Across Difficult Country has a report on a New Yorker article on a Denver-area high school that has been recipient of millions from the Great and Good and still stinks:
The bleachers offered a view of the Rockies, forty miles west, and, against them, the towers and cranes of downtown Denver. But his focus soon drifted to the plank on which he sat, which had been freshly tagged with gang graffiti. Studying the elaborate red scrawl, he said to his friends, "The person who did this tag didn't know how to spell the name Chici."
The Chici 30s, a local gang, were in ascendance at Manual now that members of their rival gang, the Oldies, had dropped out. "See," he said, "they think the word 'Chici' begins with a 'Q.' "
"So what's the right way to spell it?" someone asked.
It was quiet then, until the girl with the ponytail protested, "Norberto, stop looking to me like that, like you're some teacher!"
"Well, I don't care to know," another boy said. "I don't like those dudes, remember?"
"No wonder the whole city thinks we're stupid," Norberto said, addressing a recent turn of events that some on the bleachers still refused to accept. "Like, that's our education in a nutshell--we can't even spell our own gangs right."
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It is my opinion that Across Difficult Country is the best blog out there, period. Browse through ADC's archives if you get the chance. It is by turns bizarre, surreal, and hilarious, and oftentimes it is a wonderful amalgamation of bizarre surreal hilarity.
I would give ANYTHING if I could be made by God Almighty the Supreme Dictator of this nation.
The first thing I would do would to be to force the children and grandchildren of EVERY OPEN BORDERS lefty politico to attend schools like this. I cannot tell you how much I'd enjoy seeing John Poderhetz's and Bill Kristol's offspring come home beaten half to death by their new schoolmates, begging their parents to let them quit school altogether.
I've never seen anyone raise the possibilty that vouchers/school choice might lead to certain student demographics dropping out rather than face the massive drop in social standing they would incur going to a good school. In hindsight we should've been able to predict it.
Anon: I share your dream.
Andy: The archives are amusing. What happened?
Carter: I didn't mean to imply that the current postings weren't amusing, because they are.
Some boys really need to start working long hours soon after they reach puberty.
Speaking of not spelling straight:
Mexican Americans have endured defaming and unsulting negative stereotypes.[6] Such stereotypes have long circulated in the media. For example, Mexican Americans were called street criminals, poor drifters, “lazy peons”, field workers, or illegal “alien” immigrants. These stereotypes appear in news reports, movies, television, comedy (offensive racial jokes), and music parodies. Horse-riding bandits attacked Anglo gulches in western films, and most Mexican Americans are portrayed in film as backward people.
From Wikipedia's article "Mexican American."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_American
(To be fair, it could be a typo, though Wikipedia does have a preview feature most contributors avail themselves of thoroughly before finalizing their additions. I do find it funny the author believes that "stereotypes" of Mexicans being "illegal 'aliens'," criminals, Pancho-Villa-style bandits and field workers are so dramatically inaccurate.)
bah. that's just a high school. america's top universities would never allow political correctness to mess things up that bad.
"A former University of Pennsylvania history professor who specializes in women's studies and is known for her passion for women's rights and racial equality has emerged as a leading candidate for the Harvard University presidency."
"Drew Gilpin Faust, 59, who spent 25 years at Penn before moving to Harvard to head its Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2001, was reported to be under serious consideration by Harvard's presidential search committee, both the Harvard Crimson and the Boston Globe reported this week. The papers also reported that another leading candidate, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, had withdrawn."
http://tinyurl.com/26ymtc
the irony level here is approaching insanity. is this really happening in america? this push to censor and punish people who say the wrong thing in public? to the point of damaging your own enterprise to avoiding stepping out of line?
A Mexican gang member using the phrase "...in a nutshell"?
Unlikely.
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