What Is the Source of the Dilemma of Black Urban Education?
Charles: I read this book Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment2 years ago and found complicity between school administrators and juvenile authorities. They make money from charging our kids with crimes. Rudy: Charles, yes, I checked the amazon reviews on Zero Tolerance. A more extensive review of the work from your perspective would be welcomed. Though I am always suspicious of Jesse Jackson, who blamed black parents in the late 70s like Bill Cosby recently for their kids lack of performance, I’d be quite interested in what Bernardine Dohrn has to say. I worked in a magnet school last year and found the black principals (we had two in one year, a man and a woman) outrageously authoritarian, stupidly self-centered and self-promoting. In another instance, there was a news report extended over a period of months of a Richmond, Virginia, middle school that brought in a white principal from the suburbs who was so cocky that he knew that he could set the school on track. The fi
