Malcolm X Elementary Principal J. Harrison Coleman has ordered the holding of “Trayvon Martin” Day at the elementary school. Students and parents will be given iced tea and skittles to honor the day.
The school says that the day is educational on race relations despite the fact that there has been no trial in the case and facts remain in dispute as well as public opinion. The school will hold a “Let’s Keep Our Children Safe” seminar using the facts of the case.
Coleman insists that the day will help reduce the needless violence and bullying in the community.
Given the deep difficulties in D.C. schools from low scores to school violence to drug abuse, the setting aside of this day on a still developing case is likely to be controversial. The school receives just 2 out of 10 points on school ratings. Last year, just slightly over ten percent of the third grade made the passing standards for DC on reading. Even in the DC system, the school was ranked as 24th out of 33 schools. In math, the percentage is only 4 percent. With the scores falling rather than improving at the school, I would prefer a focus on those issues during school days. This is not to say that the case should not be discussed in appropriate classes. I think the case is useful to discuss in terms of racism and other issues where they are relevant to the curriculum.
This is a school day, not a weekend seminar and activities. I understand the good intentions of looking at the problems of racism in society. However, I would have been more comfortable with a weekend event that did not take away from classes in a school district struggling with worsening problems of unemployment (now surpassing 50% in DC) and low performance. Moreover, is there sufficient confirmed evidence to declare Trayvon Martin days as part of public schools?
Source: WJILA
Anon, Gee, thanks. So if I tell you about my plot of home grown tomatoes I’m on the list. Twice if I also tell you about the lively game of twister we played at the our last party.
اغتيال
مهاجمة
الأمن الداخلي
حفر
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(MDA)
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Speaking of attention whoring:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/homeland-security-manual_n_1299908.html
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“If, and that’s a big if, the principal is conducting this exercise to promote awareness of racism and it’s consequences, then kudos for him. ”
According to the article, it’s some idiot chick using Martin’s dead body to send sort of message about something something something whee look at me I’m an attention whore.
Malcolm X Elementary Principal J. Harrison Coleman says that she hopes the lesson will help reduce the needless violence and bullying in the community.
The social life in D.C. is wigatrocious.
If, and that’s a big if, the principal is conducting this exercise to promote awareness of racism and it’s consequences, then kudos for him. Unfortunately, I can’t help but view this as an attention seeking event at best, or a distraction from his school’s horrific performance at worst. I do hope, for the children’s sake, that it’s the former.
OTOTOT
Someone quoted that Obama should actually satisfy the Republican needs very well. He’s not apparently the first. Summary wise the stocks have risen MUCH more under Dem than Rep prez.
Here a short excerp from Grayson’s email today.
“On the day that President Obama was sworn into office, the S&P 500 index closed at 805. Today, it’s at 1321. Under President Obama, the stock market is up 64%, in less than four years.
That brings the Democratic average annual stock market performance up to 10%. The Republican figure is 0.4%. No wonder Republicans hate government – they’re so bad at it. Particularly when it comes preserving national wealth.”
And they are paying big money (pocket change for Kochs) to get rid of him. What idiots. Are we too, that support him?
BTW, he says CEO’s are making USD 5,000 an hour…”nice work if you can get it.”…he says
These kids need models, need raised self-esteem in this ghetto on our national doorstep, need something to be immersed in besides the mess around them. Something besides the media pink scum which floods us every minute fulfilling “what the public wants”. What a puke it all is.
Our institutions and monuments don’t even reach a middle class person who is realistic today. How can we reach and
inspire these ghetto children? Come up with better if you can.
Otherwise I’m with Malisha and LottaKatz. Two sound heads.
too late….the Island of the Lord of the Flies…
From blawg posting: “I would have been more comfortable with a weekend event that did not take away from classes in a school district…”
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With all due respect Professor, if you have the scores that Malcom X Elementary has, one day more or less is immaterial, it’s not going to correct the problem.
A few years ago it was mentioned on the local news that my city had a 50% dropout rate for high-school. The better half and I were horrified. Today its up to 54%, almost 55%. America is rated as an ‘average” educator in the world (at the primary level” with scores hovering close to the 500 mark on a 0-1000 scale and our education system continues to slide downward with things like religious doctrine (creation science) being put forth as on a par with science. I don’t know what is wrong with our schools and my ideas about the problem would fill multiple comment rants (so I’ll spare you all) but one more day, more or less, won’t make diddly in terms of a difference.
To the actual event, yea, poor taste and too soon but really, so what?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/us-falls-in-world-education-rankings_n_793185.html
Most American candy is HFCS now. that stuff is poison.
Malcolm X Elementary Principal J. Harrison Coleman also said, “Whee, lookat me, I’m an attention whore!”
“Coleman insists that the day will help reduce the needless violence and bullying in the community.”
Principal Coleman is painfully out of touch with reality. It is just this type of irresponsible behavior that fuels tension between the races. It serves to beatify Martin prematurely.
“The school receives just 2 out of 10 points on school ratings. Last year, just slightly over ten percent of the third grade made the passing standards for DC on reading. Even in the DC system, the school was ranked as 24th out of 33 schools. In math, the percentage is only 4 percent.”
Do these kids really need another dose of sugar in their diet?
I’d say the Principal’s priorities are seriously screwed up.
Whom should they consult about WHEN to do this? A professor of Constitutional Law who has not been intimately involved in their own struggles for whatever they have struggled for? A bunch of people who either think the killer of Trayvon Martin was right or wrong? ME?
They are doing it in their OWN timing, for their OWN reasons, using their OWN goals and intentions to promote it, for their OWN very good reasons.
It’s not a minute too soon.
Should we wait to see whether most people think Trayvon Martin was bad enough to deserve being targeted and killed by someone who never met him? Where’s the logic in that?
Why aren’t they giving out free sizzurp?
They are very possibly celebrating a young man who chose to physically assault another human being just because he felt aggrieved.
This whole thing is so ridiculous.
And has anyone noticed that MSNBC primetime hasn’t mentioned this business since the discovery dump?
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I hope eniobob comments. I trust his insights.
Too soon.