tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post289726904958195439..comments2024-03-14T13:50:26.981-04:00Comments on Chaz's School Daze: Poverty, Family, And Community Are The Primary Causes Of Why We Have The Racial/Income Academic Achievement Gap - Not The Schools.Chazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-30530520716433597252011-08-12T16:25:58.556-04:002011-08-12T16:25:58.556-04:00A stone kills many birds.
Blaming teachers not on...A stone kills many birds.<br /><br />Blaming teachers not only costs nothing, it actually keeps the cost down by getting rid of expensive senior teachers and paying much less for the new and younger ones. Blaming not only provides high moral ground for the rich to make hefty profit from the savings, but also shifts the public attention from the rich who snatches the bare basics from poor families.<br />Of course the poverty is harmless to the poor kids, only poor teachers do. When someone like Bloomberg skips millions from the top everyday, there has to be poverty somewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-35070525588600601092011-08-12T14:39:34.330-04:002011-08-12T14:39:34.330-04:00They are an absolute deadweight upon society, beca...They are an absolute deadweight upon society, because they contribute nothing yet cost the taxpayer billions. Liberal opinion holds they are victims, because society has failed to provide them with opportunities to develop their potential.<br />Most of us would say this is nonsense. Rather, they are victims of a perverted social ethos, which elevates personal freedom to an absolute, and denies the underclass the discipline — tough love — which alone might enable some of its members to escape from the swamp of dependency in which they live.<br />Only education — together with politicians, judges, policemen and teachers with the courage to force feral humans to obey rules the rest of us have accepted all our lives — can provide a way forward and a way out for these people.<br />They are products of a culture which gives them so much unconditionally that they are let off learning how to become human beings. My dogs are better behaved and subscribe to a higher code of values than the young rioters of Tottenham, Hackney, Clapham and Birmingham.<br />Unless or until those who run Britain introduce incentives for decency and impose penalties for bestiality which are today entirely lacking, there will never be a shortage of young rioters and looters such as those of the past four nights, for whom their monstrous excesses were ‘a great fire, man’.<br /> <br />Explore more:<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1UqEBansgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-34376423370563119192011-08-12T14:38:30.756-04:002011-08-12T14:38:30.756-04:00"I never enjoyed school, but, like most child..."I never enjoyed school, but, like most children until very recent times, did the work because I knew I would be punished if I did not. It would never have occurred to my parents not to uphold my teachers’ authority. This might have been unfair to some pupils, but it was the way schools functioned for centuries, until the advent of crazy ‘pupil rights’.<br />I recently received a letter from a teacher who worked in a county’s pupil referral unit, describing appalling difficulties in enforcing discipline. Her only weapon, she said, was the right to mark a disciplinary cross against a child’s name for misbehaviour.<br />Having repeatedly and vainly asked a 15-year-old to stop using obscene language, she said: ‘Fred, if you use language like that again, I’ll give you a cross.’<br />He replied: ‘Give me an effing cross, then!’ Eventually, she said: ‘Fred, you have three crosses now. You must miss your next break.’<br />He answered: ‘I’m not missing my break, I’m going for an effing fag!’ When she appealed to her manager, he said: ‘Well, the boy’s got a lot going on at home at the moment. Don’t be too hard on him.’<br />This is a story repeated daily in schools up and down the land.<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1UqDvUi2dAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-47113994127322704402011-08-12T13:11:50.651-04:002011-08-12T13:11:50.651-04:00You will never get a politician to go on the recor...You will never get a politician to go on the record and say that community, poverty and race play a majority part in a childs education. it is political suicide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com