Hurricane Evacuees Thrive After Switching Schools, Study Says

Lift your fellow man up, not kick him

What always amazes me is that hatred and horridness will creep into any mention of the poor and thier failings. You are the same people that will kill for thier religion! Hypocrits and idiots. It's nurture vs. nature, period! I'm white so before your hate stiffles you swallow it and be what your so called religions ask, a human being!

A URGENT CALL FOR PRAYER -

(For all CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS to rally continuous prayer chains)

Please, Please ...... PRAY WITHOUT CEASING

1. Against the forces of darkness attacking America at present ,

2. For the nation to vote for THE RIGHT MAN in.

AMERICA you have PROBLEMS .......... another CULT is forming.

Only the devil can be involved here as seen in this blog ....

http://www.obamamessiah.blogspot.com/ as this pattern of thought can have far reaching NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES for America.

Give God reason to STOP THIS FORMING - man has been given the authority to do it through prayer. (shocking)

Women do not vote because of your hormones/race/or your heart but ..... what is right for America.

Comment

I agree with the the U.S. News staff, because when i was a junior in highschool in Atlanta all the New Orlean students started off bad because i think our school system was a little bit harder and took them sometime to get use to. But when senior year came the N.O. students had adjusted and were doing very well. They showed that they could do the work.

The problem was the school, not the child

One of life's great mysteries is the self-destructive, blind support the black community gives to the democrat party and the teachers unions which dominate that party. The leaders of the black community are obviously willing to sacrifice the future of their children trapped in ghetto schools in exchange for political prominence. Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? oh, yeah!

Obama and Ayers had $110 million in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to give out over five years. After the Challenge, the schools that participated showed zero measurable improvement. (Check Wikipedia on that) ZERO!! $110 million!! The reason, Obama will not cross the ghetto teachers unions. And Ayers is NOT an effective school reformer. So much for U of Chicago. At least they have a real economics department.

That is why Obama sends his daughters to a $20,000 per year private school. My daughters in those ghetto schools?? You must be kidding.

Sorry poor children, he doesn't mean CHANGE for you. You got left behind.

Privatizers have ravaged New Orleans more than Katrina

From the report:

"These findings could give fodder to proponents of shutting down failing schools in other parts of the country—a decision that local and state officials are often afraid to make for fear that relocating students is too disruptive."

School officials in New Orleans, often backed by for-profit education firms, have ravaged New Orleans Public Schools far more than Hurricane Katrina. In effect we have more than fifty public school districts within a city of 300,000 people. Most of these schools are charter schools run through a variety of private and public enterprises which enhance some students but are leaving many more kids and their shell-shocked parents bewildered. For all its failings and inequities before Hurricane Katrina, the Orleans Parish School Board at least had one system to evaluate, with certified teachers backed by a union with collective bargaining rights. Under the "perfect storm" of Hurricane Katrina, 7,000 teachers and support staff were sumarily fired, nearly sixty school buildings face demolition without a plan or funds appropriated to replace them, and many kids and their families returning to New Orleans will be effectively shut out of the community of their birth. May this be a warning to other communities of what can happen when profits and short-term statistical academic gains become the dominant mantra.

Kids thrive when given the chance

After Katrina we "adopted" a family we met at a shelter. The mom was an alcoholic and went back to NO to live on the streets. She left her 4 youngest children with the step-dad who is a good guy.

We have seen these kids not only thrive, but blossom. The oldest did not go to school in NO, and starting school here in 3rd grade would seem impossible. She not only caught herself up, she is now being considered for the gifted program.

Is it the community or the schools? Probably both. And where was the government when this little girl was not enrolled in school?

All 4 of these kids are amazing, and we talk to them about college as if it is the expected next step. We know that they will all be very productive citizens, breaking the cycle of poverty times 4!

Stephanie

www.eagleswingspublications.com

Are we missing the point?

Schools don't fail. People do.

The so-called failing schools are located in failing communities.

The examples cited show that taking the students out of the failing communities changes their outlook on life and then they do better.

If expectations are low, performance will be low.

The examples cited prove that when much is expected and the environment is one of promise, performance rises to match.

It is the failing communites that need changing and then the schools and everything else in those communities will respond.

The failing schools are only symptons of what is happening in failing communities.

New Orleans was a social mess even before the bad weather.

As for failing schools, especially big ole tough high schools, I say---close 'em. It's a great way to make the teachers in those places re-apply elsewhere. Drop the kids onto every other surrounding school. Drag the other schools down? Nah.

Lift the refugees up. That's what you just saw above.

Get ready burbs. Here come the urbanites.