Posted on 09/16/2015 4:22:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the new school year begins, you might like to be updated on some school happenings that will no doubt be repeated this academic year. After this update, I have some questions one might ask the black leadership.
The ongoing and escalating assault on primary- and secondary-school teachers is not a pretty sight. Holly Houston is a post-traumatic stress specialist. She counsels teachers in Chicago public schools and reported, "Of the teachers that I have counseled over the years who have been assaulted, 100 percent of them have satisfied diagnostic criteria for PTSD." It's not just big-city schoolteachers traumatized. Dr. Darlyne Nemeth, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said last year, "I have treated many teachers with PTSD, and I am currently following a few of them."
A Philadelphia seventh-grade girl with a history of incidents against her teacher sprayed perfume in the teacher's face after telling her that she smelled "like old white pussy." After telling her classmates "I'm about to kick this bitch's white ass," she shoved the teacher, knocking her to the floor. In 2014, a Philadelphia 68-year-old substitute teacher was knocked out cold by a student (http://tinyurl.com/orldslb). Earlier that year, two other teachers in the same school were assaulted. By the way, Philadelphia schools employ close to 400 school police officers.
In a school district near St. Louis, teachers have had pepper spray and dog repellant sprayed in their faces. A Baltimore teacher had his jaw broken. In Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teachers and staff were assaulted. A 325-pound high-school student in Houston knocked out his 66-year-old female teacher (http://tinyurl.com/oqxmrfg). Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physically attacked each day of the 2011-12 school year.
School violence is going to get worse. Last year, the Obama administration sent all the school districts in the country a letter warning them to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claimed that racial discrimination in the administration of discipline is "a real problem today. It's not just an issue from 30 or 40 or 50 years ago." Last year, in Washington, D.C., an official of a teachers union tried to explain to a national gathering of black elected officials why white teachers are so problematic for black students, saying they just do not understand black culture. Excuses and calls for leniency will embolden school thugs.
What about student conduct in the 1930s, '40s and '50s? Don't take my word. Ask black congressional representatives, 46 percent of whom were born in the '20s, '30s or '40s. Start off with Reps. John Conyers (86), Charles Rangel (85), Eddie Bernice Johnson (79), Alcee Hastings (79) and Maxine Waters (77). Ask them whether their parents or kin would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing teachers or any other adult. Ask them what would have happened to them had they assaulted or cursed a teacher or adult. Ask whether their parents would have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen among many black youngsters in public places -- for example, using foul language and racial epithets. I'd bet the rent money that they won't tell you that their parents would have called for a "timeout." Instead, they will tell you that they would have felt pain in their hind parts. Then ask these leaders why today's blacks should accept behavior that previous generations would not.
The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there's a change in what's acceptable behavior and what's unacceptable behavior. That change must come from within the black community. By the way, it is an idiotic argument to suggest that white teachers are problematic for black students because they don't know the culture. I'm nearly 80 years old, and during my North Philadelphia school years, in schools that were predominantly black, at best there may have been three black teachers.
You’re right...everywhere. The fun has yet to begin.
I hope that clears up my intent...
Which is not to read what I offered you.
A fine example you make.
Three year olds telling their teacher ”Get the F-— out of my face b——”? Can you imagine them by the time they reach high school—if they make it that far? This is what walks into so many classrooms in larger cities. And teachers are supposed to educate thugs like this—if they survive long enough to do so. But it’s not PC to take out disruptive students, so all must suffer and be prevented from learning.
And this was in the small rural city of St. Peter Minnesota. The town has, however had a huge influx of people from the inner city. Just like Mankato, St. Cloud and Willmar.
Great point. Yet the teflon libs always manage to make it the fault of conservatives, white people, “bad policies” or anything other than the liberal teachers, liberals in general, or the black who commit the crimes/infractions. Maybe it’s Bush’s fault.
That being said, I fully understand the point to which you refer in your original response; however, BH initially posted a comment lambasting teachers for their "lack of courage", so to speak, in physically confronting students who get out of line. I responded in order to explain the environment in which we (teachers) work as of TODAY, REGARDLESS of the manner in which this state came about. My response was in NO WAY intended to entertain the history of how our inability to deal with students in this manner came to pass, only how our CURRENT inability to deal with students in this manner is quantified in light of BH's initial assertion.
Hope this clears up any further confusion you have regarding the intention of my response to your post. -EA
It was not snarky; it was deeply critical. I offered you three books detailing a history with which you are clearly unfamiliar, documenting that the destruction of our social order through public education was an intentional on the part of the extremely wealthy tax-exempt foundations of primarily Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller. I then offered an article I have written as to what to do about it. You clearly chose to ignore it all. So I busted you on it using a metric that goes to the heart of you being an educator, that you are unwilling to educate yourself, lacking even the curiosity to search those links.
It's true. Wear it proudly. Two of those books are published online free by they way as an act of public service despite the fact that they are very successful authors.
I home educated my girls. It took me LESS time to educate them at home than did dealing with their stupid private school teaching the same methods that have destroyed public education. One became valedictorian of her college at the age of barely 20, the other transferred to Stanford and is now a PhD candidate in a top tier program.
That being said, I shall refrain from employing ad hominem in my response, either explicit or implicit, and simply end this colloquy.
Good day, kind sir.
-EA
Not veiled, apparent. I'm demonstrably willing to educate myself. You are apparently not, despite the fact that one of the sources I offered was written by a "teacher of the year" in New York and another by a former Undersecretary of Education.
That being said, I shall refrain from employing ad hominem in my response, either explicit or implicit, and simply end this colloquy.
And learn nothing. Great teacher you'll make. /s
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