An social and emotional learning specialist (whatever that is) in the Atlanta Public Schools bashes white parents for teaching their children and those of their friends at home:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/opinion/pandemic-pods-schools.html
The Latest in School Segregation: Private Pandemic ‘Pods’. If they become the norm, less privileged kids will suffer.
New York Times ^ | July 23, 2020 | Clara Totenberg Green

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"Based on what I’ve seen online, the learning pod movement appears to be led by families with means, a large portion of whom are white. Paradoxically, at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has prompted a national reckoning with white supremacy, white parents are again ignoring racial and class inequality when it comes to educating their children. As a result, they are actively replicating the systems that many of them say they want to dismantle.

Take the school where I work, a racially and economically diverse public elementary school in the heart of Atlanta. It’s a gentrifying school within a gentrifying neighborhood. The building is bordered by half-a-million-dollar homes on one side, and low-income apartments on the other, where a large portion of our Black students live.

But while our school is diverse, it is not integrated. As is the case across the country, white families largely socialize with one another, white children are disproportionately represented in gifted and talented programming, and white parents dominate parent committees.

This segregation will only intensify if learning pods become the norm. When people choose members of their pod, they will choose people they know and trust. In a country where 75 percent of white people report that the network of people with whom they discuss important matters is “entirely white, with no minority presence,” it is not a leap to predict that learning pods will mirror the deeply racially segregated lives of most Americans.

Parents are also more likely to join pods with families who have similarly low exposure to the coronavirus. This seemingly rational impulse will, in practice, exclude many Black and Latinx families, who are disproportionately infected by the virus."

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Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Old and Grumpy, @Steve in Greensboro, @iDeplorable, @stat in the hat

There’s a silver lining to everything. She’s lucky that she’s in Oakland county where authorities care about children doing their homework. She’s lucky to go going to an Oakland county public school. In Warren county nobody would give a damn.

Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @stat in the hat

In New York City ... every person who has been shot this July ... has been a member of the minority community.

Some "community".

Replies: @Coemgen, @stat in the hat

There are a number of obvious refinements to police practices that might be made. I've seen a lot of Sherlock Holmes movies but only tried to read the original books last year. If you haven't read them. Don't bother. They're terrible. Read the Harry Bosch books instead.

Holmes was a solitary sleuth genius relying on naked observation. The police kept written records. After Holmes the twentieth century became the age of the fingerprint. Police kept fingerprint records. Now we are in the DNA and surveillance camera era. But we are not keeping DNA records as we should. Every arrested person should have their genome scanned and saved. We should look for the number of MAOA repeats. It should soon be able to approximate the IQ also from a gene scan. This is the kind of information we should be gathering. If we had such a store of genetic information whenever some one was suspected of a crime we could read their genome information and adjust their sentence as appropriate. Currently repeat offenders get harsher sentences. This practice of differential sentences could be made more certain and just if we could also add in their genetic information.

It's funny to watch the TV police reality show 48 Hours. The real life detectives don't make brilliant deductions from fragmentary evidence. For many cops, if there isn't some video footage from a near the crime scene camera, then they just give up.

But of course the blacks and their supporters will oppose improved police records. Blacks are the criminal race. They are also the basketball playing race. But even were there no more blacks in America I still would't have been good enough to make the NBA. But crime would have dropped so much that I could clean out my gun safe. No blacks - little crime. Gun owners throw there guns out and their wives reclaim the closet space. Without blacks America might still not be as crime free as Japan - maybe just as crime free as Switzerland.

Replies: @stat in the hat

Those who break the law should have their photos published in local papers, for shame serves as a great deterrent to repeat offending.
 

Shaming may work on white criminals but for dindus a mugshot in the newspaper reinforces their street cred as a bad mofo. Keeping their faces from the public doesn't do anything more than fool gullible white people as to who's committing the crime. Of course, their names are usually dead giveaways, so perhaps next newspapers will refrain from providing names of the perps as well. It's hard to imagine someone named Shitavious or Shaniqua being a pale face. If those are Irish names, they must be from County Congo in the old country.

Replies: @Jim in Jersey, @stat in the hat, @SCuba Steve

Someone needs to start a rumour there is a chest full of gold hidden in the NY Times building, and let's then see if the Men in Blue actually bother to pretend to try to stop the looting.

Replies: @stat in the hat