WTF, Over?

[elfs]

So I'm doing the news thing today and there's the usual load o' bollocks available. There's this charming article in which a Jewish seminary student tells gays and lesbians that the Nazis didn't kill enough of them for them to lay claim to the Holocaust. Concerned Women For America wishes to inform you that not a single signer of the Declaration of Indepenence "really wanted" to own slaves. They all had to, y'see, because, uh, well, money was more important that principle to our Founding Fathers, or something like that. Agapepress tells us that same-sex marriage threatens military readiness. And Susan Sanford in Colorado reminds her readers that the penalty for "abomination" is death.

But what floors me is an article by teaching school graduate Marquis Harris. Mr. Harris has rather an impressive resume: Rhodes nominee, National Dean's List honoree, former intern to Representative Saxby Chambliss, various other honors. He wanted an inner city teaching job somewhere in Georgia, doing high school.

Here's what he was told:

Though your qualifications are quite impressive, I regret to inform you that we have selected another candidate. It was felt that your demeanor and therefore presence in the classroom would serve as an unrealistic expectation as to what high school students could strive to achieve or become.

My jaw just about dropped out of my head. This is the complete opposite of Megazone's recent observation that American kids expect too much. Here, black students are being told to expect very little and being kept away from role models who might hold out more hope from them than dead-end service jobs.