The school from hell: Teachers fear for lives as students run amok (New York City

Anon requested a post about education.

Article from the New York Post

Summary: This middle school in Harlem is one of the worst performing schools in the country, and there is an ongoing debate about whether it needs to be shut down.

“MS 344, the Academy of Collaborative Education in Harlem”

A little of their home country,set up Here.

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Just a wild guess here, but I would guess this school is run by...


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Just have the teacher up in front with an armed guard or two with 870s in the back. Take out a few each day and by th eend of the first week things improve, if not, continue the practice...great for student teacher ratios too.

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Where are the parents? They are at home teaching their children hate. The children come to school with minds so full of hate they have a hard time learning anything new. It’s not just in Harlem. There are schools in the south where the students no longer even listen to the black teachers. The students say, “Don’t have to! Got Obama now!”

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Why do we have to pay for animals to go to school?
When my dog gets dropped for play day at PetSmart, I don’t expect my fellow taxpayers to foot the bill.

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The school is probably run by mostly black teachers.

I am always nonplussed about the situation with inner city schools. In that, in most of these schools, there are black teachers, black principals, and black administrators. Many of the cities have black mayors, and mostly black members of school boards overseeing the schools. So by definition, the problems in these schools are not due to racism, because the people running these schools are members of minority groups, just as the students are.

As to why such behavior is tolerated in these schools, God only knows. Except for those rare people, such as Joe Clark, the principal years ago at an inner city school who walked around with a bullhorn, and worked to instill discipline, too many people running these schools are unable/unwilling to instill discipline that the rest of us would take for granted in a school

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The villain in the piece sounds like the principal, Rashaunda Shaw, with assists from the NAACP and teachers' union.

I wouldn't hire someone with a name like Rashaunda to work for my company, so I sure as hell wouldn't want my kid going to a school where this mutant is in any position of authority as a teacher or administrator.

Everything I ever needed to know about race relations in America, I learned from Bill Cosby.

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"Indeed. In my day the teachers hit back."

Oh yeah. The other eighth-grade teacher in my school (there were only two), Mr. Lytle who was a Vietnam Vet, picked up a kid named Jamie and THREW him against a wall. I don't remember what Jamie had done, but Mr. Lytle seemed to be a pretty reasonable guy so I'm sure it wasn't for nothing.

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When heredity and environment are bad, school is a waste of time and money. The frank realization that only custodial care need be given would help; i.e. physically large well trained guards giving lots of physical exercise.

"USDA To Probe Companies Running School Cafeterias"

Article from EdWeek

Summary: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture's watchdog arm plans to look closely at whether the food-service-management companies running many school cafeterias are passing along all the discounts and rebates they receive from their suppliers to the districts that hire them."

Stock up on your favorite cereals, too, especially if they are of the “sweeter” variety. Nanny-do-gooder government is going after the cereal companies, too.

Next they’ll being showing up at our houses on Thanksgiving Day to see if we had one too many pumpkin pies.

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This ought to be good for generating some kickbacks for the USDA.

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So you start a cafeteria servicing company and by running it real well you get several school contracts.
Through good management you can do volume purchasing your vendors can give you a lower price, that is based on end of year purchases and there is a rebate associated with that volume.

How does any rebate they get belong to the customer?

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I'm in supply chain management for a mid-sized manufacturing operation. I simply do not have time to check on every vendor to see if they are passing along every discount and rebate to us. What's more, I don't even care, because I have alternatives for most of our suppliers. If they get too expensive (or too unreliable or too late with deliveries or too anything else), orders go to their competitors.
That's the way it works in the real world.

FWIW, we pay less for almost everything than the local school district which has a far bigger budget. I know because I use many of the same vendors and we talk. We also throw out relatively minor amounts of obsolete inventory from time to time, a pallet or two at a time. The school districts, meanwhile, throw out truckloads.

Now why do you suppose it is that our plant can get better pricing on smaller quantities when we don't have the manpower to go out and audit every vendor for rebates and discounts and the school districts do?

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A good portion of this money will wind up going to the Democrats for elections.