Red State Education

[MisterBeale]

heres a thought for you.

A kid who has ONLY one teacher all their lives learns way less than one who has many adults of differing personalities and life experiences to learn from will learn way more about people and who to trust or not trust.


You are holding a kid back if you give them ONLY one teacher

Yeah having a bunch of useless teachers is better than one good one.

Keep telling yourself that.

You can lead a horse to water. . . .

Thanks. Can't have a discussion with a fellow who won't even listen.

 

[Katzndogz]

As it turns out, after reading the article, this is a predominantly black school. Do white people not know that wearing the wrong color in a black school is a death sentence. Wearing the wrong color in a black neighborhood is a death sentence.

The police escort out of school probably saved the kid's life. The shoes were showing RED. That means open season.

 

[Skull Pilot]

As it turns out, after reading the article, this is a predominantly black school. Do white people not know that wearing the wrong color in a black school is a death sentence. Wearing the wrong color in a black neighborhood is a death sentence.

The police escort out of school probably saved the kid's life. The shoes were showing RED. That means open season.

So now we arrest people to cater to the stupidity of black people?

 

[Barb]

Cops Nab 5-Year-Old for Wearing Wrong Color Shoes to School

In Mississippi, if kindergarteners violate the dress code or act out in class, they may end up in the back of a police car.

A story about one five-year-old particularly stands out. The little boy was required to wear black shoes to school. Because he didn’t have black shoes, his mom used a marker to cover up his white and red sneakers. A bit of red and white were still noticeable, so the child was taken home by the cops.

The child was escorted out of school so he and his mother would be taught a lesson.

This isn’t something new in Mississippi. Last October, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against officials in Meridian, Miss., for operating a school-to-prison pipeline.

“The needless criminalization of Mississippi’s most valuable asset—its children—must be dealt with immediately by school leaders and the communities they serve,” said Nancy Kintigh, the ACLU of Mississippi’s program director, in a statement.

“Zero-tolerance policies were originally designed to protect students from individuals who pose a threat on school grounds. Instead, they are being used to send children home for trivial things that should be solved in the principal’s office.”

from the link
The report examined more than 100 school districts and claimed that black students are affected by harsh disciplinary actions at a much greater rate than their white peers. It notes that “for every one white student who is given an out-of-school suspension, three black students are suspended, even though black students comprise just half of the student population.”

Leading SOME asshole to point out that even though black students comprise only 50% of the overall population, they are 3 to 1 more likely to break the rules, and therefore, for the sake of the rest, should be gotten rid of, by some means or another.

Some OTHER asshole will coma along and say that THAT asshole did not concentrate his reprehensible comment on race, just the rule breakers.

 

[Barb]

education is not harming kids.

geeeese

It keeps them from starting their career path, TM, STEALING their labor from the family, and from capitalism!

 

[CivFan]

That has nothing to do with the political make up of a state.

Kids all over the country are getting arrested at school for stupid shit.

Yes it does

It reflects the rightwing disdain for education and emphasis on read'n, writ'n and god in education reform. Republicans want barebone education and strict discipline in schools. Mississippi, one of the worst states for education prefers to use the limited educational budget provided by Republicans to enforce draconian educational policies

I blame Southern culture, not the Republican Party, nor the Conservative ideology.

 

[Katzndogz]

As it turns out, after reading the article, this is a predominantly black school. Do white people not know that wearing the wrong color in a black school is a death sentence. Wearing the wrong color in a black neighborhood is a death sentence.

The police escort out of school probably saved the kid's life. The shoes were showing RED. That means open season.

So now we arrest people to cater to the stupidity of black people?

Call it violence prevention. Or the school can descend to the level of other black schools without a dress code. Do you see the problem at all? The problem is the horrific practice of killing people over wearing a color. Let's try stopping the stupidity. See how far that gets you. That's racist. Telling black people that no right to kill is created by someone wearing red is racist. That's the problem and where the stupidity really is.