The article by Nikole Hannah-Jones left me wondering why she didn't check her daughter's homework. I don't want to pile on the woman - this was her child and we can be sure she did her best. But her best was flawed in ways she doesn't seem aware of. She never looked into phonics, discipline or the effect of the teacher's unions. And she never tried to help her daughter with her homework. Checking homework should be a given when your child is in a bad school. I just onder why she never did.
The story wasn't primarily about her daughter's experience with a bad school system and the resultant poor educational result. The story was primarily about N H-J's harrowing experience with a bad school system and poor educational result.
Her daughter's saga, although potentially life-determining, was only an element in the bigger and more important story: N H-J's experiences and perceptions of what she calls a racist system. No time for helping with homework.
Of course most parents would quickly conclude this is really bad parenting, neglectful even. But hey - what a story, eh? 'Fighting for Every Black Child'.
The most appropriate memorial in DC to Trump would be to rename one of the public restrooms in West Potomac Park in his honor. Maybe his mega-donors can chip in to add gold plating to some of the toilets. We could have a "debt clock" in the restroom and a list of Trump's business failures, bankruptcies and marriages. It could serve as a potent reminder to all that you can get everything you want and still be miserable. Maybe somewhere down the line, someone can use the byproduct of the restroom as fertilizer for something more constructive and useful to the world.
Trump doesn't think he owes anything to anyone. However, all he has are debts. If he won't pay them back, a revitalized America needs to ensure that he and his sycophants do. One way or another his debts are going to become ours, and part of "owning it" is making sure that Trump's contribution is properly memorialized. Even though Trump wishes it were otherwise, it will be left for others to serve up the final word for both him and us.
…I want to highlight a success story I figured was somewhere between goofy waste and a corrupt boondoggle- animal ecoducts, those bridges and tunnels for critters to use to cross the interstate. Thinking they were another creative waste of money my first surprise was watching a deer use the one North of Sheboygan. He’s using it! I squealed. Apparently it doesn’t take much to get everything to use them, cuts collisions to almost nill everywhere they’re installed. Well I’ll be…
Tough 24 hours for Chicago sports fans. Caleb Williams (hammy) and Tyson Bagent (concussion) likely out Monday night for the Bears. Alex Bregman hit in the face by a check swing foul standing in the on-deck circle. Broken bones in his face.
I don’t know the 1619 lady’s background but I believe a good student begets a good student and vice versa. If a parent was not studious and merit driven, their child has no role model from whom to learn how to do well. Our parents expected good grades, legitimate ones, and we expected the same from our children. I imagine it’s a white supremacy flag now. That’s too bad.
What Aggie said: it's remarkable that the NHJ saga doesn't say anything about her helping her daughter with homework, making up informal exercises, and so on. Just get a tutor!
I thought it was a given that among a decent number of the activist well-intentioned*, the needs of a faceless collective always took precedence over the needs of the face-ful who live in their homes with them. This characteristic is so common, I think, that the Catholic Church even warned its adherents, "Don't give so much to charity that you become a charity case yourself."
* I am reluctantly giving whatshername, the 1619 woman, the benefit of the doubt for being well-intentioned. I am aware that it assumes facts not in evidence, or whatever the legal phraseology is.
"Wildswan said... The article by Nikole Hannah-Jones left me wondering why she didn't check her daughter's homework."
She eventually contacted school and asked to see child's homework to determine why child was poor with reading and math.
Unless things have changed, teachers return graded homework to students to take home to parents. Either she paid no attention, or teacher didn't return it. In either case, why would she expect teachers to keep all students homework?
"FullMoon said... "Wildswan said... The article by Nikole Hannah-Jones left me wondering why she didn't check her daughter's homework. [Full Moon said] She eventually contacted school and asked to see child's homework to determine why child was poor with reading and math."
The point I was trying to make was that it took Nikole Hannah-Jones years to notice the problem. Over a period of years, she never ever looked at her child's homework. Yet she knew she had sent the child to a bad school. A bad school has bad teachers. Why didn't she check on what was being taught - and learned? What's the point of challenging those teachers about their neglect when she herself was completely neglectful?
It's sunrise pics on Hobbit Day...and evening...so, Bilbo's Last Song:
Day is ended, dim my eyes, But journey long before me lies. Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The ship's beside the stony wall. Foam is white and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way. Foam is salt, the wind is free; I hear the rising of the Sea.
Farewell, friends! The sails are set, The wind is east, the moorings fret. Shadows long before me lie, Beneath the ever-bending sky, But islands lie behind the Sun That I shall raise ere all is done; Lands there are to west of West, Where night is quiet and sleep is rest.
Guided by the Lonely Star, Beyond the utmost harbour-bar, I’ll find the heavens fair and free, And beaches of the Starlit Sea. Ship, my ship! I seek the West, And fields and mountains ever blest. Farewell to Middle-earth at last. I see the Star above my mast!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
Trump has a genius for compartmentalization. One wonders if the walls he has erected in his memory allow for any communication between the different segments. His maladministration is a reflection of his own incapacity.
The 25th Amendment might be Vance’s best option as Trump’s poll numbers tank. If they lose both houses it might be Vance’s only way to be president.
N H-J: '...We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there....'
In other words, maybe she was convinced that her mere association with the school, as a NYT journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (NYT 1619 project), that her orbiting celebrity would cause the school to up its game and improve - that was all that was needed. The word is Hubris, I think, as well as self-importance. The same things are noted in some of the criticisms of the 1619 Project by the community of historians. A belief that personal opinions carry the weight of evidence, if the person with the opinion is important enough.
“You said, ‘Everybody should be equal.’ Well, everybody’s not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They’re different.” “Don’t come into my house, which is a perfect house, and tell me, “Looks nice from the outside, but I’m going to change it inside to make it more of what we like: a more vanilla gray, everything muted colors. Look, that’s the way we should be living today.” Don’t come here to redecorate. You don’t like my house? Stay in your own house or find a different house.”
Educated parents should be able to provide a lot of their kids' education completely passively, by just surrounding the kid with educated words and ideas.
I got a lot of my education from PBS and the news, because those are what my parents had playing in the house most of the time. Yes, yes, but this was 50 years ago, when those media were less blatantly biased. And they spoke correct Standard English around me. An environment like this should give you most of your language arts and history/social studies, plus at least descriptive/qualitative science (from NOVA, etc).
Quantitative math and science do have to be learned through doing the reps, under the supervision of a teacher (at school or at home) who makes the corrections and sends you back to do it again.
If this kid wasn't even building a vocabulary and grammar skills, these parents were really neglecting her. CC, JSM
He was just feeding the homeless. Why are do you want to punish him??
Nicholas Fondacaro @NickFondacaro Sunny Hostin brags about being a holdout juror that prevented The Butcher of Thompson Square Park from going to prison. She admits "once he killed her, he chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts ... and fed her body parts to the unhoused." link text
Remember Hillary’s battle cry? “It takes a village to raise a child.” Apparently Nikole Hannah-Jones is waiting for the calvary to arrive. It will be a long wait.
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The article by Nikole Hannah-Jones left me wondering why she didn't check her daughter's homework. I don't want to pile on the woman - this was her child and we can be sure she did her best. But her best was flawed in ways she doesn't seem aware of. She never looked into phonics, discipline or the effect of the teacher's unions. And she never tried to help her daughter with her homework. Checking homework should be a given when your child is in a bad school. I just onder why she never did.
The story wasn't primarily about her daughter's experience with a bad school system and the resultant poor educational result. The story was primarily about N H-J's harrowing experience with a bad school system and poor educational result.
Her daughter's saga, although potentially life-determining, was only an element in the bigger and more important story: N H-J's experiences and perceptions of what she calls a racist system. No time for helping with homework.
Of course most parents would quickly conclude this is really bad parenting, neglectful even. But hey - what a story, eh? 'Fighting for Every Black Child'.
"this was her child and we can be sure she did her best."
I can't.
If that's the best she could do for her own child, just guess what she'd be willing to do for yours.
The most appropriate memorial in DC to Trump would be to rename one of the public restrooms in West Potomac Park in his honor. Maybe his mega-donors can chip in to add gold plating to some of the toilets. We could have a "debt clock" in the restroom and a list of Trump's business failures, bankruptcies and marriages. It could serve as a potent reminder to all that you can get everything you want and still be miserable. Maybe somewhere down the line, someone can use the byproduct of the restroom as fertilizer for something more constructive and useful to the world.
Trump doesn't think he owes anything to anyone. However, all he has are debts. If he won't pay them back, a revitalized America needs to ensure that he and his sycophants do. One way or another his debts are going to become ours, and part of "owning it" is making sure that Trump's contribution is properly memorialized. Even though Trump wishes it were otherwise, it will be left for others to serve up the final word for both him and us.
…I want to highlight a success story I figured was somewhere between goofy waste and a corrupt boondoggle- animal ecoducts, those bridges and tunnels for critters to use to cross
the interstate. Thinking they were another creative waste of money my first surprise was watching a deer use the one North of Sheboygan. He’s using it! I squealed. Apparently it doesn’t take much to get everything to use them, cuts collisions to almost nill everywhere they’re installed. Well I’ll be…
Tough 24 hours for Chicago sports fans. Caleb Williams (hammy) and Tyson Bagent (concussion) likely out Monday night for the Bears. Alex Bregman hit in the face by a check swing foul standing in the on-deck circle. Broken bones in his face.
I don’t know the 1619 lady’s background but I believe a good student begets a good student and vice versa. If a parent was not studious and merit driven, their child has no role model from whom to learn how to do well. Our parents expected good grades, legitimate ones, and we expected the same from our children. I imagine it’s a white supremacy flag now. That’s too bad.
What Aggie said: it's remarkable that the NHJ saga doesn't say anything about her helping her daughter with homework, making up informal exercises, and so on. Just get a tutor!
Fantastic pics!
Ms. 1619 doesn’t sound like much of a parent.
My mother used to say that- "I oughta have my head examined,"
I thought it was a given that among a decent number of the activist well-intentioned*, the needs of a faceless collective always took precedence over the needs of the face-ful who live in their homes with them. This characteristic is so common, I think, that the Catholic Church even warned its adherents, "Don't give so much to charity that you become a charity case yourself."
* I am reluctantly giving whatshername, the 1619 woman, the benefit of the doubt for being well-intentioned. I am aware that it assumes facts not in evidence, or whatever the legal phraseology is.
IEE - the DC sewage flow could be named after every democrat who fails us. That's a lot.
"Wildswan said...
The article by Nikole Hannah-Jones left me wondering why she didn't check her daughter's homework."
She eventually contacted school and asked to see child's homework to determine why child was poor with reading and math.
Unless things have changed, teachers return graded homework to students to take home to parents. Either she paid no attention, or teacher didn't return it. In either case, why would she expect teachers to keep all students homework?
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These are terrific pictures. If I had to pick one, I say the 3rd down.
The DNC trolls have invaded Instapundit.
FULL REMARKS: Trump Addresses The United Nations General Assembly In New York City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42l5-4WG_Q0&t=2s
This is what the left considers "dementia".
"FullMoon said...
"Wildswan said...
The article by Nikole Hannah-Jones left me wondering why she didn't check her daughter's homework.
[Full Moon said]
She eventually contacted school and asked to see child's homework to determine why child was poor with reading and math."
The point I was trying to make was that it took Nikole Hannah-Jones years to notice the problem. Over a period of years, she never ever looked at her child's homework. Yet she knew she had sent the child to a bad school. A bad school has bad teachers. Why didn't she check on what was being taught - and learned? What's the point of challenging those teachers about their neglect when she herself was completely neglectful?
It's sunrise pics on Hobbit Day...and evening...so, Bilbo's Last Song:
Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship's beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
Beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.
Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
The wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
Beneath the ever-bending sky,
But islands lie behind the Sun
That I shall raise ere all is done;
Lands there are to west of West,
Where night is quiet and sleep is rest.
Guided by the Lonely Star,
Beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I’ll find the heavens fair and free,
And beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
And fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last.
I see the Star above my mast!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Trump has a genius for compartmentalization. One wonders if the walls he has erected in his memory allow for any communication between the different segments. His maladministration is a reflection of his own incapacity.
The 25th Amendment might be Vance’s best option as Trump’s poll numbers tank. If they lose both houses it might be Vance’s only way to be president.
N H-J: '...We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there....'
In other words, maybe she was convinced that her mere association with the school, as a NYT journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (NYT 1619 project), that her orbiting celebrity would cause the school to up its game and improve - that was all that was needed. The word is Hubris, I think, as well as self-importance. The same things are noted in some of the criticisms of the 1619 Project by the community of historians. A belief that personal opinions carry the weight of evidence, if the person with the opinion is important enough.
Wildswan
You are correctt
My point is child brought graded homewrk home all the time and parents never looked at it
“… this was her child and we can be sure she did her best.”
Really? I don’t see that Hannah-Jones gave a rat’s ass about her child.
As if NYT even reported on NYC failing schools in past years?
NHJ should have checked their archival history going back to 1619?!
“You said, ‘Everybody should be equal.’ Well, everybody’s not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They’re different.”
“Don’t come into my house, which is a perfect house, and tell me, “Looks nice from the outside, but I’m going to change it inside to make it more of what we like: a more vanilla gray, everything muted colors. Look, that’s the way we should be living today.” Don’t come here to redecorate. You don’t like my house? Stay in your own house or find a different house.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/mic-drop-judge-judy-slams-america-haters-living/
Educated parents should be able to provide a lot of their kids' education completely passively, by just surrounding the kid with educated words and ideas.
I got a lot of my education from PBS and the news, because those are what my parents had playing in the house most of the time. Yes, yes, but this was 50 years ago, when those media were less blatantly biased. And they spoke correct Standard English around me. An environment like this should give you most of your language arts and history/social studies, plus at least descriptive/qualitative science (from NOVA, etc).
Quantitative math and science do have to be learned through doing the reps, under the supervision of a teacher (at school or at home) who makes the corrections and sends you back to do it again.
If this kid wasn't even building a vocabulary and grammar skills, these parents were really neglecting her. CC, JSM
So what role for The Man Faraji in this tale?
He was just feeding the homeless. Why are do you want to punish him??
Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Sunny Hostin brags about being a holdout juror that prevented The Butcher of Thompson Square Park from going to prison.
She admits "once he killed her, he chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts ... and fed her body parts to the unhoused."
link text
Remember Hillary’s battle cry? “It takes a village to raise a child.” Apparently Nikole Hannah-Jones is waiting for the calvary to arrive. It will be a long wait.
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