Baltimore City Public Schools had trouble keeping its schools heated this past winter, but the school district can afford to send 60 busloads of schoolchildren to an anti-gun rally in Washington, D.C., later this March.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced at a Tuesday rally that 60 buses will be commissioned to transfer roughly 3,000 kids to the nation’s capital so they can participate in the March for Our Lives protest that is set to be held at the end of the month.
BREAKING: Baltimore @MayorPugh50 says the city is organizing 60 free buses to send students to DC for the march against gun violence later this month. Says “let’s show Washington DC that Baltimore matters.” Wants 3,000 city students there. Will be providing lunches and t-shirts. pic.twitter.com/g4QIoS9baA
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
As reported by the Baltimore Sun’s Kevin Rector, the city of Baltimore will also provide the children with T-shirts and food for free, despite lacking the finances to provide warmth for the schoolchildren during the frigid winter months commonly experienced in the Northeast.
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However, the buses, food and T-shirts are not exactly free. At least, don’t tell that to the tax-paying residents of Baltimore who will have to foot the bill for the trip.
According to Pugh’s estimate, the endeavor will cost taxpayers roughly $100,000.
I just talked to @MayorPugh50. She said she estimates the buses, lunches and T-shirts she promised for Baltimore kids going to the March 24 #March4OurLives event in DC will cost Baltimore $100,000.
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
On Tuesday, Baltimore students protested gun violence in the U.S. by “laying down” in front of Baltimore’s City Hall.
NOW: Baltimore students are laying down in big numbers in front of City Hall to protest guns and gun violence. pic.twitter.com/7EjeoZtslM
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
As reported by Rector, students at the rally could be heard shouting chants such as, “No justice, no peace! No AR-15s,” and “This is what democracy looks like.”
A lot more students just arrived at this student protest against gun violence in Baltimore. They’re from public city high schools. One chant: “No justice, no peace! No AR-15s!” pic.twitter.com/ObArcAh5gz
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
“THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!” the students chant. pic.twitter.com/qG3dKJmdNq
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) March 6, 2018
While gun control seems to be the hot topic among Baltimore citizens as of late, a few months ago the city faced an abysmal infrastructural problem that withheld from its children a basic human necessity — warmth.
The Washington Post reported in January that some Baltimore schools had interior temperatures that dipped below 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
@EricaLG @baltimoresun This is the temp in a Baltimore City Public School Building. How is acceptable to put children through learning conditions like this? pic.twitter.com/08xstUNXcq
— Jeffrey San Filippo (@JeffSanFilippo) January 2, 2018
The frigid conditions prompted the Baltimore Teachers Union to send a letter to the school system’s chief executive, Sonja Santelises, asking to have the schools closed until the situation could be properly evaluated.
In total, over 60 schools recorded complaints regarding the conditions.
“Trying to provide a stable learning environment in these extreme conditions is unfair and inhumane, to say the least,” the BTU’s letter to Santelises read.
Santelises responded in a video, revealing that multiple factors contributed to the situation.
She stated: “So really, the combined challenges of sustained low temperatures that are truly unprecedented for this time of year, as well as the, frankly, very old condition of our buildings is just a combination that is proving, and has proved to be, quite challenging to manage.”
“The challenge is when you have systemic underinvestment for a number of years, eventually there’s a day of reckoning,” Santelises added. “And when you have a two-week cold spell, that’s what happens. Now it doesn’t make it okay for kids to be in cold classrooms, it doesn’t make it okay for those conditions to be in place, but it is the reality.”
Is this a joke! Baltimore is only second to south Chicago in murder lunacy. Their problem is a deep seeded cultural one not a school issue. This is local government completely out of control. Fix the animals in your city then determine if you even have a school gun violence issue.
They want to march against guns? In Baltimore? Probably most all in the hood have a gun.
Until white Americans deal with the Jews Controlling the media we will never solve the Negroe problem.This nation will Destory itself unless firm decisions and are made with regards to these damn animals.
The Negro’s use the same arguments against whites (“Whiteness”) that you and certain others use against Jews.
Of course it was a Jew who created the idea of “whiteness” in the first place! Look it up.
So how does that address my post?
If the voters had an ounce of brains, they would riot and fire the current public school system and use all the tax money for Vouchers for Conservative private schools that can pass the standardized tests. It’s not the guns stupid. Chicago is a gun free zone but has the highest murder rate in America; Switzerland requires gun ownership and has the lowest murder rate. Liberalism/Socialism/Communism destroys more countries and people than guns.
“…The Washington Post reported in January that some Baltimore schools had interior temperatures that dipped below 40 degrees Fahrenheit…”
That’s actually good experience for the kids. It’s the same temperature they keep it in that place where they will be wearing toe tags some day – thanks to Baltimore’s highest murder rate in the country.
I think they are aware of that, that’s the purpose of the gun control rallies and such.
So disarming the victims is yours and their solution?
Explain how you derive that from my post?
Assuming my position when I didn’t mention it is a foolish thing to be doing.
You don’t seem to grasp the meaning of a question mark.
“So disarming the victims is yours and their solution?”
The question mark at the end of my sentence indicates that I am ‘asking’ if that’s your position.
“Explain how you derive that from my post?”
The one at the end of your sentence seems misplaced as it is giving a directive.
“Assuming my position when I didn’t mention it is a foolish thing to be doing.”
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish…
A leading question is not a question, it is an implication.
And I didn’t call you a fool, I did mention the foolishness of unfounded assumptions, but you decided to imply I’m one without reason to do so.
Resulting to ad hominem as a response to a valid statement generally means you know you are wrong and are trying to avoid acknowledging it by insult intended to divert from valid argument.
Speaking of avoiding, you haven’t answered my question.
Er Uh’s don’ wan no guns …or edukashun . It be raciss
Doesn’t matter if they go to school or not – Neegrows resist learning anything – except how to steal.
School should be a place to learn – not an indoctrination camp.
Does anyone really care about Baltimore anymore? The city and the schools are both run by incompetent socialists wrote themselves off and into the dust bin of history years ago.
Do you really want to visit Baltimore for business or an Orioles game? These kids are being deceitfully and despicably used by their unionized handlers (aka teachers) and they cannot even recognize the fact…..neither can their parents.
Compare this to the recent articles about the inner city Washington DC schools and the same threads emerges where the teachers and the administrations are using the schools and the kids to “diddle” multiple levels of governments to score grant money.
The same thing is being done to the Broward County, FL schools as a former Chicago administrator is teaching them how to “spoof” the crime statistics to reflect drops in absenteeism and “police” situations……
Here in Liberal Lakes Minnesota – the unbelievable has happened:
Proposal would prohibit political “indoctrination” in public classrooms.
Recent controversy within the Edina School District was the subject of extended testimony during a Senate hearing on a bill aiming to limit political expression in state schools.
The bill, co-sponsored by two Republican senators, made its first stop at the E-12 Policy Committee on Thursday. It was passed on to the Education Finance Committee on a 5-3 vote.
The measure would require public and charter schools to pass an “academic balance” policy prohibiting school employees from having students “express specified social or political viewpoints” for academic credit or extracurricular participation.
The policy would mandate that students have “access to a broad range of serious opinions pertaining to the subjects of study” and prohibit discrimination based on a student’s personal beliefs.
“Public education courses are not for the purpose of political, ideological, religious, or antireligious indoctrination,” the bill language reads.
Lastly, it would “require caution from classroom teachers when expressing personal views in the classroom and prohibit the introduction of controversial matters without a relationship to the subject taught.”
Sen. Carla Nelson, R-Rochester, one of the bill’s authors, said it would keep schools focused on their academic curriculum and have anything that is not fact be presented “in a balanced way.”
Near the end of the article there is this little gem – that illustrates the brain wash:
Destiny Washington, a senior at the high school, said she has had many honest conversations with teachers and students and that she has never been “forced to believe something.”
“The reality is, we live in a world with a troubling history,” she said.
A world with a troubling history – when haven’t there been troubles. What a fucked up way of thinking.
Kids like to rebel, someone should inception the idea into these kids that they should rebel by bringing pro gun signs etc to the rally. Flip the script and fuck the tards who thought this up royally.
Let’s stop fooling ourselves , Baltimore has become a city in total control of a sub species of turd flinging monkeys .
When the city was majority white and white control it had a public school system copied nationwide . Then came the black invasion . As whites gave up and headed to the suburbs . Then came affirmative action and section 8 housing . Affirmative Action elavated many blacks to middle class status thru preference to government employment ( the number one employer in the state now)
Though blacks are 13.3% of the general population they make up 30% or more of government employees now there is equality regardless of performance or ability . So now joining the white flight to the burbs we have section 8 excrement and liberal government black employees voting how much the white population must fork over to them as our industrial base collapsed . Thank you LBJ and your great society , to bad LBJ didn’t go to Dallas rather than JFK . Hey it may have been different ?? Not likely !
Just a side note here. LBJ was in Dallas just not in JFK’s car.
In hiding , waiting to take the oath of office after the deed no doubt LOL
“When the city was majority white and white control….”
Couple things, the white flight wasn’t the only factor in play during that time frame. Industry left collapsing the local economy and tax base, drugs flooded in fueling crime.
and most critical, Baltimore is one of the last two major cities not part of a larger county, leaving the city financially isolated.
And that “white control” inlcuded decades of control by the D’Alesandro Machine. I know I don’t need to tell you about the rampant corruption during the era (they did things that would make a Chicago Alderman say “dude…now that’s f**king corrupt!”)
It’s hard to see in the picture, but I’m in the back seat of the cop car at the top of the article. That was a fun afternoon.
I see what you did there. And, yes… I scrolled up to look.
I didn’t take you for an Urban Jungle Savage.
Saw the video with that mayor, she looks like a genuine crackhead.
Perhaps it is time to permanently shut down the high schools in Baltimore. They are no longer about education but rather politics. An eight grade education is all they need. It would also save the tax payers lots of money.
The Kaufman Plan (named for it’s creator, my friend the late civil rights activist A. Robert Kaufman). The plan is to disincorporate the city and let it revert back to Baltimore County (which it was before 1851). The problems the city is currently facing would land in the laps of the city & state and thus forcing them to act. The flaw in the plan is that it requires all city politicians to essentially vote themselves out of office.
The same attitude is starting to take root in the rural areas. Same cause – rampant deindustrialization, lack of job opportunities, then in come the drugs, crime, breakups of families, etc.
Blacks aren’t more susceptible to it, they just got hit 1st. Before desegregation, they had their own stores, businesses, went to church on Sundays, strong communities, …
Then, the government provided incentives to ship jobs away and then the government came in to help fix the problem it created. Blacks haven’t recovered and now the same conditions are hitting whites. The opioid & meth problem is like crack was to black neighborhoods.