This morning I saw a story about a kindergarten riot.
Actually, it was parents who rioted.
Seven adults and one teenager were arrested for aggravated rioting and prosecutors will decide whether to charge them, he said. No one was seriously injured, but there were a number of scrapes and bruises from the fisticuffs.
Drummond said it was unfortunate that what should have been a joyous day for the little scholars moving onto first grade ended with their relatives getting hauled away in handcuffs.
“It’s just sad that it was marred by some adults who should be setting an example for the kids of how to behave but who did quite the opposite,” he said.
These children are screwed in life before they even start. Their parents are feral people raising more feral people.
Lots of people offer solutions to the problem of uncivilized people, but there are no solutions that are possible because of present day politics. For starters, it is not possible even to recognize that there are uncivilized people living in this country, much less that they are a problem.
The problem is that those of us who pay taxes pay for “schools” that do not educate, much less civilize, but instead exist as holding facilities. Those of us who pay taxes also pay for a welfare system which couldn’t be more calculated to make the recipients naturally resentful and perpetuate them as a class. This has been going on for decades. It’s easy to angrily conclude that the problem is caused by deliberate malice, but many of those think that way forget that these programs were implemented and have been perpetuated by clueless liberals who do not understand that not everyone thinks the way they do. It never occurs to them that a girl would have children simply to get a pittance from the government and a place of her own, because they would never do that themselves. Press them for an explanation of their thinking, and they will become angry and defensive and call you names.
What was an eye-opener to me was to learn that many of the kids who failed to receive an education are now going to community college — COLLEGE — simply to learn basic literacy (reading and writing) and arithmetic. It is sad, yet OTOH, these are the good ones. They are there because they WANT TO BE THERE, which functions as an unintentional screening device. That does not happen in the public schools, because all children must go, which means the feral kids get to run the show, and drain all the resources, preventing the others from learning anything more than how to survive school any way they can.
If there were some way to get the kids who don’t want be in school out of schools, and leave them only for kids who want to be there, amazing progress could be made in a relatively short time. But no, it absolutely won’t happen.
The kindergartners whose parents were fighting and rioting over — what was the “cause”? a spilled cup of punch? — are already a lost cause.
Only a fool would care.
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11 responses to “There are no solutions, because no solutions are allowed”
I read a quote/story some years ago and the gist has stuck with me.
Imagine if every Monday for a full year you place a $100 bill in a strangers mail box. After that year, you stop. Do you think you’ve made a friend or an enemy?
An old lesson from my boss!
http://classicalvalues.com/2009/04/dont_freeze_me/
http://classicalvalues.com/2004/02/charity_or_enab/
I’ve been tutoring a buddy of mine. He’s working toward a realtor’s license. There is math involved.
The disconnect between teachers and teaching is old. My friend is 64. He learned to hate math when he was a kid.
He learned to hate math when he was a kid. His friends didn’t teach him to hate math. I can’t concieve of his parents banging on him to hate math. Drawing on my own experience with math, education and educators, the only persons who would have taught him to hate math would have been his instructors.
Okay. Maybe I’m wrong. In his neighborhood there were random math advocates who would stop a kid and demand a ransom of some sort, against a math question. That’s what I grew up with. Tough math neighborhood. Don’t answer correctly? Beatings all around.
Math.
The beauty and simplicity of math is breath-taking. We should be speaking math as simply as we speak preference in colour, desirousness of blondes, or brunettes, quality running shoes and Aunt Jemima pancakes.
But we don’t.
Living in a culture that doesn’t respect math, doesn’t criticize math teachers that don’t teach, and that doesn’t appreciate music seems far and away less the kind of place I know my parents had envisioned, when I was brought into this mortal coil. I could be wrong. But not often.
Now, our parents’ teachers have taught our teachers, and our teachers have taught our childrens’ teachers. Howz that working out?
I’m gifted. I’ve two sons who can do the math. That aren’t afraid of the math.
Do you have any idea how empowering math is? Do you have any idea how important it is that the “base” not have any clue as to math?
Rant.
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Civilization is the thinnest of veneers.
I agree with the dis-respected fighters. Kindergarten will be the only time these kids graduate from anything; it should be sacred and respected.
My take on that article is this: Cleveland is a parody of a third world country:
http://oftgoawry.blogspot.com/2013/06/almost-third-world.html
Appropos of nothing.. Fools
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Not all fools are fools. And only a few experts are. Caveat emptor
PS. Bring back the apprenticeship system. There are FAR too many (even in early grades) kids who are hands-on learners rather than ‘memorize it’ learners. (I’ve done tutoring and there are several types – memorize it, hands-on, and (my type) ‘you damned well better tell me WHY it works’.) Each one needs a different program. But no-one provides them all.
The good news is that at the community college where I teach, we are NOT teaching kids to read and write. The bad news is that in some cases, we are teaching them skills that my generation learned in junior high (how to write valid sentences, how to write an essay) and that much of the current generation seems to barely learn in high school.