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Rick2583 said:
Whether it is or isn't shouldn't matter, such bias should not be shown when it comes to these kinds of tragedy's regardless of skin color.

And, admit to what? ANY type of senseless murder should be of interest to all.
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I actually disagree.... As long as it is of interest and receiving as much attention, people will continue to do these despicable things to get that attention...
 
...it's only of interest because the media decides what is newsworthy and what is not...and when it is distributed with such myopic bias it only helps to perpetuate the problem.

...again, why doesn't the media want to report the 90% black on black homicides?
 
yankeesince59 said:
...it's only of interest because the media decides what is newsworthy and what is not...and when it is distributed with such myopic bias it only helps to perpetuate the problem.

...again, why doesn't the media want to report the 90% black on black homicides?
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And that's precisely why I don't watch the news...
 
...not speaking for everyone, but personally, I'm sick of having the "300 years of oppression" BS thrown in my face all the time.
 
yankeesince59 said:
...does that make me "racist"?
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No, but the word is used to shut down the discussion. The blood of half a million men 150 years ago addressed that injustice. Anotherc100 years of culture change and we have reached equal ground for 50 years. The more ground is viewed uneven, the more the black youth is being victimized by their own.

My solution is to adopt 2 yr mandatory (no exceptions) military service at 18. HS dropouts get 1 yr forced her, then 2 yr service. Pull these kids out of their element and break them down and build them back up. Just like other countries, volunteers get a different track from the professional military volunteers.
 
totus44 said:
No, but the word is used to shut down the discussion. The blood of half a million men 150 years ago addressed that injustice. Anotherc100 years of culture change and we have reached equal ground for 50 years. The more ground is viewed uneven, the more the black youth is being victimized by their own.

My solution is to adopt 2 yr mandatory (no exceptions) military service at 18. HS dropouts get 1 yr forced her, then 2 yr service. Pull these kids out of their element and break them down and build them back up. Just like other countries, volunteers get a different track from the professional military volunteers.
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Works for me.
 
totus44 said:
No, but the word is used to shut down the discussion. The blood of half a million men 150 years ago addressed that injustice. Anotherc100 years of culture change and we have reached equal ground for 50 years. The more ground is viewed uneven, the more the black youth is being victimized by their own.

My solution is to adopt 2 yr mandatory (no exceptions) military service at 18. HS dropouts get 1 yr forced her, then 2 yr service. Pull these kids out of their element and break them down and build them back up. Just like other countries, volunteers get a different track from the professional military volunteers.
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...tote, another problem is that our best people are not teaching our children. In many other countries the people who graduate nearest the head of their class are the ones who become teachers. But here in the states, teachers are grossly underpaid and there's no real incentive for them to become teachers. So our kids get the bottom of the barrel for the most part.
...garbage in, garbage out.
 
We could teach without teachers given the right amount of control.
 
yankeesince59 said:
...OK, I'll bite...what?
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Just the same way places like Harvard Business School runs sattelite courses. Video production and content from the best teachers. Self pacing modules and in room help/discipline. Education has lost structure. No way to enforce discipline. Too many agendas, focus is not technical enough. Math, science, analysis needs to be emphasized.

Throwing money at teachers is not the solution. We did that to policemen and look what that gave us.....cops that don't know how to be cops. Giving good teachers raises, yes. But no more tenure....at will employment. No unions. No more junk agendas or social engineering experiments.

I can go on and on. What is broken can be fixed but society has got to wake up. One of my former students in a HS teacher in LA at a tech oriented school. He's teaching chemistry, but sees other teachers "teaching climate science" and not presenting debate or all the data. Kids are being dealt incomplete and wrong facts. And he sees these faulty analysis skills impacting the ability of kids to solve problems.

Bullying....rather than change human nature, teach kids how to mentally and physically deal with bullies. They will always exist in the world.
 
...not just "throwing money" at them...I'm not talking about simply a few measly dollars at teachers, cops too for that matter...I'm talking about making them Federal employees and paying them the kind of money that many government officials are paid...pay them like doctors, after all, they're just as valuable if not more so. I think that would attract a much better class of teachers.
...but I do agree about the "structure and discipline" need.
 
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Mandatory Jeet Kune Do- for all the HS geeks......

Students, please take your pen holders out of yer pocket; remove your Horn Rimmed Glasses, and learn the form of no form.....!!!

Bruce Lee was God......
 
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