tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post6340885983453954540..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: UPDATED: Obama & Romney: Bad Schools Cause Gun ViolenceDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-7166666097275591192012-12-16T18:42:11.635-08:002012-12-16T18:42:11.635-08:00BC - check tomorrow.
rbe: that's a beautiful ...BC - check tomorrow.<br /><br />rbe: that's a beautiful quote from Merton. Haven't read him in forever - must go back.<br /><br />G- Angry is what I'm feeling now as well. Why is this allowed to happen?<br /><br />Thx everyone.Dukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-67908340042321199972012-12-16T05:44:23.944-08:002012-12-16T05:44:23.944-08:00JJ:
Can you look at the Rhee statement and her in...JJ:<br /><br />Can you look at the Rhee statement and her inability to acknowledge the teachers,. See here from Ravitch:<br /><br />Cosmic Tinkerer <br />December 16, 2012 at 1:47 am<br />Thanks for pointing this out. I found Rhee’s statement here: http://www.studentsfirst.org/pages/michelle-rhee-statement-school-shooting-tragedy-in-newton-connecticut<br /><br />I think it’s shameful that Rhee completely ignored the heroic acts of all the Sandy Hook educators who put the safety of their students’ lives before their own, and that she exploited this tragedy, in order to take another swipe at schools and promote her cause. (It also sounds like an underhanded plea for more donations to her organization.)<br /><br />I left this angry message on their contact us tab. How dare she exploit this tragedy:<br /><br />Could you even include one sentence to recognize the educators who died, to recognize their commitment to children, to acknowledge what teachers do everyday…the union, collective bargaining kind?<br /><br />You include a self promoting statement about your mission, which is nothing more than the destruction of our PUBLIC schools. YOU, Michelle, make this about your pathetic, self promoting, back stabbing, privatizing mission.<br /><br />P.S. Don’t dare record this message as a supporter of your “grassroots” scheme…we know all about your deceptive tricks.be carefulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10874057836503053845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-53013272123873398062012-12-15T16:08:38.089-08:002012-12-15T16:08:38.089-08:00You can make a pretty good case that the more we f...You can make a pretty good case that the more we focus on test scores and academic "achievement" over everything else, the more the system churns out alienated individuals who sometimes act in horrific ways.<br /><br />I have long said that true education reform would mean teaching to the whole child, not just the part that takes tests.<br /><br />That means teaching to the heart as well as the mind. That means social and emotional learning. That means community-building. That means helping kids and adults to see their inter-connectedness and interdependence with each other rather than the current notion that we're in a Darwinian "race to the top" with a few winners and lots of losers.<br /><br />That we are seeing more and more of these kinds of horrific acts from individuals is a sign that something is seriously wrong with our society, our culture, our values, our nation - with us.<br /><br />Thomas Merton said the following:<br /><br /> “We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”<br /><br />That is even more true in the years since Merton's death. <br /><br />I truly believe that the more we give our political, economic and education systems over to people who value nothing more than sleek efficiency, utility and material wealth and power, we will continue to see horrific acts such as what we saw yesterday.<br /><br />Guns are part of the problem, yes - but they're just the last piece of the problem. <br /><br />The rot of the sickness goes much, much deeper than that.<br /><br />Individuals who shoot six year olds in a school or movie goers at a Batman movie don't just drop down from space.<br /><br />They're created by society - out society.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-90719965446645904112012-12-15T11:19:38.350-08:002012-12-15T11:19:38.350-08:00I am livid with rage at this latest slaughter of i...I am livid with rage at this latest slaughter of innocent children. We need stronger gun laws. I'm to the point where I am ready for a hand gun ban in this violence prone blood soaked country where any maniac can get his hands on a semi-automatic gun or rifle. If the news reports are accurate, the guns he used were guns which his mother bought FOR SELF PROTECTION. Her demented son used those guns to kill his own mother and then to slaughter innocent kids and adults/teachers at an elementary school. Dear God, when is enough enough and I made that statement about the last mass slaughter a few weeks ago.giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13445832057107337104noreply@blogger.com