Posted on 05/30/2009 3:03:38 PM PDT by JRochelle
Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. . . . Multi-cultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots, and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply."
That, it turns out, is just the beginning of the ways in which American Indian Public Charter and its two sibling schools spit in the eye of mainstream education. These small, no-frills, independent public schools in the hard-scrabble flats of Oakland sometimes seem like creations of television's "Colbert Report." They mock liberal orthodoxy with such zeal that it can seem like a parody.
School administrators take pride in their record of frequently firing teachers they consider to be underperforming. Unions are embraced with the same warmth accorded "self-esteem experts, panhandlers, drug dealers and those snapping turtles who refuse to put forth their best effort," to quote the school's website.
Students, almost all poor, wear uniforms and are subject to disciplinary procedures redolent of military school. One local school district official was horrified to learn that a girl was forced to clean the boys' restroom as punishment.
Conservatives, including columnist George Will, adore the American Indian schools, which they see as models of a "new paternalism" that could close the gap between the haves and have-nots in American education. Not surprisingly, many Bay Area liberals have a hard time embracing an educational philosophy that proudly proclaims that it "does not preach or subscribe to the demagoguery of tolerance."
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Yeah the left has done such an excellent job at their schools. 93% of their graduates have learned to roll a condom on a banana, which doesn’t say much for the 7% who never figured it out.
Good for them.I’m all for anyone poking the libtards in the eyes at anytime,anywhere.
I almost want to get a teaching certificate after reading that.
I am sure most of their graduates go on to college and professional degrees and live lives of accomplishment.
The new wave. Just wait till all the home-schooled and students from these conservative charters hit the market place. The whining will be deafening, because in liberal circles, everyone must be compelled to be equally mediocre.
Ditto....what you said!!!
The best way to bring down the government schools is by nibbling at the edges and pushing to gradually deepen the bite. The Liberal/Marxists have been doing this with socialist programs for **decades**, and with great success.
A full-out frontal attack, such as Utah's attempt to legislate universal vouchers is bound to fail.
The way to destroy government K-12 schools is by doing the following:
1) Set up very **small** voucher or charter school programs to target a very, very narrow segment of the population. Utah is doing this with the Rachel Carson scholarships for the disabled. When one parent sees that another neighboring child is receiving a voucher for his problems with hearing, this mom demands a voucher for her child's dyslexia.
2) Gradually increase the number of children eligible for the vouchers and charters....Hey!...A legislator is a sensitive guy and, Gee!,... Look at the long waiting lists! As parents leave the standard government schools they take their votes and support for standard government K-12 schools with them.
3) Simultaneously, conservatives should encourage parents to abandon the government K-12 schools. This starves the government K-12 schools ( and the unions) of both students and funding.
4) Conservatives should set up and fund private, free, and conservative vouchers so that all students would have the opportunity to attend a private conservative school.
5) Encourage homeschooling and support its continued ( and phenomenal) growth.
6) Finally, if Muslims in Detroit can set up government funded charters then Christians ( Catholic and non-Catholic) can and **should** do the same!
The legislatures will not ignore the pleas and cries of those parents and woeful students who languishing on waiting lists, or who fail to win a spot in the yearly lotteries. All those tears are a compelling a photo opportunity for any legislator!
The “parent” at the end of this story (who pulled her kid out of the school - against the kid’s wishes - because they got upset she kept him out for Zero’s inauguration) should be arrested for child abuse.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they philosophically hit their Marxist colleges professors right between the eyes!
Boy, the condescension and resentment just oozes from this “journalist’s” prose. Nothing annoys a lib like conservative success.
At least she will transition well into married life.
The reporter is a moron:
“With no lab equipment and an emphasis on textbook learning, it is hard to imagine that American Indian will turn out the next Darwin or Edison.”
What? Edison was essentially booted out of school after three months. His mother then took up the task of educating him. He learned as many people did in the nineteenth century: someone taught you to read, and then you read books, and read books, and read books. Apparently the reporter doesn’t know this. Idiot.
Darwin had a pretty standard education. He went to day schools. At 16 he apprenticed to a doctor, but didn’t like the work. Although he had already collected samples of insects and wildlife while still a boy, he really didn’t become much of a “doer” until after leaving the study of medicine.
The simple fact is that modern educrats - like this reporter - have been poisoned by Deweyite thinking into believing kids can’t learn unless they’re doing useless already-been-done-3 billion times-experiments.
The NUMBER ONE academic problem in teaching the young today - as opposed to a century ago - is getting kids TO READ.
Why don’t kids know anything about history? Because they don’t read.
Why don’t kids know how to write worth a damn? Because they don’t read.
Oh, I hope you don’t get flamed for that one!
LOL...I tell my wife it’s an honor to clean the loo....
I’m sure the kid could have watch the thing on tape after school. No real need to see it live.
No bias in this report is there? Let me guess, a liberal wrote it!
Being printed in the LA Times was the first giveaway.
Yep, but even so, if you hadn't known that the first sentence is a dead giveaway!
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