Teaching In A Ghetto School

[skb12172]

Nothing will cause you more grief than telling the truth to someone who doesn't want to hear it.

Quoted for Truth...

[rightisright]

I had a friend (since passed) who taught high school in Paterson, NJ. Yeah, the one in the Morgan Freeman movie Lean on Me. He taught post Joe Clark.

He could have written that letter. He made it five years before becoming so disgusted that he left for the greener pastures of a wealthy suburban system. Unfortunately he brought along his Paterson-acquired boozing habit and died of at the ripe old age of 47.

[Windy Wilson]

if you are a good teacher there will be a set of students who make you feel like you did something good and who show you what could be. I didn't get that from reading this.

This may be why he is allegedly an ex teacher. He may have been good-intentioned but not skilled, and so never got that feeling.

[PawPaw]

So, before we can know the answer, we need to know the question.

What's the question?

[First Shirt]

I think the question that he wanted to ask, but was afraid of the answer is "So, how do we fix this?" Honestly, I don't know, and I don't think anyone really does. All the possible permutations of "fix it" that I can come up with are politically and/or economically impossible.

[Aesop]

There's nothing wrong with public education that wouldn't be solved by cutting off all taxpayer funding.

[SoupOrMan]

There's nothing wrong with public education that wouldn't be solved by cutting off all taxpayer funding.

That's like saying there's no problem too big in Chicago that another fire couldn't solve. Mind you I say that all the time during quarterly filings...

[Jered]

There's nothing wrong with public education that wouldn't be solved by cutting off all taxpayer funding.

The only problem is that all the feral little miscreants run around and start tagging fences and burning cars.

[Aesop]

If that's the only snag, call your broker, invest long on ammo and casket manufacturers, and let's start the party.

The bigger snag isn't the kids, who are still teachable, but from the imminently unemployed teachers, who'd be far more likely to need the ministrations of National Guardsmen with 3' batons.

Either way, the boon to society from prevention of millions of welfare queens with 9 kids and 7 baby daddies would more than offset the court costs for coroner's inquests, and just like riots, the mischief would end in about 2 episodes per town.

[Aglifter]

I suggest

A) tax credits for donations to orphanages/homes for girls. They've almost been killed off, as they were, traditionally, run by religious groups, and as the DC got more and more involved, it became all but impossible for a religious charity to balance DC's aetheistic requirements, which the religious ones required by their charter.

A tax credit means of funding would, far more efficiently, fund the organizations, and avoid the issue of government funds going to religious groups. (Yes, yes, there are more ideal situations, but promote it as a real means of reducing abortions w.o. the rights argument, and its politically palatable. )

B) Do everything possible to streamline the adoption process - essentially, gut the idea of a birth mother having "rights" after giving the child up for adoption. Its how it used to work, and its far better for the child. The birth mother simply isn't someone w. who's desires can really be given much weight in that situation. (US Adoption is ridiculously hard, and expensive.)

C) Now that the kids have a safer place to go, stop condemning them to hell on earth.