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Chantay fingered me not only as gay, but as her b***h.' A teacher tells of terror at his New [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 2, 2016 | Caroline Howe

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Faith Presses On

I never read things before I respond to them. :)


41 posted on 02/02/2016 1:55:27 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: C19fan

queer feral tamer fails


42 posted on 02/02/2016 1:56:47 PM PST by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: AppyPappy

What do you believe about Jesus Christ, and about us, and about our relationship to Him?

As I wrote to you, how we interpret “judge” and anything else in the Bible has to be determined by the Bible.

And it comes down to the important things God tells us about Him, ourselves, and other people.

The questions to ask are, do you believe you’re a sinner? Do you believe that you’ve sinned against a Holy God? What do you believe about sin, and how serious it is? Do you believe that Hell exists, and that going to Hell is the just punishment for your sin? Do you believe Hell is eternal torment? And do you believe God gave His only Son to die on the Cross to pay for your sins, so that you might escape the terrible eternal fate of Hell that awaited you?

Then how about this story Jesus told:

21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.

24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.

32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:

33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.

35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. (Matthew 18)

Someone can try to say that such a passage only refers to fellow Christians, but the whole New Testament, including all four Gospels, make clear that we should have love in our hearts for our fellow man, even our own personal enemies.

If we look to the Bible, particularly the New Testament, then what judging is that we are to engage in, and the judging we aren’t supposed to do, become clear.

We aren’t in any way to talk about people being beyond hope or redemption, beyond the point of that we’re obligated to care about them.

And if we’re to talk about anyone as innately evil, then we’re to talk about the innate evil in us all, including in ourselves.

But for Jesus Christ and the forgiveness He purchased, the wrath of God abides on every person.


43 posted on 02/02/2016 2:20:00 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Faith Presses On
I am afraid "feral" is an apt term. Meaning "Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage" from the Latin, ferus, meaning "wild".

Yes, these are people, but they are behaving as animals. Their basic social structure (in this subset of a larger population, not all blacks, whites, or others for that matter) involves submission to a powerful individual within their social circle and following the orders or behavioural lead of that individual: An 'alpha' personality, whatever you call it.

It certainly is not universally so, nor was it so much so in my experience in the past, but most children go through a phase of learning NOT to behave this way some time between grade school and adulthood, even though alpha personalities still will end up in leadership roles. We decide those on different criteria, but they still apply.

During those formative years, adults teach their children a moral code to follow, by which they can judge whether the behaviour of the dominant people in their associations is compliant, and whether they will follow that lead. You see that code applied from the playground to the boardroom, and either people have and follow that moral compass or they do not.

The breakdown we are seeing is in the fundamental teaching of those morals, which was the provenance of parents, family, community, and the Church--whatever denomination was involved. Those are the foundational institutions upon which the character of the individual is built.

Or, at least, they were.

Since the 1960s (and before, I just happened to become aware of it then) I have noticed the increased push by communists (socialists, whatever you want to call the godless totalitarians in the ranks) to have the State (their cronies) raise the children.

When we look at these feral environments and microcultures, we see the fruit of that social experiment, which we are assured has not produced positive results only because the 'right' people were not doing it, and they did not have sufficient funding and or authority.

In effect, these people spent a childhood bereft of the moral education (not ethics, which concern themselves with legalities, but morals, which deal with right and wrong regardless of the criminal code) they should have received from parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles, pastors, teachers, and others in their community.

I personally observed the breakdown in social structure of the 1960s, in black communities (done by militants who were associated with the New Left) and the white communities (done with drugs, the hippie movement, peace movement, anti-war, anti-establishment communists, etc) which effectively separated a subset of the youth from their moral roots.

For those of us whose parents fought tooth and nail to remain a dominant influence, the results were different. For those who suffered the neglect brought about in some cases by economic changes which increasingly required a two-income family, the 'latchkey kids', some, but not all feel prey to the predatory influences of disruptive forces which were at the time attacking the foundations of civilization, especially the family.

In many cases, the parents would not relinquish that control over their children.

Prior to that, the blacks I knew attended church,prized education as the way to better their lot and achieve economic success, and were businessmen, members of the parish council, and respected members of the overall community (respected, that is, by blacks and whites as well). They did not view themselves as 'victims' but sought instead to capitalize on growing opportunity. Whites had a similar thing going on.

But let a group of calves wander the draws far from human contact, they grow up wild. (please pardon the animal comparison, but it IS relevant). One bull will be dominant, and the leader.

Someone, likewise will become the leader in a group of children without adult supervision.

That doesn't mean the most moral individual will lead, only that the dominant one will, and without the moral education from their elders and the recombinant effect of that standard imposed by the community (progressively decreased by state intervention), the standard breaks down, immoral behaviour becomes more prominent as personal gratification becomes the standard with no thought for anything but the immediate future or short term goals. Parents, and the community in general, become neutered by the threat of criminal charges for 'abuse' and discipline breaks down. Throw in allegations of "racism" and the threat of career loss, and teachers and others in the community had their hands tied.

All the while that these changes were occurring, the entire mentality of 'victimhood' was being established, partly to obscure a moral compass while masquerading as a moral cause, partly to establish the control of the State and State entities over the children by forcing those previously influential in children's lives to abdicate for fear of prosecution because they were "abusing" the children by disciplining them, being "Uncle Toms and 'race traitors', or 'racists', and subjecting them to prosecution or economic destruction because they were being 'unfair' or 'prejudiced'. Proof fell on the accused, and it is virtually impossible to prove a negative, so none wanted to be so much as accused of racial bias, justified or not.

Almost all of the social and governmental mechanisms which were used to perpetrate these changes were presented as positive programs. Power was seized "for the children", in the name of doing "good" and "helping", but the effect was that people who at best were involved in the lives of their "clients" from 9 to 5, Monday through Friday, with holidays off and two weeks vacation a year, no matter how much they were true believers were no substitute for those who were close 24/7/365, and could not replace the very institutions they supplanted. The result was part-time parenting for the first generation, and less for subsequent generations because the morality not instilled in earlier generations was not passed to those who follwoed by the traditional means of child rearing. There have been three generations since then, so the moral decay is more evident than ever.

This isn't limited to any race in America, with the exception of being able to invoke 'victimhood' and 'racism', but where those invocations are present the level of moral decay is most prominent.

With each successive generation of people who are inserted in a supervisory capacity, the level of thinking which reduces their profession to a paycheck rather than a vocation increases, and attitudes become progressively more jaded, with the exception of the genuine clergy whose moral compass keeps them doing what they do for the Love of Almighty God, a cause which no amount of Liberalism can replace.

That this man could not endure in that environment is no surprise. How can one instill morality when their very lifestyle choices belie that?

Despite the politically correct tolerance or even agreement he might receive from those in his circle of acquaintances, those he confronted outside that have a different and fundamentally more honest outlook and are quick to condemn behaviours that are unnatural, regardless of PC. Even though their morals may in other senses seem distorted, homosexuality is not acceptable, and derided as such.

In the remainder of the animal kingdom, those creatures we regard as non-sentinent (lesser animals), there can be no dominance by a homosexual because dominance is (in that case) all about progeny, and homosexuals don't produce any. They will make no genetic contribution to the group.

While we may or may not approve of the way they said it, his students recognized a fundamental and natural truth, and called him on it.

44 posted on 02/02/2016 3:55:31 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Faith Presses On

FPO: No racial grievances in your post is there?

That there are evil feral animals in human form who would have no compulsion whatsoever in abusing another human being on this earth, and especially in this country, is a pretty basic fact.

Ignoring the racial hate that certain blacks feel towards whites and asians (and Hispanics which I am) is ignoring reality. And that reality is more true than vice versa.

You want to pursue truth, then pursue it with real data. Since you claim you’re Christian, you might want to read what 2 Peter 2 has to say about such evil people that I call ferals. (Did the Lord actually use the word “Brute Beasts” to describe people?) Oh my!

We’re coming up on the end of history literally. Christ is about to wrap up this project called “World History”, and He’ll be calling His people Home soon.
Paul wasn’t joking when he wrote 2 Timothy 3:1-9 . The world we live in is full of evil people described like this, and in some nations more so than others.


45 posted on 02/02/2016 5:04:12 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Amnesty advocates call me "Tio Tomas")
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To: Faith Presses On

You’ve been here since 2007, you should know what we mean by “feral” if you’re an honest poster. And yes, people can be feral: just ask the LORD what He said of the Amalekites.


46 posted on 02/02/2016 6:01:23 PM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: erkelly

Why even bother sending them to school. Apprentice them to machine shops, and like businesses, before they are set in their evil ways. Do it old style, where the young people are housed, fed, clothed, etc., by the Master Craftsman, and they work very hard, and a stipend. Give the businesses the money the schools are spending. Send a very big, very mean teacher round a few hours a week to ensure the students and read, write, and perform basic arithmetic and have some knowledge of our history and constitution; making it clear if they want their stipend they will behave in the classroom and learn something.
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Frankly, this isn’t apprentice material

this is Training School material.

Boarding school with uniforms and tough requirements which will teach them skills to hold down a menial job. Some will advance to apprenticeships, most will be custodians.


47 posted on 02/02/2016 6:41:31 PM PST by Chickensoup (ISIS is like Marxism, not a country, but a dangerous sociopolitical philosophy)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I very much agree with a lot of what you say. You bring up a lot of good points.

But on the matter of “feral,” that’s not exactly how that word is being used here.

You really could, even in any discussion of human evil that’s guided by God’s Word, use the word “feral.” But any Christian discussion of the evil of other people, when we’re talking about others, has to come from humility, remembering our own sin. “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2)


48 posted on 02/02/2016 6:55:47 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“FPO: No racial grievances in your post is there?”

One day God is going to bring it everything into judgment, and the person that every one of us will have to answer to is Him. That’s my consideration. And one of His commandments is to not bear false witness. All the time we are bearing witness to things.

An example is the people bearing witness that Planned Parenthood is honest and they weren’t trying to sell the organs of aborted babies, and that the people who took videos of their practices dishonestly edited them.

When people say that, like Cecile Richards or Democratic politicians and the media, they are bearing witness, and I believe it to be false witness. So I want to bear true witness to all of this matter, including all that has truly been done to black people to make living an “ordinary life” in America as difficult as possible for them for a very long time, and all I’ve seen from black people that show they are no more or less human and able and good and evil than anyone else.

When I lived a middle-class white person lifestyle, I met very few black people. But for years I’ve lived a low-income white person life, which is a life fully integrated in housing, busing and walking, and employment. The younger woman who I just met who lives next door to me is black, and she came to my door one day to ask if her music was bothering me. She said she turned up because the people above her were making so much noise.

The job I have, a black woman gave me a ride to the orientation to it, which was out of town, and twice turned down the money I wanted to give her for doing this for me. She had to give people rides to things like that was her way of serving the Lord.

And I can’t sit here all night, but I work in restaurant in a downtown location and do a lot of the cleaning. About half the customers are white, and about a third black, and then Hispanic and Asian. If black people wanted to, they could make a lot of mess for me and be rude. They could just leave me little messages of disrespect, or treat me that way. But I would never be able to predict who is going to be nice, courteous, thoughtful and appreciative, or the relative opposites, by someone’s race. Same thing with the people I work with. All those people I encounter all the time who are responsible people, those aren’t the people committing crimes and targeting people who either also black or white, Hispanic or Asian. Maybe from your perspective what you see and focus on is the glass half-empty, but from mine I see the glass half-full all the time, in simply innumerable ways, and I bear witness to that.


49 posted on 02/02/2016 6:58:59 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Objective Scrutator

I know how I see feral used.

See also this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3391813/posts?page=49#49


50 posted on 02/02/2016 7:00:15 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Faith Presses On

“People are not “feral”, or to be called that either.”

Oh blow it out your backside...

L


51 posted on 02/02/2016 7:03:36 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

To God, we’re all “feral,” including you.


52 posted on 02/02/2016 7:06:58 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Faith Presses On

I ain’t God. Neither are you.

I dare you to invite half a dozen of them into your home for 30 days. Then get back to me. If you survive that is.

L


53 posted on 02/02/2016 7:53:30 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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