In my 38 years of teaching, every day, regardless of the baseless memes and statements to the contrary, we said the Pledge of Allegiance.

It was largely a meaningless and empty ritual that was mumbled through because, well, gee, it was just part of the opening of the day as was the moment of silence that had replaced the daily prayer, and neither really had meaning to the students.

Quite often I was asked by older students if they had to recite it.

Sometimes this was asked because of religious considerations, sometimes because the student and family had some political objection to it, and sometimes it was just a kid’s way of seeing if there would be some controversy they could exploit. And, of course, sometimes it was asked just out of curiosity.

My response was consistent.

The Pledge of Allegiance is not a mandatory ritual based on a governmental document, but a traditional one. There is no law that it must be said, or else.

Because of that, they could not be compelled, and were fee to exercise their freedom of speech, and freedom not to speak.

If they chose to not say the Pledge for whatever reason, they could not compete with it either. They could not do anything that would create an undue distraction as that could be viewed as a form of competitive speech, a form of argumentation. Their choices were to stand and say the Pledge, stand and not say the Pledge, or sit quietly. It would be problematic if they decided on performing some action, like going through their book bags, wandering around the room, humming, or reciting something else loud enough to be heard.

As a Gay man and a teacher, when the pledge was recited, I would stand, place my hand over my heart, and remain silent while the teachers and student body pledged allegiance to the flag, but more importantly the republic for which it stands, a republic that had liberty and justice for all, except people like me, and would quietly mumble the word “whenever” at the end.

I never questioned a student’s reason for non-participation as that was not my business and could possibly result in a confrontation that was totally unnecessary. It could also place the student in the awkward and unfair position of having to explain their reason in front of their peers which could then meet the judgment, objection, and the resulting treatment because of possible religious or politically based harassment.

During the moment of silence there was no way to guarantee the students were praying according to their beliefs and no requirement for the students to reveal if they had even prayed, so the student’s reason for not saying the pledge should be as respected and they should be left to themselves, again, unless they made themselves a non-dismissable distraction.

A teacher singling out a student to tell them to recite the pledge, or demand they explain themselves, is not only an invasion, but it guarantees confrontation, and, as I have seen it done, is merely an excuse for the teacher to actively espouse their own politics and beliefs. Whatever conflict begins is the responsibility of the teacher, and the teacher must be held responsible for having initiated the confrontation and for any length to which it goes

Two recent events concerning the pledge illustrate the problem with mandatory insistence on ritual, and how a confrontation could have been avoided if a person’s reasons were respected, and if forced to explain themselves, accepted, not argued.

In North Carolina, a ten year old White child, the necessity of this descriptive will become clear later, took a knee during the Pledge of Allegiance when it was recited at a recent Durham City Council meeting.

His father had taken a picture of the moment, and when the 10 year old was asked about the reaction to his move, he responded,

“No one saw it. Except the people that were watching. And the mayor noticed and he thanked me.”

He was also asked why he did it and he explained,

“What I did was took a knee against racial discrimination, which is basically what (sic) people are mean to other people of different colors.”

Although he had told his father about his planned action, and his father had originally had some reservations, he was proud of his son when he acted.

No one said anything at the time, although people had opinions after it was reported on the news and his father’s picture got posted on the internet, but the meeting went on as if nothing had happened.
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And from the perspective of most people in attendance, nothing had.

When an 11 year old Black child did not stand for the Pledge at the beginning of school during the same week as the Durham meeting, the substitute teacher demanded he explain himself.

So he did.

He explained he thought the Pledge and the National Anthem were racist against Black people.

That should have ended it, and actually the question should never have been asked, but the substitute teacher went on to create a confrontation.

She asked, “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live.”

The student replied, “They brought me here.”

And in response the Sub suggested the student “can always go back.”

The confrontation escalated until the student allegedly threatened the teacher, and as she “did not want to continue dealing with him” the substitute teacher called for school security who took the child to the office where police charged him with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence.

His remaining seated was not the disruption. That was instigated by a teacher asking an inappropriate and invasive question, and then using the situation to express personal opinions.

The student was unfairly treated and his attitude toward school and “patriotism” may have been negatively affected, and the students who watched all unfold will certainly see the recital of the Pledge differently now than they had before.

The substitute teacher has been barred from teaching in any county school especially in light of the statement by Kyle Kennedy of Polk County Public Schools.

“To be clear, students are not required to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.”

Now to the irony of this.

A White 10 year old and a Black 11 year old both took an action during the Pledge. One was to kneel, an action that was obviously done to be noticed and was photographed, and the other stayed seated which required no action or movement.

They were both motivated by  the same thing, their objection to racial disparity.

The reaction to the White kid was “meh”.

The Black kid was confronted, insulted, and arrested.

They are correct.

Their point was made.

In elementary school, as each Christmas approached, the nuns presented us with two fund raising opportunities. One was selling boxes of hard Christmas candy, a pre-Dolly Parton Hard Candy Christmas, and the other was boxes of Christmas cards based on Christmas and general winter scenes that had been painted by a guy in an iron lung who had to hold his brushes in his mouth.

The iron lung, for those unfamiliar with it, was a tubular contraption people lied in with only their head sticking out of one end while the alternating pressure within allowed them to breath as polio affected their chest muscles making breathing on their own extremely difficult if not impossible. This was not temporary in most cases, but, at the time, what the rest of your life was to be.

The longest a person was dependent on one was 60 years.

Anyone growing up in the 1950s, the height of the Polio epidemic, would have been familiar with this contraption whether through innumerable pictures in newspapers and on television of rooms filled with them arranged in neat rows, or having a relative in one.

The less severe, but just as feared, common sight was of your peers who could only walk with the help of leg braces.

If you are not familiar with either, the reason is simple. They came up with a Polio vaccine that was first administered through a needle, and later in either a sugar cube or a paper shot glass. You are unfamiliar with what had been common place because the vaccines improved people’s immunity to polio.

It might still be out there, but your chance of contracting it was reduced until it became seemingly non-existent.

The scourge of Chicken Pox and other childhood diseases was brought under control by vaccinations, so the claim they are no longer needed because kids don’t get those diseases anymore ignores the fact that they don’t because of vaccination.

Before I could teach in Boston and Los Angeles I had to take a tuberculosis test to see if, even though I was not suffering from it, I was a carrier who could spread it to vulnerable students in my classroom.

Just because I showed no signs, it did not mean the illness as not there and communicable.

If your child is vaccinated against such things as Chicken Pox, they are protected from unknown carriers.

For the health of all students, school districts require certain vaccinations against preventable diseases because large groups of children spend the majority of their waking hours in rooms filled with kids, each one a possible carrier of a disease whose symptoms aren’t on display.

But there are parents who, not seeing any examples of it, come to the conclusion that certain childhood diseases are no longer a threat because kids don’t get them, and that, along with some odd idea about individual freedom, choose not to be told to vaccinate their kids and, thereby, expose them to something they might contract when contraction could have been avoided.

 

Hard to yell “Freedom” in an iron lung.

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It is not just the uneducated who forgo vaccinating their kids, but what are referred to as “anti-vaxers” count among themselves professional people with great educations.

After parents stopped vaccinating their kids because a report by Andrew Wakefield, a discredited former British doctor who was discredited due to unethical behavior, misconduct and dishonesty, claimed that vaccines caused autism, and this false claim was promoted by people like Jenny McCarthy, a model, actor, and occasional television host, a resurgence of childhood diseases began.

In spite of that report having been debunked, people still refer to it when justifying their resistance to required vaccines.

After CNN reported that Clark County, Washington is in the middle of a measles outbreak, and that the  Washington’s governor has declared a state of emergency after at least 58 people had been infected since January, Darla Shine, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine who had been a Fox News executive, went on a Twitter rant about vaccinations using the has tags “Fake”and “Hysteria”, and suggested the country  should “Bring back our #ChildhoodDiseases” because “they keep you healthy & fight cancer.”

She claimed that she had had the usual childhood diseases like Measles and Chicken Pox and this resulted in  lifelong immunity that her own kids would not develop because they got vaccinated.

The childhood diseases against which kids get vaccinated may not have extreme results in all cases, but they also cause death.

While she did okay and wasn’t a casualty, is she really serious suggesting that other parents should take the gamble with their kids, one she didn’t take with her own?

Before the vaccine was introduced in 1960, between 400 and 500 people died from measles each year.

In 2018 measles cases rose 30% in Europe and the United States where parents are opting not to vaccinate their children.

While some parents delay vaccinating their children because of the unnecessary “discussion” on the misinformation spread by false reports and non-medical people like McCarthy and Shine, some do get around to having their kids vaccinated, but there are those who will refuse to vaccinate based on religious reasons.

As religious objections to many things has become a popular reason to justify behaviors not necessarily truly religiously based, but more on a political interpretation of religion, requiring proof that the parents’ claim that their refusal to vaccinate because of their “genuine and sincere religious belief” is gaining popularity.  There needs to be more than broad, nebulous claims of religious freedom to combating preventable diseases through immunizations especially when other people’s children are at stake.

There are medical reasons for not getting a vaccination. I am regularly asked by my doctor, before I get a shot for something, if I have an allergy to one of the named ingredient. And that is understandable.

But religious, political, or philosophical objections need deeper inspection.

 

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As part of his justification for his wall, Trump likes to use Israel’s wall as his example of a barrier that will keep out illegal immigrants who bring drugs and crime into America which in his mind seems to be anyone coming to the southern border, including toddlers who are coming here to join MS-13.

As he told Sean Hannity,

“A wall protects. All you have to do is ask Israel. They were having a total disaster coming across and they had a wall. It’s 99.9 percent stoppage.”

He may not be aware of the fences along its borders with Egypt, and Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, but he is certainly talking about the one built along and inside the West Bank which was built for reasons not related at all to why he wants his wall.

That barrier was constructed as a result of a surge of terrorist attacks. It was intended to regulate Palestinian movement into Israel, and does not block progress, but regulates the comings and goings of Palestinians into and out of land taken by Israel, and even onto and off of those sections of their own property separated by the wall.

There is a convent, for example, that supports its works from the olives grown in its olive garden, but the wall separates their convent from its garden.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed after World War I, the empire might have evaporated, but the people it ruled over in Palestine were still there and thought they would no longer be ruled by a non-native power.

What people, long ruled by outsiders, would not be thrilled that they were now free to rule themselves?

However, also after World War I, Europe divided up the now defunct Empire, and England got Palestine.

As Hitler came to power and things got rather dicey for European Jews, many decided it was time to return to the land of their ancestors, and so began the Aliyah Bet which was the name given to the “illegal” immigration by Jews, who after WWII were mostly Holocaust survivors, to Mandatory Palestine between 1934 and 1948, in violation of the restrictions laid out in the British White Paper.

The White Paper of 1939 was a policy paper issued by the British government in response to the 1936–39 Arab Revolt, the uprising by Palestinian Arabs against the British administration of the Palestine Mandate, which demanded Arab independence and the end of the policy of open-ended Jewish immigration and land purchases meant to establish a “Jewish National Home” in the land the Palestinians thought was theirs again with the fall of the Ottomans.

Over 100,000 people attempted to illegally enter Mandatory Palestine through 142 voyages on 120 ships. The British navy intercepted many of these ships either sending the passengers back to Europe, or, in a less than a good PR move, sending about 50,000 to detention camps.

The most famous interception was the SS Exodus of movie and song fame (who in any chorus in the 1960s didn’t sing the words “This land is mine. God gave this land to me”?) .

As usually happens when a colonial power makes a decision about people whose land they claim, the paper made a unilateral decision about someone else’s home which called for the establishment of a Jewish national home in an independent Palestinian state within 10 years, limited the amount of Jews entering Palestine to 75,000 for five years with further immigration to be determined by the Arab majority, and rejecting the idea of partitioning Palestine into three parts to create a Palestinian nation, a Jewish state, and a mixed residence area.

There were also restrictions on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs, but think the theoretical, but not serious, treatment of Indian Territory established by the U.S. Government.

Following its approval on May 23, 1939, it was the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 until the British departure in 1948.

But neither the Palestinian Arabs nor the Jews in Israel were all that happy with the Paper.

When war was declared in 1939, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared:

‘We will fight the White Paper as if there is no war, and fight the war as if there is no White Paper.’

And, the Aliyah Bet began.

The State of Israel was established in 1948, but it wasn’t a clean political act, and while the Palestinians fought to keep what they had, Israel fought to keep what it had, and then some.

Israel began constructing fences and concrete walls in 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising when suicide bombers were detonating themselves in cafes and buses in Israeli cities.

Now, while this might be a black eye on the Palestinians as it is recent history, it should be remembered that, on the road to an Israeli state, Israeli operatives bombed the empty offices of the British Mandate’s Immigration Department and Income Tax Offices, made a series of attacks on police stations in which six policemen were killed, and In 1944 assassinated the British Resident Minister in the Middle East.

The most noted terrorist attack by Israeli operatives was the bombing of the King David Hotel where 91 people, mostly British, Arabs, and Jews, were killed.

The Israelis had resorted to acts of terrorism to get what they wanted.

The Palestinians are not unique on using terrorists attacks for their ends.

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In 1948 Ben-Gurion and company declared a Jewish state, and both US President Truman and Soviet leader Stalin recognized it. Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq proclaimed the right of self-determination for the Arabs across the whole of Palestine, marched their forces into what had been the British Mandate for Palestine, and the first Arab-Israeli war was begun.

When hostilities ended with an armistice, Britain released over 2,000 Jewish detainees, and within three years immigration doubled the Jewish population of Israel, while 726,000 Palestinians had either fled or were evicted by the Israelis.

In 1950 the Knesset passed the Law of Return which granted to all Jews and those of Jewish ancestry, and their spouses, the right to settle in Israel and gain citizenship which obviously required land, and that included the land owned by Palestinians.

You can see the problem created and why the Palestinians are not happy with losing their land to settlements that are built on land Israel just takes because of that line in the song, “This land is mine. God gave this land to me”-the Israeli version of Manifest Destiny.

The problem for Israel with constructing a wall was that it would constitute a border between Israel and the territories that could become an independent Palestinian state making those lands clearly untouchable for the taking for settlements.

Trump’s wall cannot be built right on the border as that could mean encroachment on the land of another sovereign nation, and built a little back from the actual border would mean inaccessibility to U.S. land on the other side.

In some cases, including a golf course, some U.S. citizens with property on the border would become the nuns separated from their olive garden.

Great care was taken to make sure the “wall” would skirt settlements and strategic areas of the West Bank that Israel wanted to keep on its side in the event of any future peace deal which created humanitarian problems for thousands of Palestinians trapped in enclaves between the barrier and Israel proper.

The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s building of a barrier inside the occupied territory was illegal.

Israel ignored it.

While Israeli officials call it an “anti-terror obstacle”, Palestinians call the wall a “racist separation” or “apartheid” wall.

The claim that the wall has been effective in and of itself is as short sighted as saying the crime rate in El Paso Texas that had gone done did so because of a barrier erected after the fact.

Hamas put a moratorium on suicide bombings, the Israeli military still carries out nightly raids in Palestinian towns, villages and refugee camps on the other side of the wall to arrest people suspected of being militants, and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority cooperates with the Israelis to prevent attacks against Israel.

50,000 people legally cross daily through a series of checkpoints that puncture the winding 400-mile barrier.

Up to 60,000 Palestinians without work permits work in construction, agriculture, or service industries in Israel, passing through gaps in the wall or by utilizing the services of local smugglers. And occasionally, there are Palestinians who carry out terrorist attacks.

The non-permitted workers are usually just sent back if they are caught, but as their labor is needed for Israel’s economy, border crossers are not that strictly pursued

The workers sneak over for familiar reasons. Unemployment in the Palestinian territories is high, wages low, and the Israeli military argues that the economic well-being of Palestinians contributes to stability and security.

As far as ending terrorist attacks, just as the claim that a wall on the Southern border will curtail the drugs that come into airports and seaports by way of planes and boats, including El Chapo’s submarine, is a weak one, claiming the Israeli wall controls terrorist attacks is weak as Hamas has developed rockets and tunnels to bypass the barrier.

Obviously, although Trump concentrates on the Israeli wall, security is the result of a multi-pronged approach that he ignores as it interferes with his fantasy.

Israel’s wall is not equivalent to the wall Trump wants.

The history leading up to its construction is different.

Its purpose and usage are different.

And it was constructed by the invaders who ignored the rules, not the inhabitants.

 

 

 

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A big beautiful concrete wall.

Mexico will pay for the wall.

The money will come from the United States/Mexico/Canada trade deal.

It will be slats, a fence, whatever.

Never said concrete.

Shut down government to get money for wall

Mexico, obviously, no longer paying for it.

Wall already being built.

Human wall.

Sending troops to defend troops already sent.

Taking children from parents.
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Deporting parents without their children.

You can call anything you want. Even peaches.

I don’t want your meager $25 Billion for the wall. I want $1.35 Billion.

Money for wall be taken from funds earmarked for other things like fire and flood victims, and Puerto Rico.

Wall built, just needs final touches.

 

 

 

 

 

For those whose knowledge base on Native Americans has come through sources like Tonto, John Wayne movies, shows like F Troop, and the many media representations that used stereotypes created by non-Native Americans portrayed by Italians who kinda-sorta looked like Indians, need to know there is a whole history that is not presented in the media or taught in schools, and, when it is, it is presented from the view point of non-Native Americans.

When Scott Brown ran against Elizabeth Warren, as educated as he was, he based his biases on stereotypes acceptable to his base going so far as to declare that Warren didn’t even look like an Indian.

Trump, the man with the best words and biggest brain, when opposing the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut so he could build one and not have his existing casinos threatened by competition, asked the committee he was facing if they thought the members of the Pequot Tribe even looked Indian.

Greeting people with an unsmiling “how”, clapping an open palm against circular lips to create a noise passed off as war whoops, adding “um” to the end of words in grammatically incorrect sentences, reading smoke signals like they were somehow a form of Morse Code, using the metric pattern of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem Hiawatha as the Native American drum beat in countless movies and TV shows, and describing large amounts as being “heap big” are white man short cut stereotypes.

The Indian Removal Act signed into law by Andrew Jackson resulted in the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole given that designation because they had assimilated by adopting certain European colonial attributes such as centralized governments, literacy, market participation, written constitutions, intermarriage with white Americans, and plantation slavery practices) being uprooted from ancestral lands which was not a pleasant experience, nor was it, as presented, best for the tribes, especially when the reason one band of the Cherokee nation was removed was because of gold discovered on their land while the other band was allowed to stay because there was no wealth to be gained from their removal.

The most notorious aspect of this relocation was the Trail of Tears during which the relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their new designated reserve in Indian Territory, now part of the state of Oklahoma, with many dying along the way. The Native Americans who were relocated were forced to march to their destinations by state and local militias, often being given blankets to keep warm without knowing that many of those blankets had been used originally by people who died of small pox.

Approximately 2,000–8,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way

And the aspect least known by most people is how the land they were moved to was taken away from the tribes in later years and given to settlers in violation of treaties, the misuse of the Dawes Commission report that had ignored its own findings to take the land away and destroy cultures, and governmental and legal machinations which often involved removing children from their parents.

When Elizabeth Warren made her run for the White House official, Trump could not help but display his ignorance, and if not his ignorance, his gross insensitivity by tweeting,

“Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!”

Going past his dismissive slur, “Pocahontas”, one he would know is a misapplied put down if he knew the real history, or had even watched the highly incorrect Disney cartoon, his glib reference to the Trail of Tears was beyond childish bigotry and failed immature humor.

The genocide of Native Americans is not a joke.

Again, approximately 2,000–8,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way

It came after his previous response to Warren’s tweeted video from her kitchen while she opened a beer,

 “If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen. it would have been a smash!”

Wounded Knee was the massacre of 300 Lakota people, men, women, and children, by U.S. troops, and the Battle of Bighorn is better known as Custer’s Last Stand.

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Donald Trump Jr. found his father’s Trail tweet to be so very humorous, and matched his insensitivity by posting a photo of it to Instagram, captioning it with “Savage!!!!”

The Trumps attack Warren, who has never claimed membership in any tribe, just having some Indian blood, much like my claiming to be Irish-American because of my ancestors is not my claiming I am Irish from the Old Sod.

While they label her a “fake Indian” which emphasizes their belief that she is not of Native American descent, the Donalds Trump, both senior and junior, have no problem constantly using the negative stereotypes wrongly applied to those who are.

He just does not get it.

But, he who loves dictators wouldn’t be expected to have anything but a positive attitude toward Andrew Jackson and his horrendous removal act that would have him belittling the victims of one of the worst things done by an American president.

Trump has repeatedly praised Andrew Jackson who served from 1829 to 1837, and even hung a portrait of him in the Oval Office and honored some Navajo Code Talkers under it as he referred to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas”.

He also went to Jackson’s tomb in Nashville less than two months after he took office.

He even stretched history in his praise of Jackson when he opined,

 “I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this.’ “

Jackson died 16 years before the war started.

Besides his actions toward Native Americans, Jackson was a slaveholder.

Either Trump has no idea about the bad things Jackson did, or he just doesn’t care.

And, once again, he displays his bigotry and insensitivity proudly.

There is no way he can deny the disgusting nature of his and his son’s tweet.

There is no way he can deny not knowing why joking about the Trail of Tears is beyond unpresidential in light of his admiration for Andrew Jackson, a man he certainly researched.

 

 

The school in Oklahoma City at which I first taught during my sojourn in that city has an interesting and uneven history.

When the school was first planned, in the late 1920s, the state and city were in their infancy, and beyond the downtown area and its immediately surrounding development, the area above 10^th street on the West side was undeveloped plains.

Originally the land developers, bankers, and city planners had seen this area as the future home of the city’s aristocracy as it was close to, but not as entwined in the downtown area as was Heritage Hills, the original high end neighborhood where the big mansions and stately homes perched on the hill above it looked down on it. But the city was slowly spreading and swallowing the areas around it like an amoeba in mid meal.

In light of this plan, Taft Middle school was built in what at the time was the middle of nowhere as the seed of the grand plan.

The building was designed by Solomon Layton who had designed the state house and many of the art deco buildings that dot the downtown area, and it features large friezes on its façade extolling learning and hard work, a library with parquet flooring and a reading area that featured a fireplace, ceilings throughout the hallways painted ala the Cistine Chapel but with Egyptian inspired art work in place of the nudes, stained glass in the transoms, and intricate brickwork on all exterior walls making them works of art in their own right.

Upon completion, it earned the designation as the most beautiful school building in the United States.

But corresponding with the time of its completion, land speculators has begun establishing Nichols Hills, an area further north and on a long rolling rise, as the area for the rich and well to-do that could be close to the city, but could also existed as its own municipality, like a borough of New York City, so the area around Taft was given over to the growing middle class who inherited the school meant for the upper class.

Because of its location on the only road that completely crossed the city from its east end to its west, when desegregation of the public school system began it was perfectly located to get the Black children from the East Side of the city where the Black Community existed for years without them having to go through any neighborhoods. It was a straight shot from where they were to where they needed to be, and a straight shot back.

The school was the first to be integrated.

Because of this, and because of the anti-desegregation attitudes of the city and the parents of the children who attended it, the school was referred to as a bad school both because of its being integrated and because of the actions undertaken by those who objected to this.

The school itself, however, not only remained a highly performing school, but by the time I was there it had become the highest academically performing school in the city. But, in spite of this, and without remembering why, it was still considered in the minds of most people a bad school.

In spite of it academic record, the many accomplishments that garnered media attention and praise, and it innovative programs, some award winning, people could not give up on a reputation birthed 25 years before I had arrived because of integration not the school itself or its students.

Not having been there when the false reputation was bestowed, I never saw anything that would have made it the bad school some friends had warned me about when I told them I would be working there.

When the charter school movement began, the mischaracterization of the school was the hook upon which the claim for a need for charter schools was hung.

While ignoring its being the highest performing school, but relying on anti-desegregation memories, those promoting the charter school asked parents if they were comfortable with a school infested by gangs whose members threatened the nice kids.

There was no gang activity.

They were asked if they were comfortable with their children attending a school defaced with graffiti throughout its hall, effectively misrepresenting the murals students had painted on stairwell walls as part of an art class project that was funded with a government grant with none of them containing tang references or graffiti, but were middle school art class depictions of school related activities with a certain Primitive school of Art quality.

Parents were encouraged to just drive by at the close of any school day and they could see the problem. What they would have seen was the most integrated student body in the city leaving the building at dismissal.

When the charter school opened, it siphoned off most of its first students from that school, giving preference to those students who had tested highest on standardized test.

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The test scores of the charter school were the highest in the city the first year, mainly because the school had admitted the top 10% of the middle school students while the standing of the middle school slipped for that same reason.

Although the first standardized tests came within the first semester, the charter school leaders boasted about its success in having the programs that produced those scores while ignoring, for obvious reasons, that those students had come to them after having been educated for two years at the middle school and had gotten the high scores based on those two years not the first two months at the charter school, and would have most likely gotten those sores if they had remained.

The charter school then used the test result slippage at the middle school as evidence of its ineffectiveness as compared to its own.

Almost immediately after the false proof that the charter school was as effective as it claimed to be and using the test scores as its proof, students who, although being smart and who did well on the test, but who were discipline problems, were involuntarily un-enrolled because of “academic concerns”, and returned to the middle school to be discipline problems there.

They had supplied the desired statistics and were no longer needed.

In its early years, the charter school would refer to those initial test scores to justify its existence, even as its test scores slipped over the subsequent years while those of the middle school began to rise.

The public was just as reluctant to abandon the charter school’s false reputation for being the success it actually wasn’t in spite of the realities as it had been to abandon the false reputation of the middle school being a bad one based not on its reality but the community’s initial aversion to integration.

In spite of a 2016 ballot question that sought a massive charter school expansion in Massachusetts being overwhelmingly defeated by Massachusetts voters, State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley seeks to allow expansion of the Alma del Mar charter school in New Bedford that would hand over public assets at no charge to a private company and create a neighborhood district within the city that will feed students into the charter school.

By handing over a school building and its campus to a for profit business, $15 million will be drained annually from the New Bedford Public Schools.

Charter schools are private businesses, and they have no oversight by democratically elected officials as they take public funds from the public schools which means there is no transparency about what is happening in the school supported with public funds.

The existing charter school that will be getting the campus, the building, and the public money has a very high suspension rate with many of its needy and misbehaving students being sent back to the city’s public schools just as I have seen done in my experience.

The obvious question with a for-profit school with a built in student population as a neighborhood school  is how it will handle these students and if the handling is the standard ones will these kids have to be bused to another school outside their neighborhood.

The formula used to fund public schools is in need of and is slated for an update for the first time in 25 years. What is not needed is to create a system that takes money away from city wide school districts to the benefit of a for profit private industry with no accountability.

The attitude I have seen expressed many times when it come to those wanting to open a charter school has been,

“We can do a better job than public schools. All we need is to be given a city school building and public school funds with no accountability requirements or the requirement to do better than the public schools, and as we make a profit, just watch us soar.”

 

 

 

 

Senator Susan Collins has developed a pattern.

She speaks in strong terms about her objections to certain actions and proposals of Trump, but after making a good case why she will vote against these, she votes for them and explains the “reasons” for this sudden turn.

It is clear that, in the final moment, she will do the opposite to what she says she will.

In spite of his protestations of neutrality, during his confirmation hearing Brett Kavanaugh assured the committee and those watching in the room and at home that he would respect previous precedent and not seek to erode abortion rights, he has done the opposite.

Few, however, were convinced that his words would be backed by his actions.

Susan Collins assured her constituents and women country wide that she would only support him if  Kavanaugh stood by his word.

But, Kavanaugh’s past actions made it obvious he would most likely vote to restrict reproductive rights.

When she voted for him, Collins explained her vote saying,

“To my knowledge, Judge Kavanaugh is the first Supreme Court nominee to express the view that precedent is not merely a practice and tradition, but rooted in Article III of our Constitution itself. He believes that precedent ‘is not just a judicial policy … it is constitutionally dictated to pay attention and pay heed to rules of precedent.’ In other words, precedent isn’t a goal or an aspiration; it is a constitutional tenet that has to be followed except in the most extraordinary circumstances.”

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In 2016 the Supreme Court struck down a similar Texas law that would have put medically-unnecessary restrictions on doctors who perform abortions in a five-to-three decision.

Obviously, Kavanaugh did not respect previous precedent and did seek to erode abortion rights in spite of Senator Collins’ assurances.

The Louisiana law would require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and this restriction, as with the Texas one, would result in the closing of many clinics, and this would place an undue burden on women.

There is little practical difference between making something illegal and making something legal but next to impossible to be implemented.

You can’t drive without a driver’s license, but getting one can be made next to impossible if a state closes all but one registry.

Kavanaugh wrote in his dissent that the law should be implemented now so it would be possible to find out how many abortion clinics and providers survive the new restrictions.

Rather than prevent damage, he feels the best approach is to let the damage be done, and then assess if it is as bad, or worse than expected.

Kavanaugh has praised former chief justice William Rehnquist’s dissent from the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, dissented his federal appeals court’s 2017 decision allowing an undocumented teenager in government custody to get an abortion, but got Collins’ support when he said at his hearing that the Supreme Court decisions legalizing and affirming abortion rights was “precedent on precedent.”

Collins bought Kavanaugh’s claim that precedent “is not just a judicial policy … it is constitutionally dictated to pay attention and pay heed to rules of precedent”, and Kavanaugh sold her a bill of goods and can now help make legal decision based on his conservative politics and religious beliefs to the detriment if the civil rights of citizens who do not fall into either.

The Heckler veto is the action by which someone, whether an actual or simply a possible someone, who disagrees with a speaker’s message is able to unilaterally get a speaker silenced or prevent important information getting to those who need it because that someone, or possible someone, objects, or might possibly object, to information even if it has no relevance to them and even if that person, or possible person, has no real knowledge of what the information actually is.

They might object merely to the idea, but not the substance of the information.

There also does not have to be an actual objection, merely the possibility that “someone” at some time might take offense with no specific time or actual objection required.

The possible controls the actual. A minority of one, or a possible one, if the heckler veto is allowed, can control the information important to the many.

Once in Oklahoma City, during Gay History Month, as it was once called, when I posted a list of GLBT people who had made great contributions to society in areas such as music, art, science, politics, and pop-culture, I was directed to remove it because someone at some point might object to it. A potential and at the time fictitious imaginary person was being given control over positive information that was important to Gay students who actually existed in real time.

And even if one person, or a group had any objection, that objection should have been weighed against need.

In legal cases dealing with the Heckler Veto, it has been decided in most cases that a party’s actions cannot be preemptively stopped due to fear of heckling by a reacting party. In the other cases, the heckler veto was supported only if there was the obvious chance for violence.

It was not the censoring of content that allowed the action, but the threat of violence, and unlike the preemptive censorship in the other cases, in these cases there was a target for action based on issuing the threat.

In the 80s, when I was teaching in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the AIDS epidemic was in its cruel infancy with little being done at the governmental level, to address It, and any treatment, support system, or prevention had to be organized by individuals and groups.

Not being naive to the reality that many high school students were sexually active, and knowing that because religious leaders and politicians were promoting the idea that this was God’s punishment upon “The Gays” people who were not Gay assumed they were safe, a belief school district leaders found to be potentially harmful especially as few facts were known at the time, the leaders of the district proposed making what information there was available at the high schools subject to modification as needed.

The district also proposed making condoms available and under the control of school nurses, as opposed sitting in bowls available to any student who might pass by one, and thereby removing the reluctance to use them that the shame of buying or stealing them might cause.

Acknowledging that there would be some objections, the school board held community meetings in various areas of the district to explain the proposal and hear people’s suggestions and concerns.

As the building representative at my school and being one of the union’s area representatives, I attended the meeting in my school’s area.

While few parents attended the meeting, there were a number of local clergy who voiced their religious objections to this proposed prevention program with many cautioning against interfering with God’s assumed plan to wipe out immorality through a mass killing..

When it was my turn to speak, I thanked the clergy for their input, but pointed out that their objections were based on the tenets of their particular denominations, and that these were not universally applicable to the general population many of whom belonged to other denominations with other beliefs under the umbrella of Christianity, or prescribed to no religion at all.

As far as high school kids, those who belonged to their denominations should be instructed in their tenets on sexuality and sex outside of marriage, and parents should effectively pass on their values on the same topic, and done effectively, information on AIDS and available condoms would be of no interest to them. If, however the church and parents fell short in the effectiveness of their teachings, the possibility of that should not dictate how others could deal with an ever increasing crises.

I asked how effective and attractive their teaching and values could possibly be if just the availability of information and the controlled access to condoms were strong enough to negate them.
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They were attempting to apply the heckler veto to promote their own beliefs and override those of the majority.

As there was no imminent impending harm, and as violence was not threatened as a way to curtail information or the controlled availability of condoms, the district went ahead with its program acknowledging that there had been some objections.

As is the case of anti-vaxers who now find their children suffering from preventable illnesses, some of which have resulted in death, I have remained curious how many of those who objected to the district’s program eventually found their children, or even themselves, dealing with a virus whose contracting they could have prevented.

As sad as that might be, the upside is that they ultimately had no control over the fate of other people’s children.

A more subtle form of the heckler veto is the requirement to make sure things are “family friendly”.

In my experience this has meant that information that might be of general interest, especially to adolescents and adults, must not be offensive or confusing to children who might not understand it, the offense and confusion of it being evaluated by the parents of the child with no input from the child.

In this case the pseudo-desire to protect the child from harm is actually the parent promoting his or her own beliefs regardless of those of others.

Years after the Los Angeles Unified Schools experience I experienced an attempt at library censorship when people from one particular Christian denominations wanted books that presented anything positive about GLBT people banned from the young reader section of the Oklahoma County library system.

Their rationale was that as their children might accidentally come upon it and sign the book out, this would be exposing them to information that was both objectionable to their parents and confusing for the children. As they found it against their taste and beliefs, they wanted to deny the books to children of other parents who shared neither.

They were using their children as tools of censorship.

Although these books were eventually placed on shelving that would keep them out of the reach of smaller children, these parents were advised that if they feared what books the children may take out of the library, best practice would be for them to be in the library with their children as opposed to dropping them off without parental supervision and picking them after they chose which books they had signed out to take home.

A very recent example of the attempted use of this form of veto was when, after a lecture on gender and the Whaling industry, out of all the positive evaluations, one complaint was lodged that the lecture should have been more family friendly by omitting the reference to spermaceti, the oil in the heads of some whales, being named by whalers after human sperm that it resembled and which they thought it was, and to the possible existence of homosexual activity, as little as there was that was recorded on whale ships on overly long voyages.

The absurdity of this complaint was clear from the lecture having been delivered at 8:00 p.m. to an audience of adults with no possibility of some child wandering on off the street and into the lecture hall on the third floor of a building that required two elevators to reach, and getting scandalized. As the lecture followed a rather expensive dinner, the accidental, or even purposeful, attendance of a child was ruled out.

But the complaint was given legitimacy by its having been discussed along with ways to prevent such discomfort at future lectures.

The simplest and more mature solution would be to advise that individual not to attend future lectures or at least supply a list of objectionable topics that he or she wishes not to be subjected to, so an appropriate caveat could be offered.

Be wary of the heckler veto.

Its purpose is not for the good, but the coercive.