At this week’s School Board meeting, two well-meaning principals made identical statements that nearly halted my breathing process.
Kim Indelicato of Lin Howe Elementary and Dylan Farris of Culver City High School both vigorously boasted about the diverse ethnic makeup of their campuses.
Are you telling me that 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education serious educators feel compelled to brag – as in zowie, what a whopping achievement – because black boys and girls walk onto their grounds every morning alongside white boys and girls without glaring at or attacking each other?
We are not talking about learning a peanut’s worth.
They only showed up. Oh, boy.
As if on cue, I swear the audience in Council Chambers oohed and aahed when Ms. Indelicato and Mr. Farris sincerely uttered those meaningless lines.
Why, I beg to ask, is the mere presence of black and white races mingling – sort of – worthy of a serious educator publicly raving?
What a dreadfully minimal bar we have established for school achievement.
Look, ma, no learning, but by golly, they came to class.
Maybe in Alabama in the 1950s, a gutty educator might make that boast, if he wanted to wake up later that night with a flaming cross on his lawn.
But in contemporary Culver City?
No wonder six of every 10 graduating students do not qualify for a four-year university.
A Breath of Stale Air
No wonder the accomplishment levels are so darned modest when nothing more is expected than for non-white students to dress all by themselves and find their way to school five mornings a week.
Ugh. This is the breeding and thinking that prevails in a liberal-run society.
I was my parents’ first-born. When I was placed in my mother’s arms, Pop said, “Look, Hun, he’s breathing.”
This is precisely what Ms. Indelicato and Mr. Farris said Tuesday night: Look, parents, they are breathing.
I did not, however, hear bragging about their grades.
Why?
Because most of today’s serious educators are pre-occupied making excuses for the students’ stunning lack of academic accomplishments.
Last I checked, the grades of non-whites and non-Asians were so far down the line you needed a super-duper telescope to find them.
Fortunately, that does not bother serious educators – they want to be able to publicly brag, “Look, Hun, our non-white and non-Asian students are breathing.”
Values is a dirty word, an odious concept for them.
Educators are too busy fretting over frills instead of concentrating on hard learning that actually will benefit boys and girls once they leave the hallowed halls.
Here is a Money-Saver
School boards could save millions in salaries every year. Hire 5-year-olds to check on black students to see if they are breathing. Shouldn’t require a person with a degree.
Excuses, excuses – that is the dominant mantra of public school educators – Look, Hun, black and white girls and boys are sitting in the same classroom.
Are they babysitters or real, live educators?
The other vexing boast on Tuesday came when Ms. Indelicato singled out “poor” students. She noted, I believe, how triumphant it was of these special children to report to class every morning.
What else were they going to do, swab the neighbors’ limos?
As you know, if you are “poor,” in the modern education idiom it correlates with unabashedly stupid, roughly the same staggeringly ugly term that educators apply to non-whites and non-Asians.
Where is black peoples’ pride?
Where is “poor” peoples’ pride?
Don’t you ever tire of being blatantly insulted by people who are supposed to be teaching you?
