tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post684857027243614764..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Weekend Reading: Race, Education, and PrivilegeCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-44636761160277656262016-06-06T05:09:08.783-07:002016-06-06T05:09:08.783-07:00When rewriting articles, the grammatical mistakes ...When rewriting articles, the grammatical mistakes committed in the original business article must be taken note of. <a href="http://www.onlinecopywriter.biz/our-copywriting-services/web-copywriting-service/" rel="nofollow">web copywriting</a><br /><br />Aliesen Senadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425740465165974813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-65516298192877983702011-05-05T16:21:46.916-07:002011-05-05T16:21:46.916-07:00@ARC, I don't think you (or anyone) should sen...@ARC, I don't think you (or anyone) should send your kids to public school for the greater good. I think everyone should do what is best for their kids, to their best ability to provide that. I don't think that is selfish at all.<br /><br />But I do think that most of us should at least consider public schools, and think about whether the education they provide is what we want for our kids. If it isn't, then we should think about what that says about our supposed meritocracy, remembering that for many people, there is no choice, and that public education is all that is on offer for their children.<br /><br />And we should remember that test scores are a poor way to assess a school, really. I don't mind using tests as one way to assess a school. But I hate the way they have become the one and only way to assess a school, because I think that creates a "teach to the test" environment that does no one any long term good.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-57372702029859345692011-05-05T15:04:59.072-07:002011-05-05T15:04:59.072-07:00Interesting post, though I have a hard time with t...Interesting post, though I have a hard time with the idea of sending my kid to public school because it's for the greater good. I don't disagree that more privileged parents putting their kids in public school would improve things, but I am not about to sacrifice my own child's education for the nebulous "greater good". I'm sure she'd do FINE, at the local public school, but I want better than FINE for her.<br /><br />I guess I see this as the same argument that is made about why privileged mothers who have a choice *should* work outside the home fulltime and not "opt out" to work part time or stay home with kids. Because it's better for all working women, and improves the working climate for all women, etc. <br /><br />But really, I'm not going to sacrifice what my OWN family needs because the "greater good" needs me to work 50+ hours a week.<br /><br />I guess where each family draws this line is different, and I'm just saying *I* have a hard time with that. I guess I'm insular and selfish that way :)ARChttp://www.ramancreath.com/anandinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-50344867592755354162011-05-02T03:21:17.346-07:002011-05-02T03:21:17.346-07:00I'm very interested to go back and read the ar...I'm very interested to go back and read the articles you linked. I'm finishing up my con law/civil rights class so the racism and education topic is on my mind, too. School choice is still code for moving your white kid to a white school and/or your non-poor kid to a non-poor school. Unlikely Heroes is good book for understanding the court's role in desegregation. Also Eyes on the Prize is a great documentary. Seeing the blatant, unabashed racism was shocking even to me and I've lived in the south my whole life. <br /><br />And what is up with states like Connecticut and Maryland prosecuting moms for sending their children to the wrong elementary schools? Single, black women being arrested and tried for theft of an education. That is shameful.mom2boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00784436196685595115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-72940439313601320602011-04-30T13:54:37.278-07:002011-04-30T13:54:37.278-07:00Great post!
"So being told that you are a be...Great post!<br /><br />"So being told that you are a beneficiary of privilege does not negate the fact that you probably worked very hard to achieve success. It just highlights the fact that some other person who happened to have been born into a less privileged group could have worked just as hard and not succeeded."<br /><br />YES. I would much rather focus my efforts on helping give boosts to people who haven't had my privilege than feeling guilty about having been privileged. Even if not everybody agrees.<br /><br />We are actually sending my son to private school... I'm not sure that he *would* be ok in public school because they don't do grade skips, and I cannot imagine him going backwards in learning a full year from now to get colors and numbers and letters etc. when he's just tested as reading at a third grade level and doing math at a second grade level. He gets antsy when he's bored. That leads to behavioral problems.<br /><br />Ironically, we'd be more likely to be able to grade skip in public if we were living in the "rougher" town next to ours. They have less money so they're more creative with their solutions to differing abilities. They don't insist that one size fits all. But we didn't know that (or that we would even be able to have children) when we bought the house. <br /><br />One of the private schools is excited about his intelligence instead of wary of it. They tested him and are letting him start early (he'll be the second youngest in the class, and one of 3 kids starting early), and are going to single subject accelerate his math and language arts another year to the first graders. So I think it will be a good fit for us. <br /><br />His current preschool is very diverse, racially, ethnically, religiously, economically, but sadly private school will not be. After we get my husband's relatives kids through college maybe we'll work on some scholarships for that.nicoleandmaggiehttp://nicoleandmaggie.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-74721966760249818992011-04-30T07:22:27.121-07:002011-04-30T07:22:27.121-07:00I think that white privilege, like the patriarchy,...I think that white privilege, like the patriarchy, is another one of those "either you get it, or you don't" types of cultural constructs. While they seem so obvious enough to most of us in the know, I've known too many supposedly "smart" people on the political right who simply refuse to acknowledge their reality, in favor of eye-roll-worthy, Randian fantasy rationalizations like "they just need to make better choices" and "take responsibility for themselves" and "stop accepting government handouts" etc etc. Recently, I had some moron cite the facts that Obama is president and Thomas is on the Supreme Court as proof that racism no longer exists. Yep, they just don't get it.<br /><br />The statistic about MI should hardly be surprising. I'm a bit relieved the number was 46% and not greater! Remember the Ole Miss anti-integration riots of the 60s? The murders of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner? Wasn't that long ago. Those same rioters and murder enablers are now my parents' age. People don't change that much, I'm sorry. These are the same people who insist today that the Civil War was about something other than slavery. Haley Barbour probably thinks he's not a racist.hushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532820460835325762noreply@blogger.com