Irish Catholic Education #143 Rules of the Writing Trade!
By Dr. Patrick ODougherty+
+Contrast this education with the first Afro-American School in America,Dunbar High School in DC.
+This school is a Suicide Cocktail in American Public School Education. It is a defunct D.C. Afro-American High School.
Contrast Dunbar with St. Thomas the Apostle Grade School in South Minneapolis.
What happens when you let government people run a school system? It is Dunbar, then! The students won't be able to function when they graduate? Public school education in America has become a suicide cocktail.
Contrast Tools and patterns of St Thomas the Apostle Grade School and the failed Dunbar Experiment in Black Education when government people got involved.
First Grade:
My earliest grade school memories were learning phonetics with Sister Ann Cecilia at St. Thomas the Apostle Grade School. She new the patterns and contrast of reading and writing. She introduced us to an Easterbrook fountain pen with dark blue ink cartridges. Our family bought its first TV at this time a day it was set up in our family's den at 3317 West 44th Street. We watched grey screen newscasts and learned weather reports and learned Latin from Altar Boy teaching cards.
Second Grade:
My second grade memory was with sister Theodora. We were introduced to a crystal radio set an Latin Grammar.
Third Grade: In this grade I joined Pinky Lee TV show where I did minor comedy skits.
Fourth Grade: I learned crayon drawing with Sister Antonella. I miss drew a foreshadowed step in a ladder in my drawing throwing the drawing off.
Fifth Grade: I learned how to time music with a metronome.
Sixth Grade: I had a lesson in character development with the stump the teacher game with the teacher, Sister Lawrence.
Seventh Grade: Sister Mary Regis had police calls to the schools about terrorism in Russia. We learned how to use a clapper in her class. We learned fraudulent news reporting from this nun.
Eighth Grade: --Sister Bridgetta led nuclear Bomb drill exercises for the students. Then we shared films about the exercises after the drills.
Ninth Grade:
Benilde High School students read the Great Imposter starring Tony Curtiss. False comparisons in literature were the basis of our class.
TenthGrade: I read Charles Dickens Great Expectations and learned false mentoring.
Eleventh Grade: In Mrs. Anderson's class's I studied
the Red and the Black by Stendhal. This novel is the foundation of the psychological novel.
Twelfth Grade--Our class had philosophy studies with Frank Ario. We did critical thought studies on A.J. Ayer. There is no light at the end of the tunnel is his position.
Vocabulary Project: Dunbar School is an An American Apocalypse in Education! Dunbar School is the first Afro-American public school. It is a D.C failed educational experiment.
What happens when one lets government people run the schools? A suicide cocktail is created.
Journal entry--The Opening of Class at Dunbar began with the gimme prayer!
Combining Patterns of excellence in education:.A comparison and contrast writing exercise. St. Thomas the Apostle stands for excellence in education. Dunbar stands for Apocalypse.
Thematic Connections--Connect St. Thomas the Apostle with patterns of excellence American education with the patterns of failure inculcated into the students at Dunbar. They graduated to the below the bar.
Writing Workshop:
Counter the legacy and narrative of St. Thomas the Apostle Grade School with the tragic rise and fall of Dunbar the nation's first Black public school.
The Band?
And the Dunbar Band played on at Barack Obama's Inaugural. The band played on. Dunbar is a experiment in America's capital. It stands for the rise and failure of an educational experiment. It is a government educational suicide cocktail.
What happens with you mix government with education. It is an experiment doomed to fail. This is the also the truth of Dyett High in Chicago.
compelling read, well done
Never stop writing
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Private schools play on this affect. Location is also very important. My central Wisconsin high school town was two thirds Roman Catholic. Public high school was free with good teachers. Catholic high school was expensive with teachers of unknown quality. As far as I can gauge it after 50 years, the public school graduates, many who were Roman Catholic, have done very well for themselves.
Ron