Liberalism Gone Amok: Children Read to Dogs at Virginia Library

Before he graduates..he may want to take a refresher course in English. I'm just sayin'.....I'd suggest spelling and sentence structuring.

 

Dogs understand books read to them better than do liberals.

 

That is true, only conservatives are well versed in having people read to them!! Liberals prefer to read for themselves, and they are able to comprehend!! So many on the right are still incapable of reading beyond a kindergarten level, and therefore require others to read for them!!

 

Here you go, frodly. I found the U of M catalog from my freshman year. I was partially mistaken in that the particular scholarship I received did not have any equivalent racial qualifiers and the numbers I gave were off. However, the core of what I said is true and provable.

http://www.memphis.edu/ugcatalog/archive/bull9697/service.htm

It doesn't get much plainer than that. The exact same scholarship available to African-Americans with an ACT of 27 and to everyone else with a score 3 points higher.

Then they also had this:

Notice that they call it a "minority scholarship" and then proceed to limit it to only African-Americans. Also notice that it covers all tuition and books for the milquetoast score of 20 on the ACT which was pretty much the bare minimum to be accepted period.

Anyone else had to either score a 26 on the ACT just to get the tuition covered without books, or a 30 on the ACT and a .45 point higher GPA to get the full ride.

And those are just the ones that were offered directly from the University. There were several others available for African Americans from the several colleges, alumni, fraternities, a local radio station, etc...Look for yourself, the word "African" appears 15 times in that document.

To see how ridiculous the whole situation was check this out, from the same document:

Notice they call it "The Office of Minority Affairs" and then go on to say that they advise "African-American" students, not minority students, "African-American students". So there was one Advisor's office for black students and another Advisor's office for everyone else.

What made the whole thing even more absurd is that this was in Memphis, TN where everyone BUT "African-Americans" were a minority.

So, yes, they did "give set requirements" and I do "know that minorities had lower requirements".

 

Of course it is.

Without an intelligent audience, or at least one able to read....who is to distinguish between a child actually reading...or simply going woof..woof..doggy...while holding a book?

 

liberals do not want to concern themselves with your facts.

 

That is interesting!! I am well aware of the fact, that there are scholarships intended for only certain racial, ethnic, etc minorities. I have just never seen a scholarship intended for everyone, so blatantly marketed in that fashion. It is probably because it is a policy that has changed since then, or because the culture I went to school in was different than the one in Memphis, but I have never seen anything like that before. I imagined that race was a factor in these sorts of decisions, but never saw it explicitly stated like that before.

 

My son's school has a program like this, it is a special privilege to read to the therapy dog. My son was trilled to do it, so I don't see a reason to be against it. Getting kids excited about reading is a good thing. Of course 99% of the time my child either reads to himself, me, his teacher or other humans. I don't see what the problem is.

 

That's just how things work in Memphis. They may have changed it now but I looked in the 2006 bulletin and those same requirements or ones very similar were still there. Also, this is a public University using public funds.

That's why when I see people crying about racism against white people I don't instantly berate and mock them. Even though the person crying about it may be playing victim (and on this forum that is very often the case) doesn't mean that there aren't real people who are adversely affected by that very real racism. And, it isn't "white people" that are discriminated against in these cases, it is "poor white people"; generally, poor white people with barely a voice who are shouted down and mocked any time they dare to point out the discrepancies. The "white man's privilege" doesn't apply to all white people.

 

How can you identify a liberal? His lips move when he tries to read. A liberal learns all he needs to know from brief, easily read talking points from the DNC and from Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Michael Moore, and Rev. Wright. For liberals, special ed classes qualify as advanced placement programs. Liberals admit they have no hope of getting ahead without the government's help, poor things.

Reading to dogs also leads to more intelligent discussions than reading to liberals. Simply screaming "It's Bush's fault" doesn't really qualify as a discussion

 

I won that, you should stop!! It is now just rubbing salt in the wound!!

 

Its too bad you didn't learn to pay attention to facts and reason in your school.

It is well-documented that the children of educated people do MUCH better than the children of people who didn't have good opportunities for education.

Now, I don't know how old YOU are, but in MY childhood which included the Civil rights act occurring just after elementary school, the parents of my minority co-students had gone to some of the worst dumps of k-12 schools, if being allowed to attend school AT ALL, and college-educated minority parents were rare, simply because many colleges simply did NOT allow minorities to attend!

So MY parents, BOTH college graduates, KNEW the importance of school and could help me with it, whereas MOST minority kid's parents had the 6th grade education to share.

TO make up for 200 years of that difference and the ENORMOUS advantage whites had from generations of educational and financial government granted advantages, the minority kids got .5 GPA break to get into college.

The WHINING of the "poor put-upon White Man" is nauseating.

The arrogant feeling that people born on 3rd base have THEMSELVES "hit a triple" is the TRUE "Entitlement Attitude".

 

I'm not old as dirt like you. The facts that I presented happened very recently and like I said, growing up I went to the EXACT SAME SCHOOL or at least type of school that these African-Americans went to. The only difference between my education and the education of the African-Americans was the color of the skin that we dragged to school everyday. This isn't some BS that went down way back when.

You should realize that just because you were "born on third base" with a silver spoon in your mouth doesn't mean that is the condition of all white people. Since you admittedly came from a privileged background and aren't subject to this discrimination it is hypocritical of you to tell poor people to suck it up and accept the discrimination against them.

See that's what burns me up, it is always the privileged spoiled kids who want to try and shame people and shout them down merely for pointing out a blatant act of racial discrimination in the modern day. They think that since they aren't subject to the same injustices then other people must simply be whining.

Like I said earlier, "The "white man's privilege" doesn't apply to all white people." If it applies to you then fine, shut up and be privileged but don't insist that other people pay the price for YOUR PRIVILEGE.

 

Judging skills is not judging the individual. There's plenty of time to read to one's self. Education involves using mentors - educators, parents, etc. - to receive feedback on one's efforts. A dog gives only one type of feedback, so it's not particularly conducive to learning any more than quiet reading time would be.