GreenGhxst
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Anybody seen Abbott elementary?
We always talk about how bad blk schools/districts are. Should blk ppl file a class action lawsuit against inner city school districts?
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Thank You….these threads make us look incompetent, and unaware.
Sends a message that we can’t properly raise, and educate our own kids.
Yagirlcheatinonus
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The school system is a pipeline to the prison system.
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black parenting is largely to blame. stop passing the buck and ignoring the primary cause for our children falling behind in education. are black parents buying their children books? taking them to libraries? putting computers in their households?
my parents did everything they could to ensure that my siblings and i were well read and computer literate.
my parents did everything they could to ensure that my siblings and i were well read and computer literate.
Yes. The show touches on things, but doesn't do too deeply on purpose.
The episode with the truly nasty mother that was mad at her for making her miss work was one of the more frustrating ones. Like they bring up the subject, and then drop it.
The whole gifted episode was another instance where you can tell that the show has an agenda. A weird agenda if you ask me.
Don't get me started on the annoying Hispanic girl and what that really means.
The principal sub plot with ol boy and the current principal also doesn't get any commentary at all.
And the charter school as a big bad... It's like they didn't really think it through.
Rather than dissect it, I just enjoy it for what it is.
GreenGhxst
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I'm assuming you're a teacher or administration in some capacity
So what does the Hispanic girl mean?
What does the principal sub plot with Gregory mean?
And charter schools are not bad?
I had an strong aversion to Charter Schools for a long time but upwardly mobile students shouldn't be stuck in a subpar education environment with certain fam not trying to do better.
SMFH on this news story. This could also go in that Florida Black teachers thread addressing low test scores of Black students and some Black parents getting in feelings about it because their kids scored above average.
www.local10.com
Chrisean Nealy and Isesha Johnson (MDCR)
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities booked a Miami teenager into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday, joining his mother behind bars at the adult facility in connection with a July 18 double shooting at a northwest Miami-Dade park.
Prosecutors charged accused gunman Chrisean Nealy, 15, of Liberty City, as an adult Thursday.
Nealy faces a host of charges, including three counts of attempted murder and evidence tampering, charges he shares with his mother, Isesha Johnson, who’s accused of supplying her son with the would-be murder weapon and trying to conceal the crime.
According to Miami-Dade police, Nealy shot two people and nearly hit a third just after 10:30 p.m. on July 18 at Olinda Park, located at 2101 NW 51st St. in the county’s Brownsville area.
Police said one victim suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm, another to his right thigh, while a third was nearly hit and had a bullet go through a piece of clothing she was wearing on her head. Both wounded victims survived.
According to an arrest report, Johnson, 41, watched her son bury the gun after he returned home following the shooting.
Officers apprehended Nealy Aug. 3. Soon after, he told them his mother gave him the gun and they arrested Johnson, an arrest report states.
The mother and son were both being held without bond in TGK as of Friday afternoon.
In addition to the aforementioned charges, Nealy was charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony, while Johnson also faces counts of accessory after the fact, minor in possession of a firearm approved by guardian and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
www.local10.com
SMFH on this news story. This could also go in that Florida Black teachers thread addressing low test scores of Black students and some Black parents getting in feelings about it because their kids scored above average.
Accused gunman, 15, charged as adult in Brownsville double shooting, joining mother in jail
Accused gunman, 15, charged as adult in Brownsville double shooting, joining mother in jail
Authorities booked a Miami teenager into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday, joining his mother behind bars at the adult facility in connection with a July 18 double shooting at a northwest Miami-Dade park.
www.local10.com
Chrisean Nealy and Isesha Johnson (MDCR)
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities booked a Miami teenager into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday, joining his mother behind bars at the adult facility in connection with a July 18 double shooting at a northwest Miami-Dade park.
Prosecutors charged accused gunman Chrisean Nealy, 15, of Liberty City, as an adult Thursday.
Nealy faces a host of charges, including three counts of attempted murder and evidence tampering, charges he shares with his mother, Isesha Johnson, who’s accused of supplying her son with the would-be murder weapon and trying to conceal the crime.
According to Miami-Dade police, Nealy shot two people and nearly hit a third just after 10:30 p.m. on July 18 at Olinda Park, located at 2101 NW 51st St. in the county’s Brownsville area.
Police said one victim suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm, another to his right thigh, while a third was nearly hit and had a bullet go through a piece of clothing she was wearing on her head. Both wounded victims survived.
According to an arrest report, Johnson, 41, watched her son bury the gun after he returned home following the shooting.
Officers apprehended Nealy Aug. 3. Soon after, he told them his mother gave him the gun and they arrested Johnson, an arrest report states.
The mother and son were both being held without bond in TGK as of Friday afternoon.
In addition to the aforementioned charges, Nealy was charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony, while Johnson also faces counts of accessory after the fact, minor in possession of a firearm approved by guardian and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Police: Miami mom gave gun to son; he shot 2 at Brownsville park
Isesha Johnson’s 15-year-old nearly shot a 3rd person, police say
Police: Miami mom gave gun to son; he shot 2 at Brownsville park
Police arrested a 41-year-old woman Thursday after accusing her of giving her 15-year-old son a gun, which he used to shoot two people at a northwest Miami-Dade park, according to authorities.
www.local10.com
I'm not. Family full of Teachers, used to date a PhD in Education research. I'd rather make money and donate than teach kids mathematics.
1) Hispanic girl is - Popular with the kids because she's young and "hip". They're basically saying that the kids have pop culture addled brains and only respond to that type of pandering.
Deeply cynical take on what children are interested in.
2) Ave Coleman, the current principle
Never taught school a day in her life
Only gets the job because she blackmailed the superintendent.
It's play for laughs in season 1, and that's fine...until the end. The cast weirdly wants to keep her around and helps her with her presentation.
She levels up in season 2 as some genius savant when it comes to understanding child psychology.
This happens out of nowhere, and they tend up toning down her "Michael-Esque" (c) The Office take on the character.
There's no reason to think that 1 year on the job and she gets good at understanding children. But that's what's implied.
Moreover, the staff is interested in staying under her management, as inept as it is.
3) Gregory - the substitute teacher that became permanent, love interest for Janine
Was up for the very same job as Ava
He ALSO had never taught school a day in his life.
He went to a principal training program in grad school.
So his big dream had to be to come into Abbott and "run it like a business". (Look up what these grad programs teach)
There's an episode where G tries to get his kids on a program and be very organized. It fails horribly. (And they're coding Gregory as autistic, without ever addressing it. His love of certain foods, his OCD with the garden, etc. It's not just him being "eccentric")
First season there was an undercurrent of professional tension between him and Ava, but that's just degenerated into her sexually harassing him, and now backing off.
With both of them, nobody ever seems to want to touch on how BOTH of them are woefully inadequate for BOTH of their jobs.
But it's Abbott, so it's cool.
4) The Charter School in this series is better than Abbott
It's a brand new school, quiet, well lit, everything works.
The only real criticism is that the teachers aren't as "good" as the ones at Abbott.
We've clearly seen that both Janine and Gregory are not great at their jobs. Unlike Barbara and the White girl.
Overall
So the show basically flirts with issues in "urban" and "black" "education", but it's a comedy, a light-hearted one at that. Cause every episode could be like Season 4 of The Wire or that school episode of Atlanta. But it's not going for that.
It's a low stakes comedy. Trying to derive lessons about inner-city education from this series is a mistake.
But maybe it is sort of a real commentary on how schools are messed up at a deep level, and we just laugh and laugh at it...