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Republican Senator in PA Says “College is Not For Black Students” (liberal witch hunt alert)
The Black Home School ^ | March 9 2017 | Victor Trammell

Posted on 03/11/2017 5:19:16 AM PST by OttawaFreeper

Many people believe that the opportunity to receive a quality education is a human right fit for all regardless of their race, creed, or socioeconomic status.

However, there are private and public figures in the American power structure who do not agree with that notion. In fact, a senator in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania believes that black students, in particular, are better fits for vocational schools than they are for college or university attendance.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblackhomeschool.com ...


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To: Gay State Conservative

AND you don’t have 4 years old f debt to get at off,
AND you’ve been earning money for 4 years instead of spending it on tuition,
AND your job will never be outsourced to someone overseas.


21 posted on 03/11/2017 5:48:38 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: OttawaFreeper

I have been involved in homeschooling for over a decade. I have never heard of “TheBlackHomeSchool.com”, and we have several black homeschooling families in our community.

This web site smells like a liberal gaslighting attempt to look homeschool friendly...but is really there to bash conservatives.

Is there any way to tell how old this site is, who owns it, when it started, etc.?


22 posted on 03/11/2017 5:48:39 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: OttawaFreeper

Ben Carson came from an inner city.


23 posted on 03/11/2017 5:48:55 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Actually it is true for most students, irregardless of race. We are sending too many students to college. The result is too many unprepared students who drop out of college and an oversupply of college graduates burdened with crushing debt.

College education has become a racket for the benefit of overpaid and underworked professors and bloated college administrations. Bring back vo-tech for more students. Indeed, how many of the degrees offered in colleges today are really vo-tech programs burdened with unnecessary liberal arts course to justify their presence at a college rather than at a vocational school?


24 posted on 03/11/2017 5:50:07 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: OttawaFreeper

there is no quote, so I need to see the quote before I call him a racist.


25 posted on 03/11/2017 5:51:07 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jim Noble

The schools are holding center’s to keep as many bad apples off the street as possible until they re 18. I agree that too many people are in school for too long. A lot of the least intelligent will drop out. The family structure is so bad in modern society, many can’t properly raise their children.


26 posted on 03/11/2017 5:53:28 AM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Putting their misleading interpretation of what he actually said in quotes is slander. He should sue them.


27 posted on 03/11/2017 5:56:47 AM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Did he use a qualifier such as "many" black students? Did he say "black and other students with a different range of interests from what is provided in a traditional college education"? Did he humanize the comments by saying stuff like "to aspire to a career which is involved with hands-on solutions and problem solving"? Did he say 'to meet the needs of the community"?

That's how to avoid the racism tag. If he had been asked a specific question about black students or that was the topic of a discussion, non-qualified remarks would be fine, and anything said without the circumstances being described would be out-of-context.

These really aren't trivial things. People notice.

28 posted on 03/11/2017 6:02:32 AM PST by grania
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To: babble-on

Speaking of being undersupplied.
The Millennial generation has a vast gap of skilled labor to fill. Nobody knows how to work with their hands anymore.


29 posted on 03/11/2017 6:02:56 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Gay State Conservative

Nothing wrong at all with a late model Chevy or Honda in the driveway.

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You have AMAZING VISION wherever you are! :)


30 posted on 03/11/2017 6:03:46 AM PST by HypatiaTaught (Trump's victory makes me smile 24/7)
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To: Jim from C-Town

That kind of makes me think of the 1985 flick “The Money Pit” in which during any scene that featured the building contractor (Phil Bosco), the song “I’ve Got to Be Me” was playing in the background, lol.


31 posted on 03/11/2017 6:04:58 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: babble-on

FWIW, a friend’s son with no taste for a traditional degree, took the basic courses to qualify as an Electrician apprentice. He has to do hundreds of hours as an apprentice, then pass another test to qualify as an Electrician. It’s much more difficult than many Engineering undergraduate programs. For a student who would rather work-and-study than just do book work, it makes much more sense than struggling through college.


32 posted on 03/11/2017 6:06:29 AM PST by grania
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To: OttawaFreeper

Should say - college is not helpful for many students And many includes all races.


33 posted on 03/11/2017 6:09:08 AM PST by mulligan
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To: OttawaFreeper

The exact wording and context are needed with video the counter the charge.

I hope he wasn’t stupid and wasn’t aware he would be set up such h as this.


34 posted on 03/11/2017 6:10:28 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

I admire plumbers, electricians, and good carpenters for their skills much more than I do someone with an MBA that works on Wall Street.


35 posted on 03/11/2017 6:10:51 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Dahoser

That article by Sowell is excellent and fits exactly with my experience teaching undergraduates poorly prepared for school, blacks and whites. I did not and still do not think it is the job of college professors to teach undergraduate how to READ or do basic math.

It is not. We have screwed ourselves to the wall with all this Affirmative Action BS. I doubt we can recover as the liberals have the schools firmly in hand and they just love Affirmative Action.


36 posted on 03/11/2017 6:12:47 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: chajin

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

John W. Gardner


37 posted on 03/11/2017 6:12:50 AM PST by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: OttawaFreeper
This Republican state senator’s name is John Eichelberger
38 posted on 03/11/2017 6:13:05 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Jim from C-Town
A Journeyman Electrician makes an average of $32.50 an hour or around $70,000 per year BEFORE overtime & Benefits.

I'm a Journeyman w/7 years experience in the Power Industry and I make just over twice that much at this point, once overtime and benefits are factored in. I made just under $155K during my best year, and that was after turning down at least $7K worth of even more overtime I could have worked over the course of that same year.

One or two guys I work with flirt with nearly $200K/yr., but they live to work overtime. That's all they do.

39 posted on 03/11/2017 6:15:07 AM PST by Hadean
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To: Jim from C-Town
A Journeyman Electrician makes an average of $32.50 an hour or around $70,000 per year BEFORE overtime & Benefits.

Not only that, but in various government related jobs an electrician is often the highest paid employee. In 2016 the employee with the most pay, $217,000, at the MBTA in Boston was an electrician. A number of other trades are also represented at the top of payroll stats.

The list is here

40 posted on 03/11/2017 6:16:24 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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