Comments in the paper about troublemakers in inner rings
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DougHuntingdon
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Kenneth Warren
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Bill:
Let’s keep it real. The schools cannot be blamed for the political economy of housing sprawl and the effects of class and racial stratification.
What you cite as declining enrollments is merely another chapter in “the secession of the successful,†leaving beyond the costs of social control for the ever-growing underclass caste in El Tercero Mundo de Los Estados Unidos.
Self-calculating interest and moral cowardice flees the demands and efforts required to build the human capital and neighborhood relationships that can provide integration and social uplift for disadvantaged persons.
Lakewood is, I believe, a place for people of moral courage and belief in American Dream. But we must commit ourselves to an active engagement with neighborhood, park, street and school social order. We must develop as a total community –from institutions to families, from schools to blocks - the skill sets required to achieve and maintain social order at a time when the dollars are going away along with norms taken for granted as quality of life.
That the schools registered an increase in disciplinary contacts suggests to me that demanding rules for good order are being applied to the aggressive and impulsive selves that inhabit many a high school.
Don’t tear down the public schools a pivotal institution in successful future of our city on a logic and case that misfires.
Teachers, of course, need to live in the neighborhoods in order to build and sustain proper learning environment and real estate market for the community.
Lakewood cannot afford the luxury of that disconnect.
Kenneth Warren
Let’s keep it real. The schools cannot be blamed for the political economy of housing sprawl and the effects of class and racial stratification.
What you cite as declining enrollments is merely another chapter in “the secession of the successful,†leaving beyond the costs of social control for the ever-growing underclass caste in El Tercero Mundo de Los Estados Unidos.
Self-calculating interest and moral cowardice flees the demands and efforts required to build the human capital and neighborhood relationships that can provide integration and social uplift for disadvantaged persons.
Lakewood is, I believe, a place for people of moral courage and belief in American Dream. But we must commit ourselves to an active engagement with neighborhood, park, street and school social order. We must develop as a total community –from institutions to families, from schools to blocks - the skill sets required to achieve and maintain social order at a time when the dollars are going away along with norms taken for granted as quality of life.
That the schools registered an increase in disciplinary contacts suggests to me that demanding rules for good order are being applied to the aggressive and impulsive selves that inhabit many a high school.
Don’t tear down the public schools a pivotal institution in successful future of our city on a logic and case that misfires.
Teachers, of course, need to live in the neighborhoods in order to build and sustain proper learning environment and real estate market for the community.
Lakewood cannot afford the luxury of that disconnect.
Kenneth Warren
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