* You may ask, why are Republicans getting giddy over November when they’re tied with Democrats in some generic Congressional polls? The answer is that, at least in the arena of House elections, if the Rs and Ds get the same number of votes, the Rs will win more seats. The reason for that is that so many D votes are clumped up in solidly blue districts, especially black districts with black House members.
* Montana’s proposed sex ed for KGers will:
…teach students proper terms such as “nipple, breast, penis, scrotum and uterus.” Once they are promoted to first grade, children will learn that sexual relations could happen between two men or two women. By the time students are 10 years old, instruction will include the various ways people can have intercourse, be it vaginally, orally or through “anal penetration,” according to the proposal.
Good, that means they’ll be able to watch prime time TV all by themselves by the time they’re 10, without nagging their parents about what this means or what that means.
* Are you surprised that a man who legally changed his last name to something that is suggestive of his uniform number would make up something like this?
If I were Roger Goodell, I wouldn’t suspend him, I would change his number to 84.
* The bad news? Spotlighting Obama incompetence in one region of the country is now a Federal felony. The good news? It’ll keep Anderson Cooper 420 away from the Gulf Coast, which they’ve gotta be happy about.
* Fleeing New York State’s high cig taxes for…Vermont? I guess all the good libs up in Vermont will have to do something about that.
* “An Aryan Glow from Head to Toes.” If that tagline doesn’t work, they could try this:
What do you do when you’ve got that not quite so racially pure feeling?
* Another one for the AR commenter hall of fame. “Jay,” from yesterday:
The big problem with these kinds of lawsuits is that in most cases the state is already over funding the minority students. For example, New Jersey spends more on minority students than white students and many other states have the same thing.
So if they already spend more on minority students and they are not achieving, how much more can you spend?
Here is a summary and counterpoint of some complaints around lawsuits like this.
#1 They complain that inexperienced teachers (less than 3 years experience) are the majority of teachers in urban districts. Well, out of the other side of their mouths they praise the Teach for America model that promotes the idea that young inexperienced teachers have the energy to match the energy of the students. They want to do away with tenure to fire teachers at will. Well, so you won’t have any teachers who make it past five years then. You can’t have it both ways.
#2 They say that inner city schools are ‘crumbling.’ Well, most of those schools were built when those areas were white majority. Now that the whites are gone, you can’t chase after them begging them to rebuild them. No one helped whitey build the schools but other whites. So let majority minorities in the cities build their own schools. By the way, plenty of majority white schools are in bad shape in rural areas. The building is not what makes the education. It’s the values of the families that send their kids there that does.
#3 They claim that the teachers are inferior. Teachers today are better trained than ever before. Most teachers in the nation are white female (80%), and the overwhelming majority of them are “Freedom Writers” wanna be’s. Every last dang white female teacher I know wants to save the darker races and works tirelessly in that regard. Are black and latino teachers the inferior ones, like in Detroit? I don’t think you want to go there because the black and latino community are not producing teachers very quickly.
#4 Minorities cry that there children aren’t being educated, but school districts nationwide are reporting spectacular gains for minority students in every category. You should see what they report out here on the east coast. Oh, sorry, with all the high stakes testing and with jobs on the line, administrators are changing scores left and right, teachers are passing any warm bodies that come in their room once in a while and state officials are dumbing tests down to the lowest level you can imagine. Ah, but ‘dem kids dey be al-right!
There are more issues, but I’ll leave it there.
* Let me guess. These were teachers who so beloved the concept of racial equality that they sacrificed one of their many begotten middle schoolers to the harsh mistress that is the sea.
The bigot that I am, knowing that blacks don’t swim very well, wouldn’t force blacks that admit that they can’t swim at all go into the ocean.
* Harris-Slow must have bought some of this stuff ca. 1994.
* That’s one way to get condoms into kids’ hands, if the schools won’t do it. The Happiest Meal, n’est pas?
