Dunbar Village Miscreants Get Life While A New Set Arrested For Setting A Teen On Fire

I was just reading the post at What About Our Daughters regarding the reaction of the family and supporters of those convicted in the Dunbar Village case as their sentences were issued. The relative youth of some of those criminals regarding getting a life-term is up for debate amongst some people. Even after the fact. [...]

October 14th, 2009 | Category: Acts of Faith Blog, apathy, Crime, Denial, Dunbar Village, Teenagers | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

John Merrow Series on Urban Schools

How I despise the term urban when it is used as code for Black. It’s lazily meant to be all-encompassing but it negates the individual’s experience and doesn’t differentiate amongst social class. So we have a marketing term to sell cars but it’s also supposed to describe the lifestyle of people who are categorized as [...]

February 5th, 2009 | Category: Acts of Faith Blog, apathy, Citizen Activism, education, Poverty, schools, truancy | One comment - (Comments are closed)