Convincing me that America is in decline might not be the hardest task around, but (surprise, surprise!) I think your penultimate paragraph is too optimistic. It's not that the Left wants to keep black juvenile delinquents in class so they'll learn. The Left wants to keep them in class so they'll DISRUPT learning, thus producing even more poorly educated young people than we have now, thus weakening America and especially America's future.
The Left keeps its eye on the ball, always and ever.
I don't believe the left desires that learning be disrupted in America's classrooms (just as I doubt it desires more crime on America's streets). The problem is that the left sympathizes with black troublemakers and criminals, seeing them as victims.
Thus, it wants to free them from the consequences of their behavior, and is wiling to accept, or is indifferent to, the collateral damage of doing so.
My thoughts exactly William Otis, well said. But I would add that the "ball" which they never take their eye off of, are the non-victim, non-minority, class members which they will deflate.
Today I discovered a podcast and heard a conversation on Glenn Loury's podcast (The Glenn Show) about how treating Black students as if they are victims and giving them grades for just showing up is so detrimental to their future well being as well as that of our country. The interview on the Glenn Show was with Erec Smith (not a misspelling of his first name). I highly recommend watching the interview Glenn had with Erec.
Convincing me that America is in decline might not be the hardest task around, but (surprise, surprise!) I think your penultimate paragraph is too optimistic. It's not that the Left wants to keep black juvenile delinquents in class so they'll learn. The Left wants to keep them in class so they'll DISRUPT learning, thus producing even more poorly educated young people than we have now, thus weakening America and especially America's future.
The Left keeps its eye on the ball, always and ever.
I don't believe the left desires that learning be disrupted in America's classrooms (just as I doubt it desires more crime on America's streets). The problem is that the left sympathizes with black troublemakers and criminals, seeing them as victims.
Thus, it wants to free them from the consequences of their behavior, and is wiling to accept, or is indifferent to, the collateral damage of doing so.
My thoughts exactly William Otis, well said. But I would add that the "ball" which they never take their eye off of, are the non-victim, non-minority, class members which they will deflate.
Today I discovered a podcast and heard a conversation on Glenn Loury's podcast (The Glenn Show) about how treating Black students as if they are victims and giving them grades for just showing up is so detrimental to their future well being as well as that of our country. The interview on the Glenn Show was with Erec Smith (not a misspelling of his first name). I highly recommend watching the interview Glenn had with Erec.
Great post. Typical Paul nuanced analysis. Jim Dueholm