tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post8026797626607457484..comments2023-11-03T04:00:24.785-04:00Comments on Kentucky School News and Commentary: The education-reform movement is too white to do any goodRichard Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-7982978792676599382014-07-15T22:45:06.987-04:002014-07-15T22:45:06.987-04:00Seldom have I read a better summary of the multitu...Seldom have I read a better summary of the multitude of ills facing the public school system. With such exquisite concern for racial sensitivities and regular bows to "social justice" your essay makes it astonishingly clear just how impossible is any true public education "reform". Intellectual dithering and pandering of the sort you just displayed is all too prevalent and a precursor to failure.<br /><br />The inevitable outcome of the precipitous decline in public schools is the contiuing rise of the private education system. Just as in healthcare, it is nearly inevitable that we will continue to evolve to a two tier system where those without the means will be stuck in the public schools and public health (obamacare) system while those with money will opt for private schools and private healthcare. And then we can look forward to even more of the predictable stories bemoaning the "wealth gap" in America. It is all so tiresomely predictable.solarityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142631086947541154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-66970784457670432862014-07-15T10:43:33.487-04:002014-07-15T10:43:33.487-04:00If these conditions are as Dr. Perry describes, th...If these conditions are as Dr. Perry describes, then one might wonder what exactly is his solution short of returning to a segregated school environment where only homogenous educators serving similarly identified students serve and know what is best for that group in common.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-38435504751344815192014-07-14T14:19:46.343-04:002014-07-14T14:19:46.343-04:00Not sure how one can identify "reform" a...Not sure how one can identify "reform" as some sort of externally imposed white initiative that indirectly harms minorities, call for "social justice" (whatever that is) while noting that teachers of color entering education are at an all time low. <br /><br />I listen to these arguments and they often seem to call for more ownership and involvement by minority educators and leaders with the belief that a lack there of is based upon perceptions of non responsive or even adversarial behaviors of whites. Just as individual situations are used to dramatize a single experience as the norm of discrimation, one can't help but wonder why the same approach can't be used to question why the gap, resources acquisition, achievement, graduation, etc problems continue to exist in schools were minorities serve in significant numbers. I think one might find that these same minority principals, teachers and superintendents are clamoring for the same reform elements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com