tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19601020.post2209031408692599945..comments2023-11-05T04:34:10.303-05:00Comments on The Naked City: Grateful East Meck grad's gift keeps givingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19601020.post-70299936037135861442011-04-28T21:06:58.118-04:002011-04-28T21:06:58.118-04:00And I meant apprehension, not comprehension.And I meant apprehension, not comprehension.consultanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06212860754280555647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19601020.post-56433385555166482642011-04-28T21:00:16.651-04:002011-04-28T21:00:16.651-04:00Great idea. It's been done before. But all gre...Great idea. It's been done before. But all great ideas should be repeated. Often.<br /><br />There have always been great teachers and great schools. The problem is they aren't the norm. They are the tiny exception. <br /><br />The success of the civil rights and women's rights movements drained schools of most of the brightest teachers and administrators working there. What we've had over the last 40 years is a cycle documented by Prof. Gary Orfield when he was at the University of Chicago. The lowest achieving high school graduates attend a noncompetitive university where they rank in the bottom third of their college class. They wind up majoring in education, where they are fed back into local school systems. In some parts of the country they wind up back at their old high schools. The cycle repeats.<br /><br />Only an educated person can educate someone. The problem with our "school" enterprise is that from head to toe, it's mostly led and staffed by uneducated people. Well schooled, but uneducated.<br /><br />Why is this? We don't want an educated citizenry for the same reason many don't want to support mass transit. For the same reason this nation supported slavery for over 2 centuries. INEQUALITY. <br /><br />Many, many Americans like and want inequality, even if it winds up hurting them or their kids.<br /><br />So these efforts of uplift will happen here or there, but not in most schools, because most people don't believe THOSE KIDS can learn or, more accurately, deserve the opportunity to learn.<br /><br />Here's a good read: Schooling in Capitalist America. College level reading apprehension required.consultanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06212860754280555647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19601020.post-85879072017437705312011-04-28T20:17:44.002-04:002011-04-28T20:17:44.002-04:00I love photos, especially old ones, but I thought ...I love photos, especially old ones, but I thought the photo here was of the Mod Squad from the TV show of the 70s. <br /><br />My kids did not attend East Meck, but did go to schools in East Charlotte and to Irwin Elementary.<br /><br />I hope folks like former mayor Vinroot will stay on board to keep this issue of funding in the forefront.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11150543184999774726noreply@blogger.com