pbs.org — "When we talk about how these are good schools for these kids, one of the things we want to think about is, why are they not in upper-middle-class white communities? Why are they good schools for low-income African-American and Latino students and not good schools for affluent white kids?"
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I grew up in a time when we respected the military, there were far more men and women serving than today(thanks to Bill Clintons' dismantling of our forces, and closing Bases to balance the budget), more ships, more planes, fewer unemployed. We were more respected in the world then, because other Nations Knew they could(and did)count on us to protect them.(Or kick their ass if needed).All of you young Idiots swallowing the KOOL-ade from the left Name ONE right that you have lost?? The youth of today is being brainwashed into hating our country, and thus themselves. The people you should fear are the ones who do deny freedom of speech, the left shouts down those on the right far more often than Vice/versa. I am frightfully concerned about the demilitarization of this country.
orca94Jan 5, 2008
Real clever with the guppy retort. I really don't know what to say after being called a guppy. Since we're reducing this childish name calling game I think I'll choose worthless. How's it going worthless?
jimintheocJan 6, 2008
blubberbutt - once again you have failed to both read and comprehend what I wrote. Had you that capability, you would have realized I wrote “prior recruiter”, meaning that is no longer what I do.
thecatcantalkJan 7, 2008
It's not about race, you sillies, it's about class. Before World War I, high-ranking officers (who were almost always from prosperous or wealthy families) routinely led cavalry charges. Once machine guns, tanks and poison gas were deployed onto battlefields, that tradition ended, never to be seen again. How many current Senators and U.S. Representatives have kids in military service? Three. Only three. Why? Because upper-class families don't have eight kids, and can't bear to lose an only son; plus, being a field officer is a hell of a lot more dangerous than it ever was when cavalrymen rode horses and carried revolvers. And mostly, they don't feel any sense of social obligation, just as none else do. We're obsessed with rights, but rarely obligations. That applies to every social class in America, nowadays. If you think about it, the only real difference between an inner-city gangster and an Exeter-educated boarding-school bully like our current President, is the clothes. They're the same inside; the same self-obsession and bloated sense of entitlement, the same prejudice that everyone owes them respect, the same colossal ignorance and contempt for learning, the same smug bullying....and so on. Crips and Bloods, or Skull and Bones, only the uniform changes, the game is much the same. And we wonder why people want to bomb our cities. *sigh* We've become an oligarchic kleptocracy, just like Italy, or any abandoned Spanish colony turned banana republic. Who would want to put his ass on the line to defend such a contemptible thing? Only a man who sees it as his only way out of a bad business.
orca94Jan 7, 2008
Public sector salaries are not market determined for the most part. If they were then the salary of the average private and public school teacher's salary would be more equal. Also, market driven salaries aren't exactly the best indicators of worth to society just look at Mr. Bush.Also, "blubber butt" is not a compound word. Keep trying though, you're getting somewhere. Maybe if you had spent a few extra years in the third grade...
orca94Jan 11, 2008
Harlington, TX not Chicago, IL. Read the f**king webpage, that's not the school they're citing in the article that's located in Chicago. <a class="user" href="http://www.marinemilitaryacademy.com/tour.htm">http://www.marinemilitaryacademy.com/tour.htm</a>Also, your contention that ignorance and lack of integrity are the only things that lead to poverty is absolutely sickening. You are a special kind of piece of s**t, the kind that doesn't deserve the oxygen you breathe.