Six West Hartford Schools Miss Performance Targets
See Krasiki you gomeril I told you so! (Thursday Sep 18 | post #82)
Six West Hartford Schools Miss Performance Targets
Okay, that makes all the sense in the world. Why you didn’t start with the Thirty Years War and the Destruction of The Holy Roman Empire or a butterfly’s fart in the Orinoco Basin in 12,000 BCE as direct antecedents to today’s educational, existential and environmental crises is inexcusable. It is thinking like yours; fuzzy, circuitous and devoid of common sense that allow struggling kids to fail. How does one begin to address your “arguments”? You site examples of nurture, “nutrition, the stress of poverty, an environment devoid of intellectual stimulus, and so on…” and examples of nature and nurture, “A priori intelligence plays a role and then individual development plays a role” and then conclude that I am just plain wrong about nature and nurture. If there is anything other than nature and nurture, I’d love to hear what it is. Please don’t cite sixty different types of nature and ninety types of nurture, they’re endless. I’m not here to defend NCLB. My simple assertion is this; it is parents and the culture they espouse that determine how a school will perform. No amount of school spending will make up for parents who can’t or won’t send their kid to school at all or parents who send their kid unprepared to learn each day. With that said, who cares more for a child than their parents? By your line of reasoning children of fry cooks at Chinese restaurants should be expected to fail because their parents aren’t PhDs in childhood education, but they don’t. Why is that? Because you don’t need a PHD to stress the importance of education to your kids. I know this assertion is too simple, you would probably prefer a new government agency be created and staffed with morosophic AFT members, paid for by the Chinese fry cook to tell the Chinese fry cook’s kid to do his homework, but that’s circuitous, fuzzy and devoid of common sense. (Thursday Sep 18 | post #74)
Six West Hartford Schools Miss Performance Targets
What does energy independence have to do with the subject at hand? Try to stay on topic, adjust aluminum foil as necessary. There are but two things that determine how people do in life or in school, nature and nurture. Since as a society we frown on eugenics, and rightfully so, we as a community can only hope to manipulate nurture. Is it your contention that the underperforming kids are getting all the support they need at home? I doubt it. There isn't a kid in school who wouldn't benefit from less TV and more reading, exercise and sleep. That, in nutshell, is my argument. It’s not a question of blame, it’s a question of what needs to be and what can be done. How is your facile assertion that every kid, - every one, is different - helpful? While probably true from an ontological perspective, it’s hardly news to those who have been paying attention and it really isn’t a workable verity. Are there parents doing everything humanly possible to help their kids who are still struggling? Of course. They know who they are. For those who wonder why Johnny and Jenny can’t read who have never read to them, who allow their kids 6 hours sleep and buy them $$$$ video games instead of a free library card, wonder no more. (Wednesday Sep 17 | post #68)
Six West Hartford Schools Miss Performance Targets
It's not the town, it's not the teachers, schools or the kids, it's the parents. READ to your children. Throw the X Box, Wii and the idiot box in the trash were they belong. Put your kids to bed before 830. Did I mention read to your children? Buy them some books - it's not rocket science. Nearly every child can learn basic skills if they are always immersed in an environment where those skills are valued. (Tuesday Sep 16 | post #7)
Cake Maker David Glass Seeking Loans From Customers
Generally speaking, lending money to troubled businesses that approached "several banks, but was turned down for loans" is not a good idea. Prediction, in 12, 16, or 24 months we'll be reading about aggrieved creditors who were stiffed, and they'll all say "How could we have known this was so risky?" First clue, several people ostensibly familiar with a calculator and basic lending principles took a look at this "opportunity " and passed on it. (Friday Sep 12 | post #25)
Corpse Stolen From Bloomfield Cemetery
Be serious, "the most unhuman act one can do". If given a choice between having my ancestors grave desecrated or a living member of my family raped and murdered, I think I'd opt for grave desecration, as messed up as that is. (Jul 17, 2008 | post #15)
Liberal Activists Target Lieberman's Chairmanship
"then" damned homonyms (Jul 9, 2008 | post #57)
Liberal Activists Target Lieberman's Chairmanship
By all means strip Lieberman of his chair, than he will have no reason not to caucus with the Republicans. Smooth move. (Jul 9, 2008 | post #56)
Injured Boy's Mom Campaigns Against Paint Guns
Who could have foreseen that a projectile of any sort, shot from the barrel of gun could injure a young boy's eye? Smith was careless, now instead of dealing with her own culpability she crusades to protect the children of others , even as she fails to protect her own. She should be flogged. (Jul 7, 2008 | post #52)
Inner-City Workforce Struggles With High Gas Prices
How true. The left would never engage in calling the president a chimp, monkey, Bush-Hitler etc. or insinuate someone they disagree with is in the Klan - clever bit that. Lord knows that if **** Cheney or George W. Bush had the middle name "Adolph" no one on the left would bother pointing that out. Grow up. Hussein is one of Obama's given names, get used to it. There are some in the Middle East who have great hopes for a Obama presidency based on this name, so I guess it's only fair that some in middle America are a bit apprehensive about it. (Jul 2, 2008 | post #79)
Inner-City Workforce Struggles With High Gas Prices
What utter nonsense. One of the few advantages of urban living, besides access to public transportation, is close proximity to centers of employment. If you think things are tough for the "urban" poor, imagine what the folks living in the sticks have to do to get to work. You'll have to imagine, because the perpetual bleeding hearts at the Lefty Courant can't be bothered to stretch their world view to include the possibility that non-minorities can be poor too. (Jun 29, 2008 | post #60)
Wait until someone tries to kill you with such prosaic yet effective items as a baseball bat, tire iron or knife and the utility of a well made gun will become readily apparent to you, unless of course you are a liberal then you will find a way to blame yourself for having a wallet and watch to steal in the first place. The majority of murder victims in Hartford and elsewhere are criminals themselves: http://www.courant .com/search/hc-hfd murder0110,0,60291 69.flash Unfortunately, many innocent people are killed by criminals who couldn't care less about gun laws. In short the answer is for decent people to stop allowing the criminals free run in our society. If this means arming ourselves and shooting the s.o.b.s on sight, so be it. (Jun 29, 2008 | post #36)
Foxwoods Resort Casino Lays Off Employees
First they give you a job and then they take it away, isn't there a name for this sort of behavior? (Jun 27, 2008 | post #1)
McGovern, Hart, Gejdenson now the Courant. Is there any liberal cause, no matter how decrepit or useless, you won't champion? At least you're not in a position to run this state into the ground anymore. (Jun 25, 2008 | post #61)
Great, now I'll have to endure liberal bias when I buy a hamburger or movie ticket. Shouldn't the binned Courant staff convince the tax and spend crowd in the legislature to fund some sort of sinecure system so that all these clueless, morosophic, pinko liberals can be kept harmlessly away from polite society? (Jun 25, 2008 | post #10)
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