A School Is for: Learning to Read-Failure starts young.

Wall St Journal ^ | 1-24-03 | DANIEL HENNINGER

[SJackson]

"The Spanish teacher, Mr. Miller, I don't feel was qualified to teach Spanish at all because he didn't seem to know too much Spanish hisself. He was also absent from class. And when I say absent, I mean I would see him there, but he wouldn't come to my actual period . . . . We had a numerous amount of substitutes in that classroom for a while. And during those times we had those substitutes we watched movies in class. We played games in class. We basically had a free period where we did whatever we wanted to. We had different substitutes almost every day. And then we had a final at the end of that. And I don't understand how they could have gave us a final in Spanish when we did not learn a lick of Spanish. I think they really should have tested me on the movies I was sitting there watching."

[krb]

That account of a former student at Balboa High School in San Francisco, quoted in a recent issue of Education Week, is taken from a class-action lawsuit filed against the State of California to ensure "the minimum tools necessary to learn."

Hahaha...you shouldn't need a teacher to learn Spanish in California...

[Chad Fairbanks]

My Spanish "teacher" was like that as well, except that in between teaching us standard tourist phrases, she spent all her time pissed off at Reagan, and the choice of t-shirts I wore (usually pro-Reagan, conservative slgans etc...)

[Linwood]

This data appears in Education Week's annual report, "Quality Counts." Across the nation, the average non-graduation rate for black students is 45%. These numbers are surely the same year in and year out, which means that every June in America, largely unnoticed and unremarked upon, almost half the nation's black kids wash over the falls of our urban school systems.

Astonishing. It would certainly appear that there is an undeniable, urgent need for school choice for black students.

[EdReform]

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[LiteKeeper]

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[Jason_b]

Are bad schools an accident or is this the way elites ensure a large low-cost labor force---in addition to allowing illegals to flood into the country?

[mvpel]

Self-ping for grex.cyberspace.org discussions.

[eno_]

It sure does look like the plan to keep blacks on the Democrat plantation.