baffoonery by design

as promised i am coming to you to shed some light on what i like to call the 'special education hoax'. last time the topic was a very important element in the lives of our village children; discipline (or as i like to say--ass whoopins). some of us have become castrated and fear the disciplining of our own offspring because we have allowed a system which has never ever ever been designed to increase our prosperity to step in and put mandates on how to appropriately raise our kids. as a result, there is a new generation of parents so undisciplined themselves they don't even know where the hell to begin. with that said, let's talk about school. the way in which children are dealt with from 0-3 yrs has a profound effect on the child's social development. social impairment can be the result of a variety of things but i am touching on that which occurs do to an absence of discipline. now this lack of displine which has lead to a lack of social skills makes it very hard for the child to adjust to the learning environment, therefore making it difficult for them to be taught (not difficult for them to learn--there is a difference). sadly, with this sorry-ass public education system we have, this difficulty leads to them being pushed aside right into the special education facade. Black children, especially our little boys, represent disproportionately high numbers in the special education population. Black children whose education rests solely in the hands of the public school system are already at a disadvantage because their history and culture are totally irrelevant inside the classroom. in addition to this, overall academic standards are quite sub par. Couple that with being told that you have a 'condition' that impedes you from learning and makes it okay for you to not do shit and act a fool all day--you have a recipe for disaster. now, i am a certified special ed teacher, and before that i was certified in common sense. i know what a learning disability is and is not. children who will never be able to toilet by themselves or feed themselves need specialized education. these kids will become adults but will be unable to exceed the cognitive level of a two or three year old. but children who can dress themselves, feed themselves, and recite all the lyrics to all the songs on the radio and master a video game but struggle academically do not need to be slapped with a label and have their standards lowered. instead, parents, teachers and the community as a whole must put pressure on these children to succeed and emphasize the importance of being educated. instead they are often times left feeling hopeless and fooled by the images of ignorance that are running rampantly throughout our community. it is when they are cajoled by this unmitigated bullshit, that they become prime targets for the prison system, rather than the path of increased knowledge of self...



...i'm just sayin'