We've been following the protests disrupting school board meetings where this issue was discussed. Last June I showed you video of David Blaska's shouted-down attempt to speak in favor of the police, and 4 days ago I showed you that Blaska had announced his candidacy for the school board.
Yesterday, before the school board's vote, Blaska blogged this:
Don’t let tonight’s expect action take the issue off the April 2 school board election campaign. Except for Blaska, none of the challengers have spoken word one on the issue. Talking Ali Muldrow (my opponent), Ananda Mirilli (T.J. Mertz’ opponent), Cristiana Carusi, and yes, you, Kaleem Caire (both running for the Loumos seat)....
What a great editorial in Sunday’s WI State Journal! East high school’s [Educational Resource Officers] “most definitely belongs in Madison’s schools.” They could have written equally compelling stories about the other three [high schools], as well....
What a contrast to the fawning story in the weekly Isthmus where editor Judith Davidoff couldn’t be bothered to commit some journalism by asking Mirilli and Muldrow how stand on the EROs.... Muldrow and Mirilli say “don’t blame the parents. Don’t blame the students.” Who DO they blame? The teachers? Maybe we’ll find out what is a “racial justice advocate” and whether the other candidates think Madison public school teachers are racists.That last sentence refers to something in the linked Isthmus article, "Both Muldrow and Mirilli have worked in education for years and are racial justice advocates." I don't see "don’t blame the parents. Don’t blame the students" as a quote. I'd like to see the precise quote (and no quotation marks where there isn't a quote). This subject is troubling, and I wish I had more depth to provide, but I don't.
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I remember America before the asteroid hit.
There have been armed policemen in our schools since Parkland. IIRC 28 states allow arming teachers.
Doesn't matter who Madison elects to its schoolboard. Now that he's governor, Tony Evers will wave his magic wand (i.e., throw money at the problem) and all will be well.
We need to abolish public schools. If parents can't afford to teach their own children, or send them to private schools, they shouldn't be parents.
"This subject is troubling, and I wish I had more depth to provide, but I don't."
Depth? It's pretty simple, Althouse. A certain collection of nearly-illiterate and utterly feckless rap artists claim to speak for the "Black Community", and the highly-literate but equally feckless White Liberals of Madison refuse to challenge that absurd claim. I suppose one could explore the question, is this calculated political cynicism, or just personal cowardice? Maybe a good deal of both?
I've followed the debate in Toronto a bit. There are people of colour--and not only activists who want to blame everything on white males--who are concerned that with police in a school, people of colour will always be regarded with suspicion. I can't help thinking that removing the police from a troubled school will turn that school back to the gang-bangers.
Educational Resource Officers sent from the Ministry of Euphemism.
"I value being able to have another person of color on the campaign trail," says Muldrow, who is a racist.
Lloyd W. Robertson said...
"I've followed the debate in Toronto a bit."
Yes, and it sounds like you've come down pretty strongly on both sides of it. Would you say that those non-activist POCs of yours are correct in their belief that police tend to suspicious of POCs? Of course you would! And do you by any chance have any suspicions about the pigmentation status of these "gangbangers" of whom you speak? Of course you do!
“Mirilli says her daughter has struggled in the district, and Muldrow says she did as well as a student in Madison’s schools. They say the system needs to change for students of color to thrive. “Our students are not the problem,” says Mirilli. “Our families are not the problem.”
Madison is fortunate to have these women in the running. We need more like these two.
“If elected, Mirilli says she would work to address violence in the schools, strengthen restorative justice practices (she formerly worked on restorative justice issues at the YWCA), increase resources for mental health and counseling services and reduce practices that disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.”
Diversity and education.
don’t blame the parents
Blame the parents.
When the European settlers came, neighbors got together and hired a teacher. There were likely stupid and lazy kids, but parents were responsible for their behavior.
We need to abolish public schools.
Nope.
We need to abolish the federal Department of Education (I'd get rid of the state ones too) and give parents choice: Charters, vouchers, magnets, homeschooling and private schools.
Public education is a failure today because it is a monopoly controlled by the permanent bureaucracy. Competition will solve the problem as it does most problems.
"Board members voted 4-2 in favor of the proposed contract, which would emphasize alternative disciplines instead of arresting or citing students..."
Oh, yes - The Parkland Principal:
"Broward County Public Schools in Florida, the sixth-largest school system in the country and home to Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where last month's school shooting took place, was one of the first to embrace what's known as "restorative justice" discipline programs and quickly became one of the Obama administration's darlings for its efforts to focus on equity in discipline."
How did that work out?
It seems to me that they (opponents of ERO's) are among those who wish to re-calibrate the scale upon which our society measures aberrant/inappropriate behaviors.
Chief Koval just released a statement from that there will be no police resource officers under the conditions the school attached to the agreement. So.....will the school district blink or say "ok, no police". He states the condition attached violate state law and/or the labor contract.
What will the unions do?
No Inga, we do NOT need more "restorative justice" moon bats making decisions in the Madison Public Schools.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
The direct quote: “Our students are not the problem,” says Mirilli. “Our families are not the problem.”
But you are correct, will update to eliminate the direct quotation marks.
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