''It may not have begun with Al Sharpton, but it sure was promulgated through his insidious efforts to create a highly charged atmosphere of racial tension and class envy. He bemoans a breakdown of the family structure, yet says nothing about the scandalous rate of teen pregnancies debilitating some communities.''
When's the last
time you've talked to your teacher about what's REALLY going down in our schools?
Those of us that teach at "inner city" schools can tell you that we are talking to the wall. When DO the parents speak to us? When there's a failure notice sent home. Or detention is issued. Or the student can't "walk" at graduation due to failures and unsatisfactory conduct. But on one back -to- school -night at Dorsey High, 5 parents showed up that were curious as to what their students are doing--5 out of 120.
We are witness to unearthly swearing and demeaning of female students, openly and unabashedly. Fights, threats, and promises of payback are the order of the day. When riots occur between Black and Hispanic students, or other ethnic groups, administrations break out the band aids to cover up and obfuscate, lest someone get that there's a serious problem with discipline and race relations.
It's "multi-culturalism" uber alles—for everybody except those students who are simply in school to learn, excel, and launch a serious career through completion of assignments, showing diligence and responsibility.
If you are not a teacher of "color" and you issue evaluations based on achievement, more often than not, you're behind the eight-ball by some administrator who is more worried about upward mobility than if the kids are actually learning. It is easy to play the race card, so easy in fact, that many a parent-teacher conference becomes ineffective and consequences cannot be meted out. Rare is the teacher that will confront parent, principal, and community to justify an evaluation. Especially for those of us that don't have the "color" act wired.
Where did all this begin, the nonsense that passes as "education" in our inner city schools? Who told our kids that they don't have to be on their best behavior, forswearing foul language, threats of violence, demeaning and filthy remarks to girls, and that lousy grades are of no consequence, since the teachers are obviously prejudiced? http://www.newswithviews.com/Shifren/nachum101.htm