tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6645669245942402144..comments2024-03-29T03:56:03.736-04:00Comments on the daily howler: GAPS AND TRACKS: A "shadow system" feeds "segregation!"<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39088377934650729382018-06-21T12:00:14.126-04:002018-06-21T12:00:14.126-04:0011:51,
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These are one of the things you intend to benefit when you contact DR.gbojie through these following His email: gbojiespiritualtemple@gmail.com OR.His WhatsApp Number:+2349066410185linda manzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10572656710755327611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80576472966748668282018-06-20T15:44:22.856-04:002018-06-20T15:44:22.856-04:00One Liberal's Adventures in Caring About Black...One Liberal's Adventures in Caring About Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income Kids:<br /><br />While Somerby didn't share his generation's fiery politics, neither did he want to go to Vietnam. He protested the war in a desultory fashion, and upon graduating in June 1969 found a desultory way out of the draft. The Selective Service had nixed graduate-school deferments, but holders of bachelor's degrees could beat the heat by teaching.<br /><br />Somerby needed a classroom, and Baltimore needed teachers. He had read Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age, and was at least as eager to help bring racial justice into the classroom as to avoid getting his butt shot off. He arrived in August 1969, spent 10 weeks in the educational equivalent of basic training, and in November debuted in a fifth-grade classroom at a school in west central Baltimore.<br /><br />He hated it. War might have been hell, but at least you could shoot back. “The happiest day of my life was the night before spring vacation that year,” Somerby says. “God, to have a whole week off—it was just thrilling.”<br /><br />One afternoon in the faculty lounge, he scanned the room and saw colleague after colleague exhibiting the symptoms of clinical depression. He felt the same.<br /><br />Listening to would-be comedian after would-be comedian, he decided that he could be a would-be comedian too. He'd heard that some of the performers made $400 a weekend—about what he made for a whole week of pedagogy. And telling jokes looked to be a lot more fun than driving a blackboard.<br /><br />On the forced daytime march through his last semester as a teacher, he began to live from performance to performance, honing his act, getting over his initial terror. June arrived, and with it manumission from teaching. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58857051251823207492018-06-20T14:23:05.426-04:002018-06-20T14:23:05.426-04:00What is the basis for calling this a "shadow&...What is the basis for calling this a "shadow" system? I don't see that anyone is trying to conceal anything. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42904514499054376602018-06-20T13:41:57.644-04:002018-06-20T13:41:57.644-04:00"Almost surely, that's true. The referenc..."Almost surely, that's true. The reference to "million-dollar apartments" suggests that these screened schools also represent an outreach to wealthy families. "<br /><br />A two-bedroom apartment on the upper west side cost $1 million 15 years ago. Not sure what it costs now, but I doubt it is less. People buying such apartments are not wealthy. They have two-incomes and spend a larger percentage of their income on housing. Their pay might put them in the wealthy category anywhere else, but they live a middle class lifestyle. <br /><br />A duplicate bridge game costs $5-10 anywhere else in the country but it costs $20 in NYC. <br /><br />Be fair, Somerby.<br /><br />In Seattle, those two selective high schools are part of tracking. One serves highly gifted. The normal gifted have IQs from 120 to 150 and can be served in a mainstream classroom with some enrichment. The highly gifted have IQs from 165+ and cannot fit into a regular classroom. They can have major adjustment problems if their needs are not addressed. Seattle does that. Many districts do not. The International high school offers the International Baccalaureate program which is a special, very challenging curriculum. It no doubt screens for both ability and motivation. It involves a lot of extra work compared to a normal high school. It has nothing to do with tracking.<br /><br />Somerby never talks about special needs kids. He also never talks about poverty. His only focus is on racial disparity. Schools tend to focus on the specific needs of individual kids. I think that is probably a better approach. But NAEP doesn't break anything down that way -- so what would Somerby talk about?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62780799564877972462018-06-20T13:11:32.827-04:002018-06-20T13:11:32.827-04:00Somerby assumes that screening refers only to test...Somerby assumes that screening refers only to test scores. There are other kinds of screening, such as auditions for the performing arts magnet schools, and portfolios for the arts. That may account for the discrepancy between 7 and 3 Boston high schools doing screening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-86918813519818536122018-06-20T12:44:05.391-04:002018-06-20T12:44:05.391-04:00"In the main, it served the purpose of tellin..."In the main, it served the purpose of telling pseudo-liberal Times readers that they're moral, upstanding and good."<br /><br />There's nothing "pseudo" about them, they are true and genuine lib-zombies. <br /><br />And the display of Pharisaical piety is the main component of lib-zombie nutrition. <br /><br />Hatred for the infidels being the close second...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com