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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5264436</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such a brilliant article Prof. Williams.  I grew up in Philly as well as you. I think we&#039;re close to the same age.  Thank you for this and many other amazing assessments of the current state of education.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such a brilliant article Prof. Williams.  I grew up in Philly as well as you. I think we&#8217;re close to the same age.  Thank you for this and many other amazing assessments of the current state of education.</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfy Ghalkhani</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfy Ghalkhani]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[so heartbreaking. the black man could have had it all but he sold his future for a few entitlements. Now there is little hope of recovery as America slides ever further into irretrivable decline.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so heartbreaking. the black man could have had it all but he sold his future for a few entitlements. Now there is little hope of recovery as America slides ever further into irretrivable decline.</p>
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		<title>By: JDS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JDS]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Obama has admitted that she couldn&#039;t take tests - in other words, she failed them. She was passed along and sent to an ivy league school based solely on her race. Don&#039;t be surprised to one day see a Rachel Jeantel in the White House. We&#039;re not that far away from it now.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michelle Obama has admitted that she couldn&#8217;t take tests &#8211; in other words, she failed them. She was passed along and sent to an ivy league school based solely on her race. Don&#8217;t be surprised to one day see a Rachel Jeantel in the White House. We&#8217;re not that far away from it now.</p>
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		<title>By: Progressives Rule</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Progressives Rule]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#039;s anything wrong with Ms. Jeantel&#039;s education, you can thank the southern education system. They probably spent too much time teaching Creationism or how The Flintstones is a reality show. Truth is, if the WANNABECOPCOWARDLIAR is convicted, you can thank her. THAT will make all your racist heads spin. ROFL!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there&#8217;s anything wrong with Ms. Jeantel&#8217;s education, you can thank the southern education system. They probably spent too much time teaching Creationism or how The Flintstones is a reality show. Truth is, if the WANNABECOPCOWARDLIAR is convicted, you can thank her. THAT will make all your racist heads spin. ROFL!</p>
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		<title>By: Elseebee</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5244175</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elseebee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your last sentence says it all.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your last sentence says it all.</p>
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		<title>By: Progressives Rule</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Progressives Rule]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, I don&#039;t know. Rachel Jeantel sounded more intelligent than many cowboys and cowgirls I&#039;ve talked to across the south. I didn&#039;t hear one twang in her voice or a &quot;ya&#039;ll&quot; or a &quot;shucks&quot;. You bigots forget your ancestors probably had quite the thick accent, and no doubt were made fun of for it, when they arrived in this country. But, we all understand how it makes you feel better than another group by putting them down. The reality is, that you&#039;re all oblivious of, you&#039;re transparency, bigotry and racism is obvious to the world.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, I don&#8217;t know. Rachel Jeantel sounded more intelligent than many cowboys and cowgirls I&#8217;ve talked to across the south. I didn&#8217;t hear one twang in her voice or a &#8220;ya&#8217;ll&#8221; or a &#8220;shucks&#8221;. You bigots forget your ancestors probably had quite the thick accent, and no doubt were made fun of for it, when they arrived in this country. But, we all understand how it makes you feel better than another group by putting them down. The reality is, that you&#8217;re all oblivious of, you&#8217;re transparency, bigotry and racism is obvious to the world.</p>
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		<title>By: Donovan Hill</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donovan Hill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Large block letters? Not even upper and lower case printing? That&#039;s a travesty.


I can&#039;t write cursive per se but I can at least read it and my handwriting has elements of cursive and printing (left handed and cursive don&#039;t mix well). I find it mind blowing that they can&#039;t &quot;write&quot;. How do they keep up with note taking in class?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Large block letters? Not even upper and lower case printing? That&#8217;s a travesty.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t write cursive per se but I can at least read it and my handwriting has elements of cursive and printing (left handed and cursive don&#8217;t mix well). I find it mind blowing that they can&#8217;t &#8220;write&#8221;. How do they keep up with note taking in class?</p>
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		<title>By: mathchopper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mathchopper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeantel&#039;s performance will have NO effect on black education.  The black Democrap leadership will not allow facts to interfere with their opinions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeantel&#8217;s performance will have NO effect on black education.  The black Democrap leadership will not allow facts to interfere with their opinions.</p>
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		<title>By: rhondajo3</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rhondajo3]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am 63 years old. Back in my day the kids who failed were kept back until they passed. That seems to be unheard of today.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am 63 years old. Back in my day the kids who failed were kept back until they passed. That seems to be unheard of today.</p>
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		<title>By: Deb</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good God, people, do you HEAR your arguments here? Blacks are &quot;Them,&quot; &quot;Those people,&quot; They,&quot; and almost every sentence with those words lumps everyone together. I&#039;ve got news for you: there are poor white people, poor Latinos, poor Asians, many of whom have awful grammar and syntax. It&#039;s not &quot;Them&quot; as in &quot;black people.&quot; In many cases, it&#039;s economic - as is single parenthood. Check your racist attitudes at the door - they do you no credit.

And can we not throw all the blame on teachers, many of whom would be more than happy to NOT have principals going and changing the grades the teachers gave them in the first place so the school&#039;s graduation rates look better? I was pressured, as a high school teacher many years ago, to change the grade of a student who was expelled for drug use 3 short weeks before graduation; he had done ZERO work before expulsion, and I was ordered to give him a completely new project he could complete with minimal effort just so the school could get him out the door - and it was strongly implied that if I didn&#039;t give him the project to do, they&#039;d pass him anyway. (PS: He was white.) If anything, teachers would probably change a lot of things for the better for students if they weren&#039;t constantly being over-ridden by corporate education reformers setting policy without any idea how teaching and learning actually work.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good God, people, do you HEAR your arguments here? Blacks are &#8220;Them,&#8221; &#8220;Those people,&#8221; They,&#8221; and almost every sentence with those words lumps everyone together. I&#8217;ve got news for you: there are poor white people, poor Latinos, poor Asians, many of whom have awful grammar and syntax. It&#8217;s not &#8220;Them&#8221; as in &#8220;black people.&#8221; In many cases, it&#8217;s economic &#8211; as is single parenthood. Check your racist attitudes at the door &#8211; they do you no credit.</p>
<p>And can we not throw all the blame on teachers, many of whom would be more than happy to NOT have principals going and changing the grades the teachers gave them in the first place so the school&#8217;s graduation rates look better? I was pressured, as a high school teacher many years ago, to change the grade of a student who was expelled for drug use 3 short weeks before graduation; he had done ZERO work before expulsion, and I was ordered to give him a completely new project he could complete with minimal effort just so the school could get him out the door &#8211; and it was strongly implied that if I didn&#8217;t give him the project to do, they&#8217;d pass him anyway. (PS: He was white.) If anything, teachers would probably change a lot of things for the better for students if they weren&#8217;t constantly being over-ridden by corporate education reformers setting policy without any idea how teaching and learning actually work.</p>
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		<title>By: Ken Kelso</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Kelso]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m gonna guess you were born in 1940.
My mother was born that year and was in Junior High School also from 52 to 55 in the Bronx.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m gonna guess you were born in 1940.<br />
My mother was born that year and was in Junior High School also from 52 to 55 in the Bronx.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Drs. Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom wrote in their 2004 book, “No 
Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning,” “Blacks nearing the end of
 their high school education perform a little worse than white 
eighth-graders in both reading and U.S. history, and a lot worse in math
 and geography.” Little has changed since the book’s publication.&quot;


Let us not forget, however, that blacks represent a significant portion of professional athletes in all of our primary sports, including tennis, at one time containing no blacks at all. They have excellent hand-and-eye coordination, so let&#039;s not dwell too much on disabilities in intellectual achievements. The athletes make millions and the underachievers have the welfare system. Sounds fair to me! Of course there are many successful, prominent and educated blacks who do well outside the welfare system but they are not the subject of this article nor are they the victims of substandard education. Apparently, color is not sufficient in accounting for  success and failure among blacks - or among whites, for that matter.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Drs. Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom wrote in their 2004 book, “No<br />
Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning,” “Blacks nearing the end of<br />
 their high school education perform a little worse than white<br />
eighth-graders in both reading and U.S. history, and a lot worse in math<br />
 and geography.” Little has changed since the book’s publication.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let us not forget, however, that blacks represent a significant portion of professional athletes in all of our primary sports, including tennis, at one time containing no blacks at all. They have excellent hand-and-eye coordination, so let&#8217;s not dwell too much on disabilities in intellectual achievements. The athletes make millions and the underachievers have the welfare system. Sounds fair to me! Of course there are many successful, prominent and educated blacks who do well outside the welfare system but they are not the subject of this article nor are they the victims of substandard education. Apparently, color is not sufficient in accounting for  success and failure among blacks &#8211; or among whites, for that matter.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellman48]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;It’s educators who graduated Jeantel from elementary and middle school 
and continued to pass her along in high school. It’s educators who will,
 in June 2014, confer upon her a high-school diploma.&quot;


A diploma which is worth less than the paper it is printed on. Here is another victim of our educational system who would have fared much better from a vocational education (lasting 1 to 2 years) that would have at least provided a useful skill which companies need and are willing to pay for. Our educational system is an utter failure and our welfare system is the safety net created to satisfy the basic needs of the failures the education system produces like an assembly line. The education system funnels people into the welfare system. One has to wonder, was this unintended or was it the result of diabolical design and cynical intention?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It’s educators who graduated Jeantel from elementary and middle school<br />
and continued to pass her along in high school. It’s educators who will,<br />
 in June 2014, confer upon her a high-school diploma.&#8221;</p>
<p>A diploma which is worth less than the paper it is printed on. Here is another victim of our educational system who would have fared much better from a vocational education (lasting 1 to 2 years) that would have at least provided a useful skill which companies need and are willing to pay for. Our educational system is an utter failure and our welfare system is the safety net created to satisfy the basic needs of the failures the education system produces like an assembly line. The education system funnels people into the welfare system. One has to wonder, was this unintended or was it the result of diabolical design and cynical intention?</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5243673</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many profound ideas in this comment. I was really edified reading your views.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So many profound ideas in this comment. I was really edified reading your views.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5243671</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have good points to make.  We need a balanced approach.  But it has to be based in Christ, I think, because only God is not in the blame game.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have good points to make.  We need a balanced approach.  But it has to be based in Christ, I think, because only God is not in the blame game.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5243669</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All readers should read C. Lasch&#039;s Culture of Narcissism. He amplifies and gives academic credence to the point made so succinctly by Cowboy Up.
Thanks Cowboy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All readers should read C. Lasch&#8217;s Culture of Narcissism. He amplifies and gives academic credence to the point made so succinctly by Cowboy Up.<br />
Thanks Cowboy.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5243666</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very true.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very true.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/walter-williams/black-education-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-5243667</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a student teacher in 1962 in Philadelphia&#039;s public schools (John Bartram high school).  I was assigned a 10th grade class. There were literally four students who were unable to write their names in that section. I was stunned. That was about 50 years ago. There have been so many reforms and educational fads since then, but we&#039;re finding the same sorts of problems.  America&#039;s educational decline goes way back.  Further, when I was in junior high in Philly in 1952-1955 (wow am I old!) sadly the wildest kids were African-American. Even the bad Italian dudes weren&#039;t as wild.
All of us wondered then, and are still wondering, &quot;How did they get that way?&quot;  That question haunted me all my life, and that is why I spent so many years teaching African-American high schoolers. There&#039;s some beautiful kids in that community, but ultimately I believe I failed to make a dent in the academic downward slope.  I am on my knees day and night for those kids.  I had one nice girl who only came to my class three days all term, and did not do one piece of work. Her parent came to see me with the girl, and I calmly affirmed that I really could not pass the girl. I did not take a high and mighty tone because I didn&#039;t feel high and mighty. It was very sad.  The mother&#039;s reply was &quot;you people are like that.&quot;  It&#039;s a kind of built-in impasse...built into the social fabric.  Prof. Williams says he hopes the testimony of the semi-literate Miss Jeantal will be a wake-up call. I know where he&#039;s coming from, but I&#039;m afraid that more than a wake-up call is needed.  Rather, I&#039;m praying for a miraculous intervention by a loving omniscient God.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was a student teacher in 1962 in Philadelphia&#8217;s public schools (John Bartram high school).  I was assigned a 10th grade class. There were literally four students who were unable to write their names in that section. I was stunned. That was about 50 years ago. There have been so many reforms and educational fads since then, but we&#8217;re finding the same sorts of problems.  America&#8217;s educational decline goes way back.  Further, when I was in junior high in Philly in 1952-1955 (wow am I old!) sadly the wildest kids were African-American. Even the bad Italian dudes weren&#8217;t as wild.<br />
All of us wondered then, and are still wondering, &#8220;How did they get that way?&#8221;  That question haunted me all my life, and that is why I spent so many years teaching African-American high schoolers. There&#8217;s some beautiful kids in that community, but ultimately I believe I failed to make a dent in the academic downward slope.  I am on my knees day and night for those kids.  I had one nice girl who only came to my class three days all term, and did not do one piece of work. Her parent came to see me with the girl, and I calmly affirmed that I really could not pass the girl. I did not take a high and mighty tone because I didn&#8217;t feel high and mighty. It was very sad.  The mother&#8217;s reply was &#8220;you people are like that.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a kind of built-in impasse&#8230;built into the social fabric.  Prof. Williams says he hopes the testimony of the semi-literate Miss Jeantal will be a wake-up call. I know where he&#8217;s coming from, but I&#8217;m afraid that more than a wake-up call is needed.  Rather, I&#8217;m praying for a miraculous intervention by a loving omniscient God.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the teachers in a high school where I taught in the 1990&#039;s advocated to the principal, a black lady from Barbadoes, that the students needed a part-time college counselor at the very least to work with the 40-60 students out of 675 who had real promise. Her response was, &quot;Why bother?  They&#039;re illegals anyway.&quot; [not even true]  Another teacher, who was from Ghana, won the state award as Teacher of the Year. One teacher asked: &quot;How can she be teacher of the year? She doesn&#039;t teach one class!&quot; [She taught individuals, not classes, in the resource room which had books written at an elementary school level, and also spent her days teaching students how to fill out job application forms -- all this was in high school.]  I ran a program for &quot;at risk&quot; students. The program allowed students to attend high school for a half day and work in a senior center the other half day. The volunteer work was an incentive for them to come to school (they couldn&#039;t volunteer if they were truant), and the volunteer experience was holding out the carrot of job employment for those who went through the program. I interviewed students for the program.  I asked one student, Tawana, if she was sufficiently &quot;at risk&quot; to be in the program. Her clever answer was: &quot;I&#039;m 19 and in 10th grade; if I&#039;m not at risk, who is?&quot; After two weeks, she was kicked out of the program for getting into a fist fight with a security guard at a senior center.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of the teachers in a high school where I taught in the 1990&#8242;s advocated to the principal, a black lady from Barbadoes, that the students needed a part-time college counselor at the very least to work with the 40-60 students out of 675 who had real promise. Her response was, &#8220;Why bother?  They&#8217;re illegals anyway.&#8221; [not even true]  Another teacher, who was from Ghana, won the state award as Teacher of the Year. One teacher asked: &#8220;How can she be teacher of the year? She doesn&#8217;t teach one class!&#8221; [She taught individuals, not classes, in the resource room which had books written at an elementary school level, and also spent her days teaching students how to fill out job application forms -- all this was in high school.]  I ran a program for &#8220;at risk&#8221; students. The program allowed students to attend high school for a half day and work in a senior center the other half day. The volunteer work was an incentive for them to come to school (they couldn&#8217;t volunteer if they were truant), and the volunteer experience was holding out the carrot of job employment for those who went through the program. I interviewed students for the program.  I asked one student, Tawana, if she was sufficiently &#8220;at risk&#8221; to be in the program. Her clever answer was: &#8220;I&#8217;m 19 and in 10th grade; if I&#8217;m not at risk, who is?&#8221; After two weeks, she was kicked out of the program for getting into a fist fight with a security guard at a senior center.</p>
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