RABBI ON A CRUSADE TO SAVE AMERICA
Apr 20, 2016 18:20:57 #
RABBI ON A CRUSADE TO SAVE AMERICA
By Rabbi Nachum Shifren
April 19, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Shifren/nachum119.htm
I taught for 25 years in arguably the worst school district in the nation: Los Angeles Unified (?). I endured r****ts and incompetents of all colors. During my tenure standards disappeared, being replaced with the mantra of "diversity" and "cultural sensitivity." One could sense a certain element of "pay back" from minority low and upper-level administrators against an entire educational system that once was the envy of the world. Gradually p***e in America and American exceptionalism gave way to the chalkboard of revisionist history. Suddenly our Founding Fathers were "r****ts", the bedrock of our freedoms and individual liberties, the Constitution, became a means of ens***ement by the White Man.
As an inner city teacher, my students were Black with a large percentage of Latinos. As my career came to a close, increasingly violent confrontations surfaced. Tires slashed, graffiti-smeared car windows, and death threats dared. At one point, the failure rate of my classes was over 70%. Nothing to be proud of, despite herculean attempts to stem the tide: tutorials were offered to failing students, before and after school. My breaks during school hours never saw me lounging in the cafeteria. I remained at my desk for those that needed help. But when the day known as "back-to-school-night" came, out of 150 students, 4 parents dropped by, not to see what their kids were learning, or how they could improve academically, but rather to complain about their student's failing grades.
"He/she never told me there was any homework!" was the common refrain.
"But she comes to class!?" one naive parent's t***sparent dysfunction surfaced.
As I witnessed the increasing deterioration around me, and unabashed dumbing down of curriculum, I realized I was in a war zone. The pressure to comply with feel good prompts from administrators frazzled at having to explain how $18,000 per student per year is being wasted,....
By Rabbi Nachum Shifren
April 19, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Shifren/nachum119.htm
I taught for 25 years in arguably the worst school district in the nation: Los Angeles Unified (?). I endured r****ts and incompetents of all colors. During my tenure standards disappeared, being replaced with the mantra of "diversity" and "cultural sensitivity." One could sense a certain element of "pay back" from minority low and upper-level administrators against an entire educational system that once was the envy of the world. Gradually p***e in America and American exceptionalism gave way to the chalkboard of revisionist history. Suddenly our Founding Fathers were "r****ts", the bedrock of our freedoms and individual liberties, the Constitution, became a means of ens***ement by the White Man.
As an inner city teacher, my students were Black with a large percentage of Latinos. As my career came to a close, increasingly violent confrontations surfaced. Tires slashed, graffiti-smeared car windows, and death threats dared. At one point, the failure rate of my classes was over 70%. Nothing to be proud of, despite herculean attempts to stem the tide: tutorials were offered to failing students, before and after school. My breaks during school hours never saw me lounging in the cafeteria. I remained at my desk for those that needed help. But when the day known as "back-to-school-night" came, out of 150 students, 4 parents dropped by, not to see what their kids were learning, or how they could improve academically, but rather to complain about their student's failing grades.
"He/she never told me there was any homework!" was the common refrain.
"But she comes to class!?" one naive parent's t***sparent dysfunction surfaced.
As I witnessed the increasing deterioration around me, and unabashed dumbing down of curriculum, I realized I was in a war zone. The pressure to comply with feel good prompts from administrators frazzled at having to explain how $18,000 per student per year is being wasted,....
Apr 20, 2016 23:11:16 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
eagleye13 wrote:
RABBI ON A CRUSADE TO SAVE AMERICA br By Rabbi Nac... (show quote)
Who needs smart kids - when everybody has a smart phone? Our Doctors are all from India and Pakistan and our engineers from China - so we don't need no stinking education. :lol: :-(
Apr 21, 2016 08:15:07 #
lpnmajor wrote:
Who needs smart kids - when everybody has a smart phone? Our Doctors are all from India and Pakistan and our engineers from China - so we don't need no stinking education. :lol: :-(
Oh the Sarcasm!!!
I am laughing, but it is painful.
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