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Black Male Teachers Are MIA


Alexander grew up wanting to become an elementary school teacher but said he was frequently the butt of jokes among his Oakland classmates who called teaching 'women's work'.

"Guys would tease me. They'd say stuff like teaching children how to write their names for the first time or mediating kiddy temper tantrums is not "real" teaching.

They'd go, 'man, there's no money in that'," Alexander recalls.

Alexander attended predominately Black schools in Oakland for 10 years. He recalls walking into his high school AP government class and found something he had never seen.

"I was shocked," said Alexander "I had never had a Black male teacher before, except for P.E." Alexander's experience is remarkably common. Only 2 percent of the nation's 4.8 million teachers are Black men, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The shortage of Black male teachers compounds the difficulties that many African-American boys face in school. About half of Black male students do not complete high school in four years, statistics show. Black males tend to score lower on standardized tests, take fewer Advanced Placement courses and are suspended and expelled at higher rates than other groups officials say.


He is part of a growing chorus of educators, politicians and parents who say more teachers like him would boost Black male students, who struggle the most. He says encouraging African-American males to take pride in their education is everyone's responsibility.

Though he admits part of the problem is men themselves.

"Some of us do not consider teaching children how to write their names for the first time or how to count to one hundred as 'real' teaching. Some of us, sad to say don't like being hugged, let alone giving a hug. We view such activities as women's work, and that is our loss."

Female headed households with absent fathers are far from rare in African-American family life, especially inner city school children. According to the Department of Education it is not uncommon for a Black child to turn eleven without having interacted with a man for any significant amount of time.

http://www.wiretapmag.org/education/44505/

hmm.

doesnt really sound like vintage micheal but it'll pass i guess.

hard to top his past record.

the fellow waits with bated breath for my every post.

cant blame him, given his apish photos.

enjoys your fantasy dates swarry.

me sef i had dinner with denzel washington yesterday.

while you're at it, is couth a word in your local dialect?

oh dear.

somebody just saw snow.

we'll be getting every single detail of what some people are experiencing for the first time, all the time now.

if you're feeling uneasy, then try to find out why.


if the guy is a nler,

i'd say forget it but i know men are scarce.

[quote author=cou-gar link=topic=556345.msg7242629#msg7242629 date=1291078484]fellow africans aided the white men to rob africa of her natural wealth. go and read a bit of history.[/quote]i cant help but wonder why africa's focus has always been on exporting her human resources.

did the african slavers have any other motivation besides money?

some things simply arent adding up.

who on earth are the desperadoes dating this fellow?



no wonder the i.diot is running mouth like tap!!!



there is indeed a shortage of human black men, which is a great pity!!

na only animalistic beings remain

MzDarkSkin:
Sa Lady and SA GODDESS! how are you ladies! long time no speak!

@ topic. i will tell you why, Nigerian men love foreign women PERIOD. but South African women from my view point are more open to their sexuality and expressing it. Not to say they are easy or classless but they are not too reserved and difficult to approach either. All of my South Africans girlfriends (as in friends, i am NOT gay ) are very sexual and bottom line they are hawt!

a lot of nigerian men are loose, period.

do jamaican men not date SA women, or why is it always the nigerian men jumping up to demonstrate how lousy they are, anytime they see a female from anywhere?

^^you're hungry for a beatdown i see!!!

please check your picture again, then hop over to any SA female who needs a man. Cork Cronk can also date you i'm sure.

i'm guessing nigerian ladies told you what's up with your gay looking azz.


i know you need attention but unfortunately for you i'm allergic to dullards. Please pass by and head for the nearest SA!!!

he said he was 29 when we met. Now his sister tells me he's goin on 33.

na today?

33 is even small.

anyhoo!

not my beeswax.

men how do you keep a woman.

women how do you keep a man.


goes both ways so the op should stop with the senseless questions.

roymary:
Most men won't find it easy with you; you like trouble. are you always in bad mood? So, easy to press your button.

BTW, i think your obsession is on Mr Cock but too bad he offers you no recognition.

If Nigerian men prefers SA women, its simply because of girls like you. Don't be such a bitter girl. We er not here for a fight.

like i said, buzz off bozo!!!!

any nigerian man running his s.tupid mouth about how he prefers whoever over whatever should open his dumb eyes and look around him.

he may or may not learn a thing or two about how his life will be sooner or later.

eni ri nkan he t'o fe ku tori e.

owo eni to ti sonu nko.



awon ode- bunch of ignorant billy goats!!

bleating everywhere like the drug and crime addicted donkeys they are.

na me una dey do nah- eyin obo.

nice dresses.

MandingoII:
you should be happy they are FAILING.

they do not have open sewers

you do.

be jealous and seek their demise.

(i would if I were you)

is this supposed to make sense i wonder.

buzugee:
aahhhh i hear ya. an african bigot ? very interesting concept.

no, i think the guy in question says he's white.

his former user id was whiteboy or something similar.

@ topic

there's something about the body language here that i find puzzling.

cnn could have used an older woman perhaps. Someone like donna brazile.

but i guess that isnt the point.

7.19 - "I want to talk about the Niger Delta". Her facial expression after that statement was condescending. And then look at her face when looking at him answering the question (7.36). Pompously looking like "You are going to tell me thrash".

hmm, well, i dont expect much from cnn anyway, and a reporter cant deviate from the standard cnn script.

however, i should think the niger delta would be a sore point for them seeing how koinange [?], and by extension cnn, was seriously embarassed there some years ago.

in any case, jonathan could have cut the interview short if it wasnt going well.

olabukola:
So Gaddafi is combing Ukrainian nurse Who no like better kongo, a blonde for that matter.

african men and black women.

later now some people will start raining curses on lugard for allowing his wife to name somewhere nigeria.

buzugee:
@ dantecmu, its possible. six degrees of separation right ?

@Tpia you do know that trying to reason with uktrader is like trying to reason with a 'lobotomy recipient' right ? justwise is right.

i simply picked out the sensible or factual part of his comments.

same thing i did with the other guy who is a known bigot, and who i've clashed with many times in this place over his incendiary views.

guys please lets try and put this thing into perspective, first of all lets take a look at the people who make up the cameron clegg cabinet - a large number of them are privately educated and oxbridge who have gone on to have successful careers in the city either as bankers, corporate lawyers or top executives, many of them are millionaires, not one of these people have any understanding or interest in the lives of ordinary working people in this country. When you have no understanding of a person's situation you have no empathy for that person.

and why do you think they were elected, and who put them there?

read between the lines.

justwise:
And there is nothing you and Uktrader will say that will stop Nigerians and other Africans from coming to the UK, you pple are just barking like BNP members.
This so called cap will only open back doors for some gangs exploit.

look, knock yourself out all you want, bozo.

i asked you if you want the UK to practice an open door policy so the whole world can migrate there.

after all, most other countries on earth arent doing as well as the UK.

maybe when your village is invaded by almajiris and other UFOs you'll understand where others are coming from.

nobody said they like the situation of things, but the fact remains there's such a thing as finite resources.

the brits themselves are the greatest emigrants on the planet.

are they leaving the UK because things are so rosy there?

think before you type.

as for gangs, they'll be dealt with in their own time.

roymary:
TOL, LOL, Why so much unnecessary dithering over this Yansh matter? Mr Cork is jst playing around but Tpia is taking him so serious. We truly love Nigerian women as well as South African chics; no serious differences; just two sets of women from different cultural entities. Big Yansh is jst one unique sex appeal but it plays lesser role when it comes to choosing a life partner.

you'd do well to stay out of this matter.

crook aka crackhead needs to ask his bosses to give him a different useless script, end of.

if you have no idea what the issues really are here, then butt out.



dont run your mouth anyhow then start hopping around with a sob story after you get yours.

^^you'll sleep better if you carry your uselessness to a south african forum.

rubbish.

the one in the photo with a flat behind must not be south african, right.

bunch of insecure and deadbeat buzzards.

who doesnt know how to take photos abi ori gbogbo yin fo ni?


cork crook abi na crack head

put a sock in it will you.

low self esteem i.diot.

dem don add womanliness water to your stew.

criminal oshi.

justwise:
uktrader has problem with African immigrants coming to the Uk Nigerians in particular, read his posts very well, he got nothing good to say about Nigerians.

You are making his post look sensible, buzugeee reply is in line with uktrader's hatred for Nigerians and some African immigrants.
If you are waiting for a time when every Nigerian or other African immigrants will all move back to their respective countries then you have to wait intill u die and come back to this world again.

i'm not fazed by anything you've said here because i read worse from nutjobs, misogynists and drug addicted buzzards in other sections who attack females at random.

if it's not tribal bashing, it's some gutter bred goat talking trash about all his female nigerian relatives.

that doesnt bother you but this is worse i'm sure.

long may you be emigrants!

btw, is what you want for the UK to open it's borders and let everyone in unreservedly. Let's see if you yourself wont run from the place if that happens.

the singer sounds nigerian imo.

@ thread title.

amazing lack of blood or doesnt the man have a carotid artery around that region.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwnHWDywLk





sorry!!

give specifics because i'm sure nobody knows what you're talking about.

The Islamic conquest of Persia (637-651 CE)


The Islamic conquest of Persia led to the end of the Sassanid Empire and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia (modern day Iran). However, the achievements of the previous Persian civilizations were not lost, but were to a great extent absorbed by the new Islamic policy. In fact, the Islamic Golden Age is largely due to the previous works of the Sassanid dynasty.

The Sassanid Empire fell to the Arabs mainly due to internal issues and the exhaustion of the Sassanid army because of continuous war with the Roman empire, the White Huns, Kushans, Khazars and other Steppe people. The entire war had been decisively summed up in the battle of Qadisiya. After the subjugation of the Persian army, the Arabs marched straight into the heart of Sassinid Persia, where countless libraries and books, such as the ones in Ctesiphon, were destroyed and burned with the approvement of Caliph Omar[citation needed]. Countless artifacts were destroyed; the tomb of Cyrus the Great and Takhte-Solyman (an ancient Zoroastrian fire temple) were to be destroyed, but the Iranians lied to the Arabs and told them that Cyrus's tomb was the tomb of Prophet Suleiman's mother and Takhte-Solyman was Prophet Suleiman's tomb. Kaveh Farrokh states in his book Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War "The local inhabitants made a desperate last stand at Veh Ardashir against the Arabs who finally broke into all of Ctesiphon in 637. For the first time the Arabs witnessed the riches, luxuries, arts architecture and sophistication of one of the world’s great empires. Looting reached epic proportions. One fifth of the looted goods were sent from Ctesiphon to Caliph Omar[citation needed] at Medina. So great was the haul of booty that every Arab soldier was able to appropriate 12000 Dirhams worth of goods roughly the equivalent of 250,000 US Dollars at the time of writing. Nearly 40,000 captured Sassanian noblemen were taken to Arabia and sold as slaves." The population of Rayy, Isfahan and Hamadan were exterminated thrice due to revolts. Much of this invasion and enslavement of the Persian people and onslaught of the Sassanids has left a bitter taste in Iranian people's mouth.

wiki

persians and arabs are supposed to be enemies anyway [religion apart].

so what's so surprising about the iran emails?

The 1987 Hajj Incident
Until 1987, no satisfactory resolution was made to decrease the tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The already strained relationship between the two countries further deteriorated when Saudi law enforcement agencies clashed with hundreds of demonstrators outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The clash claimed the lives of around 400 pilgrims, out of which two thirds had Iranian nationality. This incident shocked the Saudis and therefore, the Saudi administration put a ban on all the activities during the Hajj (Pilgrimage) rituals. In retaliation, angry mobs in Tehran ransacked the Saudi embassy and also detained and beat many Saudi diplomats. As a result, one of the Saudi officials died from the injuries. So, Saudi Arabia in 1988, cut its diplomatic relations with Iran and as a result no Iranian could obtain a Saudi visa for performing the Hajj (Pilgrimage).

wiki

The amazing thing, they go about it with so much zeal

most def.