Non-Sequiturs: 06.15.07
* Who is this really protecting? Do women really need someone to tell us we can’t date this guy? Judging by an unscientific sample of good women dating assholes, kind of. [Feministing]
* Angelina’s lawyer self-deprecates; Angelina doesn’t disagree with his bone-headedness; even Jon Stewart is not immune to her charms. [Legal Profession Blog]
* ABC and Fox look the same to me right now. [BreitBart]
* If 22-year-old graduates with little (if any) teaching experience are fortunate enough to get a coveted, resume- and Ivy-worthy job with Teach for America, they will get health benefits — plus a free pass to say things like “I found my fellow teachers intelligent, caring and effective” and “I have no idea why so many low-income parents make sacrifices to send their kids to private schools” (to peers who did indeed survive public schools) — before bailing for law school. [Citizen-Times]
* And because I am grateful to live in the free world, I encourage everyone to voice his or her opinions whenever given the chance. Of course, these bloggers do so with full disclosure of their identities in the face of harsh political consequences, but we can’t help that we’re cowardly, coddled, self-obsessed risk-averse lawyers living in the U.S. [All Africa]
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Item #3 = LOL...
Annoyingly unfunny, that is.
Why the gratuitous shot at Teach for America?
Stella Q is responding to that commenter from the other day (follow the link).
Item #4 makes no grammatical sense.
you just have to read #4 very carefully - it's like a shitty contract provision, with a maze of embedded references
Teach for America is ritualized hazing for the overconfident, overachieving kids from America's elite schools.
They are thrust into an environment where they learn that test scores and pedigree aren't always the effective formula for substantial, immediate success.
Then once the egos are knocked down a few rungs as public school teachers, they retreat into the law school environment, where they quickly relearn that test scores and pedigree are the key elements to achieving immediate success (or at least a $160,000 starting salaries at a firm of their choice in a fast-paced city like New York, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Atlanta ... wait, not Atlanta)
Then the process repeats.
Puts me in mind of an old chestnut from The Onion:
"Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30911
Oh, and as a fellow public school graduate, you need to be a better writer too.
Way to go Stella Q! Why should Lat have all the fun pissing people off?
Uh, which one is the Roy Pearson link?
Link #3 (re: how ABC screwed up by running Marion Barry's photo in a Roy Pearson story).
While I agree that TFA is an inherently flawed program, I love how Stella failed to actually respond to any of the substantive criticism. Like oh, the fact that "local politicians" don't tend to call NYC school teachers intolerant/racist or doubt that the NYC public schools system is one of the best urban systems in the country (if not the best), and that the guy who donated $ to the archdiocese said it was because of his feelings about catholicism, nothing to do with public schools.
I dont imagine you're a very good lawyer if all you can respond to actual merit-based criticism with is cheap irrelevant shots about the commenters credentials.
Who's the entitled one?
Since Item #3 had absolutely nothing to do with TFA, and Stella Q has shown that she has an almost rabid disdain for public school teachers, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that she tried it, failed miserably, and is looking around for someone to blame other than her own sorry self. As a teacher now headed to law school and leaving on a very high note, I only say this: get therapy.