Posted on 08/22/2018 7:29:42 AM PDT by John Conlin
In the course of my management consulting, I've been to some of the toughest neighborhoods in the country.
If you do business in these areas, you know to always visit them relatively early in the morning, before the animals wake up. Thus, in my travels, I'd see four- and five-year-old kids playing as all four- and five-year-olds do.
But as they got older, they developed an increasingly hard look in their eyes. Even at that age, they had put up with more crap than one can imagine. The neighborhoods they were born into have astonishing crime rates. The few terrorize the many, and unlike the police, they don't leave.
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jc
As a real estate appraiser, there were areas that I had to go into, that I absolutely wouldn’t go after lunch, would always go armed, and, in some cases, would call the police to meet me at the home and clear it before entering. Then they would wait outside while I did my job, not leaving until I did. And invariably there would be some old woman trying to just get by, living next door to a drug house. Sad situations.
Great piece. Accurate diagnosis of the problem and one big part of the solution.
The rotting fruits of the “ Great Society”.
Rush Limbaugh said it best: The democrats give the poor just enough to keep them miserable - and voting democrat.
Also, Fred Reed wrote about this a lot over the last couple of decades (fredoneverything.com).
My take: If I could give one word of advice to a single black mother in any of these inner city areas it would be this: Scrape together your last dime and buy a one way bus ticket out of that area to anywhere that is not just like it. Better yet, give your kids up for adoption. Both are better for your child than remaining there.
And the fact that it has gone on for decades exposes what this country is really like - in democrat controlled areas.
BTW, I’m not a republican. They are not much better than the Democrats. But the democrat leadership is evil incarnate.
“A great deal of America’s $500-billion annual illicit drug trade flows through their world”
The number is supposed to be 100 billion. And that tells you all you need to know. There is a 100 billion dollar industry and our politicians and banksters are doing fine.
Until that is addressed, no solution exists.
If the drug trade vanished, the banksters and the politicians they own would be missing that 100 billion flowing through their fingers.
Follow the money.
“Before the animals wake up”?
That jackass is in the wrong line of work.
The problem will never be solved because those who caused or perpetuate it will never admit that there is a problem. Or what is even more nefarious, those who perpetuate the problem have found it to be an enormous cash cow.
Make me wanna holler!
Another thing I learned is how incredible the people who want to succeed and be decent citizens are. They no they have no strikes; they can't do anything that could destroy their futures. In my world, folks kind of expect that when the kiddies get in trouble it'll be "dealt with" without any impact on their futures.
Another thing I learned. Whether children live in the poorest most hostile neighborhood, a Wonderland of McMansions, or somewhere in between, they possess the same range of happiness or despair. It's how they take things and how much joy they find in life's pleasure or anger they find in things they don't care for.
““Before the animals wake up”?
That jackass is in the wrong line of work.”
My, very sensitive of you.
Good article; I agree with your points.
One further issue is that even if you installed great teachers at these schools, the hoodlums would make it impossible to teach.
It would have to be OK to kick them out, or send them to the current institutional schooling system.
IF this was allowed to be the solution, it would still take 10+ years to flip inner city culture on its head. More than likely, 20+.
That being said, if we’re “drill baby drill” with its inherent delay, then we should also be “teach baby teach”.
That line was meant to be provocative... what do you find offensive about it? EVERYONE who services these areas with any product knows it to be true.
Provocative hell. It’s the truth. My wife grew up in an area that if you absolutely had to drive through it after dark, you didn’t stop, and you left your windows rolled up. No place in America should be that way, ever.
This inner city problem will never be solved. The problem kids cannot be controlled, and the Educational system will not allow them to be controlled. Nothing will ever change about this situation.
Freedom is the answer. In many of these inner-cities the cost per student is amazing... over $20K in many... approaching $30K in DC.
One can get a pretty good private education for those amounts. Bringing true educational freedom (yes, in some sort of state-regulated environment of course) is the only thing that will allow those who want to be saved (and that is the majority) the ability to break the chains of their educational enslavement.
There was a TV show back in the 1970s that some might remember called "Welcome Back Kotter". That was exactly like the inner city school I attended, only the "sweathogs" were not the lovable misfits as portrayed in the show. The real sweathogs would beat you senseless for your lunch money and cold-cock you in the hallways for no reason at all.
Fortunately I was blessed with a love of reading from an early age. Therefore, I did most of my "book-learning" on my own initiative, joined the military and was able to escape that urban jungle.
The standards for the high school I attended were so low that I cut class nearly half the time and was still able to show up and pass the exams. I didn't get A's but did get strong C's and a few B's. I don't think anybody flunked out of that high school, not even the delinquents. Typical "graduate" of that high school would maybe be at a sixth grade level in a more affluent suburban public school system.
Liberal ideology basically leaves these kids with minimum options to escape from their environment. Almost all of them are doomed to a lifetime of barely scraping by and often needing public assistance, be it welfare or the prison system.
Liberals simply don't care about improving the situation as they know that if these kids became successful, they might become more conservative. So they keep them down and they keep them dependent. They would rather have them shooting each other in the streets of Chicago than moving on up to Naperville (one of the affluent "red" areas of metro Chicago).
What we’ve seen elsewhere with the system you’re referencing is that the worst actors stuff their kids in the best schools, and end up ruining it. We’re way too tolerant of little Timmy setting things on fire, as it were. It would require a bureaucracy of sorts that, like it or not, chose winners and losers based on their behavior and had absolute authority to shift students around.
Why let the State regulate competing private education? If a private school took $20,000 a year from a voluntary, paying parent for an education that resulted in a “graduate” who could not read, do math, and was taught degenerate morals, how are they worse off? Isn’t that what government schools do, but with money taken from taxpayers at the point of a gun?
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