Another "you can't make this stuff up" story...
NAACP battles Latino groups over push to open public schools for non-English speakers
WASHINGTON – A plan that would dedicate two public high schools in suburban Washington to immigrants and students struggling with English is pitting black and Hispanic communities -– usually allies -- against one another
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The Prince George’s County, Md.,
chapter of the NAACP is strongly opposing the plan -- which would take effect next school year, and cover about 800 students having English language difficulties -- claiming it will pull resources from other students and unfairly redistribute them to Hispanic students. Some critics go so far as to compare the plan to segregation.
Ross believes the proposal to open two new schools violates the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that ruled separate schools for black and white students violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“It risks turning Prince George’s County into a segregated school system,” Ross said, adding that he realizes the need for better education in the county but believes it should not come at the cost of existing students.....
full article link below
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/11/maryland-naacp-tries-to-block-two-public-schools-for-immigrants-calls-it/
I'm siding with the NAACP on this one.
I guess the untold story behind this is how many of these kids are here illegally or whose parents are here illegally. That's what I oppose.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I don't have a problem with separate schools for English Language Learners, at least until they get to a point where they can
be mainstreamed. Which should be the goal for something like this.
But that whole concept is taboo today. Everyone has to be mixed together, including the criminals and various "special needs" students who probably would be better served elsewhere. Then the poor teacher has to "customize" learning for each child while pretending that they're really all the same, in order that none be offended.
Totally ridiculous.
It's just more of the same stupidity that we've gotten ourselves into.
I say rank them, divide them, and teach them. Use separate classes and even schools as needed.
And bring back reform schools.
Wiley, here's something TOTALLY stupid. Not just the article, but the photo...
ReplyDeleteI get newsfeeds from Education Week, and they have an article about police body cams and student privacy.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/03/04/body-cameras-on-school-police-spark-student.html?r=280791531&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Check out that photo of the cop walking down the halls with his camera.
And in the background, the third kid from the right appears to be holding his cellphone up recording video of the other kids.
Ha. Nothing about how kids cellphones invade privacy, though.
Just the cop does that with his camera.
Those kids cellphones are just used for harmless things like videos of fights intended for Youtube...
Of course, I have news about this very thing from my old hometown...
http://wiat.com/2015/02/28/group-fight-ends-with-one-dead-in-birmingham-after-social-media-conflict/
My objection to the all Latino school is just for that reason and the fact we spent trillions since the 60's dismantling seperate but equal.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your argument about illegals, but I didn't base my objection solely for that reason.
I've said 100 times or more. Put programs in place within every LEA that gives each child an OPPORTUNITY to succeed. Beyond that, that is where the story should end. This constant parsing of kids by race, income and household location has got to stop.
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DeleteWell, I know we spent trillions eliminating or avoiding "separate but equal", but now some minorities are probably realizing it was a mistake since they are sometimes getting more than their share of the pie.
DeleteIt was all fine to eliminate "separate" when they got less, but why would they want to split all that booty now?
I mean, they'd have to offer free Zumba classes everywhere if that happened.
But, yeah, I agree that schools should offer an education and an opportunity without having to be a nanny for everyone. Or a nanny for some, but not for others. I just don't see us ever doing that, though.
The root cause of this is the fact that people are trying to make the schools places where all the "inequities" of society are compensated for.
And that is just ridiculous. It can't be done.
And an even sadder thing I've seen is that if you try to explain to some folks that it is prohibitively expensive, their response is "well, we haven't tried" or "how do we know we have spent enough".
I guess there's ALWAYS more to spend when it's not their money.
Sure, maybe THEY'RE willing to break the bank, but they are on the receiving end of all that loot.
What's interesting is that over the past year or two, it has become clear that people are not catching up with today's technology. They think they are real smart when it comes to their devices but their minds are stuck in 70's.
ReplyDeleteI learned back in the very early days of the internet not to post personal info online, but there are so many stupid people out there doing stupid things with the technology.
Throw in politicians who don't get it either and you have laws, rules and regulations that are ambiguous and all over the place when it comes to enforcement and punishment.
“It risks turning Prince George’s County into a segregated school system,”
ReplyDeleteI worked for Prince George's County Public Schools in the 1980's. Curious as to when PGC became integrated?
Alicia
The racial/ethnic distribution of students in the 20 largest school districts varied. In 18 out of the 20 school districts, less than 50 percent of all students were White. Dallas Independent School District (TX) and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD) had the lowest percentages of White students (5 percent each), while Wake County Public Schools (NC) had the highest percentage of White students (55 percent). Of the 20 largest public school districts, Prince George's County Public Schools (MD) had the highest percentage of students who were Black (74 percent of 130,000 students).
ReplyDeleteWiley, speaking of technology, I saw the stuff on Google Fiber and made a few comments on CO. The part about the "digital divide" strikes me as a likely urban myth. What I suspect is that PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW they are using the Internet.
ReplyDeleteThat is based on interviews of people in Asia and other areas such as Africa who say they DO NOT use the Internet, but somehow use Facebook.
They simply do not know that Facebook uses the Internet or Web or whatever other name you wish to call it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2948923/Do-think-Facebook-internet-Two-thirds-users-millions-don-t-know-web-log-accounts.html
So, now when I see reports about how many people don't use the Internet, I want to see the survey QUESTIONS.
Because I don't believe them.
I think they just don't know.
And a lot of "research" today is just so damned sloppy that they would miss something this simple.
We have thousands who don't even know who the Vice President of the US is. Why should we expect them to know what the Internet is and how it works?
ReplyDeleteYes, most people (aside from Jay Leno, of course, who managed to make a buck off it) are ignorant of the ignorance of most other people.
ReplyDeleteWiley, I learned from writing letters to the editor to the Houston Chronicle way back in the 1980's to keep most of my opinions (especially the unpopular ones, which ARE most of my opinions) anonymous.
ReplyDeletePeople may rag me for it, but at least now when I get the threats, I KNOW they don't know where I live or now what my kids look like.