I don't understand why Craig is upset that he was
called on his unfounded claim. People on the right do
this all the time -- they make some claim not backed
up with any real fact and then claim to be smothered
by the left when people question them.
To wit: so you're saying that the actions of
students at a school where a prospective employee went
YEARS ago and can't possibly be involved with make a
difference in your employment decisions? Or are you
saying that because a few (or a 100, or whatever)
students decided to organize a walk-out that somehow
everyone who attends, has attended, or will attend
that school is tainted by your brush? I'm so sorry
that those people won't get a fair share and presume
that they'll find jobs at companies where this kind of
"logic" isn't used.
David Brauer makes a good comment about SD 60 and
Field School. He's probably right in that most of
these kids' families made higher than the median
income in Minneapolis and will have a lot of
opportunities that other kids won't have. What
concerns me is that if someone showed me the
statistics illustrating the percent of children in
free/reduced lunch programs, the percent of children
of color, and the percent of children with a stable
residence I could probably pick the ZIP code (or at
least the area of the city) where that school is
located.
Patrick Peterson
Dinkytown
--- Craig Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well
this sure set off a hornet's nest.
>
> Anybody been reading Doonesbury lately? How all
> Oregon High School
> Graduates are being kept out of the mythical Ivy
> League college.
>
> This is how it starts to happen. All things being
> equal one kid graduates
> from Kerkhoven-Murdoch-Sunburg
> and the other kid graduates from SW High Mpls. All
> things being equal, then
> you read the headline of what MPS does DURING school
> time. Now picture
> yourself as the employer, administrator, Dean, etc.
>
> One of my critics on this thread, claimed that this
> is how we share and
> express our values. What if they aren't your
> neighbors or neighbors
> children's values? Let the school teach two plus
> two, Shakespeare,
> Langston Hughes, Stravinsky, Ravel, Newton,
> Einstein, Lincoln. Knowledge
> held in common. Not the political opinion of SD 60
> of the DFL party.
>
> Craig Miller
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Rogers, MN
>
>
>
> > Has this list gone absolutely mad?
> >
> > About "remembering" which job applicants are
> graduates
> > of Minneapolis Public Schools and which aren't, I
> have
> > 2 things:
> >
> > --Be sure you apply that standard to the Rhodes
> > Scholars, IB Diploma winners (including myself),
> Ivy
> > grads, and Athena winners who graduated from MPS.
>
>
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