Posted on 05/03/2015 12:18:56 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Dave Miceli doesn't know me from a hole in the ground, but he's my new hero.
Anyone that can dredge up the guts to teach in Baltimore's public schools automatically becomes a candidate for hero status in my book, especially if said anyone has taught in these schools for 20 years, as Miceli has.
But it was his bold, insightful, no-punches-pulled letter to the editors of the July 15 edition of the Baltimore Sun that put Miceli on my hero's list. I'm reprinting that letter in its entirety.
"How dare you accuse, through implication or otherwise, that the need for 'better schools' is a reason there is so much killing. Had you defined the loosely used term, 'better schools,' perhaps I and probably others may not have been so nauseated. "I have taught in the Baltimore public school system for the past two decades. What we need is better students. We have many excellent teachers. I cannot count the number of students who have physically destroyed property in the schools.
"They have trashed brand new computers, destroyed exit signs, set multiple fires, destroyed many, many lockers, stolen teachers' school supplies, written their filth on the tops of classroom desks, defecated in the bathrooms and stairwells, assaulted teachers (beyond constantly telling them to perform certain impossible acts upon themselves) and refused to do any homework or class work.
"Need I go any further? I won't even bother addressing the other 'causes' you listed. Too inane. In summary, the problem seems to be a total disregard for life that exists not only in our crime-ridden city, but also in all of the major cities throughout the United States.
"So, go blame other root causes, but please leave our city police, prosecutors and teachers out of the finger wagging."
Should be reposted every single day - as well as sent to all the liberal rags.
The teacher sounds like a good man at heart. But as for the writer of the piece, There’s not a lot of heroism in attempting suicide daily as a profession.
Yet I’ve seen the sentiment here that it’s bigotry to refer to these people as animals.
Actually, while it isn’t bigotry, it really isn’t fair to animals, since I don’t know of such behavior from them.
Angling to get fired?
Sadly, Gregory Kane passed away from cancer in February 2014.
I had the great pleasure of meeting and speaking with Mr. Kane on several occasions, including at a writer’s conference held by the Baltimore Writer’s Alliance on which I was serving on the board, and often read his columns and listened to him when he was a guest on the Ron Smith radio show on WBAL. Sadly Ron Smith also died from cancer a few years ago.
Baltimore causes cancer??
Supposedly Frederick is a cancer cluster but I hadn’t heard that about Baltimore.
These feral students have no need for education. The illegal drug industry pays better than most jobs that require a college degree. A street pusher can work their own hours, has the support of the gang, makes tax free income, gets working capital through robbery or pimping, helps the local economy and lines the pockets of the local politicians. The hood is good.
You have to see it and experience this behavior to truly understand how tragic it truly is for this country. The teachers in Chicago's Public School system are not what they used to be, but heck I wouldn't put myself at risk on the South and West sides of Chicago, so I won't say another word. Like the Baltimore teacher said, we need better students. I believe we also need better parents and better citizens.
bump
” defecated in the bathrooms”
Boy! The ARE out of control ...
You’re a real champ at looking at the downside of everything arncha.
That did look a little oddly put. Maybe it was intended as “on the bathroom floors”
You’re a real champ at looking at the downside of everything arncha.
I mean either someone boldly sticks his neck out for the truth and gets blasted by you for being a suicide, or else is more lukewarm than this and is thus a “lesser evil.”
I suggest you cancel your lessons in Satan’s school, OK?
I keep telling you I’m awesome. But if you want to go on another “Get one over on Normie crusade today, I’m not interested in playing. So do it alone.
You are an awesome joke?
Nothing else makes sense, dude.
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