२८ ऑक्टोबर, २०२०

"Since beginning online learning, she explained, Saige has been liberated from hearing negative tropes about Black girls in the lunchroom and hallways."

"For one, the eighth grader can control her exposure to racial microaggressions. When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism — during a video class session, Saige simply changed her settings to view only the teacher. 'Although the violence is still there, she has the ability to maneuver in a way that she didn’t have when she was in school,' Ms. Aryee-Price explained... [S]ome Black families value keeping their children at home... to protect them from racial hostility and bias.... More than 40 [Black] parents [of 373 in a private Facebook group] said they appreciated virtual schooling because it allows them to, as one put it, 'hear how the teacher speaks to children.'... Cheryl Fields-Smith, an associate education professor at the University of Georgia, studies why Black families choose to home-school. 'I’ve never had a parent tell me it was one particular factor,' she said. 'It’s a multitude of factors, and a lot of them revolve around what I would just plainly say is racism.... If Black children so much as wiggle, it’s "Keep still!" White kids are wiggling, and they don’t say a word. It’s nothing but misgivings, misinterpretations, mis-whatever about Black people moving,' she said. 'They feel like they’re being picked on.'...  Dr. Aryee-Price, a former public-school teacher... said while she truly believes in education, she sees schools as 'sites for anti-Blackness.'" 


And yet teachers — as a group — seem to take special pride in their anti-racism. But it's hard to be a teacher. They have to interact with so many students at once. How can you serve them all well? Maybe students with a strong need for physical activity should be be in a different group and using different methods from the ones who easily sit still and adhere to book-learning. I sympathize with these parents who see their own children stigmatized — or believe that's what they are seeing. 

I'll bet a lot of parents of male children would make some similar observations. It's deeply disturbing to see your own child treated as a problem, when your own child is simply an individual with needs that don't align well with the needs of the group. And it's so much more disturbing if you think it's not just that your child is an individual who isn't appreciated for her individual characteristics but that your child is seen as a member of a group and the group is regarded — intentionally or not — as inferior. 

The urge to take your child out of school altogether is strong. It's the parent's primal urge to protect one's own children. What's new, with coronavirus, is the real experience that has been imposed on all parents — a different mode of learning, with the child required to be out of the classroom. It's harder to go back to a less-than-perfect situation than it is to keep going. Stopping school created an occasion for reflection and judgment, and re-opening school creates a new occasion for decision-making. The child's resistance to school is a familiar occurrence in normal times. But abnormal times have arisen, and all the resistance is coming at once.

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Unknown म्हणाले...

As the parent of 6 homeschoolers (4 now graduated or in college) I think this is one of the very few good results of COVID. Particularly for minority parents, this has the potential to really be a game changer. But really for everyone to realize there are other ways to do schooling is huge.

It would be nice if this leads to the money following the kid.

gspencer म्हणाले...

Wallowing in self-pity.

Teach your children well. Someone has to keep the tradition going.

Lucid-Ideas म्हणाले...

"'Although the violence is still there, she has the ability to maneuver in a way that she didn’t have when she was in school,' Ms. Aryee-Price explained... [S]ome Black families value keeping their children at home... to protect them from racial hostility and bias"

Actually, based on the statistics, keeping black kids home from school will likely reduce the violence. You know...actual fucking violence...not your gay little microaggressions.

FIFY.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Interesting (but sadly unsurprising) that it is taken as a given that wearing a MAGA hat is violence against black people.

Drago म्हणाले...

"When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism — during a video class session, Saige simply changed her settings to view only the teacher. 'Although the violence is still there,...."

It's been said for many years, but bears repeating: According to the democraticals/marxists/LLR-leftists, conservative speech is "violence" and leftist/democratical actual violence is just "speech".

Carol म्हणाले...

No, it's thugs. Thugs acting out, intimidating, groping, fighting, wrecking the class for others. Go read reddi/teachers and walk a mile in their shoes. Though they'd never say what race of course but "urban" is the tell.

Kevin म्हणाले...

Dr. Aryee-Price, a former public-school teacher... said while she truly believes in education, she sees schools as 'sites for anti-Blackness.'

Don't worry. If it hasn't already, 'sites for anti-whiteness' coming soon to a school near you.

Owen म्हणाले...

Shaking my head at this Black Fragility, where parents see micro-racism in every word and gesture. Fine: let them school their kids at home. Insofar as their kids are the ones who disrupt the class, keeping them at home will be a win-win. Of course, the parents and their activist friends will then whine about segregation, but so it goes.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa.......I can't hear you.

Ironclad म्हणाले...

Of course what left out is the part in "normal" schools where the most disruptive kids tend to be black - but hey, that's not the narrative of victim hood that is being pushed. Now the old "mean girl" routine in middle and high school is really just pure racism - this is what "critical race theory" has exposed! Every action is just subconscious bias against the downtrodden minority.

I pity the children that are fed this line of garbage, they will forever "know" that everyone is out to get them so the only hope is re-segregation with "their kind" as refuge. It's the parent's dream - only AA will ever "correct" the injustice for these kids.

Mattman26 म्हणाले...

Oh dear, now this.

"If Black children so much as wiggle, it’s 'Keep still!' White kids are wiggling, and they don’t say a word."

I am officially calling bullshit on this.

Kids Wiggle, Blacks Hardest Hit

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

"Although the violence is still there, she has the ability to maneuver in a way that she didn’t have when she was in school..."

So wearing a hat is violence? Get a fucking grip.

I thought silence was violence.

I don't think liberals are emotionally equipped to live in modern western society.

I'm Not Sure म्हणाले...

"When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism — during a video class session, Saige simply changed her settings to view only the teacher. 'Although the violence is still there, she has the ability to maneuver in a way that she didn’t have when she was in school,' Ms. Aryee-Price explained..."

Wearing a hat is violence? Imagining others are racist because of what you assume are their thoughts? How batshit crazy is that, anyway?

Sebastian म्हणाले...

So much BS, so little space. (Not directed against Althouse, of course.)

"For one, the eighth grader can control her exposure to racial microaggressions. When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism — during a video class session, Saige simply changed her settings to view only the teacher. 'Although the violence is still there"

WTF? The real "aggression" is against the MAGA kids, tarred as violent and racist.

"If Black children so much as wiggle, it’s "Keep still!" White kids are wiggling, and they don’t say a word."

I call BS. Prove it.

"It’s nothing but misgivings, misinterpretations, mis-whatever about Black people moving,' she said."

No. It's also real differences in real misconduct.

"I sympathize with these parents who see their own children stigmatized — or believe that's what they are seeing."

I do sympathize with students and reachers stigmatized as racist, baseless smears in most cases.

"It's deeply disturbing to see your own child treated as a problem, when your own child is simply an individual with needs that don't align well with the needs of the group. And it's so much more disturbing if you think it's not just that your child is an individual who isn't appreciated for her individual characteristics but that your child is seen as a member of a group and the group is regarded — intentionally or not — as inferior.'"

But it's so convenient to ascribe a general problem to racism. Black privilege.

"But abnormal times have arisen, and all the resistance is coming at once."

There's plenty of reason to resist public schooling, but "all the resistance" is very limited, since many kids want to go back to school, and for underprivileged black kids it's especially important.

Enlighten-NewJersey म्हणाले...

Give me a break. So much bullshit. I'm sick of hearing the negative tropes about white people in the news and "diversity training".

Expat(ish) म्हणाले...

hahahahahahaha, f*ck her "microaggresions."

When I moved from Louisiana to Florida in third grade I got beat up (blood, guys) a couple of times a week for "talking funny." Mostly by Jewish kids, oddly.

I never got to walk down the hall until 5th grade without getting slapped, pushed and tripped. I couldn't drink out of water fountains (pre A/C FL people) without risking my teeth. And I didn't poop in school because the bathroom was just too dangerous.

You know who gave a crap? Nobody. You know what I learned. Well, to dodge. Also to make allies, find a group/team, and learn to fit in.

I'd have paid a ball to be on Zoom. But I'd be a soy boy right now, I betcha.

-C

YoungHegelian म्हणाले...

When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism

So, the whack-job Left joins the Christian Right in the push for home schooling. Another fine example of the Wing-Nut Coalition at work!

Ain't America grand?!

CJinPA म्हणाले...

Wasn't long ago that I read about the dangers of parents being able to monitor their kids' online classes for various offenses. But the parents in question were white, and the offenses were left-wing teaching lessons.

QUESTION: Why shouldn't all in-school classes be recorded? The technology is cheap.
ANSWER: (One answer, anyway) The teaching schools, which are heavily left-wing, would object, as would the left-wing teachers unions.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

The nyt's anti-white racism was old and boring a long time ago.

The eighth grader can control her exposure to imaginary racial microaggressions.

Although the violence is still there, she has the ability to maneuver in a way that she didn’t have when she was in school,'

So her home and/or neighborhood are violent places. How'd they let that slip past the censors?

[S]ome Black families value keeping their children at home... to protect them from racial hostility and bias....

Like protecting them from the horror of seeing a hat.

If Black children so much as wiggle, it’s "Keep still!" White kids are wiggling, and they don’t say a word.

Sure, I believe that. Nice anecdotes, by the way.

she sees schools as 'sites for anti-Blackness.'

Because studying and showing up for class and getting good grades and not fightin' 'n' wigglin' are anti-black. Anything else?

Maybe students with a strong need for physical activity should be be in a different group and using different methods from the ones who easily sit still and adhere to book-learning.

As with special education classes, those classes end up with a disproportionate number of black kids, and that's straight-up anti-blackness and racism.

Behaviolral differences in newborn children

Lurker21 म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Lurker21 म्हणाले...


School is full of bullies, jerks and a-holes.

No need to racialize everything.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

"It would be nice if this leads to the money following the kid"

😂😂😂😂😂

Never going to happen- the money follows the teachers, the administrators, and the retirees.

Amadeus 48 म्हणाले...

"When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism--during a video class session, Saige simply changed her settings to view only the teacher."

I feel the same way whenever I see one of those darn Biden-Harris signs. And don't get me started about how I feel when I see on television Biden's rictus grin or Nancy Pelosi doing her banshee act. I have to turn it off.

Cheryl म्हणाले...

You know, replacing "black kids" with "boys" in that quote..."If BOYS so much as wiggle..." --that was exactly my experience in my son's first grade classroom. That teacher was so pro-girl and couldn't even see it. And so what did we do? We LEFT. We found another school and we are on year 14 there. (I don't have a slow kid; I have several and they have all thrived there.)

There are choices. There are ALWAYS choices. They might not be fun, or easy, or cheap. I can think of many ways I could have spent approx $850k over the years, and many ways to have spent the extra 1500 hours of driving I did, but I made a choice I could be proud of and didn't complain about it. They need to make a choice.

DavidUW म्हणाले...

A Modest Education Reform Proposal:

1) Vouchers for all
2) Public Schools re-open, for in-peson instruction from K-8. But funding is limited to voucher equivalent. (i.e. all those bureaucrats are gonna get fired).
3) High Schools change to a mini-university lecture system.
3a) All High school teachers are fired or demoted to teachers' aides/graders for
3b) Super-star Khan Academy type on-line teachers who can be streamed into houses and the physical school for those who want in-person class. This is paid for by the savings from #3a and #1.

Surplus school buildings are offered for general use (rented to) for the public. i.e. clubs, sports, temporary meeting halls, charter/private schools.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

"And yet teachers — as a group — seem to take special pride in their anti-racism."

Ooooooh yeah. They surely do.

If the one thing that comes out of this wretched disaster is that American parents stop trusting schools to educate their children, the whole gruesome debacle will have been well worth it.

If your kids aren't criminals, don't send them to prisons. Homeschool!

Gahrie म्हणाले...

Where are all of these schools filled with Black kids and racist White teachers?

The overwhelming majority of Black kids go to schools in Black neighborhoods, run by Black school boards and administrations, and are taught by Black teachers.

Dude1394 म्हणाले...

Racism my ass.

Dude1394 म्हणाले...

I do agree with stopping all public schools and going to a voucher system for all. She could then place her child in an all-black school as she seems to want.

DavidUW म्हणाले...

Yancey, the money follows the retirees, administrators and then the teachers.

At least in California.

Teacher salary is up about 2% for example last year.
School spending is up nearly 7%.

Where's that other $5,000,000,000 go?
Pensions, administrators.

RichardJohnson म्हणाले...

More power to them. Home school their children, and perhaps their children will work harder, and thus achieve more. See John Ogbu's study of Cleveland suburb Shaker Heights, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement. Oppositional culture and all that. In any event, they will no longer be able to blame "racist schools" on their children's performance.

Bruce Gee म्हणाले...

Back in the day when we first started homeschooling, one of the motivating factors was our oldest son's difficulty with his teacher and a couple of bullies in the school (Private school, only three boys in his class. You can see where that went.).
I understand very well how the dynamics of a classroom, mixed race or gender notwithstanding, can be difficult for a teacher and hard on kids who are "other" types of learners. Like my kids.
The assumption that dumping a bunch of kids in a large classroom is going to lead to uniform results, as many seem to think (...and many a federal program also assumes) is foolhardy. Take all of that money, break classes down into tutoring programs, let kids sleep in a little longer and develop their own lives, and education will have better results. Bring back happy childhoods, heheh.

Birches म्हणाले...

If people aren't happy with their kids' education, they should pull them. I am homeschooling my kids this year and it has been a wonderful experience. One of the reasons I decided to homeschool is that I have a very active 6 year old and I didn't want him to be labeled a problem. So I get it.

But I will also point out that my 6th grade son mentioned that last year a couple of black girls could shout out things in the classroom and cafeteria and everyone, including the teachers, would just laugh. He wasn't upset about it. It was an observation and perhaps a wish that he could be funny enough to get away with that sort of thing too.

Doug म्हणाले...

Reading this, is it any wonder that (lowercase b)lack people have trouble catching up?

Krumhorn म्हणाले...

When folks look for "racial hostility and bias", they are sure to find it, particularly, if it can explain away other deficiencies. As Thomas Sowell put it,

"Politically, there are few ideas more potent than the notion that all your problems are caused by other people and their unfairness to you."

- Krumhorn

ga6 म्हणाले...

Can't be us, got to blame someone...

Michael K म्हणाले...

I'm all for letting black kids do Zoom school. The problem is that the kids who want to learn are not the ones disrupting the schools. The black parents in this story seem to want segregation. That's OK, too. What do we do with the thugs ?

Thug school?

jg म्हणाले...

fidgety boys really do have trouble w/ classrooms esp. in the no-P.E. low-recess era. weird to think 'racism'

the social scene in a school, like all social scenes, is inherently punishing to the lower status members. yet the 'society' that springs up in a virtual-only environment so far doesn't seem entirely wholesome+healthy, although it's much to be preferred for true unicorns who can find their kind online

Matt म्हणाले...

I also support keeping black kids out of school. How wonderful it would be for the white kids to not get beat up and stolen from and ridiculed and classes interrupted and not having to worry about being labeled racist for defending themselves. How glorious to go to clean schools without security guards and metal detectors where lessons aren't dumbed down for nonachievers.

F'ng blacks. For being such 'strong and proud' people, they do an inordinate amount of bitching. Let them stay home and focus on their rap careers.

Skippy Tisdale म्हणाले...

"For one, the eighth grader can control her exposure to racial microaggressions."

A yes. The beauty of self-segregation.

Eleanor म्हणाले...

The worst racism in school is "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Expecting black kids to measure up to the same expectations as the white and Asian kids is not racism. Lowering the expectations for academic achievement and changing the behavior expectations to conform to "cultural norms" is what institutional racism is all about, and we've codified it into law. This girl will not benefit all that much by not being in a class with white and Asian kids, but not being immersed in the culture most black kids bring to school with them will set her free.

Real American म्हणाले...

people who look for racism all day are going to find it whether it exists or not and most of the time, it does not. That's the problem.

JAORE म्हणाले...

"When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — ... Saige simply changed her settings to view only the teacher. 'Although the violence is still there..."

Yeah, I was walking down the frozen sidewalks of Chicago at 3 am carrying my Subway sandwich when a pair of those violent MAGA hats....

rcocean म्हणाले...

If i was a black parent, I'd constantly complain and ask for special favors. The squeaky-wheel gets the grease - and the schools are full of "anti-racist" white teachers who would be pushovers.

MacMacConnell म्हणाले...

I had the best socialization in the world. I grew up in a family with nine kids, mostly girls. I went to school mostly on military bases, my classmates were from every part of the USA and the world. Every color, mostly Christian except for the Viet Namese and Nationalist Chinese. The only sort of class system was your father's rank, but to us kids that didn't mater.

MAGA hats? The first one I ever saw was wore by a Black client in 2016. He was all in for Trump and started a political argument with my partner and I., we supported Ted Cruze. It was all in fun, we talk politics in our office.

Francisco D म्हणाले...

Racism is in such short supply that we have to make up micro aggressions (e.g., someone having a different opinion) to account for the difficulties that Black kids have in classrooms.

The idiots who want to cuddle Black kids are actually destroying their opportunities to build marketable skills.

MacMacConnell म्हणाले...

Teaching your kids MAGA hats are racist is as stupid as teaching your kids cops are out hunting them down.

Omaha1 म्हणाले...

"Maybe students with a strong need for physical activity" LOL you just described most boys. I am a huge fan of just giving the taxpayer money back to the parents and letting them decide how, where, and when to educate their own children.

mikee म्हणाले...

I read down to the bit about the MAGA hat, and stopped. The charge of racism, while diminished in force by application to all white people automatically based on skin color (itself a racist act), is still a vile denunciation. The person claiming racism must provide proof of that heinous charge, not just make the charge. Or the charge will be rejected by all rational persons.

The intent of wearing a MAGA hat is universally recognized by the hat wearers to be support of the US President, and of his campaign for re-election. It is certainly possible that some white racists wear the hat, but that is not in evidence here. That the student in the story thinks it is a racist statement to wear such a hat is her own creation, and without corroborating evidence cannot be presumed to be the intent of the hat wearer.

She needs to be told this, and corrected about her vile interpretation of a mere hat, or her life will continue to be a series of erroneous presumptions about the intentions of other people.

gilbar म्हणाले...

When a classmate wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat — attire that some people see as a symbol of racism

serious question
if a classmate wore a 'Black Lives Matter' shirt - could i consider That as a symbol of racism?

mikee म्हणाले...

I read down to the bit about the MAGA hat, and stopped. The charge of racism, while diminished in force by application to all white people automatically based on skin color (itself a racist act), is still a vile denunciation. The person claiming racism must provide proof of that heinous charge, not just make the charge. Or the charge will be rejected by all rational persons.

The intent of wearing a MAGA hat is universally recognized by the hat wearers to be support of the US President, and of his campaign for re-election. It is certainly possible that some white racists wear the hat, but that is not in evidence here. That the student in the story thinks it is a racist statement to wear such a hat is her own creation, and without corroborating evidence cannot be presumed to be the intent of the hat wearer.

She needs to be told this, and corrected about her vile interpretation of a mere hat, or her life will continue to be a series of erroneous presumptions about the intentions of other people.

gilbar म्हणाले...

ooh!! ooh!!
another serious question
since darkies are scared to go to schools, where they might see white folk;
could we (Should We) just have separate but equal schools for different races?
wouldn't anything else be Racism?

Leora म्हणाले...

This story is a permission slip for white families to keep their kids out of public schools without thinking they are being racist. The public schools went wrong a long time ago and the private schools are following them as our institutions have lost confidence in the principles of individualism and free speech.

gilbar म्हणाले...

Where's that other $5,000,000,000 go?
Pensions, administrators.


anyone that wants to understand what is wrong with education in this country,
should go to their high school district's administrative offices;
and look at the cars in the parking lots. What is the average cost of the cars you see?

donald म्हणाले...

Whatevs toots.

Jack Klompus म्हणाले...

Silly me, I should've realized the feral thugs tearing up and destroying my old Philly neighborhood were not COMMITTING violence but were actually REACTING TO the real violence of someone wearing a hat that expresses an opinion.

Silly me, I should've known that the black kids in the Philly schools that disrupt class and start fights and seek attention by acting like sexed-up toddlers are actually speaking truth to power against the anti-blackness of schooling.

Silly me, the methed up knife wielding psycho with 8 illegitimate kids shot by the cops was just a quiet aspiring rapper trying to break into the music biz.

Can we go five seconds without some pseudo-intellectual or pundit or news outlet telling me how I should be bowing down in front of the most precious, oppressed, misunderstood, victimized, saintly community of people ever to walk on water?

gerry म्हणाले...

No need to racialize everything.

WRONG.

Everything must be racialized. At least until the proper comrades are in charge. Then the Party will announce racism solved and everyone can STFU.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

They should imagine what it would be like if they had the only skin color that made them the enemy of all good people, made them raciest, hateful, evil, and perfectly acceptable to disparage, lie about, and even assault, while also being ineligible for special treatment and excuses for your bad behavior. You wanna join up? It's called "White privilege". People used to pretend they were White, and now they pretend to be Black. I wonder why.

I'm Not Sure म्हणाले...

"Take all of that money..."

Some of "all of that money" comes from people who don't have kids in school. Perhaps some thought should be given to what they'd like to do with their share of it?

Just wondering...

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

Treating your kids like delicate snowflakes who can't handle opposing opinions is child abuse. You will never be able to make up for the damage you do to them for the rest of their lives.

Valentine Smith म्हणाले...

The Collective Persecution Complex Syndrome

Big Mike म्हणाले...

And yet teachers — as a group — seem to take special pride in their anti-racism. But it's hard to be a teacher.

It's called the soft bigotry of low expectations, Althouse, and you have fallen for it.

Heartless Aztec म्हणाले...

Speaking as a retired former public school teacher - sending your child to public schools is parental malpractice.

Jim at म्हणाले...

Yeah. How dare your precious, little princess be exposed to such violence in the form of a hat.

Give her a fucking medal for surviving it all.

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

If I were black, I would homeschool. But then, I'm not black, and I homeschool.

Gordon Scott म्हणाले...

People used to teach their kids at home, when they were taught at all. Our modern classroom system was designed by a guy who wanted to produce good German factory workers, i.e. the discipline was already built in.

When I meet homeschooled teens, I can tell without being told. They're articulate, polite, can carry on a conversation with an adult, and don't mind doing just that.

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

What is this? Make a Racist Comment Day?

mandrewa म्हणाले...

When my son was in Boy Scouts, one of the other kids was black and also homeschooled. I really liked that young man. I was impressed by his intelligence and his positive attitude.

His father was a physicist. Actually his boy was "Unschooled." There are different kinds of homeschooling and as I far as I can tell Unschooling seems to mean the kid teaches himself. I remember his father telling me about the semester where his son did nothing but draw comic books. (I think that is what he said but my memory is imperfect!)

Anyway Unschooling doesn't sound like it should work. But it this case it definitely did.

cacimbo म्हणाले...

Sure hope these women do not represent most homeschoolers. How awful to be raised in in environment where you are encouraged to believe everything you dislike or disagree with equals racism.

TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed म्हणाले...

Here's an easy fix: Get rid of mandatory schooling beyond a low grade (maybe eighth). Don't make free citizens of this country do something they don't want to do, and put the public education dollars into the families' pockets - let them decide what to do to educate their brood. Change child labor laws so kids can go back to work, and subsidize their wages via credits or direct subsidies to companies that hire them.

Narr म्हणाले...

Some of the best students, student workers, and fulltime colleagues I had on campus were homeschooled.

My wife and I trusted to the public schools for our son's education, which was 1) not that great and 2) would have been better if he had tried harder. But the same could be said about me; my wife was a small Catholic girls' school scholarship student -- and upwardly mobile only because she married me, not because of the great preparation she got there.

Our son and I had mediocre grades with minimal effort; dearest wife had good to excellent grades with enormous effort . . . After a working life in higher ed, my conclusion is that in the long run almost everyone ends up with the education they can handle and desire.

Narr
The rest is just self-centered whining



NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

Francisco D said...

Racism is in such short supply...

I'm starting to think that's the real problem for some people.

Doug म्हणाले...

"You're a racist!"
"Okay ... now what?"

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

It is a very rare parent who can view any criticism of their child objectively.

Ms. Aryee-Price is encouraging black parents to view constructive criticism as racist.

And the children to view their classmates as racist.

The victims in all of this are the kids, the teachers and the parents. The consultants need to go away.

Howard म्हणाले...

So much useless trivia, so little time.

Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

We're going to have states rights and segregation again.
But it won't be imposed by white racist Democrats this time. It will be voluntary by the descendants of the people who complained about it 60 years ago.

Jamie म्हणाले...

So much useless trivia, so little time.

What "useless trivia"? The MAGA hat and the teacher's interpretation thereof? Agreed, given the facts on the ground about Trump - it's his campaign slogan, and he's clearly not racist. The perception of same as a personal slight? That's neither useless - obviously, since it's causing the parent to consider changing the child's educational options - nor trivial - since the whole concept of "microaggression" appears to represent pretty much the whole of "systemic racism" in these modern times. There's a reason that those touting "systemic racism" always hark back to events of many decades ago to illustrate their point; those events simply don't happen today, except as wild outliers committed by psychopaths.

It seems to me that rather than "useless trivia," this story represents something very very consequential: the willing act of perceiving people's general (and sometimes political) statements of opinion as personal attacks is toxic, dangerous to the body politic, and increasingly widespread. If I were you, Howard, I'd reexamine my postulates.

wildswan म्हणाले...

I support home schooling 100%. I had two homeschooled employees and they got the job (they were stockroom guys) done, perfectly, in two hours each day. Then they wanted to sleep or go home for their violin lesson (really happened) or listen to language tapes. I could not explain why this couldn't be allowed. "What if the district manager comes by and sees you sleeping up there on top of the shelves?" "Just tell him the work is done and now it's my time." "Yes, but he's paying you still." "Well, you know he used to pay for 6 1/2 hours a day and still the job wasn't done. Just tell him now he's paying for 6 1/2 hours and the job is done." Which was true, but, you know, the truth didn't delve to the root of the situation. So, as I say, I support home schooling 100% but I know there will be ... challenges ... in managing these excellent workers.

Gospace म्हणाले...

Seems to me that blacks seem to now want segregation, and are getting it in liberal colleges run by liberal/Democrat college administrations.

So in 1776 when we got started there was slavery in the nation. Less than 100 years later, in 1865, at the conclusion of a long, bloody war, we ended it. After reconstruction, DEMOCRATS started to segregate the South. By LAW. And legal force. Seems businessmen need, for the most part, to be forced to mistreat paying customers. A good businessman who wants to maximize profit treats all customers equally, he doesn't make one class sit in the back of the bus. But- the Federal government was integrated at all levels. Until liberal DEMOCRAT Woodrow Wilson took over and resegregated the Federal government and the military. That lasted until 1948 when Harry Truman, Democrat, but not a "progressive" or "liberal" one, ordered the government desegregated. A few years later, Eisenhower called in the NG to Little Rock to enforce desegregation.

Now, in 2020, we have liberal Democrats united with blacks to establish- segregated facilities. Next thing up- racial quotas. Looks like Sandra Day O'Connor was completely off base when wrote, “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.” Seems they're going to be mandatory if DEMOCRATS get their way.

buwaya म्हणाले...

The original idea behind school integration (by the original Liberal creators of the idea, such as James Coleman) was that putting black kids in a white middle class environment would lead to "peer effects" such as socialization into white middle class culture, and hence it would improve black academic performance. That's really what it was all about, originally. All that school busing and all those school district consent decrees were about "peer effects".

That does not seem to be a thing anymore. White middle class culture now seems to be a deadly psychic danger to black kids. But politicians still insist on integration. Why? Tab A does not seem to fit into slot B.

buwaya म्हणाले...

"So much useless trivia, so little time."

This is not trivia at all. Education is critical. Socialization is critical.
Who your peers are is critical. What your society chooses to press into kids heads pretty well defines what will be its nature in the next generation.

I can't think of anything more important.

Many people like to gloss over all of this. They are idiots.

doctrev म्हणाले...

You know, good for her. I honestly can't be bothered to correct every little misapprehension she has about white Americans, and I think every black child should free themselves from the obvious failure of public schooling. Those children who can participate in white society will be better off for it. Those who are easily triggered should segregate themselves, and will be better off for it. It's not great for smart black kids trapped in terrible homes, but they'll find ways to emancipate themselves. Because they're smart.

Honestly, the best thing for certain blacks would be to realize how much happier they'd be in a society without any whites, even if they became substantially poorer, then move to the appropriate destination.

Jack Klompus म्हणाले...

Many people like to gloss over all of this. They are idiots.

I present to you: Howard.

अनामित म्हणाले...

I raised three boys. At various points in their education they were treated as problems. I hated that. Of course, there was the fact that, as often as not they WERE problems. Learning to behave, which they all eventually did, was part of the process.

And, while I’m at it, and maybe this doesn’t apply at a place like say, “George Lincoln Rockwell Middle School “ , a super, super majority of teachers both public and private, bend over backward to avoid being, or rather appearing, racist. I think they are being racist, but not in the way the ADL or SPLC would define it.

mtrobertslaw म्हणाले...

How do the Amish teach reading, writing and arithmetic to their kids? It might be worth looking into.
I'm told they only have 7-8 years of schooling. The kids seem to be able to interact with the outside world pretty well.