HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Students marched from the current Lee High School to the new one this morning in reaction to a proposal to eliminate the Lee High School name when a newly constructed replacement school opens in the fall.
"students plan to walk outside during today's lunch period and sing the school's Alma Mater in a show of solidarity, then march at 5 p.m. from the Sonic Drive-In on Pratt Avenue to the Annie Merts Center at 200 White St., where the school board will meet at 5:30 p.m."
Does anybody else see the humor in this? Employing a civil right styled march to save the name of Robert E. Lee? I wonder if Hank, Jr is going to join them.
I don't see the humor, I see the miseducation of the negro African American historian Carter G. Woodson wrote about.
The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson[1]. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African-Americans of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught
Case in point, the majority-black student population organized a protest to keep a school named after a Confederate Civil War General and they think they are doing something???!!!! Ain't that a dip? I mean, really, we must laugh to keep from crying at the irony. It's like chickens marching in support of Colonel Sanders.
So, while majority black/brown/poor students were out there singing and marching about a proposed name change, a name change I support 100%, Teach for America is coming to black/brown/poor schools in Huntsville, thanks to Three Stooges despite One Brave Lady.
Using the logic of the Huntsville City Board of Education, University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban should only use his youngest, most inexperienced players when his team plays a Top Ten opponent.Nick Saben doesn't think that way because he wasn't mis-educated. He had access to the best education his parent's tax dollars could buy.
Anyone who pays attention to education knows that the most persistently poor-performing schools are those in impoverished neighborhoods. For example, there are nine schools in the Huntsville system where more than 90 percent of students receive free-reduced lunches. According to an analysis by the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, none of these schools have reading and math scores where all grades (three through eight) are equal to or above state average.
By comparison, of the five schools where all grades are above state average, free-reduced lunches range from 4 to 25 percent.
But in spite of this, the Board of Education plans to hire 110 Teach for America teachers over the next three years and put them in schools in poor neighborhoods. These are recent college graduates, most of whom got degrees in something other than education and will receive a five-week crash course in how to teach before being sent off to work in the city’s most challenging schools.
I don’t believe this is the way Coach Saban thinks.
There is no HOPE for black/brown/poor students in Huntsville. I wish the people that were so so adamant about the name change at Lee High School use their influence and focus attention on the issues/policies/actions by the school board and the Superintendent that matter because they have a real impact on the future generations.
F the dumb stuff. Children are our future. Education is the HOPE of the republic. It's our only HOPE for CHANGE we can Believe in.
History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary."[2]Dr. Carter G. Woodson
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@Redeye: "So, while majority black/brown/poor students were out there singing and marching about a proposed name change, a name change I support 100%, Teach for America is coming to black/brown/poor schools in Huntsville"
You speak passionately, and cogently. If these black students are supporting the retention of a school name that's an anathema to any well-educated black person, and hopefully any well-educated white person, then their education is already suspect and below par.
Small wonder, then, that the Huntsville City Board of Education think it's just fine to bring in Teach for America: This student body is already miseducated--which appears intentional--as evidenced by their protest to keep the name of the school.
It's the same as American Indian students protesting to keep the name of a school named after George Armstrong Custer.
How in the hell would anyone, who's educated, or just knowledgeable, be okay with that?
If the student's are intentionally being miseducated about their black past, why would the Board want to change a winning trend, by bringing in professional teachers?
"If the student's are intentionally being miseducated about their black past, why would the Board want to change a winning trend, by bringing in professional teachers?"
Exactly. It's not about hiring professional, trained, certified teachers, it's about sticking it the Alabama Education Association. There is a culture that believes AEA is the root of all evil.
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