Only 32 percent of Black men graduated from New York City public schoolson schedule in 2006. Only when we decide that we are teaching young people, young urban peoplewith the sole intent of liberating them, will we have any success as educators. Apparently, there is a school in New York that thinks that paying teachers$125K [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Failure of Public Education is Soft Genocide’
$125K to Teach Future Highschool Dropouts
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Some Children Are Disposable
Monday, September 15th, 2008Because what is happening on the streets of Harlem to blackboys and girls is also happening on all America’s streets toeverybody. It’s a terrible delusion to think that any part of thisrepublic can be safe so long as 20,000,000 members of it aremenaced as they are. Th reality that I am trying to get at [...]
Why Can’t the Obama’s Send Their Kids to Public School?
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Apparently the Obama’s send their daughters to a private school in Chicago. I find it tre interesting that we are questioning whether? his daughters should go to private or public school and what it says about Senator Obama as a leader when we don’t question the decisions?of our elected leaders,? school teachers and administrators?to send?not [...]
When Did Being Smart Become Acting White?
Thursday, February 21st, 2008The first thing that struck me when I walked into myinto my college prep high school was thesmell. It smelled of new paint, new carpet andnew books. Books so new that they had never been used yet. In fact, I stopped by there last Augustand it still retained that new school smell. Creepy. The public [...]
America’s Failure to Educate Black Students* is Soft Genocide.
Monday, September 10th, 2007*For brevity’s sake I said Black students, but it applies to latinos, under resourced white kids and a plethora of other immigrant groups as well. Did you know that certain governor’s base the number of prison beds on 3rd grade reading scores? The notion is, the worse the scores, the more beds will be needed. [...]
