I think I'll drop the class this year.
"Program keeps Boston students learning all summer; Booming after-school program aims to stem vacation ‘brain drain’" by Wesley Lowery | Globe Correspondent, July 09, 2012
The Boston Opportunity Agenda, a public-private partnership coordinated by the city and school district to fund educational programming, and the Wallace Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit, have poured more than $2 million in new funding into the program, which provides summer courses to students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
Sounds good, doesn't it? I mean, who could be against summer school for eager kids? I went back in my day. It was fun!
Keeping students engaged in classroom learning prevents summer “brain drain,” which experts say contributes to an achievement gap. Low-income and minority students traditionally have less access to educational summer programing, leaving them behind their more well-off peers once they hit high school.
Now I want to take the summer off.
Despite improvements in recent years, high school graduation rates for black and Hispanic students in Boston public schools continue to lag behind those of white and Asian students....
Hey, I'm sure it's the teachers because they don't understand the language.
The five-week programs typically run six to eight hours a day, four or five days a week. Some of the students are fulfilling summer school requirements, while others voluntarily apply for the program.
In the morning, they attend math, science, and English classes — often geared toward practical application such as creating a budget or writing a script for a commercial.
(Blog editor slumps in his chair as he realizes this front-page feature is another piece of agenda-pu$hing crap from my money mouthpiece called a newspaper)
After lunch and a 20-minute recess, students are divided into various “clubs,” in which they are taught a specific fine or applied art — ranging from glassblowing to drum lessons to website design....
In the hip-hop class, after just two days of instruction the students flowed seamlessly through a dance routine more than a minute long and begged to be taught more. When one student expressed frustration after botching a new dance move, instructor Fedner Dorrelus sternly — but lovingly — rebuked him.
“Don’t ever, ever say that,” Dorrelus told the student. “I don’t ever want to hear you say the words ‘I can’t.’ ”
And how many times are we told in life "you can't say things like that?" Quit lying to the kid.
Dorrelus, 22, dances with the OrigiNation Dance Studio, in Roxbury, and his afternoon hip-hop course at the Soceidad Latina has become a student favorite since he began teaching it last summer.
“I use dance as a way to get the students to connect themselves with reality,” he said. “They have to accept that anything is possible if they kept their head up and keep trying.”
I suppose I use the blog in that way, and one day do believe truth will out because of my work and the work of countless others. It already has in so many ways. Jewish lies about the past are being exposed every day, their hold on current history with their manipulating media is slipping, and the inculcating and indoctrinating educational institutions they write curriculum for are failing.
Building personal relationships with their instructors is one of the main reasons students keep coming back, said Jimmy Wyman, Sociedad Latina’s education program manager.
“The reason they come is because they want to be here,” Wyman said. “That’s the thing — middle school students vote with their feet. We’ve designed a program that they are excited to come to.”
I thought we all voted with our buck.
One student who could not wait to enroll at Sociedad Latina was Marcos Suares, 12, who heard about the program when his older sister participated.
After designing a website about his favorite video game, Pokemon, during last summer’s program, Suares has dedicated his afternoon sessions this summer to learning Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.
Probably not an industry you want to get into right now.
And what's with the violence-based schedule?
Suares also said he has enjoyed learning how to create, market, and financially manage a business — which makes up much of the morning’s entrepreneurship-based curriculum.
I KNEW THERE WAS A MIND-MANIPULATING, AGENDA-PUSHING ANGLE to this story!!
So much for the poetry.
“You learn to like learning new things because it is fun,” he said. “It really makes you start learning and looking toward the future.”
I would have to object to that statement; the journey down history's path from the lies of 2003 and the invasion of Iraq back through 9/11 and the whole 20th-century was not fun.
It has been enlightening, it has been liberating, and it has been appreciated -- the truth always is -- but it has not been fun.
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Related: Back-to-School Series: America's Economic Development System
Words are not enough to describe my dejection that my college experience was a lesson in inculcation, indoctrination, and agenda-pushing propaganda.
I don't regret the entire experience; however, I'm saddened that one of the last institutions (like the Supreme Court) that I felt still had a chance of saving America has been co-opted.
That's why I feel the fight for America is over, and we lost. It's AmeriKa now, and the only thing that will save it is a sinking bankruptcy that destroys its empire.
Not exactly the path I wanted to take; however, we appear to be past the point of no return.
Have I told you I love you lately, readers?
