***For future reference to the list, if you are to refer to me by my last
name, please use Mr. Lacy. That is culturally appropriate.***
The string of thought that Mr. Atherton has engaged in is short-sighted at
the least and down-right terrifiying at the most.
I have indeed seen the movie Bully, and I would challenge you that in the
movie Bully, the "bully" was indeed a product of his environment and not
some
faulty genes. And it was an extreme case, in which extraordinary
preventative measures should have been taken.
Further, anyone who has taken a biology class can tell you that there is
little evidence of an "evil" gene, but a lot of evidence of the effects of
environment on a young person.
While I do not think that a simply intervention with the parents would be
the end answer, it is a beginning.
Mr. Atherton's assertions sound loudly like the same assertions used in
this country some fifty years ago: put the negro children separate schools.
They
have different needs than the rest.
Mr. Atherton's entire post is based on inherent genetic differences amongst
children. How then do we identify the "EVIL" children versus the
"SOMETIMES-EVIL" children, versus the "GOOD CHILD WHO IS JUST HAVING A BAD
DAY," versus the
"IAM A GOOD CHILD ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT INSIDE I AM THE ANTI-CHRIST?"
I will never apologize for my "liberal" view that the entire community holds
the responsibility for supporting the education of our children, that the
schools must partner with private and public institutions to make sure that
each
child has the best chance to succeed, and that each and every child has the
potential
to excel in the Minneapolis Public Schools and it is the essential work of
the schools to find out the strengths of each child and build on those
strengths to address each childs areas of need.
I will never apologize for having the belief that no child should be left
behind.
And, Mr. Atherton, a farm that a child cannot leave and a room that a child
can not leave are still the same thing: a prison.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Powderhorn Park
-Candidate for the MPLS Board of Education
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