As luck would have it, 5 minutes after the last post about being alive and well and posting education related stories when I could find one, I went to check my email and ran across this story on Yahoo News.

You can't make this stuff up.

I'm sure Shamash has knowledge of this type scenario.....

Dutch immigrant kids take to street demanding 'white' classmates

By Charlotte Van Ouwerkerk17 hours ago

 

Amsterdam (AFP) - Faced with an increasingly segregated education system, Dutch immigrant children have taken to the streets of their ethnically mixed Amsterdam neighbourhood seeking "white" pupils to attend their schools and help their integration.

Around 100 schoolchildren -- Arabs, Turks, Africans, Moroccans -- accompanied by their parents and teachers, wore provocative dazzling white T-shirts emblazoned with "Is this white enough for you?".

Dutch native Annelies, 10, and immigrants' daughter Aminata, 11, have been friends since kindergarten and are also wearing the shirts, which have "All children have the right to integrate" written on the back.

They "want more white children in the school to learn about each other's cultures," said Aminata, her smiling face framed by dangling African braids during Friday's protest......MORE:

http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-immigrant-kids-street-demanding-white-classmates-071506783.html
 

I hope Everyone Is Doing Well...

Hi Guys...

Just wanted to let you know I'm still alive and kicking.

My son went back to Germany this past Monday and with my load at work doubling (I now have 4 salesmen to do marketing for), planting my garden, doing yardwork and keeping up with my antique and collectible business, I have had zero time to do anything else.

Thanks for coming here and continuing the conversation about the epic failure that is public education.

Also, thanks for the kind words about my son's fiancee's graduation and her desire to be a teacher.

She was one of six students that was lucky enough to go to Finland this past January for 10 days and see what the hubub was all about over there. She was impressed but feels the same as I do that they have a totally different system and social structure there and there is no way their system can be implemented here in the US. She did say there were some ideas that could be put in place, but that's about it.

I've refrained from letting her know my opinions on the matter. Maybe someday if the topic comes up I'll spill my opinions.

I hope things are good in China and Lake Lure.

I hope to get some time to post more stories as I find them, but with school letting out in a week or so, the usual rhetoric will subside until about August or if CMS finally decides who the next scapegoat I mean principal will be....

Wiley

The new way CMS uses to give students free lunch is causing problems

This is so........ CMS.

Same ol' status quo BS regarding free & reduced lunches, diversity, blah, blah, blah.

The new way CMS uses to give students free lunch is causing problems

By Andrew Dunn
adunn@charlotteobserver.com

The plan sounds great: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools cuts down on the amount of paperwork schools have to wade through by simply giving free lunch to everyone in 74 schools with high percentages of low-income students.

But the new method is now causing a number of problems for the school district as it plans for future years. In short, CMS now has no easy way of knowing which of its schools have the most economically disadvantaged students. That makes allotting teaching positions and classroom supplies a whole lot harder.

This is all part of a recently developed federal program called the Community Eligibility Provision. The details get pretty complicated, but essentially it means that a school with significant percentages of students on government assistance can go ahead and get free lunches for everyone.

It means that families in those schools don’t have to provide proof of income or any of the paperwork associated with applying for free or reduced-price lunch..... MORE: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/your-schools-blog/article20536695.html?fb_action_ids=1644003082479447&fb_action_types=og.comments

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