ASD panel wonders if efforts were wasted

[Citizen of Allentown]

Citizen of Allentown wrote:

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This quote was almost correct. Yes, this is reverse racism, on the part of the NAACP chick. But, no, all ASD teachers aren't running to Parkland or East Penn. Please. The only thing worse than a difficult student body is a catty faculty, which those polly purebread places breed. No. ASD teachers are great, and love teaching there, for the most part. The REASONS there aren't more minority teachers there are these: 1. No minorities apply because not that many are becoming teachers. 2. If a minority does make it in life, they don't want to return to their own neighborhoods. It's the white folks--the ones NAACP Lady hates--who sacrifice for the greater good and do a great job, all the while being shit on by the complainers.

How naive. The vast, vast majority of white people in this country aren't discriminating based on race--skin color, etc. It's the BEHAVIOR. Get it? Also, nobody is passing up good candidates based on race. The fact that you can cite only one example is evidence that not many are applying.

[Citizen of Allentown]

And this is all typical of The Morning Call--put a BS, liberal article on the front of the Local page, so that everyone can stay mad at white people, and so that our great police can get bottles, rocks, and insults thrown at them next time they have to address anything involving someone who isn't white. We can't stop any non-white from committing a crime any more because that's "racist." Pretty soon, we'll have to have a black or latino person in our family portraits, just to make them legal.

[A Wee Bit Insane]

Interesting wrote:

What about the teacher that was hired in Easton? B.A. from University of Pennsylvania? Master's from Temple? Bilingual?
All of the documentation seemed to be in order according to the newspaper. Most of the posts here suggest minorities are unqualified based on skin color. The point of the article was that highly qualified people of color are being passed over. Did Easton hire an unqualified teacher? Or did Allentown miss an opportunity to hire an excellent candidate who happened to be Black? In the tone of these comments-racism again rears its ugly head. Children need role models of all races and ethnicities.

Thanks for understanding it all,now the ASD feels besieged and defensive because they are being held accountable just as they hold their employess accountable. Go Figure. Why on earth did they extend her contract? Good Lord!

[A Wee Bit Insane]

Citizen of Allentown wrote:

It's time for ethnic groups to start taking responsibility for their own actions, crimes, addictions, and failures. Stop blaming Whitey. It's getting old. Start taking care of and fixing yourselves. Quit believing the liberals who tell you it's not your fault and they'll pay you to stay stupid, just so they can get your votes. Time to grow up and start contributing, as full members of society. The standards have been lowered for you; the jobs have been given to you; the education is FREE for you.(I'll be paying on mine till I retire--from W.O.R.K.) Many ethnic groups in this country, and especially in this valley, have bought into the propoganda and hype. George Bush treats you far more equally than any Clinton, Gore, Kerry, or Obama. He tells it like it is, and expects you to be able to handle it. The rest keep telling you what you want to hear. America has always been about individualism more than socialism. Fix yourselves and quit riding on the coat tails of hard workers. Quit being so gross.

Hey Na You CITIZEN you attach crimes addictions and failures to minorities and offer solutions based on your sophistry and bigotry and you claim to speak for ALLENTOWN and WHITES? You dont have the smarts to comprehend the issue,please dont offer any advice. Get with the program and realize those people you automatically assume are inferior to you,druggies,criminals, and otherwise may soon be running the joint. It's called survival of the fittest by this guy Darwin... ah fuggedabotit,you wouldn't understand. Go eat a fastnacht.

[powerto the people]

Perhaps Allentown can do like Palmerton does with unhappy students? It would only cost about a billion dollars. That seem to be the American way lately. Every one has the right to not take responsibility for their actions.

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Spanish food rocks wrote:

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Actually your daughters are in the minority.

No, actually my daughters are in a school where they are all kids and whatever race they are, they are. Adults are the ones who speak of race, minority, etc. When my daughters come home and tell us stories from school, they refer to their friends my name, not by the black one, the spanish one, the syrian one.

[SCHMIDT]

SINCE WHEN DOES IT MATTER WHAT ETHNICITY A TEACHER IS. A GOOD TEACHER HAS NO COLOR, LANGUAGE, OR CULTURE THAT IS SPECIFIC TO THEIR STUDENTS. I NEVER HAD A GERMAN TEACHER AND MY EDUCATION, WHICH TOOK PLACE AT DIERUFF HIGH SCHOOL, WAS NOT COMPROMISED AT ALL. WHY ARE WE LOOKING FOR MINORITY TEACHERS; IF THEY ARE RIGHT FOR THE JOB, THEN THEY WILL BE HIRED. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HIRING THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB. IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE DID NOT GET HIRED AND RIGHT AWAY THEY ARE PLAYING THE RACE CARD. I HAVE HAD MANY DIFFERENT ETHNIC TEACHERS AND NONE OF THEM WERE ANY BETTER BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN OR WHAT LANGUAGE THEY SPOKE. ALLENTOWN HAS MANY DEDICATED TEACHERS AND IF YOU WALKED THROUGH THE HALLS OF DIERUFF, YOU WOULD SEE THAT THE STUDENTS DON'T MIND THE TEACHERS WHO ARE EDUCATING THEM.

[A Wee Bit Insane]

SCHMIDT wrote:

SINCE WHEN DOES IT MATTER WHAT ETHNICITY A TEACHER IS. A GOOD TEACHER HAS NO COLOR, LANGUAGE, OR CULTURE THAT IS SPECIFIC TO THEIR STUDENTS. I NEVER HAD A GERMAN TEACHER AND MY EDUCATION, WHICH TOOK PLACE AT DIERUFF HIGH SCHOOL, WAS NOT COMPROMISED AT ALL. WHY ARE WE LOOKING FOR MINORITY TEACHERS; IF THEY ARE RIGHT FOR THE JOB, THEN THEY WILL BE HIRED. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HIRING THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB. IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE DID NOT GET HIRED AND RIGHT AWAY THEY ARE PLAYING THE RACE CARD. I HAVE HAD MANY DIFFERENT ETHNIC TEACHERS AND NONE OF THEM WERE ANY BETTER BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN OR WHAT LANGUAGE THEY SPOKE. ALLENTOWN HAS MANY DEDICATED TEACHERS AND IF YOU WALKED THROUGH THE HALLS OF DIERUFF, YOU WOULD SEE THAT THE STUDENTS DON'T MIND THE TEACHERS WHO ARE EDUCATING THEM.

Hey that's a very insightful little diatribe even if it is void of fact and fraught with ignorance. What proof do you have that "If they are right for the job then they will be hired." I'll answer for you. YOU DONT. That is the purpose of the article,to hold ASD accountable. Many qualified people have been passed over and are teaching elsewhwere,WHY? If you dont see the equity in presenting positive role models and offering positive opportunities then Dieruff failed you. You dont believe for a second that native Americans were jumping up an down on the shore begging Columbus to rape their mothers and daughters and give them smallpox and gonorrhea,DO YOU? That's what you learn when you are brown and learn from lily white teachers who dont challenge myths and offer truth. I know you still dont get it and you wont but it does matter who the messengers are.

[Home Boy from Allentown]

A Wee Bit Insane wrote:

<quoted text>Hey Na You CITIZEN you attach crimes addictions and failures to minorities and offer solutions based on your sophistry and bigotry and you claim to speak for ALLENTOWN and WHITES? You dont have the smarts to comprehend the issue,please dont offer any advice. Get with the program and realize those people you automatically assume are inferior to you,druggies,criminals, and otherwise may soon be running the joint. It's called survival of the fittest by this guy Darwin... ah fuggedabotit,you wouldn't understand. Go eat a fastnacht.

Hey, A LOT Insane, learn to write before you attempt it. How dare you say something so ridiculous about a wise person like Citizen? He wasn't accusing good people--he was accusing users and manipulators, and they come in all colors. It's time for people to quit accusing someone else for their problems, especially when their problems are based in ignorance, the ugly cousin of laziness.

[Home Boy from Allentown]

Wee Bit, I bet you iz one ugly chick.

[A Wee Bit Insane]

Home Boy from Allentown wrote:

Wee Bit, I bet you iz one ugly chick.

You do note that he visited all those traits on blacks and hispanics, you can read cant you? You're going to teach me how to write though. Hey Genius what says I'm a chick. Lock me in a room with yours and Citizen's old ladies for an hour and ask them if I'm ugly!Also see if they will ever go back to you,Heh Heh.

[Home Boy]

A Wee Bit Insane wrote:

<quoted text>You do note that he visited all those traits on blacks and hispanics, you can read cant you? You're going to teach me how to write though. Hey Genius what says I'm a chick. Lock me in a room with yours and Citizen's old ladies for an hour and ask them if I'm ugly!Also see if they will ever go back to you,Heh Heh.

You read Citizen like a liberal--void of logic. He wasn't putting down all blacks and hispanics; he was putting down any group that claims they aren't getting hired, especially by the ASD, because of racism. That chick at the NAACP is quick to call the ASD names--racism is pretty ugly--yet you don't get on HER case. You just assume, because it's popular to do so, that she must be right and Whitey must be wrong. But what's the use? Your grammar and syntax are bad, by the way. You don't have much room to claim--in a bigoted way--that Citizen must be smoking crack in the woods, or whatever you said about small-town people. You're a lot like Obama--he puts down small-town people, too, because he's a racist, just like his mentor/spiritual father--The "Reverend" Wright.

[A Wee Bit Insane]

Home Boy wrote:

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You read Citizen like a liberal--void of logic. He wasn't putting down all blacks and hispanics; he was putting down any group that claims they aren't getting hired, especially by the ASD, because of racism. That chick at the NAACP is quick to call the ASD names--racism is pretty ugly--yet you don't get on HER case. You just assume, because it's popular to do so, that she must be right and Whitey must be wrong. But what's the use? Your grammar and syntax are bad, by the way. You don't have much room to claim--in a bigoted way--that Citizen must be smoking crack in the woods, or whatever you said about small-town people. You're a lot like Obama--he puts down small-town people, too, because he's a racist, just like his mentor/spiritual father--The "Reverend" Wright.

What an arrogant halfwit. Was that proper grammar and syntax? So now you are an English critic. That was a great post. Liberal,Obama,elitist... What are you an echo chamber for right wing buzzwords? Listen the reason ASD is accused of being racist is because they constantly and systematically reject qualified teachers of color, Even an enlightened scrapple muncher like you knows that is RACISM. Listen you are defending citizen like you guys are butt buddies. Why dont you take me up on my offer. Drop off your women at my place and you guys can go swap fluids in the park. C'mon how about it?

[The Dude]

James wrote:

Asians were enslaved, they're a minority. I don't see them having a problem. Oh wait, they study their tails off and sacrifice to become educated and successful. Irish and Italian people were subjected to the slums, to poverty, and poor jobs and were considered the scum of society. Who helped them? They helped themselves. With such a large population of Syrians in Allentown, why haven't they made school information available in Arabic? They get it in English. We pander to these "minorities" thinking they need the help. They need to help themselves. Study, sacrifice, work hard, follow the rules, show respect, be honest. Fight the good fight, nothing good is ever easy.
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Great Post.

[Citizen of Allentown]

A Wee Bit Insane wrote:

<quoted text>What an arrogant halfwit. Was that proper grammar and syntax? So now you are an English critic. That was a great post. Liberal,Obama,elitist... What are you an echo chamber for right wing buzzwords? Listen the reason ASD is accused of being racist is because they constantly and systematically reject qualified teachers of color, Even an enlightened scrapple muncher like you knows that is RACISM. Listen you are defending citizen like you guys are butt buddies. Why dont you take me up on my offer. Drop off your women at my place and you guys can go swap fluids in the park. C'mon how about it?

When confronted with facts--perhaps for the first time in their insignificant lives--liberals start barking like dogs. They're not used to reasoning. It hurts! That proves you're a lesbian, wanting "my women." Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just typical. Half-Wit. You are one angry chick.

[Citizen of Allentown]

The comment about Home Boy's women is just to make us think she's a man. Overboard.

[Citizen of Allentown]

The Dude wrote:

<quoted text>Great Post.

Ditto. Great Post. Honest. Reasonable.

[trivia plenum]

I look at these posts from the likes of Citizen and Dude, and don't know whether to laugh or cry. Why can't you stay on topic, first of all. The story was about a qualified candidate who was NOT hired by ASD (and they refused to comment; I wonder why), but WAS hired in Easton. Furthermore, in spite of what Citizen and Dude would like everyone to believe, there are indeed many more qualified candidates that were not hired; like the educator working in Easton, they sought and obtained employment in other school districts. Quite a few of them are in Philadelphia.

Yes, gentlemen, and I'm using that term loosely, there is more than one, they are qualified, and they did apply, only to be turned away. The question is why. My suspicions are that they are related to you, and therefore hold racist, bigoted and prejudiced beliefs...
I'm just sayin'...

[trivia plenum]

My suspicions are that they are related to you, and therefore hold racist, bigoted and prejudiced beliefs...
I'm just sayin'...

And let me clarify the above... by they, I mean those in charge of doing the hiring, my darling dears...

[The Dude]

trivia plenum wrote:

I look at these posts from the likes of Citizen and Dude, and don't know whether to laugh or cry. Why can't you stay on topic, first of all. The story was about a qualified candidate who was NOT hired by ASD (and they refused to comment; I wonder why), but WAS hired in Easton. Furthermore, in spite of what Citizen and Dude would like everyone to believe, there are indeed many more qualified candidates that were not hired; like the educator working in Easton, they sought and obtained employment in other school districts. Quite a few of them are in Philadelphia.
Yes, gentlemen, and I'm using that term loosely, there is more than one, they are qualified, and they did apply, only to be turned away. The question is why. My suspicions are that they are related to you, and therefore hold racist, bigoted and prejudiced beliefs...
I'm just sayin'...

I will say this as nicely as I can, who gives a sh!t? The district can hire anyone they want and it will not change the root cause of the Districts troubles one iota. The fact that the student body is now 77% minority means they should be looking for more in school security officers and probation/parole officers. Call me a racist all you want because it's true, it's also true I didn't cause the problems A.S.D. is now suffering. The minorities caused the problems.