RSSHope and Failure in America’s Schools, Part Two
Gene Lalor | March 11, 2010
Yesterday, we reviewed a few bright spots regarding America’s schools, the Virginia move to expand the system of productive and effective charter schools and the mobilization of conservative students at a YAF conference at the Ronald Reagan ranch facility in Santa Barbara.
Today, the bad news for schools, news unfortunately that far outweighs the good.
1) Kevin Jennings, Obama’s “safe schools czar,” is still on the job. Despite all the controversy surrounding Jennings’ past and current actions and philosophy of homosexual activism and plans to use America’s schools to promote homosexuality, he remains in his position of promoting a bizarre idea of safety in those schools.
See previous articles on Assistant Secretary for Safe Schools Jennings. 
A founder of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network and author of a foreward to Queering Elementary Education, Jennings continues to ply his wares and efforts to spread and normalize homosexual behavior in our schools. Most recently he was evasive on whether schools should teach that gay sex is a moral lifestyle: http://bit.ly/au754d
2) Education Secretary Blames Schools for Black Underperformance: Ignoring the realities of black home life, motivation, and crime statistics, Arne Duncan accuses schools of discrimination for their failure to perform miracles with black students.
Employing the emotionally-charged platform of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday civil rights march, Duncan in no uncertain terms criticized the scarcity of blacks in college prep and Advanced Placement classes and attributed that scarcity not to ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and poorly-motivated African-American students but to discrimination.
Duncan also mentioned gender and disability as bases of discrimination but it was evident from references to black boys and to that civil rights demonstration that “dropout factories” posing as schools were not only refusing blacks entrance to advanced classes but were fostering the high drop out rates of African-American males.
The National Education Association, the NEA, was of course fully onboard with Duncan and suggested the only remedy for the problem was greater control of local schools by the federal government: http://bit.ly/ca8eex
The Secretary of Education, incidentally, has never taught in a public school.
3) Feds Launch Investigation into L.A. Public Schools: Emboldened by Duncan’s foray into civil rights, the Education Department is investigating whether the L.A. schools are properly educating the 220,000 hispanic/Latino students in English.
No mention was made as to how many of those almost quarter million kids were illegal aliens with no right to be in American schools. Rather, the Ed Dept is concerned that while 33% of those students relatively achieve in English by second grade, that percentage trails off to a dismal 2% who are proficient “English learners” by eighth grade.
Without alleging intentional discrimination by the Los Angeles Unified School District, one of the most liberally-oriented districts in the nation, Arne’s Army wants some explanation of why hispanic/Latinos seem to try harder as second graders but six years later don’t seem to give a damn about learning.
“The ultimate goal of federal officials is to exert pressure on L.A. Unified and other school districts to close the achievement gap that separates white, Asian and higher-income students from low-income, black and Latino students:” http://bit.ly/9mKR2O
Again, no reference by the tunnel-vision federal bureaucracy to home environments, motivation, etc. nor, in the case of Mexican emigres’, the influence of the Aztlan/La Raza movement which claims California and much of the southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico. 
Why learn Ingles when the true tongue of L.A. should be el espanol?
4) Some Schools May Be Banned in Boston: Ok, not banned, just closed, which has the same effect: According to Boston School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson, “A looming budget deficit could lead to the closing of a significant number of Boston schools over the next two years and further reductions in staff.”
Those deficits, closings, and staff cutbacks are becoming epidemic across the country, mainly in the northeast, the Rust Belt, and the far west, homes to the most liberal and generous governments and the most demanding governmental unions in the nation, outside Washington, D.C. Those factors were virtual guarantors of fiscal calamities.
Excess capacity and over-building of school buildings are another issue in Boston.
“One leading city watchdog group, the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, warned [in 2008] that Boston needed to close many more schools:” http://bit.ly/cs2P9YPlanning ahead is just too challenging for America’s liberal school systems.Surprises are much more fun, except for America’s future.
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