comparison” in my last post to you wasn’t meant to be included.
God’s Word has to be used properly.
First, Jesus was talking about false prophets - people who claim to speak the truth, but don’t.
But He would certainly mean not just someone who identified themselves as a prophet, but someone who claimed to be speaking prophetically, to try to persuade or lead people. A true prophet leads faithfully, according to God’s Word, while a false one is deceptive.
People who are teenagers don’t have such authority in life.
And yet with false prophets of any age, Christians are still to love them in a Christian sense, and pray
“24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.” 2 Timothy 2
” no one has a right to judge other people.”
And yet Jesus condemned the Pharisees. We are also commanded to judge our church leaders (1 Tim 3). We are also commanded to judge false prophets. Paul told the church to condemn the man living with his mother-in-law.
The state demands we judge people in court when we serve on a jury.
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