And a certain recent Mayoral candidate…
Point
POINT/COUNTERPOINT • Education • Opinion • Jul 17, 2012
My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids
By Megan Richmond, Volunteer Teacher
Counterpoint
Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher?
By Brandon Mendez, James Miller Elementary School StudentYou’ve got to be kidding me. How does this keep happening? I realize that as a fourth-grader I probably don’t have the best handle on the financial situation of my school district, but dealing with a new fresh-faced college graduate who doesn’t know what he or she is doing year after year is growing just a little bit tiresome. Seriously, can we get an actual teacher in here sometime in the next decade, please? That would be terrific.
…teaching those poor needy cuties was great for John. Heck, if those kids want their school experience to be good for them, they should have been born into a successful white-collar family.
When did this site go from “reality based” to “anonymous insult based”. I’m waiting breathlessly for your thoughtful, in-depth biography of John Connolly, Sabutai. There’s always a market for good fiction.
I, on the other hand, am waiting for you to accept the reality that your guy lost the election and move on. Please.
It ain’t called America’s finest news source for nothing!
You folks would have had a real field day with RFK.
If the debate, such as it is, is about poverty tourism for advancement then I don’t get the RFK reference. The hypothetical “Megan Richmond” is on her way up, but RFK had already gotten there…. and then he turned around and tried to bring others with him…
There is a fundamental difference between the AG of the US, also the brother of the POTUS at the time, fighting for civil rights (not a popular stance, back then) and then, later as a US Senator and Presidential candidate in his own right, deliberately visiting poverty stricken areas to highlight inequality and some teacher padding his/her resume. What RFK did was quite shocking at the time and he certainly did not benefit from the burnished and roseate glow of compassion porn that, if you think about it, is the point of the Onion piece…
My grandfather had three, and only three portraits on his office wall: The Pope; JFK; and RFK. When the Pope died, his picture came down and a picture of the new Pope went up but the pictures of JFK and RFK lasted on those walls even past my grandfathers death. As a young child I asked my grandfather what was so special about these three men. His answer was to say, “Because the Pope is the Pope. Because JFK was the first. And because RFK was the best, yet he always remembered the least among us.”