Comments on: The Answer To Failed Urban Schools?

Washington's School Chancellor Hopes Her Tough Methods Will Yield Major Results

[keithle1]

The black boys are the real problem. They do things that are a recipe for disaster. How To Really Mess Up Your Life Before It Starts 101.

They drop out of high school. Get girls pregnant. "Look at me! I''m a major pimp/playa!" A lot of them end up dealing drugs or in gangs. Young black men shooting & killing other young black men every day. You know it. I know it. We all know it.

It''s a lot easier to motivate the black girls than the black boys when it comes to high school/university. The black boys just don''t care unless it involves a ball. Sports rule. They worship pro athletes. Sitting in a library studying? Getting all A''s? Wha----? That''s acting white. They don''t want to be a "nerd." All about being COOL 24-7. Picking up the ladies. The only thing they want to read is the sports page & the label on a bottle of Colt 45.

When was the last time a black boy (not one born in Africa) was voted valedictorian of any high school in the USA? They do not care.

Black women are graduating from university left & right. They don''t want to marry a high school dropout or someone with no plans to ever go to university. 70% of black women are single.

[keithle1]

Talk about your thankless jobs. Oy vey!

Name a city with a black majority population that has a good school system with a high graduation rate & low truancy.

Of course it comes down to the parents! Kids need discipline & order. Don''t try to be your kid''s best friend. If your parents care about where you go & how late you stay out then you don''t need a curfew in a city. Stay involved & participate in your kid''s education. Go to the PTA meetings.

If you can''t handle the responsibility & hard work of raising kids, don''t have them. Discover a little something called BIRTH CONTROL, people. You know, CONDOMS. This is the 21st century. We''re not living in the Amazon jungle.

Baby mamas have kids who usually end up as thugs & criminals. Not always but a lot. A teenage girl is not mature enough. It''s not normal. They can''t handle being a parent.

How many of the men behind bars would say that they had at least one parent who really loved them, cared about them & put them first? Maybe 5%? Very few.

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by ApprxAm at 01:50 AM

Why don''t you put the blame where it belongs? On the parents! What do you do with kids that refuse to participate and refuse to do homework or anything else? And then when you call the parents, they respond with: "You better not be harrassing my little angel!" I get sick and tired of people like you blaming the teachers who get so little pay, while being required to be highly qualified as per the NCLBA, only to be slapped back by the likes of you. No wonder its hard to find new teachers anymore.

[michellem99-2009]

she can''t do this my friend said. We are Ameicans. It the govt that told yer parents they can''t place a tap or 2 on the bottom. It the govt that took prayer out of school before I was born. It the govt that barred me from school. It the govt that put me in foster homes. It the govt that is seeing what they soe.

[michellem99-2009]

What parenets. It may surprise ye that there are a group of children barred from in the 50s and early 60s..Yep I was one. Not being bad but multi handicapped. This lady thinks she is mean - hell I think other wise,

[apprxam]

When the teacher''s Union and the ACLU and other liberal oranizations protest this fall and claim they deserve their jobs no matter the results, I hope that the Mayor and Ms. Rhee have the backing of goverment and other groups to muster a fight and stand by their new-found principles.

If this was happening to white students on Long Island, the ACLU would give legal assistance to the School District or System because their children, the future "reds" of America needs to learn how to read the U.S. Constitution so that they, too, can learn how to decontruct it and continue to use it to disadvantage black children for another 40 years.

[sociald63]

future section 8 candidates

[darnedsocks]

THE REASON THE SCHOOLS ARE SO BAD IS THAT THE ACLU -- ORIGINALLY FOUNDED BY COMMUNISTS -- HAS SOUGHT TO SUE THE DICKENS OUT OF ANY SCHOOL THAT ACTUAL IMPLEMENT DISCIPLINE! HOW MANY TEACHERS HAVE BEEN BRUTALLY RAPED, BEATEN, ATTACKED, BULLIED, ETC. BY THEIR STUDENTS!

THE KEY IS NOT BEING AFRAID TO IMPLEMENT DISCIPLINE, SO THE CLASSROOM CAN BE SAFE FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.

[apprxam]

Rhee is not doing it nicely, reports CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews.

Just one year into office, Rhee has closed 23 schools, fired 34 principals, offered buyouts to 700 teachers, while pressuring hundreds more to leave-and fired 98 employees at the central school office.

"Drastic change is needed because the situation is incredibly dire,"

CBS News

Dire is an understatement. I remember listening to an NPR report about a valedictorian from a D.C. High School and based on his placing at the top of his school, received entry into MIT, where during the summer before attending, he and other urban school children (that''s the nice way of say BLACK BOYS) went to the campus for remediation and they were crushed to find how much they just didn''t know. The young man dropped himself from the program, his confidence shattered. It was so heart breaking to see how this process of helping them only ended up hurting them. It''s time to be honest with these children and treat them just like anyone else. No Affirmative-Action or pitty curriculums to make them feel good. How pernicious the half-hearted attempts to bring these children into the fold by violating the very principle of higher education. MERIT. And that requires a real attempt to teach them during their early years. These aren''t basketball players granted a pass on learning to get to the hardwood. These student have brains that need to be filled.

[apprxam]

galaxiana, I don''t think much of "Leave no Child Behind", but I doubt these problems began only 7.5 years ago. The combination of liberal interferrence and conservative apathy and just the general running of thing by people who either don''t know how or care and that has been a long time coming.

I''m no fan of Bush, but the crux of the matter is accountablity, even if it isn''t funded, the principle is basic and necessary. Another aspect of LNCB is perantal choice. Those who care enough should be free to choose, no matter the consequince to teacher''s union, community leaders and poor performing students. Parent who care and want help should be given the right to pass that on to their children for whom they are responsible.