According to my practicing Christian friends, Easter Monday is 'A Good News' day and so the least I can do is to offer another 'Good News' story although, I admit, it is way down the scale of historical or global importance. Still, it's always 'Good News' when the little people beat the big people in the system. Thus, I can tell you that five 'little people', former members of the Atlanta, Georgia, board of education who stood up against a crooked, corrupt system of education have been totally vindicated. Even better news is that 11 of the 12 big honchos who were running the racket have been found guilty and are now facing years in the slammer.
Donald Bullock, a former Atlanta testing coordinator, was led to a holding cell after his conviction. A judge ordered most of the educators jailed immediately. Credit Pool photo by Kent D. Johnson
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/verdict-reached-in-atlanta-school-testing-trial.html
In essence, it was a typical government-run scam in which black 'educators' fixed the exam results of their black pupils. You might say that they were only trying to help their poor, put-upon, fellow blacks but, of course, promotions and bonuses depended on the exam results so it wasn't exactly disinterested!
Five 'ordinary' people who sat on the Board of Education realised some years ago what was happening and took a stand against it. The Atlanta 'establishment' threw the legal book at them and you can read the report of their defence lawyer over at The American Spectator. It's worth it because you will smile with pleasure - and if you read the NYT report, see link above, of the final trial of the 'Big People' you will laugh with joy and break open a bottle of bubbly!
Hollywood should make a film of it - but I ain't holdin' my breath!
It would never have come to this in the UK. In fact, it would never have come to court in the UK; the establishment would have closed ranks, "lessons would have been learned", and the would-be whistle-blowers would have been cast into the outer darkness.
We've seen it many times in "the envy of the world", and there's no doubt the Education Blob are just as expert in their way.
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Monday, 06 April 2015 at 12:32
Alas, I fear you're right, Andrew.
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 06 April 2015 at 12:36
Atlanta is the tip if the iceberg. The American education establishment is a major part of the decades old Democrat party machine as it produces reliable funds and votes and even victims when necessary. Blacks are useful pawns, especially when manipulated by other higher ranking blacks. It takes grit and will as tough as the back wall of a shooting gallery to withstand the rage and assaults by the Democrat/education/race cartel. Gradually, this is being done as the presence of America's "first black president" has emboldened many to act illegally, immorally and like any authoritarian mob-- fully convinced of its own "goodness".
Posted by: Whitewall | Monday, 06 April 2015 at 13:54
Still, time for the bubbly, 'Whiters' - especially after you read my post above this one - although I guess you know all about it anyway.
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 06 April 2015 at 14:31
Whitewall. Could this education issue have any impact on the issue of black crime and the substancial imprisonment of blacks?
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Monday, 06 April 2015 at 22:34
Late to the party I know, but worth pointing this out I think.
This outcome was only possible because the board was structured in such a way that the "little people" were able to enforce their will.
In the UK, either there would be no little people on the board, or they would be carefully vetted little people known to have the correct views and be pliable and deferential, or the structure would ensure that the little people were always in a minority.
Example: in Scotland we used to have School Boards, with real useful powers (we could completely dominate the selection process for Head Teachers, for instance), and these boards were structured so that the parents were always the majority and could not be outvoted by the bureaucrats. Well obviously that was all completely unacceptable - as soon as Labour got back, the powers of the boards were reduced to merely advisory, so nobody bothered any more; I don't know whether they even still exist. And now, of course, Scotland is a one-party state, and no parent power or any such notion will ever see the light of day again.
The "cousins" arrange these things so much better, don't they?
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Wednesday, 08 April 2015 at 12:21
Here's a perfect example from today's Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029589/Most-powerful-woman-NHS-risked-patients-lives-chasing-Labour-targets-Dame-Barbara-Hakin-faces-fresh-inquiry-claims-compromised-safety.html
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 08 April 2015 at 13:13
Andrew. Sometimes there has to be trust in teachers as well as accountability. The education system in Scotland was tampered with for ideaology reasons during the late sixties by Labour. This has continued with the Tories in England with their so called free schools. Why on earth the British Grammer School was discontinued is a mystery to me.
We threw a good system away for no good reason except to give politicians another reason to exist. I still have my rare! primary school book with the signature of all my teachers at that time on it. Fond memories indeed for teachers who were not highly paid but did their duty with compassion.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Wednesday, 08 April 2015 at 20:01
Jimmy, I'm sorry, I just saw your question re black students. Yes this has a part in that set up for failure system that outwardly represents itself has "helping" but in the end, too many kids end up failing. The crooked teachers and administrators however, tend to do nicely with the rigged numbers. Profiting at the expense of their own kind. Modern day slave system of a sort.
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 08 April 2015 at 20:13
Whitewall. I note Jessie Jackson seems to be rejoicing in a white cop being arrested for killing a black man. The same cop would no doubt have shot a white or brown man in the same situation. We never hear in the news about a white cop killing a white suspect or a white criminal killing a white cop.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Wednesday, 08 April 2015 at 22:53
Jimmy, 'tis often odd with selective outrage and the likes of Jackson, Sharpton etc. In the case yesterday of the white cop killing the black man in North Charleston, SC...it does appear from videos that the cop was wrong and was and should be charged. While tragic, it is a god send to the whole race/victim industry as the cause of all problems within the black population. Never mind their problems are found elsewhere and within themselves, this event will mask all that for a while.
As far as blacks killing whites or white cops or each other for that matter, these events are reported, just no follow on orchestrated agitprop. Some deaths are not as useful.
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 09 April 2015 at 12:02
http://takimag.com/radioderb/arithmetic_on_the_west_coast_john_derbyshire
Yeah yeah I know but, the first month broadcast is free - nevermind you got to get permission from certain persons commenting on Diplomad to have your own damn opinion
then again - if you wish to be in the choir - by any and all means I suppose.
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 09 April 2015 at 12:26
BBC SCOTLAND tonight actually used the word racist in regards to the torture and murder of a young man called Criss Donald who had the audacity to befriend a young muslim girl.
Abducted and thrown in the boot of a car. Taken away by Islamists tortured and burnt until his death. And all this in Glasgow Scotland.
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Thursday, 09 April 2015 at 22:47
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/mum-murdered-kriss-donald-delighted-5487103
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Thursday, 09 April 2015 at 22:55