Thursday, August 21, 2008

The little darling who was the cameraman for the "Stop Snitching" video is off to the clink. But he had a bright future!

Brandon Grimes was connected to the gun used to kill Detective Troy Lamont Chesley by his ex-girlfriend. One quote I find particularly disgusting:

Authorities say it's unlikely that Grimes approached Chesley knowing he was a police officer. Carter, now Grimes' former girlfriend, echoed that sentiment.

"I'm not saying Brandon is a saint, but I can't see him taking an officer in uniform," Carter said.
So if its a cop, he wouldn't have (allegedly) shot him, but a normal peon is fair game. Outstanding - good to know there's some degree of honor.

In Baltimore, it's no longer safe to even walk outside of your house, as proven last night when a man was shot outside his front door.

Even more little dears hard at work, according to the blotter.
According to a Vanderbilt Professor, the key to insuring safe schools is understanding. Well done article overall with a couple of gems I'd like to include here:
Blacks, particularly boys, are too often assigned to special-education classes and left out of gifted classes, Ford said, because their teachers have low expectations for them and misinterpret their behavior. Low expectations can be manifested in several ways. Most obviously it is not pushing them into advanced placement classes, and more subtly it is dumbing down language that teachers use in the classroom.

"Remind yourself to talk up to children," she said, adding that use of complex vocabulary should be standard no matter how young the children or how poor their backgrounds.

She also said that African-American students do not revere teachers as Asian-American students do and that teachers must earn their respect.

"African-Americans have an attitude that says, 'When you respect me, I will respect you,'" Ford said. When teachers seem detached or uninterested in their students, black students see that as a sign of disrespect, she said. Students who don't feel the teacher likes or respects them are then more likely to talk back and be disruptive, leading to a classroom that can be more out of control.

I'll leave the rest for your imagination. Thoughts on it?

5 comments:

ppatin said...

"She also said that African-American students do not revere teachers as Asian-American students do and that teachers must earn their respect."

I prefer the old-school catholic method where they'd beat respect into students.

Just kidding (sort of), although I was disgusted by that article.

Maurice Bradbury said...

If it's all about "cultural differences," then why is she making race-based generalizations?

Anonymous said...

sorry, but i have to agree with what was stated here, thus far. now i am going to read the whole article.

John Galt said...

Burglary and auto theft are picking up on Northern Baltimore's University Parkway, by Charles Village and Hopkins' Homewood campus.

Bmore said...

I was thinking, how did Grimes get shot in the calf? i guess it must have been when he turned to run away or something like that...and how many times did he shoot the officer? its sucks to think that if the victim wasnt a officer then Grimes would probably be walking free.