Freddogg Off The Chain

You just can’t believe how base and low down and violent and disgusting America’s urban school system has become and it’s a crying shame and sham and No Child Left behind is a freaking joke.

And the dumbest questions are not the one’s not asked but rather one’s answered with “you just don’t understand” because like the lawyer played by Danzell Washington in Philadelphia “Talk To Me Like I’m A Three Year Old And Make Me Understand.”

In Philly students at West Philly High are assaulting teachers as in punching people in the face and breaking necks. In New York City students are being sexually assaulted on public school buses most of which have a bus monitor aboard. The savage become more savage separate but not equal is entrenched in urban America and it is worse that 1954 by a long shot.

Teachers hardly ever admit to taking a loss. I taught a last period non college prep class that was block scheduled and lasted 90 minutes. Most days in there I took the Big L because I attempted to engage these kids but they would have none of it they simply weren’t interested in anything no matter how presented and there are kids like that all the way down to middle school and they need to be left behind so others have a chance.

What does this have to do with Iraq? Fuck Baghdad cure Baltimore. If you want to cure an endemic social pathology you have to step on some people who step on others. And I’m a civil libertarian type guy, which doesn’t mean pussy it means a rugged individualist who won’t stand for institutionalized dictatorial bullshit in the name of law and order.

A Brooklyn city championship basketball game was played at Madison Square garden last night and it erupted into a two hour riot which made its way to the streets. How about the contrast of teenagers who couldn’t afford a doorknob in Manhattan freaking for two hours?

Do you know what the cops did? Pushed them towards the subways so they would go back to Brooklyn! What if you were on that train when that crew boarded?

I interviewed the star player from Lincoln High of Brooklyn at a Christmas tournament this year. A nice and quiet spoken young man, who gets to play in the middle of all that bullshit.

So tell me again why aren’t we sending troops into our own cities? I know I just don’t understand. George Clooney and Mia Farrow to Darfur is nice and maybe necessary but why not visit the bad neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philly and East Los Angeles?

Scooter Libby stories and concern about American Idol this is what we care about?

Freddogg