Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Ms. Ariemma's class.


Hold up folks, I just put on my Air Rs (those are my racism track shoes) and I am running something down real quick. Let me check out this story:

"When Georgia high school Advanced History teacher Catherine Ariemma asked her students to dress up in costumes for a project re-enacting different historical periods, four of her pupils dressed up like the Ku Klux Klan.African-American students at Lumpkin County High School became upset and angry, especially after some of the teens dressed in KKK robes asked one Black student if he would help them re-enact a lynching for their project. Ariemma has been suspended with pay and could possibly be fired. She defended her decision to hold the re-enactment. "We have to discuss racism in our society because if we don't, we are condoning it and I don't cover it up and you can't discuss racism and not include the Klan," she told CNN.

[Check out the CNN story]

Hmmm, I have to be careful with this one. The thing about my man racism is that sometimes he can send decoys for your ass. I mean sometimes you know it's racism, like the latest crap in Jena, or this kind of ignorance. But sometimes.......I don't know.


See folks, it's like this: I have no problem with Ms. Ariemma using visual aids to teach history. The klan is a part of our history and we can't just close our eyes and pretend that they didn't exist. They did and they still do. So I am not mad at Ms. Ariemma for trying to teach her children about the klan.

Still, when I heard that there were no African Americans in her class, and that she just let the kids go out into the school population with their robes on, I have to admit that I started to have second thoughts about Ms. Ariemma. (And, as if to make matters worse, she lives in Georgia.)

So I don't know.....OK, I thought about it: I don't think Ms. Ariemma should be terminated, and I don't think that she is a racist. I think that she is a clueless Southern women from the majority population who was trying to do the right thing. I think that the powers that be should get with Ms. Ariemma and let her know in no uncertain terms that she handled this in the wrong way, and because of her carelessness something really ugly could have happened. (Yeah, I am sitting in the cafeteria and some kid comes in with a klan outfit; please believe that we are going to get all Marvin Gaye with each other.)

So no harm here, we are moving right along. I guess I can take off my Air Rs now.

Ms. Ariemma was a decoy.


*Pic lifted from Essence.com

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alicia banks said...

assnon/uts:

i am so deeply touched that you would share your mom giving birth to u

wow...so intimate...thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYW6C44zo24

Constructive Feedback said...

[quote]there was a time when recess lasted up to an hour a day...long before nclb!!!

it is why children are bored and act out in class!!!
[/quote]

AB - You are being ridiculous now.

"There was a time, LONG BEFORE NCLB, where PEOPLE ACTED UP IN CLASS".

You and Melleneous appear to be using NCLB as a catch-all for your attacks.

ALL schools did not cut recess in order to spend more instruction time in preparation for the tests.

Clearly there is a matter of INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS here. In a school with a less disruptive student body more material can be learned in the same amount of time. For those needing extra time - the SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION CHOSE to clip recess.

AB - WHY didn't they CHOOSE to extend the school day in order to protect recess?

Why didn't they keep the school day as is and have after-school tutoring for the students who were behind?

Its like you are blaming NCLB for the deficiencies in the student body as incubated by the ADULTS in these children's lives. You talk about the PARENTS on one hand but then blame the POLICY on the other.

alicia banks said...

cf:

bad dumb kids are not a new phenom

horrid/drugged in womb/crack babies/sex slaved/rabid/adhd/add/odd/
mainstreamed severely retardrd/dumb kids ETC!!!....
being THE RULE rather than the exception IS NEW INDEED!!!

and the "acting out" u so casually dismiss is now so severe that kids are routinely brutally sexually assaulting teachers and peers daily...wake up!!!!

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=27253435


http://neatoday.org/2010/04/20/preventing-school-violence-are-we-making-the-grade/

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-01-15/news/mn-1471_1_school-violence

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=taecher+beaten+youtube&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

alicia banks said...

http://www.amazon.com/White-Chalk-Crime-destroyed-cleansing/dp/1419694073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275052342&sr=1-1-spell

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=teacher+beaten&aq=f&aqi=g3g-m3&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CQaUKesH_S93XNJTuzASs6pieBQAAAKoEBU_QWVgc

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=teacher+beat+down&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

alicia banks said...

cf:

ps:

there was also a time when fatherless boys who hate their toxic young whore moms and their female teachers by miosgynist extension were not the norm also!!!

many boys who are the men of their homes insist upon running classes and schools too!!!

see more on that here:


http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/whyboysfail/male-teachers/

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/baw_commentary_news/16519

http://www.menteach.org/news/schools_need_black_male_teachers

http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Boys-Schools-Masculinity-Violence/dp/0472088491/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275053391&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Come-People-Path-Victims-Victors/dp/B003GAMZKE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275053436&sr=1-1

alicia banks said...

cf:

more on the new breed of classroom/school tormenters!!!

http://www.1010wins.com/NJ-Teen-Admits-Defecating-in-Classmate-s-Soda/7345425

beholder said...

You don’t like it.

You don’t like it cause the white man losing his power. Yes I said the white man is losing his power. Everywhere you look it happening.

Here a lesbian running the city. Here a meskin own the airwaves. Here a Muslim, a brother, here the landlord a quiet Chinese but he don’t bow and scrape. You used to buck your teeth and squint and he remembers. Now you pay the man.

For you the only black man worth mention is Bill Cosby or Famous Amos. That what they teach you in the schools. But you do not have the power to stop Louis Farrakhan.

You locked up H Rap Brown, Huey Newton, the only place you keep a black woman on her knees.

You keep the monkey on the junkie back, locked up tight and messed up so when he come out he ties up again, maybe this time be the last.

You deny the Tea Party a white supremacist organization. But I don’t see any black faces in that crowd.

You say that your Miss America not barred to any color, but when the real beauty win you claim it was rigged against the whites. Oh you losing your looks too baby.

And you don’t like it.

That’s why you keep a list and laws. That’s why you lie about it, distort the figures on murder, kidnapping, rape, the crimes that white people refuse to do. Assaults, smugglers, drop houses, home invasions, drugs and welfare recipients. These are the small pox blankets poisoning the minds of America.

And who care about something – anything! -- other than that a socialist.

Presidents elected while black deserve the black ball. No matter he cleaning house after the white man’s watch, the house that the black men built.

This is America.

What’s not to like and cheer about?

We got illegals in our schools getting learned on the white man’s dime and why is that they always a white man on the dime, nickel, quarter or dollar in the country of freedom and equality. E pluribus unum.

Out of many, one.

Yeah, we know who the money is. We know who the many and who the one.

We got madmen trying to take the Indians out of Cleveland and the Redskins out of Washington. We even got our Fightin’ Whities trying to fake us out.

Rights are there for the white man, promises for everybody else. Promise of reparations promise of reservations, promises never to do it again.

And like every promise ever made by the ones writing those rights who it went to? Who get the benefits? Who turn those words into profit?

Now those laws are turning. This nation is rising up and sinking under your feet. It’s got a rotted core. It’s an earthquake, tsunami, storm and rage that rend the bedrock of your temple. The alabaster pillars going to drop.

The great white father turning to dust.

No more entertainers, no more football players, no more basketball, no more waiters and dishwashers, no more cleaners with your white shirts, nobody to hate cause they part of America too. Look around you.

They running it!


--An immigrant poem by beholder

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