tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post1414782743077512932..comments2024-03-22T10:49:51.766-05:00Comments on Horizons: The Obama administration isn't sitting still on the school-to-prison pipelineNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-81655491471030836722014-01-10T08:04:25.566-06:002014-01-10T08:04:25.566-06:00If you check out the guidelines issued by Holder a...If you check out the guidelines issued by Holder and Duncan - they include quit a bit about teacher training. But frankly, there is not a whole lot of good material out there that addresses the intersection of behavior management and racism/classism. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-78888999584785045202014-01-09T22:05:44.017-06:002014-01-09T22:05:44.017-06:00This post recalls for me one of my pet peeves-the ...This post recalls for me one of my pet peeves-the quality or lack thereof teacher training of those placed in the inner city/majority minority schools. They are paid less because many of them graduated at the bottom of their classes! Some of them hate teaching but love the security! Some of them bring an amazing amount of racial bias and animosity from their own history! The picture is not at all clear. Starting by stemming the flow of students out of the school is 1st step BUT the issues re: teacher meanness, improper use of power, parent intimation, etc. etc. Hope Atty Gen Holder will broaden his coordination with Secy Duncan.<br />Smilingl8dy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-8889312467434960242014-01-09T13:44:50.819-06:002014-01-09T13:44:50.819-06:00The School to Prison Pipeline is a seminal issue. ...The School to Prison Pipeline is a seminal issue. It's heartbreaking that on top of the little funding these public schools are getting, that so many teachers and administrators are denying the youth of black children. Whether it's racial animosity or an overweening desire to "teach" the children not to deviate "for their own good," black children are being robbed of their childhood innocence. <br /><br />Holder is one tough angel. Perhaps, with enough reliable Democrats in the three branches of government for the next ten years, we could stop the pipeline altogether. Anyone who is alive now, and who is alive thirty years from now might get to see a great change--- a greater country--- and know that it started with how we treat out children and a black man heading the DOJ. People coming of age or born at that time might find it unreal that we lived this way for so long.wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.com