[rface]

I don't think this is a re-post

Ashland, Missouri

[Bikers4Bush]

I have a friend who left a school in the Atlanta area because she didn't appreciate it when a student called her a "white bitch" and the principal didn't punish the girl because as he put it "it's a cultural thing that you'll have to get used to".

She disagreed and is now at a school that places an emphasis on discipline.

[Guillermo]

Where can I begin?

I'll just say this: white people are evil no matter what they do or don't do.

[Bruce Buckley]

It is a re posting of an article which appeared several days ago in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

White teachers are leaving these schools for obvious reasons--the commute to all black areas, the frustration aspects, and the discipline problems.

Curious, is it not, that a Boston paper things this newsworthy of a reprinting.

We'll next year that this is the natural progression of a "GOP Southern Strategy."

[bourbon]

But John Evans, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in DeKalb County, said no one should be surprised to see young white teachers leave for the suburbs after a year or two. Many teachers, especially young women, are scared of black neighborhoods and don't want to be there after dark, he said.

Evans rejected the idea that black schools can't be successful without white teachers. If they don't want to be there, then let them go, he said.

At least initially, it sounds like the this kind of resegregation only troubles white liberals.

Hmmm..... Could this be something that the NAACP (at least in GA) is downright happy about? Could they like Coleman Young in Detroit be actively encouraging white flight because it suits their politics? And who is to stop them if they are? "Courageous white liberals" like this journalist? Do they even exist anymore?

[Centurion2000]

bump ...

[kidd]

I have a friend (white) who teaches math in Hartford (99% black). She is fustrated that the majority of funding and a large fraction of her time is spent on non-academics. A lot of the funding goes for daycare for the high school kids children, free breakfast and lunches that go uneaten, social programs, security, etc. She says that many of the kids are discipline problems. She hasn't left yet, but she doesn't sound happy or fulfilled. But this has nothing to do with her being white.

I wonder how many black teachers want to leave the black schools?

[N. Theknow]

My mother left an un-air conditioned public school in Georgia for an air conditioned vo-tech school when the student body became over 50% black and the desire to learn fell to less than 10% of the students. Her reason for leaving, "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity."

[Godel]

One of my friends basically got a huge scholarship through school to become a teacher as long as he agreed to teach for 2 years a black school in Mississippi. He hates his life now. Every day he goes to work praying he gets fired. He's severely tempted to quit before his term is up, even though it would mean forfeiting tens of thousands of dollars. The stories I hear about those kids, you wouldn't believe. I fear greatly for our nation when these future criminals grow up. Did I say future criminals, most of them have already committed hundreds of assorted crimes. The have no conscience. Unbelievable what decades of wellfare dependancy can do to a culture.

[johnboy]

Evans rejected the idea that black schools can't be successful without white teachers. If they don't want to be there, then let them go, he said.

now, the really funny thing about this is these people are the ones currently arguing for "diversity" in the indiana/illinois case before scotus.

i wish they would all, well .... just go away somewhere where i never again have to see them, hear them, watch my country be destroyed by their hypocrisy ....

[Jim Noble]

The Boston Globe and their corporate parent, the New York Times, believe black Americans need them (formerly known as "Massa") to succeed.

OMG, we can't have all those little black children taught by (fill in the blank).

[trebb]

And the solution is:

To treat all people with total color-blindness and be able to administer punishment/restrictions/sanction based on the student's attitude and actions without having to worry about being termed a hateful racist.

As long as we have racist liberals (yep racists who believe one color should get special dispensation to the harm/detriment of another color) the problems will continue, and it will continue to do more and more harm to those that they pretend to want to help.

If minorities want true equality and the pride/respect/self-esteem that goes along with it, they need to jump the sink-by-design ship of the Democrats and open their eyes to true Republican values.

[Puppage]

Ooooo, I wonder when the left will call the teachers who leave...racists?

[valkyrieanne]

Is part of the 'nuance' and 'cultural difference' a culture of not studying hard and feeling victimized by "white expectations of learning?"

[Sonny M]

I live in NYC, and several of my friends teach. They gripe that they don't so much as blame the students as they do the parents, and there own union (they do this quietly lest they be punished by the almight union nazi's) and administration. One of my friends did admit that his school wound almost getting in trouble by a sort of resegregation plan (not intentional). Basically they came up with an advanced class, and the class was something like almost all oriental, with a couple of white kids, and 2 black kids who were immigrants (and no, they did not like being called african american, they found the term arrogant and insulting to them). They had to break it up when some parents who had never been involved before, and never showed up complained that it was a segregated setting, the principal simply dropped the program within a week.

[JMP]

There has been a trend toward making teacher pay increases contingent upon testing scores of the student population. The very fact that Blacks score consistently below Whites in every type of intelligence testing (an average of 15 points) means that a teacher at a predominately Black school will be punished for behavior that he/she can not influence. If everything else was even, this alone could cause White teacher flight. Unfortuneatly all other things are not equal. I suppose that would explain why even paying a premium for teachers to remain at predominately Black schools is insufficent to retain them. Things will not get better because both the White and Black establishment refuses honesty in these regards. Too bad.