This one has to do more with Journalistic Inchoatic writing than the teaching profession.

Did the author have Intention Deficit Disorder?

Sigh … And yes, the original headline in the Daily Mail used the word “Student” instead of “Students.”

A Confirmative Action employee.

Florida School Principal Donelle Evensen Called Out for Assembly Threatening High-Achieving Black Student With Jail If They Do Not Improve Their Test Scores
Daily Mail UK | August 24, 2023 | Dominic Yeatman

A new school principal has outraged parents at a Florida elementary after she attempted to improve grades by ordering only her black students into a special assembly where they were warned they risk jail.

The fourth and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School were pulled together, irrespective of their test scores, and told that black students were underperforming.

‘It became racial for me when they included and boxed all of the black children together no matter if they were below average, average or above average,’ the mother of one high-performing student said.

Parents said their children were warned those with lower grades have a higher chance of going to jail, getting shot or getting killed.

But they were offered the chance to win ‘a meal from McDonalds’ if they improved their scores.

‘Now when my daughter has to go take a test, that’s in the back of her mind,’ parent Jacinda Arrington told WOFL.

‘They segregated our kids in 2023, they segregated our nine-year-olds.’

The school in Flagler county has 227 black and 696 whites among its 1,168 students and was allocated an overall C grade by the Florida Department of Education last year.

Principal Donelle Evensen only stepped into the role at the end of July but she has already been hauled into the office of school district interim superintendent LaShakia Moore.

‘I’ve had the opportunity to sit down with Bunnell Elementary Principal Donelle Evensen following an assembly of 4th and 5th-grade students,’ Ms Moore wrote in a statement.

‘We have been able to talk about what led to this assembly and steps that were or were not taken before or after it.

‘In speaking with Mrs. Evensen, it is clear there was no malice intended in planning this student outreach.

‘However, sometimes, when you try to think “outside the box”, you forget why the box is there.’

Words to live by.

From a comment on a website:

There has never been a U.S. President so obviously and thoroughly corrupt. It is shameful.

Media response: “But there’s no evidence.”
Democrat response: “Let’s indict Trump.”
GOP response: “I’m going to write a stern letter.”

I did a search on the internet — I used Startpage, which used to say “Powered by Google,” although they no longer advertise that.

Anyway, I was looking up the daughter of Monica Lewinsky’s main — ahem — squeeze.

One would think that, being in America, I could obtain some search results for the lone word “Chelsea.”

No.

About sixteen pages(!) of results showed me info on the football [soccer] team and the suburb of London. Not one on any human of that name. I gave up.

What do you make of this?

My personal theory is that BJ and Co. have contracted with Google to inform them when anyone searches a name of a person in their family. To streamline that process, it would save this family effort (in their basement server) if Google does not send them tons of alerts when anyone searches for any OTHER use of the name. BJ and Co. don’t want to have to sift through soccer team searches, or London suburb results, for example. To provide this pared-down, directed report, Google took the lazy way out: the searcher has to enter the family name — otherwise the search will be throttled. That way, Google doesn’t have to separate wheat from the chaff when passing on search info to BJ & Co.

1856: “Naturalization of Foreigners” by Tammany Hall, a Democrat political machine.

“Goodbye, Mr. Walrus, whatever your real name is! My sorority sisters and I will never, ever forget you!”