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PATTERSON, N.J. — Jennifer O’Brien has been suspended from her job as a Patterson, New Jersey first grade teacher after she made a post on her blog referring to her students as “future criminals.”

O’Brien claimed that she wasn’t a teacher — but a “warden for future criminals” — and said that she wanted a “Scared Straight” program for her young students.

The New American reports:

O’Brien was suspended because the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was upset with her comments, as was the president of the Paterson school board. O’Brien is white; most of her students are black and “Latino.”

“The reason why she was suspended was because the incident created serious problems at the school that impeded the functioning of the building,” board president Theodore Best told North Jersey.com. “You can’t simply fire someone for what they have on a Facebook page; but if that spills over and affects the classroom then you can take action.”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shelly-Williams/100000538222275 Shelly Williams

    And this is suppose to surprise us because …? What else do you expect from a white female teacher dealing with predominately black students who most likely do not come from middle – upper class backgrounds? I use to be a teacher and I have witnessed first hand how black and white teachers chew the living s**t out of black students, but white students were usually given consideration and a small dose of empathy for their “behavorial problems.” My point is this, black students don’t stand a chance dealing with teachers, especially white ones. If a black student look at a teacher the wrong way or isn’t as excited about doing an assignment, all hell usually breaks loose. Yes, I have dealt with some badass kids who were black, white, and hispanic. Kids are kids and sometimes their backgrounds and what they are expose to on a daily basis at home can influence their behavior in the classroom and so forth. But from my recollection, black kids were always the ones who were suspended first, yelled at like a murderer, and given no mercy by the school adminstration versus the white child who pretty much did the same offense. This women would have never made such a remark or voice her frustration on facebook if she was dealing with all white, s0-called trailer trash children. She would have been frustrated and probably voice the same opinion of them being criminals, but taking the s**t public on Facebook … I seriously doubt it. My suggestion to school districts where majority of the children are nonwhite and probably come from improverish backgrounds, hire qualify educators who are serious about their jobs and not be so damn quick to prejudge a child.

  • Anonymous

    Jennifer O’Brien–the teacher**is the Present Day Criminal!!!

    She and a WHOLE Lot of Others like her–should be given LIFE–as a SLAVE in the Black Man’s House–to be USED anyway/anywhere they see Fit!

  • Anonymous

    E-X-P-E-L-L-E-D would be a even BETTER solution…..

  • http://twitter.com/pblkbrothers Positive Brothers

    This is getting so tiresome

  • Anonymous

    I am going to guess that she was a young teacher and she did not have good classroom management and she got fed up. Many teachers quit in their first years because it is not like what they expected, even at the all white schools there will be future criminals.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Loyal_T11/ Loyal_T11

    she needs to choke on a dick ha ha ha…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SimplyComplex_87/ SimplyComplex_87

    and we wonder why our children come up short academically. aside from parents not being involved, this is one of the main reasons right here. how can minority students collectively succeed when their own (white) teachers don’t even believe in them (thus won’t make the effort to help them learn in any way possible)? they’re doomed from the start…it’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    that’s why i believe black teachers are a better option for our kids. they at least have an understanding of what it means to be black, thus they have the potential to empathize with and encourage the kids in a more effective manner…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5TXQH5POL4HE477GL4UZZRGM3Y Fedup51yo

    On the first day of school when black children walk into the classroom they are automatically labeled as a failure and they will never amount to anything. Especially the males. You are so right Shelly, If a black student does something wrong he/she is suspended whereas a white student will get a slap on the hand for the same offense. It’s a sad day when in the year 2011 racism still exist. How can we build up our children when society continues to tear them down. These children for the most part have no HOPE! We as parents and grandparents must show our children that contrary to what people believe about you show them you are successful. I always think of my grandchildren’s future and instill in them that are great children and yes most likely will do some stupid things but to learn from your mistakes and become a productive adult. But so will every other child growing up in this world.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    “Scared Straight” program is that she got fired lol
    she must of been a white kkk undercover teacher from NJ
    the 1st grader must of been Black and Spanish kids
    she rather call them “Future Criminals” which they can be “Future Presidents”
    shes a fool

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2Queens11434/ 2Queens11434

    All right…I’m playing devils advocate:

    There must have been a reason for her outbreak. It starts at home. If for any reason I had problems at school I got my assed whipped with the switch or the belt (my parents worked and had no time for bulls**t). These kids today can’t sit down for even 5 minutes and they DO have behavorial problems (this goes for black, latino and white kids–in poor areas). We should teach our black children how serious school is and how it is not an extension of the street. Don’t anyone act like kids don’t have serious respect issues.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bvince/ bvince

    Integration was good for what again????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    I keep telling y’all about these caucasoid fe-male criminals, who are flunking our children! These racist beast don’t love us as adults, do you think they love and want teach our children? This shyt will stay in his mind!

    This is just another form of Black genocide. This racist educational system is geared to fuk our children’s minds up through their educational system. These beast are CONTROLLING OUR CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTROLLING THEIR MINDS!

    I will begin tutoring next week! I can’t wait to wake our children’s minds up!

    THESE BASTARD CAUCASOID TEACHERS ARE RACIST KLANNERS, AND THIS SHYT IS COMING TO THE SURFACE. TEACH OUR OWN DAMN CHILDREN AND BOYCOTT THESE RACIST BASTARDS!

    IT’S THE ONLY WAY

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    This is why they give our children Ritalin, to keep them mentally controlled! They claim it calms them down, but this is purposefully done, to make them drop out of school, then they become dependant on drugs, then the streets, then the jail. THIS IS THE CYCLE AND THIS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS AT FAULT!

    “If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.” -Carter G. Woodson

  • Jon Alspaugh

    I don’t know anything about Patterson NJ.
    Would this be a classroom with mostly black children?

  • Anonymous

    Now I have to disagree my son teacher was a ww and not all white people feel this way. You be shocked how many black teachers say the same thing just not on facebook! I believe that parent do need to be held more accountable for their children actions. I also feel that diversity is the key to success in life. My son school was an all black school until they received complaints. I would say that out of all my son teachers she challeneged him the most a teacher who loves there job is all that should be required. Also maybe if they stop giving so many student loan waivers for teaching in poorer communities you would actually weed out teacher like her! We need to stop being such a colored based society cause in the end its our kids who suffer from only being exposed to our people!

  • Anonymous

    UsuallyRitalin is provided because mommy didnt emphasize self control! My younger sister slap an assistant principal in pre-k why because her mother let her do what she wanted. We need to stop including the whole race of white because there are just as many who are the total opposite nor do we need to not include all teachers in general black white green and what have you! These teachers are dealing with sh*t we couldnt even phanthom of doing. BP is getting on my nerves with all this racial sh*t!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    I know self discipline starts at home, but let’s keep it righteous, most single mothers were NOT taught DISCIPLINE AT HOME. The fathers were not in the home, the mothers probably were on drugs, you know the scene. Today, most of these mothers and GRANDMOTHERS are at the club trying to flirt with their daughter’s boyfriends.

    Children spend more time in the classrooms, then they do at home, so bascially the government is controlling and raising our children via caucasoid fe-male school teachers. The MAJORITY of caucasoids THINK THE SAME, just look how they are attacking this president, look how all these caucasoid principals, teachers and politicians are f****ts, pedophiles, klanners and haters of our race.

    So, stop defending these beast because THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU OR ME, NOR OUR CHILDREN!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dayzee/ dayzee

    I’m going to go ahead and say this up front, what she said was wrong and she should have been reprimanded period.

    Now my second point is why did she say what she said? It is no secret that inner city schools perform poorly and that many of the kids just are not at their grade level. Let’s stop pretending that this teacher was being 100% racist. There are deep intrinsic problems with the poor minorities in these communities that sadly have nothing to do with the children.

    She is right, too many of those young children will become criminals. Anyone who lies and says it isn’t true needs to wake and smell the coffee. How much longer are we going to accept this continuing cycle of poverty, poor education, and crime?

    Instead of making this purely about race, we need to see the bigger, deeper problem.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Diversity IS NOT THE KEY to be successful in life! Blacks have been TRYING FOR THE LAST 60 years to integrate with these caucasoids, and look where we’re at. Do you actually think these caucasoids want to integrate with us? If they did, why are we still being discriminated against, why are these teachers dumbing down our children, why do negroids always have to kiss caucasoid’s asses?

    It’s time to separate from these beast and teach OUR OWN! Can’t you see this shyt ain’t working? I grew up with these racist heathens and NOTHING HAS CHANGED…IT’S GOTTEN WORSE!

    FACE THE FACTS…RACISM IS HERE TO STAY…PERIOD!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    She want to know what the worlds greatest criminal look like, all she has to do is”look in the mirror”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    I can look at that avatar and tell you’re into white boys,so if you don’t like what you read up here sambo then they’re plenty of white websites you could carry you ass to.Nobodys going to change for you,sambo.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    Will you shut the f**k up with that trying to take the heat off that honkys racist bull s**t.Are you even black because the only thing you’re doing is trying to make black people not look at whites as being what they truly are,devils.How much is white folks paying your fake black ass to say all this bull s**t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SwtChocLady3/ SwtChocLady3

    Like hell they can fire a person fhr what is on thier FB page!!! how about NOT putting what you really think / feel on FB? Also, do NOT put where you work either..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MZ_KNIGHTOWL/ MZ_KNIGHTOWL

    I NEVER UNDERSTOOD Y A “TEACHER” WOULD CHOOSE TO “TEACH”, AND DOESNT EVEN LIKE KIDS,,,

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4RFIL4BXBAVXQ4LKPNRBJRQBPM None of Your B

    Most of the students were probably Latino.
    Was she wrong?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Matureblkbbw/ Matureblkbbw

    She should NOT be allowed to teach again. She cannot be trusted.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    You know how weak these negroid fe-males are when it comes to pleasing and loving caucasoids!
    And they wonder why Black men don’t look at them twice!

    MODERN DAY SLAVES!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    F**king up the minds of negroids…that’s all integration did to the negro!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/6ft180nATL/ 6ft180nATL

    Young black and latino boys are told by society starting from a young age that they basically ain’t s**t. When you tell someone from a young age they are a criminal, expect them to be a criminal, and look for that angle in everything they do then its more likely they will become what you are telling them they are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    Black women were always weak for white men because of money but yet they blame black men for the spread of interracial dating.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    Making black people weak.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    She’s a honky,their just send her somewhere else.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nana593/ nana593

    Jennifer O’Brien is an idiot!

    I’m happy they suspended her and she needs to look into changing careers because she is not qualified to teach.

    Teaching requires a high level of patience and the desire to educate students to be the excel beyond limits.

    This O’Brien loser already had in her mind that her students would fail in life and become “future criminals”.

    Her comment’s are psycologically damaging and reflect her lack of empathy towards her students.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RN7SFO54MQ6RUCICOASZJOIIN4 Plump1

    Well Shelly,

    I’ve have been employed as a teacher in a predominately black and latino school and do not treat them any different if I was teaching at an all white school. I will have to admit many white teachers have not been around blacks and latino people…but I am an exception. In fact, while I was going through college and getting my degree in Education, I told the instructors that if a teacher wanted to teach “in the hood” they should live “in the hood” among the people for one year. You should have seen the faces of the young white women. (20′s) when they heard my comment.

    When I expressed that I was going to teach at juvenile correctional facility, they all thought I was crazy. I just smiled because I knew I was going into a much safer environment that my peers. I did teach at a mxiumum security juvenile facility where at least 85% of the my students were black or latino. It’s just the facts….and has alot to do with lack of parenting skills, single mothers worrying about their next boyfriend, and placing their needs and wants first before the children. There are many other factors too. It has little to do with income because I’ve met many parents from low income homes who place education as a priority. I’ve seen it all….can’t fool this white woman.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RN7SFO54MQ6RUCICOASZJOIIN4 Plump1

    MSCPA2U Yes, very well said especially “These teachers are dealing with sh*t we couldnt even phanthom of doing.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jardona57/ jardona57

    She needs to be fired not just suspended. If she was Black teacher and said that to some white kids their parents would be out for her blood. Those children are only in 1st grade how in the hell does she feel it’s ok to say such a stupid ass thing. What kind of teacher/person to assume those kids would be future criminals because their Black and Latino. If she doesn’t want to teach our children then go where there is only white kids. I guarantee if her class was only white she would have never said such a awful thing. Those children with the help of their parents and family members can grow up to be very productive inspite of all of the negativity and stupidity that whites keep sprewing. Those kids have a long time to decide what they want to be. First grade and they’re already being wrongly accused. That person is not a good person or teacher. If I was one of those kids parents I would see to it that she never teached anywhere again. Talk about criminals I agree she needs to look in the mirror instead of stereotyping those children. Most of the shootings that occur in schools are done by white kids, not Blacks or Latinos. So really who are the criminals. She needs to check wikipedia and see the real criminals and she wont be surprised just informed. Teachers are their to help/nuture the children while they are in their care to teach them right from wrong. To help them understand how doing wrong to others isn’t right and to be fair to each other. Not criticize them, lable them or belittle them. She’s an idiot.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3TWGV23GUFRTTC73PJAQU3T4TQ beau

    Teacher aint never Lied…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_Truth_Seeker/ The_Truth_Seeker

    The future criminal is the one thats being suspended but should be fired!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-O-Jones/100000549220919 Richard O Jones

    In the first place – the young children (1st graders mind you) in her class probably never read the teacher’s blog. Whatever to freedom of speech? This blog mess is a way for ordinary people to express their thoughts. There’s no claim that he was verbally abusive to the kids. In fact, the teacher probably witnessed behavior in her classroom that caused her to think that way. Remember the article said that she wanted a scared straight program for her class. That shows that she wanted the children to change for the better.

    For the people that are all up in arms about the teacher and her private blog – you should know that the American prison system determines approximately how many prisons the United States must build in the next 15 years by monitoring the behavior of third graders. The litmus test is – if a kid can’t read at grade level by third grade he has a higher likelihood of ending up in prison. Should all those state officials that determine these projections be suspended also?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BabyFace_Nelson1933/ BabyFace_Nelson1933

    The teacher should’ve gotten a promotion instead. I don’t support the generation below mine. I never supported any generation. This world has fail the youth and let them down, and we got everybody that’s been playing around with sex to blame. I support Obama completely, but this country’s f*cked. Heaven, take me away.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Matureblkbbw/ Matureblkbbw

    Sad, but true.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    “The teacher should’ve gotten a promotion instead.”
    ————————————————————
    “This world has fail the youth and let them down…”
    ————————————————————
    Judging from your grammar, this cracker teacher needs to be teaching your dumb looking ass on how to write…and YOU DO LOOK LIKE A CRIMINAL…negroid!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    “There must have been a reason for her outbreak.”
    ———————————————————–
    Will you negroids STOP kissing caucasoid’s asses? I don’t give a damn how the child was acting or what-have-you; SHE HAD NO RIGHT TO SAY THAT SHYT!

    Now, you see what I mean when I call negroes like you, A NEGROID!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ecap/ ecap

    I haven’t read most of the replies. So forgive me if this is a repeat.

    I’m not so sure this is a case in which the NAACP should be involved. One has to ask would there be any controversy if this woman had made the comments in a mostly white classroom. I’ve had the opportunity to substitute teach in classrooms whereby most students were black. The disciplinary problems were unreal! I’m not remotely suggesting that all black kids are problem kids. However, I can relate to the kid of frustration that this woman felt. I’m inclined to believe her frustration was born out a real concern for the kids. The fact that she wanted a “scared straight” program tells me that she’s interested in putting the kids on the right path. I really think there is a lot more to this incident than what’s being presented.

  • Isabell

    @Iwillbefree

    I don’t think you did read the whole article.

    Instead of pointing the finger and accusing someone of racism … call out the child and the parents for doing such a poor job! No teacher can fix children that act like that in the time span of a 7-hour school day…. Kids with these behavior problems — no matter what race they come from — need love, structure and responsibility … something they obviously don’t get at home. Its time to hold parents accountable for their failures in raising children!

    “Until you have taught in the inner city yourself, don’t be too quick to judge this woman,” wrote another. “I have taught on the south side of Chicago for many years and have heard similar sentiments often expressed by many teachers (of all races).”

    Asked a third commenter, “How is this racist? She didn’t say the kids should be lynched. She didn’t say they should send them back to the jungle. She said they act like criminals, which is highly likely a statement of future fact. I’d like to see the statistics.”

    “It ain’t racist if it’s true,” another said.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mungu1/ Mungu1
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gunna7/ gunna7

    Hey if it were a black teacher immediate termination as we all know!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jr3906/ jr3906

    Well, perhaps if the kids are disruptive and disobedient then her opinion is right on the mark. Black people should not be outraged but learn to discipline their kids.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curlyk/ curlyk

    We’re talking about 5 year olds. If they are coming into school with severe behavioral problems, there is a good chance that they have a subpar home life, which is likely the home life their parents observed. A teacher has two choices in that situation, she can lazily say they are a bunch of criminals or she can educate herself on the lifestyles of her students and do the best she can to have an impact. Effectively dismissing the kids and throwing up her hands ensures that nothing changes. Looking at the parents, shaking your head and saying, well the parents ought to do something isn’t going to change anything either.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Fletcher-D/ Fletcher-D

    I’m having a really hard time believing you’re a black woman. If you are, I feel so sorry for you. It’s nothing personal you’re just mighty delusional that’s all.

  • Anonymous

    This woman needs to be fired. Period.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    ? WTF

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    ? WTF your comment does not make any sense.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    You need to go back to your white school. You are not doing black people a favor by coming to the hood. Your thinking believe when a young black boy does something wrong he is a criminal but when a young white boy commits the same crime he is rebelling. Throw the young black boy in jail but give the young white boy a second chance because to criminalize him would ruin the rest of his life. This young white boy is misguided and need therapy. Please return to saving your race we don’t need white women like you and your friend.

  • Anonymous

    Statistically she is correct. And its due to the social engineering of the gov’t that has broken up black families and taken away ambition.

    Which political party benefits from keeping blacks poor & dependent on the gov’t with welfare?
    Answer: the democrats of course. Its NO accident that the democrats policies always keep blacks down while looking like it helps them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    “If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.” -Carter G. Woodson

    Mr. Woodson wrote this passage for people who think like you. I believe the only way black people in America can achieve greatness is to completely separate. Diversity is another word for divide and conquer. I bet you didn’t know that only 21.1% of white people have a Bachelor’s Degree. 78.9% of white people do not have a college degree. (2008 statistics) Yet we are led to believe that we are deficient. I believe lack of education is an American problem. It’s funny how there are no threads or articles mentioning the lack of education of white America. (Things that make you go hmmmm.)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    Or she can do her job which includes discipline and teach. Why do we believe that black people should be the only people who have to teach their children. If we have to teach our children why is the government paying teachers? We all know and see daily the little white kid in the store running around crazy while mom stands there looking stupid. You think that same child goes to school and is an angel. We need to make the teachers accountable for doing their job which is to teach. I would rather have a high school dropout who can control that first grade classroom and teach them than a person with a masters degree who can’t teach my child because she has no control of her classroom. The teacher who made that comment should be fired because she obviously can not do her job. These children are five or six years old!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    What do you want them to go to the classroom and do the teachers job? If that is the case they should receive the teachers salary and the teacher should go home.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/womaniam_5683/ womaniam_5683

    No we should demand teachers who know how to do their job. A teachers job is to teach, if she/he is unable to teach for any reason they should not have their job period. If we started paying these bastards based on their job performance and not accepting a bunch of bulls**t excuses their would be a dramatic increase in the test scores of these children. The teachers would simply do their jobs. I’m tired of hearing these bastards getting a free pass. I graduated from high school in 1979 and there were some worthless teachers when I went to school. I was a product of integration in the New York City school system and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. Nothing has changed. I bet the majority of teachers in low to moderate income districts can’t pass all of the standardized tests they issue to the children.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing is going to change for blacks until the gov’t stops paying young black women money & other benefits to have fatherless babies.
    The democratic party benefits from keeping black people poor & dependent and producing more voters for them. The poor whites are catching up. The democrat politicians need poor dependent people and all their policies that look like they help people just keep them poor & dependent on the gov’t.

  • Anonymous

    R you serious! take a look @ our people and we will be scavengers within a year. Im 31 do you know how many woman my age never worked a day in there life bt have 5 or 6 kids they cant support ! How can they help to make us a super race? Its you who is delusional with that lets get together crap! Im literally dying @ my desk. It my people who feel working can be avoided, my people who dont give a f**k about there damn kids education, my people who rather sit on they ass an complain about the handout they receive as opposing to get the f**k out and work, how many woman that dont love or take the time out to be a parent but the minute the teacher says oh he has ADHD how quickly that same woman will accept it and run to SSI diasability to get a check!!! Take a look @ all our people before you start this better off s**t cause in case you aint check our people as a whole arent doing to go! Look @ Harlem where our people once thrived and own and operated vacant desolate and being brought and sold to the highest bidder. I love my people but your wants will never be fulfilled unless you take a certain profile of our people bt that would be considered racist! Knowledge isnt only given from educator maybe parent need to get off facebook and parent there kids take them to the museum and such. I never stated that racisim is no longer valid. But you guys made it clear that even your own people will be racisit against you and deny your blackness because Im not with that blame the white man for all my down falls. GTFOH! Have you taken a real close look @ our people in Africa some are flourishing but for the most part they arent. Famine in Somalia wars in Libya rebels, female castrastion all types of fukkery!!! Diversity is the key they arent teaching swahili classes. They are encouraging that our kids become to be fluent in at least 3 languages English, Spanish & Chinese! It works for the majority who are willing to accept it. it gotten worse I aint been sprayed with no hose taken out of my house and hung killed for looking @ a white man. We are a people who are worried about Beyonce latest line jayz latest rhyme not how my IRA is losing money daily how my social security report tell me yearly im on my own when i retire.

  • Anonymous

    WoW smittyboy all that! Diversity is the key because when you keep your children in such a small box they never get the full experience. My son recently went to summer camp and made another interacial child feel in a way because he wasnt accustom to seeing interracial children. Didnt know that people pay for your opinion! Its just kills me how your response was so filled with hatred for my opinion. Smdh at my blackness being question because I dont agree with the majority! Maybe that our problem so quick to question someone else because they think different! You know what real she probably was dead on target! Yeah I said it! Stop putting so much on these damn educator teach your kid some home training before they get to school!

  • Anonymous

    Why do you doubt that Im a black woman wow Im 100% black and proud of my heritage just tired of the broad brush approach. I look at some of the kids now and say far worse than future criminals. Do you know that they build prison based on male childrens 3rd grade test scores.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lovelaughlivehealthy/ lovelaughlivehealthy

    Have you been in the schools? Are you a teacher, substitute, TA? If not, please hold your comments until you’ve had an opportunity to witness first hand why this might be “racist.” Our children go to school, only to be met by a predominately ‘white’ staff. If there something “racist” going on, we must first look at our hiring practices, and figure out why parents of color are okay with this.

  • eazy rawlins

    and nothing is going to change unless these sorry ass young mothers figure out that they cannot raise men, the fact that they have all these kids let you know they have no self control especially with the opposite sex so how can they control little boys that are going to grow up and be fatherless with no direction- young mothers mess up their kids especially the boys

  • Anonymous

    People like me wow! Did I state anywhere in my response that the DOE is all I rely on to educate my son. Goodness gracious I worked in a summer camp @ 15 the lil black boy slapped me in the face @ that point in 1995 I knew I couldnt work with children. Completely separate seems to be the theme okay I can disagree. I bet you didnt know that charter school dont require teacher who have or are working on there masters. I agree as well in regards to lack of education being an overall problem and not on that is tied directly to race! You quoted the percentage of white people why in your illustration you didnt do the same for African americans? Because the number are dismal in the least!

  • Anonymous

    I have a 4th grader who is in public school in Harlem so why cant I comment? I dont see the issue she stated her opinioin on her fb page freedom of speech she didnt tell the call all you guys are future criminials. So we should be protesting the FACT that they are building prisons based on our male childrens 3rd grade test scores! If the shoe fits wear it! These kids are in no way shape or form innocent parent are encouraging criminial lifestyles in there own children heads! Our hip hop artist stating how they flip this and that and made it. Its a damn same when a mother will encourage a sport in hops of the ill faded contract but the same mother wont come support a spelling bee its obvious people arent looking at the underlying problem what the children are being taught @ home! My son was in an all black staffed school and they got complaints because it wasnt diverse. We now have two ww teacher does there color make them any more or less qualified? maybe we should only hire teacher who come from the hood who have a better advantage to try and reach the youth!

  • Anonymous

    Oh and no Im a parent who has been a teacher aide in the class who has accompanied the class on trips who does come to the pta meeting and town hall meetings!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CreamNDaKoffee/ CreamNDaKoffee

    Wow. Seriously. Some of you act like everything is racism when it’s not. If that was the case, I’d pull the race card in my 14 yr old’s situation. She’s white and she has a diverse group of races that teach her ( or at least try to )….a majority of which are black teachers. Last year, I was always getting calls because of her behavior and/or attitude problems. She has been diagnosed with ADHD, but I choose not to medicate her. The cons of putting her on meds outweigh the pros. Her behavioral issues are real. I don’t say that just because her teachers are black and she is white that she is being targeted because the teachers are racist. That’s just plain dumb.

    I take responsibility for not disciplining her enough when she was younger. I spoiled each of my kids and gave them everything they ever wanted, even if they didn’t deserve it. I messed up and work hard to try to steer her in the correct direction now before it’s too late. Behavior problems start at home. It’s not the jobs of teachers to raise our kids or teach them how to act appropriately while at school. Kids should already know what is or is not acceptable behavior in any setting, because they should already know what will or will not get them beat down when they get home.

    Would I get offended because a teacher called my problem child a “future criminal”? No. Realistically speaking, if she doesn’t change her behavior she probably will be. I can stress the importance of getting an education until I’m blue in the face, but it’s up to her to use the opportunities to her advantage instead of wasting them.

    Just for the record, my oldest and youngest daughters are straight A/B honor roll students with no behavioral issues. They have had some of the same teachers so I am well aware that the problem is with my child, not them…..regardless of what race they are.

  • Anonymous

    Which comment are you referring to blame my poor job of multitasking @ work!

  • Anonymous

    Oh my second comment was to her originial question “Have you been in the schools? Are you a teacher, substitute, TA? If not, please hold your comments until you’ve had an opportunity to witness first hand why this might be “racist.” Our children go to school, only to be met by a predominately ‘white’ staff. If there something “racist” going on, we must first look at our hiring practices, and figure out why parents of color are okay with this.
    My reply to the first line was “Oh and no Im a parent who has been a teacher aide in the class,, who has accompanied the class on trips who does come to the pta meeting and town hall meetings!
    Which states I can comment because I am not one of the things see mention but a parent who has played all these roles in my son education.

  • Anonymous

    Are you serious well your assumption is way off mark! I have never dated a white man personally not attracted to them! I thought this was a site for black people but all I see are a bunch of racist black people still griping for the 40 acres and a mule! No one has to change for me in the slightest as I wont change for you no any other angry black man! Since that all you seem to come off as!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TOHUTFOGCQNB4XUJUZ6AWQSJDQ Adonis

    I do not agree with this reprimand. We all are aware of the landscape in that classroom in Paterson, NJ. We also know the culture and mindset of a large segment of today’s youth. She was referring to disruptive faction in her class. The group who have no interest in learning or doing better. Largely because they likely don’t have a authority figure at home etc….. Tough job being a teacher in that environment.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you as you can see Im not black because my view differs from the majority! Go figure!

  • Anonymous

    Hilarious are you serious! You are lost brother really lost! Let me ask what is your career shoot what state do you live in where you have such hate over a damn opinion. Funny thing is I have a nice dark black man in my corner!

  • Anonymous

    Wow you have such hatred its not even funny! The key points you state are true to an extent! Not all single mothers are on the path of destruction that you speak of. What alarming is that my son in one of the top students in his class. The teacher complimented how well verse he was in different areas and can provide a visual for some of the kids to understand what she is trying to teach. This president the same one who had issues accepting with who he was because of his fathers abandonment! To each their own my point was its not all white people and if llike you stated the mothers did a better job being a parent this would curtail some of this rugged behaviour. Its crazy when I honk my car horn and a 5 year old can imitate shooting me and he isnt displaying criminial behavior. GTFOH we as a people need to stop looking the other way when are kids are off the chain but get up in arms once another racial group speak based on statistic SMMFH! Black planet has done nothing but continue to feed you racial garbage that you jump on. Im defending the teacher who was white who I had a personal encounter with. So if you can classify them as a race who doesnt care about us than I guess they are correct in saying we all should go back to Africa and see how we fair there. My point was stop generalizing. If all white had this feeling history is wrong because I have read how WHITE PEOPLE from the beginning to the end of the slave trade help free our ancestors. You know what whatever! I guess im just a lost sheep than f**k it!

  • Anonymous

    You are not lost as u think.
    U are correct when u say we can’t mke blanket generalizations about ANY one race of people.
    And u are also right when u say that these kids are off the chain because parents are failing at parenting. I hate that society expects teachers to have to teach and deal with crazy off the hook kids.
    The guy said that most of these kids have mothers still in the club. OK! So what! Does that mean u blame the teachers?!
    Our race has its own problems that keep us down. We have a slave mentality. We have little wayne and other hiphop stars that spread self hatred and ignorance to an alarming shameful degree.
    We should attack the problems in our own race!

    Ps.
    I hate the fact that employers have the audacity to discipline people based on what they express on THEIR OWN facebook pages. That’s total Bullsh*t!
    We have freedom of speech supposedly and your facebook is YOUR FACEBOOK!
    Why is it that employers go looking into our private lives??

  • Anonymous

    I do agree that many white teachers have preconceived notions about Black students and are probably more agitated by Black kids disruption than white.
    But the real issue is Blck kids in inner city schools…many of them are totally off the chain in classrooms. That’s just the cold facts.
    Yes it is due to POOR PARENTING.
    So who is to blame?!
    The parents! Period!

  • Anonymous

    I do agree with u when u say if it were a class full of misbehaving white kids, she wouldnt’ve called them future criminals.
    She probably would’ve just vented that those crazy kids are giving her hell!
    But the way white america has linked Black skin to criminals, its very automatic that people (not just white ppl…but *2 be real* especially white ppl!) Will se future criminals when they see misbehaving black kids.

    Now ironically enough u must think deeper.
    See, in our racist society, with our Criminal Justice system and how it works, if u take 30 misbehaving white kids…and 30 misbehaving Black kids, what percentage do u think of white kids that would end up in jail, as opposed to Black kids??
    I dare say that 90% more Black kids would wind up in jail. That’s just based on the racist criminal justice system! Sooooo if the white psyche makes them automatically see Black bad kids as future inmates…, and we argue that they wouldn’t see white bad kids as future inmates….mayyybeee its because in the WORLD WE LIVE IN, this is a reality!! She sees it like that, because our world IS LIKE THAT!

  • Anonymous

    The truth always cuts the deepest is what I can see from this story! Teachers always get a bad wrap but have the hardest damn jobs. Some parents cant get there kids to listen let alone teach them home traininig but the teacher is responsible for that same child to retain knowledge!

  • Anonymous

    I just commented on “why are more black kids placed in Special Education”. Your sentiments are exactly what I thought.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Brandyfan322/ Brandyfan322

    Oh goodness, another white teacher calling their minority students some type of name. I am almost ready for someone to pull all white teachers out of rooms that teach predominate minority classes because there are way too many stories on this. We cant completely determine whether or not this a race issue. It could be or it also could’ve been that the people just had bad kids. Nowadays, no one takes the time out to properly teach and train their kids. Of course the NAACP was going to jump on this. Smh either way, she was wrong for this statement since she is the kids’ teacher. Don’t teach little kids if you don’t want rowdiness.

    Like most of the teachers that have been reported, she was only SUSPENDED so she’ll be back teaching that class soon. All you can do is shrug at this because she only got a slap on the wrist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6DJH7OJ664DE4HI2OG7KS6ZLLY MichaelG

    Maybe the teacher was right!

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