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Obama Rains $$$ on Durham; "Each School is Wonderful in its own Way"
Topic Started: Feb 9 2010, 07:55 PM (305 Views)
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Kiss Tax Money Bye-Bye

By Jaclyn Asztalos, NBC17, 2 hours, 9 minutes ago
Updated: Feb. 9 7:46 pm
DURHAM, N.C. -

Moses Richards is a junior at Hillside High School in Durham, speaks four languages and is a top student. But when he started elementary school he couldn't even speak English because his family had just moved from Liberia.

"English is tough so I had to buckle down and study. It started in elementary school where my teachers were patient and gave me all the opportunities," Richards said.

But Richards is a success story. Kristy Moore with the Durham Association of Educators said there are still many African-American students who are struggling.

"We're seeing huge discrepancies between Caucasian and African-American males and we need to focus on that," Moore said.

So the district is taking a more than $1 million dollar grant and dividing it among six schools to start or improve existing programs.

"Each year we'll get $200,000. We do not have specific programs because we want the schools to come up with programs that will work best for their students then they will have to apply for a mini-grant from us," Moore said.

Principal of Chewning Middle School DeShawna Gooch said each school is unique.

"It's important to differentiate between each school. Each school is wonderful in its own way but they also have their own needs," Gooch said.

For example, elementary schools may focus on home visits by the district if children are having problems. In high school, a mentor program may be the key.

"All these programs have helped me build leadership skills and prepare me for college," Richards said.

Gov. Bev Perdue was in Durham to announce the grant. She said it's all about partnership. She said that this grant should lead to programs that spark relationships between the district and the community.

"It's not about the size of the grant, but the collaboration that exists because of the grant," Perdue said.

Those six schools will apply to the Durham Associations of Educators in the next couple of weeks and they hope to receive the money by the spring.


http://durhamcounty.mync.com/site/durhamcounty/news/story/47987/durham-schools-receive-grant/
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Let's keep doing what we've been doing for 35 years..

Look at the fine schools it has produced.

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"For example, elementary schools may focus on home visits by the district if children are having problems. "


So educators are going to go homes to teach the Parents how to play with their kids, and teach their kids how to count, and their ABCs?

This money has been flushed down the bureaucracy. How did the bureaucracy serve Abhijit Mahato and Eve Carson?

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Moses Richards is a junior at Hillside High School in Durham, speaks four languages and is a top student. But when he started elementary school he couldn't even speak English because his family had just moved from Liberia.

"English is tough so I had to buckle down and study. It started in elementary school where my teachers were patient and gave me all the opportunities," Richards said.


What this says to me is that an IMMIGRANT who couldn't even speak English can make it; his color had nothing to do with keeping him back. Neither did the poverty of Durham schools. He made it anyway, and now (at age 17 or so) speaks four languages.

I take it he is not a gang-banger.

I assume he has an intact family.

(So how hollow do the excuses offered by the other students sound now?)

It's all about family and study; that's culture. It's NOT about 1001 reasons why we can't learn and how everybody else is to blame.

People overcome DESPITE the odds.


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Yep. The white males are in the same schools too.

There are major red flags here. Lack of specific plans, educators going to homes (huh?)....

10 to 1 the money ends up being wasted and a Hmm, Hmm, Hmm Barack Hussein Obama Video gets made.

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Household inspection!
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Thomas Sowell weighs in, persuasively as usual:

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Those with that vision do not want to even discuss evidence that students from different groups spend different amounts of time on homework and different amounts of time on social activities. To admit that inputs affect outputs, whether in education, in the economy or in other areas, would be to undermine the vision and agenda of the left, and deprive those who believe in that vision of a moral melodrama, starring themselves as defenders of the oppressed and crusaders against the forces of evil.


Redistribution of material resources has a very poor track record when it comes to actually helping those who are lagging, whether in education, in the economy or elsewhere. What they need are the attitudes, priorities and behavior which produce the outcomes desired.


But changing anyone's attitudes, priorities and behavior is a lot harder than taking a stance as defenders of the oppressed and crusaders against the forces of evil.


To the extent that doing the latter misdiagnoses the problem, it makes solving the problem even harder. That does no good for those who are lagging, however much it exalts those who pose as their defenders. "Fairness" indeed!

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021010.php3
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Feb 10 2010, 07:29 AM
Thomas Sowell weighs in, persuasively as usual:

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Those with that vision do not want to even discuss evidence that students from different groups spend different amounts of time on homework and different amounts of time on social activities. To admit that inputs affect outputs, whether in education, in the economy or in other areas, would be to undermine the vision and agenda of the left, and deprive those who believe in that vision of a moral melodrama, starring themselves as defenders of the oppressed and crusaders against the forces of evil.


Redistribution of material resources has a very poor track record when it comes to actually helping those who are lagging, whether in education, in the economy or elsewhere. What they need are the attitudes, priorities and behavior which produce the outcomes desired.


But changing anyone's attitudes, priorities and behavior is a lot harder than taking a stance as defenders of the oppressed and crusaders against the forces of evil.


To the extent that doing the latter misdiagnoses the problem, it makes solving the problem even harder. That does no good for those who are lagging, however much it exalts those who pose as their defenders. "Fairness" indeed!

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell021010.php3
Excellent!

I wonder about the use of the word "discrepancy" to describe the performance gap in Test Scores (by the Durham educator).

Maybe I'm looking too hard though.

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"...starring themselves as defenders of the oppressed and crusaders against the forces of evil"

Oh, that "evil" ...determined to include "abuse" long ago ...progressing to define conduct that did not involve physical injuries so they could then eliminate the mental suffering ...proceeding to branch out and cover "neglect" next ...so that poverty can at last be the uncharged crime parents commit against their children ...as the defenders "protect" the children with a new life in foster homes.

Home inspection completed, another day of the crusade.

The world is a better place!
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