re race and violence in article mvpc rb h d f netcom com mvp netcom com mike van pelt says there is something terribly wrong however with a culture which condemns attacks and all too often kills any of its members who attempt to get an education my mother is an elementary school teacher and she tells me that she and her african american collegues are frustrated to tears by the fact that any african american child who attempts to do well in school and get an education is accused by his her peers of trying to be white and is beaten bullied and tormented by them it goes beyond each passing grade on a test earning a beating in my mother s school one of the most promising young students who happened to be african american had her throat cut by one of these young thugs you know you have a point here but don t stop with african americans when i was in high school in the early s on various occasions i had knives pulled on me had friends who were stabbed and i was beaten up repeatedly by those that couldn t accept me as different and don t let the teachers off the hook either on many many occasions there were teachers that either resented me or were too scared out of their wits by the bullies to even stop the people who attacked me and they would just watch quietly all of this was in a nice white middle class high school in fact we were so nice and white that we made sure that the one black kid in my class was unable to go to the prom with his white girlfriend this isn t a race thing it s the way public schools seem to be run i d hate to be in high school right now at least i didn t have to deal with guns just the roving psycho drug dorks and the jocks without a future but with plenty of testosterone i d separate everyone who wants to learn from these assholes but hey the valuelessness of learning and glorification of jocks is an american tradition you think anything is going to change if you have kids take em out of the public school system and educate them yourself that s what i ll do if i ever have them i wouldn t wish what i went through upon any kid maybe on some of their parents though scott
