Hatin':confused: ? Please, from the sound of it you would love to be me, but then again, if I were you I would too:cool: . Continue to TRY and be like me, but in reality you never will!

I've been away from work since Thursday morning. My assistant informed me that one of our students (hasn't been in here since January) killed another student on Thursday. The victim did not attend school here. Apparently, the two had been feuding, and the perpetrator (the incident witnessed by many) went into a rage and stabbed the person to death.

The sad part about it is, you try to talk them about doing the right thing, but now it's too late. Fortunately, for the perp, he had not been with me for nearly 3 months. (So I guess he did listen, some what) When I'd see him on campus, he'd remind me that he hadn't been assigned to me.
Then, I'd applaud him for actions and continue to encourage him.
It's too bad that during his rage, he could not hear me telling him to "do the right thing".



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Soror I am sorry to hear this. I found out earlier this year one of our former students had been killed, it breaks your heart because so much could be avoided but they insist on learning the hard way and sometimes they learn the hardest way. :(

* 67% of Black children are born out of wedlock.
 

The Silent Genocide - Facts about the Deepening Plight of Black Men in America.

In Education/Family

* Only 41% of Black men graduate from high school in the United States.
* Just 22 % of Black males who began at a four-year college graduated within six years.
* 69% of Black children in America cannot read at grade level in the 4th grade, compared with 29% among White children.
* 7% of Black 8th-graders perform math at grade level.
* 32% of all suspended students are Black. Black students (mostly Black males) are twice as likely as Whites to be suspended or expelled.
* 67% of Black children are born out of wedlock.

In Employment/Economics

* At comparable educational levels, Black men earn 67% of what White men make.
* White males with a high-school diploma are just as likely to have a job and tend to earn just as much as Black males with college degrees.
* Blacks make up only 3.2% of lawyers, 3% of doctors, and less than 1% of architects in America. Many of these are Black women.
* 53% of Black men aged 25-34 are either unemployed or earn too little to lift a family of four from poverty.
* Light-skinned Blacks have a 50% better chance of getting a job than dark-skinned Blacks.
* While constituting roughly 12% of the total population, Black America represents nearly 30% of America's poor.
* 45% of Black children live below the poverty line, compared with 16% of White children.
* The net worth of a Black family in America is $6,100 versus $67,000 for a White family.
* In New York City in 2003 only 51.8% of Black men ages 16 to 64 were employed vs. 75.7% for White men and 65.7% for Latino men.
* White men with prison records receive far more offers for entry-level jobs in New York City than black men with identical records, and are offered jobs just as often - if not more so - than black men who have never been arrested.

In Incarceration/Crime:

* In 2001, the chances of going to prison were highest among Black males (32.2%) and Hispanic males (17.2%) and lowest among White males (5.9%).
* Blacks account for only 12% of the U.S. population, but 44 % of all prisoners in the United States are Black.
* Blacks, who comprise only 12% of the population and account for about 13% of drug users, constitute 35% of all arrests for drug possession, 55% of all convictions on those charges, and 74% of all those sentenced to prison for possession.
* In at least fifteen states, Black men were sent to prison on drug charges at rates ranging from twenty to fifty-seven times those of White men.
* In 1986, before mandatory minimums for crack offenses became effective, the average federal drug offense sentence for Blacks was 11% higher than for Whites. Four years later following the implementation of harsher drug sentencing laws, the average federal drug offense sentence was 49% higher for Blacks.
* 1,172 Black children and teenagers in the United States died from gunfire in 2003.
* A young Black male in America is more likely to die from gunfire than was any soldier in Vietnam.
* The Justice Department estimates that one out of every 21 Black men can expect to be murdered, a death rate double that of U. S. soldiers in World War II.
* 1.46 million Black men out of a total voting population of 10.4 million have lost their right to vote due to felony convictions.

JOHN A. HOUSTON United States District Judge United States Courthouse 940 Front Street, Room 2140 San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 557-5716

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To Ann.Coulter2
 

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I just find your screen name interesting . . .

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These statistics were compiled from various sources by The Black Star Project. You may email us to request sources at blackstar1000@ameritech.net. To join the movement to save young Black men and to educate Black children, call us at 312/842-3527, email us at blackstar1000@ameritech.net or visit our website at www.blackstarproject.org.

Just for those like myself who were wondering where these "stats" come from.

My district far exceeds this stat, hence our corrective action mandate. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

If you do not mind me asking...what does the mandate consist of in a nutshell? What bothers me is the statistic referring to the reading levels of African American males. As a person who works with this age group daily, it is very discouraging when you find that the majority of students cannot read past an elementary level. This is a major snowball effect because if you cannot read or comprehend then you cannot answer state test questions accurately (which I find to be a joke in the first place). Things need to take place in our elementary schools to correct this problem...i.e. do away with social promotions!

During the '05-'06 SY, the mandate required that SPED students, who were disproportionately being suspended/expelled, had to have some type of intervention because of their "disability". Therefore, a Intervention/SPED In School suspension was established only on the HS level. This year, the program was expanded to the middle school level. Then, we are under another CAP (corrective action plan) where these same students can be suspended (out of school) for ONLY 10, yes TEN days of the school year (180 days). :rolleyes:

At a recent meeting, it was mentioned that our district has a disproportionate amount of SPED students being arrested. I think in one month 300 students were being arrested on campus.

As I've said before, regular ed students are being discriminated against. Parents need to check out how these laws protect certain students who usually are the instigators. That's another discussion for another forum. ;)

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It's a small world after all!!!
 

How funny, I know Judge Houston and his wife, Dr. Houston, personally... They have visited my parent's house on several occasions--especially for our wedding reception. Their son is an upstanding young man--reminescent of Harold Ford...

It's a small world after all...

And I just met Judge Houston earlier this month at the NPHC picnic.

I don't know how recent these statistics are, but I believe that the majority of Black doctors, lawyers, and (especially) architects are male. There are over 1,000 black male architects, and there are less than 150 black female architects (of which yours truly is one).

The net wealth of a Black family is over $15,000 now, while the net worth of a non-black family (including Asians) is still only about $45,000. Still a disparity, but not as much of a gap as one would think.