The Observation Deck

Are we no longer talking about Regina Brett's articles in the PD?

The thread seems to have drifted, Rick, but why not bring it back on course if you have additional comments? Some message boards have a security guard watching the posts for thread drift or even have the posts read and edited before they became public--I don't think most here want that.

Doug

The "guard" especially doesn't want that job.

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,â€Â￾ 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

Rick:

It takes a village to chain the mutt.

Kenneth Warren

Kenneth Warren wrote:Rick:

It takes a village to chain the mutt.

Kenneth Warren

Thanks Kenneth. That was easier to digest.

BADGES? we don't need no stinkin' BADGES!