October 3, 2023
"[Karine] Jean-Pierre couldn’t read until the third grade. Her parents—consumed with multiple jobs—had assumed she would learn in school."
"She did not.
Determined to help her siblings avoid the same fate, Jean-Pierre set up a classroom in the basement when she was in middle school. Her brother remembers her teaching him not just how to read and write, but 'how to articulate emotions, how to speak.' When her sister took dance classes, Jean-Pierre handled drop-off and pickup.... [H]er parents started handing her bills to decipher. 'I was like the third parent,' she says.... She records instances of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a cousin. She didn’t tell her parents.... She describes a suicide attempt in college: Her sister found her in her car with the exhaust on and shook her awake. Jean-Pierre threw her urine-soaked khakis in the trash and never discussed the incident—or what drove her to it—with her parents. She had known she was gay since childhood, but the book recounts only one agonizing attempt at coming out to her mother. ('I could see the revulsion on her face,' Jean-Pierre writes.)..."
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Jean-Pierre couldn’t read until the third grade. Her parents—consumed with multiple jobs—had assumed she would learn in school."
"She did not.
It takes a village.. at least it does when the parents are Too Lazy to Care
A Legend in Her Own Mind.
"She records instances of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a cousin."
My best friend (female) has a theory that many lesbians are that way because of sexual abuse.
And why is this being published now? Does her personal story somehow justify all the lying she does for Biden?
A common experience: multiple jobs, but mothers and fathers still found time for their children.
Nothing a little drag queen story hour couldn't have fixed. Everyone knows that having a satanic pedophile female impersonator read Clifford: The Big Red Dog to 3rd graders fixes that right up. It's better than phonics!
Well, she can certainly read now. It's all she can do.
A common experience, especially with progressive prices ("shared responsibility").
As a retired inner city school teacher I have stories that could make you weep. Entire classrooms full of stories all different yet all the same. The pathologies of poverty and dysfunctional families are well known. The long hard climb out and away from those pathologies are both traumatic and redeeming at the same time. I relived a few moments of my still well visited PTSD reading your blog posting. The only thing lacking was a looped soundtrack of gunfire and physical violence. God bless the children that can't read when they're 15 years old. There are a lot of them out there.
I know the goal here is "equity" or equal outcomes for all. I know that KJP is widely perceived to be an unqualified diversity hire. But still, where's the virtue or value in playing up cognitive and social struggles, failings, and troubles? She must appear to be capable and competent to function in her knowledge and communication job, and to earn respect.
This clearly shows how DEI has become a dogmatic religion. It'll crumble in a flash when there's any serious threat.
Funny how SO MANY gays were sexually abused as children but deny that has anything to do with their adult sexual orientation.
Who cares about Biden's mouthpiece? She parrots lies and half truths. There is no honor in Biden's staff. None would resign for pushing lies.
"Her brother remembers her teaching him not just how to read and write, but 'how to articulate emotions, how to speak.'"
Boy, did she lose THAT talent fast,...
KJP is a political embarrassment, but as a role model for a major reform in education and pedagogy, she should be spotlit, commended and emulated.
AT PUBLIC SCHOOL, those who arrive illiterate (not "reading ready" as the school apparatus prefers to phrase it) will remain illiterate, despite the attentions of college educated professional classroom leading employees. (Not "teachers", because, obviously, teaching isn't what happens in those classrooms.) AT HOME, the slightly-more-literate can teach the still illiterate, to the benefit of both. Most homeschooling parents who can read at all can generally do a better job teaching the families' children to read than the paid staff of the giant school system. KJP has demonstrated this. Democrats should own it.
A public school might avoid having to send a 4th-grader with marginal reading skills back to 2nd or 3rd grade to repeat the year, by setting up one-on-one sessions where the older child sits beside a younger and they practice together on material appropriate to the younger beginning reader. Social promotion, keeping children together by age instead of by ability, is age-segregation and is every bit as pernicious as racial segregation. If families must send a child into the institution, at least they should avoid age-based classroom assignments.
History, Bullshit. The Progressive Party has made it so that they can only nominate women who are black and gay. Or transgenders. Doesn't matter if they are good at the job or not, but it makes the Progressive party feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that they are crapping on America and Americans and they don't give a shit.
I learned to read at home. I remember a teacher being surprised that I could read. They had me with a group of kids that apparently could not read.
Somebody wants to establish sympathetic distance from her boss?
"[H]er parents started handing her bills to decipher. 'I was like the third parent,' she says..."
"Third parent"? I've watched some of her press conferences. I reckon she needs about six or seven more. It would appear she'd find emptying trash cans to be a challenge.
I keep hearing about government officials "making history". That's all well and good, I just wish the history being made wasn't the turning of "Idiocracy" into a reality.
My best friend (female) has a theory that many lesbians are that way because of sexual abuse.
I proposed that theory about 40 years ago.
Good for her, overcoming adversity. Can she provide any facts instead of spin, or is that too much to ask of a White House Press Secretary these days?
Lem the misspeller said...
"I learned to read at home."
Let's hear it for comics and cereal boxes in homes without books.
That's nice and all, but she's utterly incompetent at her job. She's not even a good liar.
Stable middle class families give kids a real Head Start that no federal program can match. KJP couldn't read in the third grade. OTOH my two daughters could both read at 3 and a half. and it came suddenly. It seemed like one day they couldn't read--and the next day they could read the newspaper. (Well being sarcastic, the Los Angeles Times often wrote for those with a simple mind.)
Early reading is not unusual where parents read to their kids and there are a lot of books and magazines around a house. Is that unfair? Well maybe--but it does give those lucky children a leg up on life.
"Jean-Pierre couldn’t read until the third grade. Her parents—consumed with multiple jobs—had assumed she would learn in school."
Is this an unfair assumption? Regardless of the literacy of the parent(s), the schools job is to teach children to read, to write, perform arithmetic.
If this is not true, then this article should focus on that - a demonstration of the failure of the public school system.
Additionally, if you want your kids to be able to read, don't send them to public school.
She had some obstacles and overcame them. Good for her. I wonder what lessons she's drawn from those obstacles....As others have noted, one would guess that the lesbianism was probably more a result of sexual abuse than of God's plan. Perhaps there's also some anger at her parents who do seem somewhat neglectful. Has this anger with her parents, her cousin and her teachers been redirected at American society? Can American society be restructured in such a way so that little girls like her can never be molested, ignored, or shunned. Well, it's worth a try. First you have to imprison Donald Trump and some of his key supporters.
I'm glad she didn't succeed in killing herself.
Oxygen thief.
Could KJP's parents read? Apparently not, if she was deciphering bills for them.
How many school hours are wasted each year for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade students while they watch a transvestite "read" a book for them? A book held up and open at a distance too far to be readable and without a false fingernail tracing below each word as it's read. This sort of crap is nothing more than turning on a TV and child-sitting.
I remember reading an article many years ago that claimed that the literacy rate in Massachusetts was higher in the mid 1800’s, prior to mandatory public education, than it is today.
Seems to be true according to census data.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16459/did-massachusetts-have-a-higher-literacy-rate-before-compulsory-schooling
My best friend (female) has a theory that many lesbians are that way because of sexual abuse.
I've run across this hypothesis before. I've also, recently, heard from more than one lesbian activist (now known as TERFs) that it's virtually impossible to do research on women and on lesbianism these days because of the inclusion of "trans women" among the group "women." So we may never know.
Jean-Pierre couldn’t read until the third grade. Her parents—consumed with multiple jobs—had assumed she would learn in school. She did not.
The definition of structural, institutional racism is that teachers’ unions could not care less about this.
You can make fun of KJP for being a dumbass, which she is, but her admirable quality is loyalty. Joe Biden could shoot her dog and she would still parrot his caretaker's talking points.
Meanwhile, Republican White House employees turn on their bosses and party if they get looked at funny.
The problem is, she is far from bright. But she has no problem lying with a perfectly straight face. Why would we believe anything she says at this point?
'"[Karine] Jean-Pierre couldn’t read until the third grade.'
Can she now?
Are democrats ever not overcoming adversity, not inspirational, not saint-like and god-like in the eyes of the corrupt, boot-licking press?
That was rhetorical...
'My best friend (female) has a theory that many lesbians are that way because of sexual abuse.'
The other ones because they are ugly.
Sometimes you get a two-fer.
good on her for supporting home shooling!!
that many lesbians are that way because of sexual abuse.
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why not also male homosexual?
that many lesbians are that way because of sexual abuse.
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why not also male homosexual?
Urine soaked khakis?
Is that part of asphyxiation?A
It makes you wonder just what they do in school all day.
Nothing about her tragic story gives her license to lie on behalf of a corrupt president.
Nothing about her tragic story gives her license to lie on behalf of a corrupt president.
KJP is a finalist for the Baghdad Bob “Spokesperson of the Year.”
Welcome to the world of any destitute district like say rail or stock yards. This is not exclusive to inner city.
Walter @5:06pm said:
"Urine soaked khakis?
Is that part of asphyxiation?"
Only if she had them stuffed in her mouth and was trying to choke on them.
Setting aside her polarizing job performance, I've always thought she's a pretty good looker with a nicely dialed-in sense of style. Maybe not for everyone but she styles her look, from the hair to the choice of colors in her wardrobe, really well for her face-shape, height, skin tone, etc. I admire that about her.
KJP is perhaps the dumbest press secretary of my lifetime. Say what you will about Psaki, she was smart enough to know when she was lying. Which was constantly.
veni vidi vici said...
"Setting aside her polarizing job performance, I've always thought she's a pretty good looker with a nicely dialed-in sense of style,...from the hair"
Really? That Sideshow Bob look is what does it for you? I find her difficult to look at. She exhibits ignorance and hubris in equal measure, which is hard to take.
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