Re: The facts for those who want to be PC

Is is interesting that you need to post this on a Colorado Teachers forum -
huh? Unless you live here, you would not know one way or the other the
makeup of any given community, school, or classroom. We post here to talk
about a lot of things and not worry about what goes on in someone's
particular situation in California.

I hate to see this site in this situation - we used to mostly talk about
truly pressing issues, ie things that we can work with as a group of
concerned Colorado teachers. All of this name-calling that this forum is
currently concerned with is really unfortunate! There are still plenty of
people who do pose issues and substantiate and clarify ideas, and when I
do occasionally read this forum, some of these are interesting and have
given me very useful information.

Somehow bragging rights to the type of students that you have somewhere in
the US is not particularly useful in the information that helps me teach
all the students that I feel so fortunate to teach on a daily basis. I
will assume that you meant the best, and I hope that this is useful in
the California forums too.

Regards

On 6/10/08, california teacher wrote:
> Comparing the demographics of Colorado to California is like comparing
> apples and oranges. For example, I am a teacher in Californa. I teach
> an ELD 7th grade science class. In my class, I have about 15 students
> who are native Korean Speakers, 10 native spanish speakers, 5 Chinese
> speakers, 2 Vietnamese and 1 student who speaks Portuguese. My school
> is located in an upper middle class neighborhood of Orange County where
> the median house price is about 600K. Now how many schools in Colorado
> have a demographic make-up similar to my school. Not many. Now if I go
> to our neighbor school about 4 miles down the road, the school is 95
> percent hispanic with a high ELD population on free and reduce lunch.
> Now when I was in college in Southern California, all of my friends who
> were from Colorado were from white upper middle class families. When
> Colorado starts putting minorities and white students from the lower
> socioeconimic backgrounds into college, then they can start talking
> about how greate their state is at education.
>
> On 6/10/08, Rodeo--no facts in evidence for Co Teacher and ali wrote:
>> Get a Life,
>>
>> How pathetic is it that Ali and Co Teacher always have to resort to
>> unsubstantiated slurs alleging bigotry, stupidity, lack of teaching
>> ability etcetera as their form of argument. It seems neither of them
>> want to just discuss or argue the facts. This is testament enough of
>> the weakness of their argument isn't it. Apparently, they are unable
>> to make an argument based in fact since the facts are not on their
>> side.
>>
>> What a couple of sorry losers.

Posts on this thread, including this one

The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/06/08, by Get a life.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/06/08, by Goody Goody.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by Get a life.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by Math teacher.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by CO Teacher.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by Quit your whining and deal with it.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by You are a cry-baby.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by You are a cry-baby.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by Math Teacher.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/07/08, by CO Teacher.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/10/08, by Rodeo--no facts in evidence for Co Teacher and ali.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/10/08, by california teacher.
Re: You lose, Rodeo. Try again. , 6/10/08, by Ali.
Re: To: Get a Life, Math Teacher, Rodeo, 6/10/08, by Ali.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/10/08, by CO Teacher.
Re: ...and one more thing, 6/10/08, by Ali.
Re: Consider reading..., 6/10/08, by Ali.
Re: Consider reading..., 6/10/08, by Math Teacher.
Re: Consider reading..., 6/10/08, by Ali.
Re: Consider reading..., 6/11/08, by Math Teacher.
Re: Consider reading..., 6/11/08, by teacher.
Re: The facts for those who want to be PC, 6/19/08, by Ann J.

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