While Texas FLDS parents travel hundreds of miles to pick up their children, children who remain under CPS supervision indefinitely and parents in thrall to that public agency, another public entity in California demonstrates what proper indoctrination of children looks like:
It wasn’t your typical field trip that Danielle Quinto took her fourth-grade class at Our Community School in North Hills on last week.
Her 25 students - all from lower- to middle-class working families - didn’t go to the Los Angeles Zoo or Travel Town.
Instead, they went to see men whom they said scared them, men they thought were dangerous and stole things.
Quinto took her class of 9-year-old children on a field trip to a city-funded, day-labor work site in North Hollywood near a Home Depot.
“It was a little weird taking the kids on a field trip like this, but it turned out to be a teacher’s dream,” the young, charter school teacher said Monday. [...]
Quinto said she watched one man start to cry as he talked about missing his family and trying to earn the money to feed and house them.
“She (the student questioner) didn’t know a word of Spanish, but she had this incredible empathy on her face I’d never seen before. It was beautiful,” said Quinto.
“She had no idea what he was saying, but she knew it was important.”
Who says that public schools no longer teach critical thinking?
Pingback by a-foton » Speaking of child abuse [Darleen Click] on 6/3 @ 7:52 am #
[...] Ed Brill wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhile Texas FLDS parents travel hundreds of miles to pick up their children, children who remain under CPS supervision indefinitely and parents in thrall to that public agency, another public entity in California demonstrates what proper indoctrination of children looks like: It wasn’t your typical field trip that Danielle Quinto took her fourth-grade class at Our Community School in North Hills on last week. Her 25 … [visit site to read more] [...]
Comment by Education Guy on 6/3 @ 8:10 am #
The great thing about this is that if you mock the raising of emotion as a sign of deep meaning, then you can simply be painted as uncaring and heartless and thus ignored.
Comment by Pablo on 6/3 @ 8:21 am #
What he was saying is important. “I can’t speak English so my chances of getting a real job are so low that I’m stuck out here waiting for someone who needs unskilled labor to stop by and offer me some work.”
Comment by dantealiegri on 6/3 @ 8:25 am #
What I find interesting about this is the teacher is implying that what the man is saying isn’t important, what he is *feeling* is what is important.
But I suppose it’s just a more explicit example of what some people have always believed.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/3 @ 8:28 am #
I didn’t know there was a Home Depot in North Hollywood.
Comment by Radish on 6/3 @ 8:34 am #
Quinto said she watched one man start to cry as he talked about missing his family
But the kids are raising money to keep him here instead of raising money for a bus ticket back to the family? Heartless brutes.
Pingback by Michelle Malkin » A public school field trip…to the local illegal alien day labor center on 6/3 @ 8:39 am #
[...] Darleen Click points to this L.A. Daily News report on a 4th-grade public school field trip to a local illegal alien day labor site: It wasn’t your typical field trip that Danielle Quinto took her fourth-grade class at Our Community School in North Hills on last week. [...]
Comment by Roboc on 6/3 @ 8:49 am #
Next, send them on a field trip to a hospital emergency room, where the hospital staff struggles to process and care for an unending line of illegals, who use emergency room for routine medical services, and end up draining the resources away from legal residents who need emergency medical care.
BTW, I lived in San Diego for 26 years, and experienced this firsthand. I broke a couple of fingers at an OTL tournament and went to the Alvarado emergency room. I asked the nurse if it was always this crowded(I had to wait four hours), and she remarked that 75% of their cases were now illegal aliens requiring non-emergency care. She added that the hospital wouldn’t get a cent for treating any of them.
Fortunately, I didn’t live in an area where emergency facilities were actually closed because they were not being paid or reimbursed for their services rendered to illegals.
If they miss their families, they’re free to go home. If their government isn’t being run well, vote for someone who’ll change the economic policies. In other words, quit bitching, and bring about change in your own counry.
Comment by Cowboy on 6/3 @ 9:00 am #
I double-dog denounce myself for any part I had in educating teachers and teachers’ aides like this one.
Can a brother get a repudiation?
Comment by JD on 6/3 @ 9:20 am #
Cowboy - When you going to come down for a visit ?
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 6/3 @ 9:32 am #
Hey, my school isn’t teaching my kids to trust and sympathize with strange, transient men standing on street corners in gritty parts of town. Why does California get all the innovation?
Comment by Roboc on 6/3 @ 9:38 am #
Hey, my school isn’t teaching my kids to trust and sympathize with strange, transient men standing on street corners in gritty parts of town. Why does California get all the innovation?
Must be a part of the sex education/community outreach curriculum!
Comment by Ouroboros on 6/3 @ 9:53 am #
What a great idea.. Maybe next fieldtrip can be to the local Hooverville to hang with the drunks, addicts and psychos..LA has several charming ones. Now there’s a real education..Just make sure the kids get their shots before going and wear gloves while they’re there.
Bums.. to know them is to love them.
Comment by Great Banana on 6/3 @ 10:12 am #
I’m not sure I understand. Why did the school have a field trip about lawn maintenance?
Comment by Big Dan on 6/3 @ 10:39 am #
Teaching the little darlings that undocumented workers always have the best candy. Make sure you to fail to understand what they reply. Just nod Yes and go back with them.
UNDOCUMENTIST!
Comment by Roboc on 6/3 @ 10:42 am #
It was the “lawn and landscaping meerkat” exhibit at the Big Box Store Zoo. It depicts the struggles of the “undomcumented” clan foraging daily for their survival and avoiding the predatory “ICE” officials.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 6/3 @ 11:08 am #
Did anyone else read that the judge in the FLDS case has ordered the return of all but one of the 440 kids being held hostage by TXCPS? The dragnet managed to snare one (1) abused 16 year-old girl.
I want Nishi to explain how this reveals a pattern of abuse and “babyfucking.”
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/3 @ 11:58 am #
no you don’t. trust me on this.
Comment by Cowboy on 6/3 @ 12:03 pm #
JD:
We really need to work that out.
I’ve got a much easier schedule this summer–so I’ll email you, OK?
Comment by Jack Klompus on 6/3 @ 12:44 pm #
There’s an incredibly aggressive lefty poster at Patterico who got caught posting links to documents that supposedly lent evidence to his point of view on an issue. He got called on the fact that he did not even read the document, an ACLU report that he declared was gospel truth through and through. When asked how he could know if he admittedly did not read it he angrily replied:
“You don’t have to read something to know its contents. I’ve gotten A’s on papers I’ve written and tests I’ve taken about books I’ve never read.”
Comment by B Moe on 6/3 @ 1:21 pm #
“She had no idea what he was saying, but she knew it was important.â€Â
Nishfong’s life story.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/3 @ 1:37 pm #
Duh. Everyone had to know what was going on, therefore they’re collectively guilty. Besides, it’s all about states rights and clearing out the infestation of the theocon polyg leeches.
Comment by Merovign on 6/3 @ 2:27 pm #
Were I a parent of one of these kids, I would SO cuss the living Hell out of the teacher, the principal, the district office…
Shut the damned schools down, there’s officially no difference between going to school and hanging out on street corners. Literally, in this case.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 6/3 @ 2:34 pm #
“Shut the damned schools down”
But that would disqualify EVERY kid from the Subway Sandwich essay contest.
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Comment by Merovign on 6/3 @ 7:06 pm #
Jack: bonus!
Comment by McGehee on 6/3 @ 7:09 pm #
It takes a village to sexually abuse a child.