tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308981464139716859.post8347173533854482773..comments2023-09-09T06:16:38.457-07:00Comments on Mel, A Dramatic Mommy: Disparity Between SchoolsMelanie Sheridanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100313047776018999noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308981464139716859.post-29256045755838299862010-11-29T22:40:40.469-08:002010-11-29T22:40:40.469-08:00If you are royal or have a enough money,then you c...If you are royal or have a enough money,then you can get your child's schooling from a good school,however if you are a poor or middle class,then surely you would be enable to bring a nice education for your child. The sense is that money matters a lot. Schools are nothing but a business now a days. More money more facilities,less money less facilities. Mostly Government run schools are in very bad condition,while privet schools are in good condition.san antonio garage door repairhttp://www.garagedoorsanantoniotx.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308981464139716859.post-26832749910254183502010-11-04T08:52:46.698-07:002010-11-04T08:52:46.698-07:00Every time someone speaks from knowledge, it is he...Every time someone speaks from knowledge, it is heartening to hear; and it is also great when I (or anyone else) can see what poverty REALLY is, instead of retaining that old comforting notion that it is 'quaint' and means only that one is "closer to one's roots" or alternatively too lazy to try. Poverty is an agonizing grind of making the best choice where there are NO good options (The choice the mother - the LOVING mother - faced in the film "Doubt" is analogous) - or of not knowing where the good choices are to be found. As you reconize, YOU had choices that meant difficulty shouldered when taking the better option - many, many good people don't have this option. I have thought, since I saw it, that the best possible training film for people who will be teaching or working with children of the very poor is the entire 4th season of the TV show "The Wire" which dealt with not only the schools and neighborhoods, but the home situations, of four wonderfully engaging children. I agree totally that education is the real civil rights issue of the current era - and perhaps it always was. It was, after all, the integration of schools, not of the lunch counters or Montgomery buses that gave rise to the greatest violence in the 60s, a demonstration that both sides knew where equality was to be won or lost.DavidShaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378015294494222646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308981464139716859.post-26780421973246272532010-11-03T15:09:09.612-07:002010-11-03T15:09:09.612-07:00@Christina - That's such a fabulous story!
@...@Christina - That's such a fabulous story! <br /><br />@Jenn - I will check him out though I'm sure it will make my blood boil! :DMelanie Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04100313047776018999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308981464139716859.post-86887812245433010682010-10-31T13:45:35.627-07:002010-10-31T13:45:35.627-07:00You need to read Jonathan Kozol--you will truly ha...You need to read Jonathan Kozol--you will truly have your eyes opened. The system is so unfair.Jenn @ Juggling Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14455967210924573398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308981464139716859.post-64509918898174412642010-10-29T16:53:35.350-07:002010-10-29T16:53:35.350-07:00I will never forget Open House night for my oldest...I will never forget Open House night for my oldest son's 2nd grade class. The teacher stood up there and, in telling us about her background, she started choking up thinking about the school she left behind in the southern part of our county. She said the differentiation in classroom supplies/conditions & parental participation just broke her heart. So rather than having a Wish List of things she wanted for HER classroom in Carmel Valley - she put together a Wish List for us to full fill for her to donate to the classroom in south county that she had left. I thought that was brilliant!<br />The disparities are stark - and they can exist just within a few miles of each other.Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01810652588116637142noreply@blogger.com