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  1. Personally I favor excelled schools for the brightest. Do not think those kids should have to be slowed down so they can advance with their age group. I am not a fan of mainstreaming special needs because it does a disservice all around. Schools need to match the student's abilities or needs.

    Mainstreaming special needs was just coming into MPS in my high school years. At that time we already had big problems with excelled students chucked into classes that didn't challenge them. I scored in the upper 90 percent on ability tests but seldom applied myself. Classes were too easy, I was very easily board. Alot of the kids in that group were very smart. One had over a 3.8 GPA and decided school wasn't worth the effort. They dropped out. Sadly many kids in that group went down the AODA highway with bad drug and drinking problems. Many of the brightest never went to college.

    We don't see it that our top academically talented kids are very fragile emotionally. They are different and special needs in their own way. Smart kids were suppose to have this endowed superpower to be all that. They could be harboring low negative self esteem and emotional issues no one takes the time to see.

    One of the craziest teachers I ever had knew the classwork was way to easy and that I was academically too far advanced. She recognized I lacked self esteemed. She made me deliver speeches. The one thing I couldn't do to challenge me. She also failed me making me repeat her class again the following semester. She said learning was more than academics and school was about building people that could hold jobs, making a living for themselves. Bless her heart, Ms. Anne Wilbur Wright Junior High.
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  2. Metal detectors will not be removed from the schools in your lifetime. Why do you always treat dissimilar groups of people as though there histories are the same..? There is an entire disconnect with liberals since stark realities allude their consciousness.

    A white kid that starts a fight is not going to be patted on his po-po and sent back to class. There is an entire depth of reality that a liberal just glosses over like its the morning dew. A lot is going to depend on histories and the reasons for the altercation. In my entire K-12 existence I cannot even remember a fight, I suppose there was one or two, but there is not a record in my file box.

    This is beyond absurd. What was it last year..? Were there 3 or 4 murdered MPS students...? You had Thornton in disbelief at the environment of liberalism that just moves on like the school bus was 15min late. People cannot attend basketball games without special procedures to keep the fights to a minimum. Its 24/7, and we have the halls filled with the clueless.
  3. ...."...There is a belief that black males are more prone to violence and require tougher safety measures to control...."....

    Gee, this sounds hard to believe. But, maybe we can go through the archive over the last year and count the number of serious incidents, number of murders, number of expulsions, number of events of rottenness that have occurred to support the thesis.

    Chicago is averaging 10 dead a week this year, but I guess we would not want to spike the juice. Measures schmeasures...we are the clueless, we are the liberals.
  4. How many cops were called to a high school the last time a *white* fight broke out? Causey, your writings are making less and less sense but your racism is still doing quite well.
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  5. Ole James (aka Br'er Rabbit) is sho showin' us whiteys how ta tink bout dem darkies.

    He usin' dat tar baby to katch us an lern us bout how we rong. Ole Br'er rabbit tinks he smarter dan us.

    Racism is that tar baby that I refer to in the second sentence. Causey is using it as Br'er Fox did to ole Br'er Rabbit. Last week he quoted John Chisholm as an expert in law. Today, Ron Huberman from Chicago, where their anti-gun laws do not protect them, where gang activities run rampant. He is not an expert, he is just another black man offering his ideas about the black vs white kids. You might want to find real experts in the field, not bloggers.

    James, your career is slipping fast. Only two comments from your last article on sports medicine. At least this article is related to Milwaukee's kids; not solving any problems but making racism rear it's ugly head.

    Lastly, Joe Clark was right, some of them are animals and should be treated like they are. Some use the gansta, animalistic behaviors to intimidate others. This is not conducive to learning.

    I have a family member that works at Pius High School, guess who causes most of their problems and fights? The kids that are attending from the black community that are there on a reduced or free tuition.
  6. This idea is going to really challenge Causey and the Milwaukee community.

    Does poverty, fighting and the learning block have a physical health relationship? Some disorders like complex sleep apnea can impact the “executive functioning” part of the brain. One of the outcomes of that impact is fighting, moodiness, belligerence and obstructive daytime learning.

    Due to lack of education of parents and educators on the signs of sleep apnea coupled with lack of resources to test children many go untreated.

    We hear often how the disruptive kids never respond to various educational and lock up processes. Sleep apnea teens are on another body clock schedule, the daytime zombies may not be capable of functioning on our daytime school schedules.

    There is no mandatory testing for sleep apnea among our inmate population. Many juvi and adult jails and prisons do not sleep apnea equipment in their facilities.

    The concept is not at all a miracle answer but the idea that more kids and addicts have un-treated sleep apnea is something worth pursuing. Many addicts are seeking quality sleep with drugs not the high.

    Almost all of our public schools, offender programs and jail/prison educational classes are on the daytime schedule to fit the factory mentality of pressing out people, workers and felons from the assembly line.

    Apnea victims naturally have different body clocks. They may learn better on the graveyard shift.

    Innovative grassroots public school programs that are changing the time schedule of classes are seeing some improvement. Disruptive students were moved to very early 5am class starts or evening school times.

    Please support mandatory sleep apnea testing for all juvi offenders. For some not all the answer might be sleep apnea treatment and a school schedule their body clock can work with.
  7. i read the article from and i'm interested in reading your more detailed take on this topic, tomorrow before I start ranting and raving.....
  8. I will keep this short; the innocent are again paying the penalty for those who break the law! I believe it has reached the nadir in our society for the people who follow the law, and advertise the people who break it!


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