no tutoring for white kids

[Tabitha]

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/02/1...oring-program/

Why call this 'segregation'. If there is no white tutoring programm, what is it, discrimination?

[Old Vet]

Every body knows that people of color need all the help they can get just to pass the subject taught. sarcasm

[Trixie]

Sounds like they got caught, doesn't it?

I don't think children of color need any more help than anyone else. I don't know why they get it sometimes.

They are just as bright and capable of learning as any other.

I guess, though, children of color means hispanic as well, wouldn't it? We do seem to be doing a lot to advance them.

LaRaza got a lump of money from the government (taxpayers) to operate charter schools. How many anglo children will get into those special schools.

[Pearl B]

Well if thats the case, then maybe white people should be exempt from paying taxes into that school.

[joseph97297]

From the article:

"The principal at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora sent a letter telling parents the program is only for students of color."

Well, white is the blending of all colors and therefore is a color while black is the absence of color, therefore is not a color.

So I think the Principal got it wrong, they have the wrong kids in there.........


(I know, black 'color' is just the absorption of wavelengths, while white is the reflection or red or yellow the same.....just figured since the statement made was so absurd, it was only fitting)

[Tommyice]

What's that on the right hand side of the top row of the Kids Choice Colors box?

Proof that white is also a color.....therefore, those children should be included in this program.


Does anybody think further than their own nose anymore?

[Trixie]

Originally Posted by Pearl B

Well if thats the case, then maybe white people should be exempt from paying taxes into that school.

We people of Texas have been paying big taxes to provide extra education for the children of illegals.

[JJ Grandits]

Stop it!!!!!!! You should all be ashamed. White people don't count so just shut your cracker lips and pay the taxes!

[mekasmom]

Originally Posted by joseph97297

From the article:

"The principal at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora sent a letter telling parents the program is only for students of color."

Well, white is the blending of all colors and therefore is a color while black is the absence of color, therefore is not a color.

It might have something to do with specifications of a grant or something. A lot of schools, hospitals, health departments, etc apply for grants. They all have requirements that the money only be used to help certain people, elderly, poor, minorities, etc. It's possible the school got its hands on some extra money that was supposed to only be spent on people of color. Grants are big business now. Schools, hospitals, fire depts, and all sorts of public businesses fill out dozens upon dozens of applications for government grants each year. They even hire people just for the job of seeking grants. It is actually wrong for the gov to segregate its grants that way, but it is the way it is done.

[Tricky Grama]

Originally Posted by mekasmom

It might have something to do with specifications of a grant or something. A lot of schools, hospitals, health departments, etc apply for grants. They all have requirements that the money only be used to help certain people, elderly, poor, minorities, etc. It's possible the school got its hands on some extra money that was supposed to only be spent on people of color. Grants are big business now. Schools, hospitals, fire depts, and all sorts of public businesses fill out dozens upon dozens of applications for government grants each year. They even hire people just for the job of seeking grants. It is actually wrong for the gov to segregate its grants that way, but it is the way it is done.

You're kidding, right? Is this a defense of the program?
Dems have put down 'people of color' forever, thought them inferior, here's another example of it.

[joseph97297]

Originally Posted by mekasmom

It might have something to do with specifications of a grant or something. A lot of schools, hospitals, health departments, etc apply for grants. They all have requirements that the money only be used to help certain people, elderly, poor, minorities, etc. It's possible the school got its hands on some extra money that was supposed to only be spent on people of color. Grants are big business now. Schools, hospitals, fire depts, and all sorts of public businesses fill out dozens upon dozens of applications for government grants each year. They even hire people just for the job of seeking grants. It is actually wrong for the gov to segregate its grants that way, but it is the way it is done.

Perhaps.....but could you imagine the uproar if there were grants that specified "White Kids only"?

Bet there would be some marches and lawsuits over that....

[Ambereyes]

IMHO this principal is incredibly insulting to the black children, sounds like he is saying they are unable to learn without a lot of special help. No program that uses taxpayer money should be segregated in any way.

[mekasmom]

Originally Posted by Tricky Grama

You're kidding, right? Is this a defense of the program?
Dems have put down 'people of color' forever, thought them inferior, here's another example of it.

I didn't defend the program. I defended the principal. Reread my post. I said the gov shouldn't segregate people like that, but they do.That is how the grant programs are set up.... to help "certain" people that meet their criteria.

[pancho]

So much for the idea everyone is created equal.
Look at all of the different programs for colored people.
Look at the results.

Sooner or later people will have to understand people, just like any animals, have breeds that are adapted to different things.

[haypoint]

Originally Posted by pancho

So much for the idea everyone is created equal.
Look at all of the different programs for colored people.
Look at the results.

Sooner or later people will have to understand people, just like any animals, have breeds that are adapted to different things.

Oh, you mean like some are better at landscape jobs, selling pot and making babies, some are better at managing a motel or a convenience store and internet tech service jobs, some are better at doing laundry and building railroads, some are better at being Police Officers or brewing fine whiskey, some are better at basketball, short distance sprints and drive by shootings. Some are great hunter/gatherers with a predisposition for alcohol abuse. Some are great inventors, builders, explorers with unmatched skills at slave ownership.
I know I probably missed a few, but my point is that we must not feed these kinds of stereotypes.
There is no good way to address the problems in the Black community with a broad brush approach. Within the Black community, 70% are born to a single mom. They commit 70% of all violent crime, mostly in their own communities and often against each other. Many schools in Black communities have dropout rates above 75%. In Michigan, Blacks represent 17% of the total population, yet the prison population exceeds 70% Black. It isn’t that Blacks get harsher treatment in our courts. It is that there is a problem with the breakdown in many Black families.
For nearly 50 years we, as a country, have thrown money into the Black communities and the results are disastrous. For 50 years we have given them first pick for jobs and colleges. We have funded all sorts of safety nets for bad choices. I think we are at a point where we can be colorblind. Inner cities can only be a sinkhole for tax money if we continue to fund the reckless behavior.

[Trixie]

Originally Posted by haypoint

Oh, you mean like some are better at landscape jobs, selling pot and making babies, some are better at managing a motel or a convenience store and internet tech service jobs, some are better at doing laundry and building railroads, some are better at being Police Officers or brewing fine whiskey, some are better at basketball, short distance sprints and drive by shootings. Some are great hunter/gatherers with a predisposition for alcohol abuse. Some are great inventors, builders, explorers with unmatched skills at slave ownership.
I know I probably missed a few, but my point is that we must not feed these kinds of stereotypes.
There is no good way to address the problems in the Black community with a broad brush approach. Within the Black community, 70% are born to a single mom. They commit 70% of all violent crime, mostly in their own communities and often against each other. Many schools in Black communities have dropout rates above 75%. In Michigan, Blacks represent 17% of the total population, yet the prison population exceeds 70% Black. It isn’t that Blacks get harsher treatment in our courts. It is that there is a problem with the breakdown in many Black families.
For nearly 50 years we, as a country, have thrown money into the Black communities and the results are disastrous. For 50 years we have given them first pick for jobs and colleges. We have funded all sorts of safety nets for bad choices. I think we are at a point where we can be colorblind. Inner cities can only be a sinkhole for tax money if we continue to fund the reckless behavior.

You do make some points.

So many of those problems are not designed to help the black people, but to do just the opposite.

After civil rights equality was the name of the game - and rightly so. The government set about convincing the black people if they didn't have everything they wanted, it was because of the white people. They convinced far too many they were not capable of competing in the world without the benevolence of the government.

They told little black kids they couldn't learn unless they were sitting next to a white child. They told them they just couldn't learn as well anyway, so they didn't have to do as well. They convinced them they couldn't get a job unless the government forced employers to hire them.

They herded thousands into those high rise ghettos in the cities. This couldn't help but breed crime, especially when you have them convinced life is hopeless and it was the fault of someone else.

Thank goodness many aren't buying into that any longer, but some still do. Their lives are still not great and they are still being fed the diet of 'it's not your fault'.

The government didn't/still doesn't want black people to do better.

[Hollowdweller]

Did anybody read the article?

Said they were mistaken and white kids were signed up too.

[Trixie]

Originally Posted by Hollowdweller

Did anybody read the article?

Said they were mistaken and white kids were signed up too.

I did - but it seemed to me they said that after they got caught.

But we do know these things happen. It doesn't usually make it to the media, though, so it may come as a surprise for some.

[Johnny Dolittle]

This special tutoring for other than whites was a promise at some Black only convention Obama attended back last summer before the election because the black people were not happy that they were not getting enough special attention since they were the ones getting Obama elected.

I do not know if I could find a link ..... But when Obama spoke at that convention he "put on" the dialect of an American Black man. Was very entertaining !!!!!!!!!!

[MJsLady]

White kids are no smarter than black or brown or yellow or green kids.
In the same way black, brown, yellow and green kids are not more stupid than white kids. They just do not engage their brain and decide to use it.