Uh, Attrition?

ESL

BND:

‘We have a culture change mission’: Pathways helps East St. Louis students go to college

Of all the high school seniors who are part of a program at the Christian Activity Center in East St. Louis, every one of them graduated and each is headed to college at the end of summer.

In a school district where 54 percent of the male students graduate from high school, according to the Illinois State School Report Card, 100 percent who are involved in the Pathways program at the CAC have graduated, said program director Angela Whitlow.

Great goods for them.  Right?  Wrong.  Read on:

So far, there are 168 students in the Pathways program: 107 in middle school, 16 high school sophomores, 11 high school juniors and the six recently graduated seniors.

This huge dropoff between the number of middle school students particpating and the number of high school students participating is curious, and it sure brings out the cynic in me.

As if.

Hopefully

Bevo

5:

Rally against crime in Bevo Mill neighborhood

On Wednesday night, south St. Louis residents living in the Bevo Mill neighborhood have a chance to discuss the recent crime in the area.

The Bosnian Chamber of Commerce on 5039 Gravois, is hosting a crime prevention meeting at 6 p.m. The chamber’s president says police officers will be attending the meeting.

In the past 30 days, two convenience store clerks were shot and killed.

Hopefully, the Bosnians have not yet been so infected by American-style political correctness such that they didn’t name the Ook.

Fork in the Road

Trenton, New Jersey

Krispy Christie will pick that fork up and use it to eat something.

New Jersey legislature passes through in-state college tuition for the Garbage State’s undocumented.  If Krispy Christie vetoes, he’ll run for President as a Republican, if he signs, he’ll run for President as a Democrat.

Paul Ryan Is Quickly Supplanting Michael Bloomberg As the Mayor of Crackpot City

Janesville, Wisconsin

RCP:

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WIS.): Not now, but in the future we’re going to have labor shortages. We have 10,000 people retiring each and everyday in America when the Baby Boomers retire. We are not like Europe, we’re not like Japan in that our birthrates are really low, but they’re not high enough. Immigration, in a decade or so, can help us. That means we need to get an immigration system that works. We need an immigration system that works to bring people to this country who want to contribute. (The Laura Ingraham Show, June 19, 2013)

Sure, labor shortages in a first world where technology is soon going to turn the left two-thirds to three-fourths side of the Bell Curve into redundant useless eaters and oxygen consumers.  I guess what Rand Paul Ryan means is that in the future, there will be so few people that will want to work for 10% of whatever the unenforced theoretical minimum wage of the time will be that we’ll just have to import more non-white third worlders.

But Bloomberg isn’t giving up that title so easily.

Testosterone in the Wild

America

The Atlantic:

Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School

(snip)

The authors asked teachers and students to “narrate clearly and objectively an instructional activity that is especially, perhaps unusually, effective in heightening boys’ learning.” The responses–2,500 in all–revealed eight categories of instruction that succeeded in teaching boys. The most effective lessons included more than one of these elements:

Lessons that result in an end product–a booklet, a catapult, a poem, or a comic strip, for example.
Lessons that are structured as competitive games.
Lessons requiring motor activity.
Lessons requiring boys to assume responsibility for the learning of others.
Lessons that require boys to address open questions or unsolved problems.
Lessons that require a combination of competition and teamwork.
Lessons that focus on independent, personal discovery and realization.
Lessons that introduce drama in the form of novelty or surprise.

IOW, observe the way big men in the wild behave, and apply what you’ve learned to teaching little men.

But…but…gender stereotypes and LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH.

“I Buy Human Beings”

Nigeria

These are the faces of slavery.  The perpetrators, that is.

Unfriendly

Tower Grove

Yeah, that’s the official story.

But this is in an LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH part of town, and “breeders” is a pejorative about heterosexuals that members of the alphabet gang sometimes use.  I get the feeling that that has something to do with this “joke.”