tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post109950937280064180..comments2024-03-17T10:40:52.762-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Educational BureaucraciesStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1102632250711043152004-12-09T16:44:00.000-06:002004-12-09T16:44:00.000-06:00On the topic of dysfunctional school bureaucracies...On the topic of dysfunctional school bureaucracies, check out this recent report from Common Good: http://cgood.org/schools-newscommentary-inthenews-183.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1102357511775810222004-12-06T12:25:00.000-06:002004-12-06T12:25:00.000-06:00I have expanded on my comments on my blog.I have expanded on my comments on my <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fdr_saaron.blogspot.com%2F2004%2F12%2Feducation-problems-and-acceptance.html">blog</A>.Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02686728163455711835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1102044503786982592004-12-02T21:28:00.000-06:002004-12-02T21:28:00.000-06:00Just what is the mystery? The professor decries a...Just what is the mystery? The professor decries a lack of bureaucratic vigor citing a lack of parental outrage. It's quite simple isn't it. Parents in inner cities are not involved. I venture this trait is exhibited throughout the child's life. Therefore, a lack of parental involvement leads to poor educational results. A not unexpected outcome. <br /><br />The problem with the left who in fact run academia and the educational establishment is they cannot bring themselves to blame the parents. It's simply not in their nature. They will blame themselves and any other white person handy. <br /><br />Inner city parents must simply become better parents. If they make this investment they will demand a better return.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1102009739601873622004-12-02T11:48:00.000-06:002004-12-02T11:48:00.000-06:00Professor Plum, both in the excerpt and in the ful...Professor Plum, both in the excerpt and in the full essay, keeps invoking race for no apparent reason than to evoke allegations of racism. For example, he says, "Low income people of color cannot find affordable housing in suburbs or the transportation and jobs needed to live in small towns." What, low income <EM>white</EM> people can find housing in suburbs? It's just the low income people of color who cannot? Come on. Why unnecessarily invoke race, when race has nothing to do with the situation?<br /><br />Plum also says, "There is a continuing and growing shortage of school leaders of color who can function effectively in African American and Latino communities." What, so white people cannot teach hispanic kids? Isn't this in inheirently racist statement?Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02686728163455711835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1102009060530099642004-12-02T11:37:00.000-06:002004-12-02T11:37:00.000-06:00I get so tired of everything being about race. Po...I get so tired of everything being about race. Poor people in the cities suffer because they are <EM>poor</EM>, not because they are black or white. <br /><br />I note the first consequence of low graduation rates in more middle class areas the author notes: "The parents (and their lawyers) would be engaged in activities that would be closing down the system." Rich or poor, black or white, the parents have a responsibility to demand more from the schools. It seems to me the underlying problem is a general sense of acceptance of a 36% graduation rate by parents in poor areas of the city. Isn't this the kind of attitude Bill Cosby has been talking about? The answer isn't found in changing the bureaucrats, it's in changing the attitudes of the people who are affected. If the parents in the cities reacted as the author describes suburban parents reacting, the results would be the same.Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02686728163455711835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1102007665213005822004-12-02T11:14:00.000-06:002004-12-02T11:14:00.000-06:00Agreed, but what's your point? A lot of bad thing...Agreed, but what's your point? A lot of bad things happen to poor people that wealthy people wouldn't put up with. For example, they shut down Fifth Avenue in Harlem one Sunday every year to run the NYC marathon, making it impossible for Harlemites to (say) cross town to get to church; they wouldn't go shutting Park Avenue like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com