Posted on 02/01/2007 6:45:17 AM PST by ejroth
WASHINGTON -- Fifty-seven years later, the Sumner Elementary School in Topeka is back in the news. That city's board of education is still wrongly preventing the right people from getting into that building. Two educators wanted to use Sumner for a charter school, a public school entitled to operate outside the confinements of dictated curricula and free from many work rules written by teachers unions. Their school would have been a back-to-basics academy for grades K through five, designed to attack Topeka's 23-point gap between the reading proficiency of black and Hispanic third-graders and that of whites.
When the school board rejected the application of the two educators -- African-American women -- but praised their dedication to children, one of the women was not mollified: "A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.''
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
BTW if anyone has not seen John Stossel's "Stupid in America" it is a must see for anyone who is concerned with the state of education in America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA
John Stossel also is involved with teaching economics to children (thank God).
Here is his website:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1936941
"A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet."
That's a keeper.
Bookmark for later.
A slew of charter schools have come on line since Katrina and people are choosing them in droves; there was always a large Catholic system (108 schools with 48,000 in the Archdiocese of N.O.). Choice is a wonderful for kids if they make it past the first choice of a mother that wants them.
If you want your kid educated you don't send them to public school, other than an absolute last resort.
This to me is the most damming evidence of why public schools are NOT about education. They are only about the indoctrination of children. Here this school board turned down two black educators who wanted to help and they turned them down.
Why isn't this school board being called to task for being the racists they are? One would think they WANT the black and hispanic parents to have children who fail to do well in life.
Totally disgusting!
And I got a new tag line!
heh, heh
Absolutely! Mine are in private school. All I want now is my tax money back. (not holding my breath)
Bump for later reading
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