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    thatsjustmyhair-kinjadNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 5:47pm

    Jesus Christ.... well I guess I shouldn’t complain too much about islamic school. Our teacher only threw a desk across the room. We were dickheads though so all we did is laugh.

    This is what happens when there is a lack of oversight and accountability. I feel terrible for the students and the people who gave up heard earned dollars for this. How sad and disappointing.

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      Old white guythatsjustmyhair-kinjad
      11/30/18 6:20pm

      Welcome to Betsy Devos’ dream of charter and private schools across america’s landscape! Money and no oversight! Who wouldn’t like that!

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      PooJavelinIsSickOfLosingBurnerPasswordsOld white guy
      11/30/18 6:28pm

      Welcome to Betsy DeVos’s replacement as Education Secretary!

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    StartingOverEasyNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 9:22pm

    I stillI need to know why these parents sent their children to a school that wasn’t accredited! The receipts for this school were always tissue paper thin. I don’t get it, this was a private school and the parents paid money without checking it out?!

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      Googies1998StartingOverEasy
      12/01/18 1:24am

      Private schools don’t have to be accredited. Parents saw the success stories as evidence enough that the school was supposedly legit.

      I read somewhere else that TM Landry didn’t accept any government aid or subsidies or anything at any point, while other private schools can or do. This is probably because they’d be subject to more governmental scrutiny if they even took a dollar, and would then be quickly exposed as fraudulent or inadequate. 

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      BadOmbreStartingOverEasy
      12/01/18 3:02am

      I mean, when you’ve probably got desperate parents, is that really a good question to be asking?

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    JustPassingThroughNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 5:23pm

    Sigh. The physical and emotional abuse really resonates with me. I decided not to post my experience with having Black teachers on the article from earlier this week about teachers because I didn’t want to ruin the feel good atmosphere. But, I’ll just say the kind of trauma listed in this article sticks with you. I’m an old, didn’t actually experience the physical punishment, but was made to watch my classmates suffer. I still remember their tears and suffering to this day. I can only imagine how the actual victims must feel.

    This says nothing about all of the MANY racist WHITE teachers I also had to suffer abuse from. All in all, I would say our educational system, public and private, white or Black teachers, has an intent to ruin Black children. It is only by sheer will, faith, and strength that any of us make it out alive.

    I feel so badly for the Landry students. Worst of all because I’m just not surprised.

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    Tool of the MatriarchyNatalie Degraffinried
    11/30/18 7:21pm

    I always side-eye any institution that brags about how highly its students achieve as advertising. It’s one thing to celebrate the success of an individual student after they’ve achieved it, but “send your child here because of how well our students perform academically! Increase their chance of going to the best universities!” is dodgy af.

    Good schools focus on giving their students what they need. Some kids need training in anger management. Some kids need pre-apprenticeship training. Some kids need food and routine. And some kids need the kind of teaching that will enable an elite academic future. But only some.

    Schools that only focus on academic brilliance have a lot of wastage. Either they carefully screen students pre-admission...or they try and force every kid into that box. The first is fine as long as they’re upfront about it. The second is incredibly destructive. Fuck that principal and those teachers. No one should EVER use public humiliation as a punishment.

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    BadOmbreNatalie Degraffinried
    12/01/18 1:27am

    Please don’t tell me they were falsifying test scores.  Like this is already bad enough, but please don’t let us find out that they were robbing their students of that, too.

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      Freak0nautBadOmbre
      12/01/18 1:58am

      I don’t think that is even possible.  The scores go directly from the testing company to the college. 

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    Brooklyn_BruinNatalie Degraffinried
    12/02/18 9:55pm

    These schools prey on victims of multi-generational racism and economic deprivation as well as the paper game that elite institutions like to play. As a hustler myself, I got to give the guy some props for shaking dollars out of the congregation like a preacher, and shaking down Ivy institutions like Jesse Jackson.

    However, the bigger questions never get asked though.

    Why do these folks out of Louisiana want to go to elite East Coast colleges.

    These folks want their children to go to Yale and Harvard - because going to those elite schools means a ticket out of poverty.(At least they think it does)

    When you talk to graduates of color from those places and see what they did with their lives - most of them do quite well...for themselves...in service of various institutions - Wall Street, Big Law, Big Tech, Big Ed, Big Business. And often in HR or Recruitment, but not always.

    Those positions, that personal “wealth” doesn’t actually end up addressing the situation they came from.

    Putting a black face on these corporate boards (or in the White House) doesn’t open up factories back home that can employ kids who didn’t get the benefit of privilege, doesn’t end racial profiling (or implicit bias is what the white liberal racist apologists are calling it now).

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    ArtistAtLargeNatalie Degraffinried
    12/01/18 12:04am

    People really are mostly cruel assholes.

    I’ve met far more assholes in life than nice people. Far more.

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