So in my ode to Claudia, I mentioned my Three Rules For Avoiding Poverty and how I was too lazy to search the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Silly rabbit. All I had to do was search Poverty and Grouchy Old Cripple and I could find most of my posts where I posted the rules. Here is one of them. (My archive might of been hacked but the internet is forever.) Here is Rule #1.
1. Stay in school and get an education. Learn to read and write English. That does not mean Spanish, French, German, Italian, Thai, or Ebonics. Bilingual education, like most liberal ideas, does more harm than good. And you assholes who think teaching blacks in that made up language called Ebonics is a good thing, you are sentencing the people you are trying to help to perform menial jobs, if they can even get a menial job, for the rest of their lives. And don’t just get a high school education. Go to college. If you cannot afford college, go to junior college. If you can’t afford that, go to technical school. And if you cannot afford that, join the military. The military has some good schools. I learned electronics in the Navy. Also, when you get out, the military will give you money for college. Some people can go to college when in the military. And the military for some people (Not for me, I was too much of a smartass and I was put into positions where I was the only person who could do something. This followed me throughout my career at IBM. I don’t know how it happened. I never planned it that way.) will teach them discipline.
Alas, liberals are ruining that rule. Learning to write English with proper grammar and spelling is now deemed to be racist and a sign of white privilege. Of course this is fucking over Africans, but Dimocrats have been doing this since slavery and they have gotten the Africans to vote for this.
Education in this country has deteriorated badly since I attended high school. Teachers unions weren’t created to help students but to help teachers. Look at how they have responded to the pandemic. Fuck the students. Keep paying us.
And that takes us to Baltimore.
BALTIMORE (WBFF) – A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
WTF? I mean really, WTF? The dude has a .13 GPA and ranks in the top of his class. WTF? How in a sane world can this happen?
Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.
After only passing three classes in three years he should have never left the ninth grade. And seriously, how could the mother be surprised? Didn’t the school send his grades home? Didn’t they hold parent/teacher meetings? I guess not.
“He’s stressed and I am too. I told him I’m probably going to start crying. I don’t know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn’t fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve that.”
Yep! They sure did. And guess who else failed Tiffany? You did.
France’s son attends Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in west Baltimore. His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February. She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.
Here’s a hint Tiffany. If he fails Spanish I he shouldn’t be promoted to Spanish II. He should take Spanish I over until he passes it. If he fails Algebra I he shouldn’t be promoted to Algebra II. He should take Algebra I until he passes it. The same goes for English II. Yeah. The school fucked up royally but you did too by not monitoring your son’s progress. I’m sorry you have to work three jobs and I applaud you for that but that does not abrogate your job as a mother. Had I done what your son did I would have been grounded. I once got a D in high school physics and was grounded until I got the grade up.
You notice there is no father in the picture? I’ll also bet that Tiffany votes straight Dimocrat.
This kid is on an express train to poverty. It’s only a matter of time until he knocks up a Shameka or a Sharonda.
Anyone wanna take a stab at who runs that school?
Using the elevation metaphor, we have both human achievement to the summit of Mt. Everest and human worthlessness to the depth of the Pacific Mariana Trench.
To me, the summit is the achievement of the NASA controllers being able to save the Apollo 13 crew. Also to me, the depths of human worthlessness is typified both in this Baltimore student and mother, and also in last Friday’s AOTW winner. Our nation should be shaming the daylights out of any person who contributes nothing to our civilization, but only sucks out of it.
RAYCIST! 😝
In grad school, l was informed that we just need alternate definitions of success. For example, if someone can’t read we should pass him if he can do music. We’re doomed!
Would anybody be surprised if this kid was already a baby daddy?
At 17, he has probably already spawned 3 or 4 future Democrat voters.
LBJ is smiling. Nixon and Ford expanded it.
Don’t ever forget that truth.
Whar the baby daddies?
All comments I made and questions I asked while reading that article. But look on the bright side. With all of the EQUITY programs being instituted, he will probably be made a surgeon to serve his community.
When I was a stoopid schoolkid, I was exactly as lazy as I was allowed to be, and of course I preferred the laziest options. In retrospect, I realize the classes that actually did me some good were the ones that didn’t let me be lazy. Yes, that phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations” comes to mind.
The schools now exist for no other purpose than funneling public money into the pockets of the teachers’ unions, and COVID is the best thing that ever happened to them. Ruined young lives, enriched cronies, it’s a winning political formula; what’s not to like?
I was very lazy as well. My dad made a deal with me. Do well in Math and English. He said if you could write and speak proper English people would think you were smarter than you were. He was right as I found out later in life. I learned to really love Math when I took Algebra. Got A’s in Algebra and B’s in Trig. Learned to love History and snagged a few A’s there as well. Thanks to concentrating on writing I was able to do well on essay tests. We had a lot of those as my high school considered itself a college prep school and focused on writing. It amazed me that I could get away with knowing a little about a subject but could write very well about my limited knowledge and score a good grade. Kudos to my dad! Later on at IBM my managers were always impressed by my vocabulary and writing skills and thought I was a lot smarter than I was.
This reminds me of a comment a science teacher I had in high school made. “Electricity is like a student, it takes the path of least resistance.”
A 0.13 GPA. My cat can do better.
How are they going to blame this on white people? Math is racist? They should be learning ebonics? People the world over have had to learn the basics. Maybe they’re just too stoopid or lazy or both. Public schools are glorified day care centers. No wonder a lot of the teachers don’t want to go back to the classrooms.
Notice nowhere in the article did they mention he’s black (“Name That Race”)
Also, why hasn’t anyone asked Shaniqua why she birthed two extra kids she couldn’t afford when she already had one she couldn’t handle?
I once heard of a sanity test performed in mental hospitals. A patient was brought into a room with a mop and bucket, and water running onto the floor. The patient passed the test when they had sense enough to turn off the faucet before they started mopping.
Somebody needs to super-glue these bitches shut so long as they’re on any kind of government aid. My tax dollars aren’t going to effectively mop ANYONE out of their problems until they turn off the vaginal faucet.
If we can put ankle monitors on parolees, we can put chastity belts and cock cages on Tyrone and Tyiesha.
My solution to poverty is simple. As soon as a woman goes on welfare she gets a tubal ligation. If she refuses, she doesn’t get welfare or Food Stamps. “But what about the sperm donors,” the women cry out? If the baby daddies refuse to pay child support, they get a vasectomy. This would wipe out a huge portion of poverty within two generations. The poor claim it’s their right to have these babies. Fine. It’s my right to refuse to support them.
Its my understanding;
president biden,
has a big decision to make.
he will be meeting with.
chairman xi ccp
how many empty suitcases to bring to bring home his cash bribes?