No, it’s not that way anymore. Thanks to the bridge.
Never thought you’d see dinosaurs and gorillas across from the Academy, did you? When I was growing up one of the houses was owned by the owner of my local candy store. Nice house. It was torn down and replaced by a McMansion with a perimeter of a six foot brick wall topped by a chain link fence of the same height and a guard tower. All of which is about three feet inside the property line and that area outside is completely overgrown and unattended. Bizarre juxtaposition.
My Mom, Dad and all of my Mom’s family ( my grand- mother and father, great -grand parents, aunts, etc.) are all buried in Moravian Cemetery at the bottom of Todt Hill. My first cousin, a NYC firefighter, is also buried there.
Have not been recently. But I really feel the need to go. My parents regularly visited their parents grave.and placed plants, etc. Out of respect for my parents, I feel I should do the same thing once and awhile.
In many, if not most, states an all-black school isn’t going to have strong academics. In my state there are no competitive-entry schools. Ability grouping is essentially outlawed by the courts until jr. high. Anti-white violence and bullying has been a problem whenever whites are reduced to just a few in number. In my state, if a school is 95 percent or more black then it’s going to be a 90-90-90 School: at least 90 percent NAM, 90 percent free or reduced lunch, and 90 percent having two or more risk factors for failure. I cannot think of a more unsatisfactory placement for an upper-middle-class white child in the top decile of cognitive ability.
I would imagine that there are a few places where the above wouldn’t apply, including some Maryland suburbs and some areas in California. Of course, non-Southern states are usually allowed to place students by achievement and ability rather than age, which makes a big difference.
*Of course, non-Southern states are usually allowed to place students by achievement and ability rather than age, which makes a big difference.
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what do you mean?
the districts I know of, there is kindergarten placement age. If you hold a child out for kindergarten, they just place them in 1st grade the next year.
emeraldkity4, In my state, if a fifth-grader is reading and ciphering at the 12th-grade level, he nevertheless must be placed in a mixed ability classroom that has some kids who can’t even read. Any educational rule or standard that doesn’t result in almost perfect racial balance is banned by the courts.
If a 10 yr old cannot read, are they getting support to do so? There is federal and state as well as district money for that. That should really be a priority for your district.
Whats their graduation rate look like?
I like mixed classrooms, myself.
Especially if the class size is smaller than 32, and there are other afults in the classroom, which could be parents, aides, or subject teachers.
I believe with the reauthorization that was done with IDEA in 2004, most all students with learning disabilities, are obligated to be mainstreamed, whether that is the best way to get them support or not.
It isnt something that is special to schools in the South,
Anyhoo, considering this is the 50th anniv of Selma, its notable what has changed, but how far we still have to go.
I think most everyone is aware of those who have * more* than themselves, but just how aware are you of your place on the totem pole?
Are you in the 10%? Or even the 1%?
^That would be my guess as well. I remember hearing about the incredibly high price of housing in the oil boom regions of ND a year or two ago. Here’s a story from last year. http://abcnews.go.com/US/life-williston-north-dakota-expensive-place-rent-apartment/story?id=22549192
I think it’s kind of funny that we’re all going on and on about how hard those of us in places like NYC, Boston and San Francisco have it when the most expensive place to rent an apartment in the country is, or at least was as of a year ago, small-town North Dakota!
^It may have to do with the definition of “median priced home.” If a median priced home in NYC is a one bedroom apartment and a median priced home in SF or SD is a three bedroom free standing house with a quarter acre garden you would expect the price tag on the latter to be higher than the former. I have no evidence that this is the case, but it could be that Californians expect more house than New Yorkers and are willing to pay for it.