Screaming "WTFBBQ???????!!!!!!!"
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Last week, Michelle Jimenez Reyes, mother of a Travis Elementary School student in San Antonio’s inner-city schools, discovered that her daughter’s school library was closed – with eight weeks to go before the end of the schoolyear.
It was only the latest shocker since the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) announced they were shuttering six inner-city schools – citing decreasing enrollment. The city of San Antonio is one of the largest cities in Texas, and with over a million residents, is not losing population. It’s building new schools – in the farthest reaches of its spidery suburbs as its citizens move out in search of jobs and cheap housing, leaving behind the oldest and most valuable inner-city housing stock remaining in Texas.
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The story of thousands of schoolchildren without a library and books should be front-page news. Since when did sending inner-city children to bigger schools become a positive educational step in a city concerned with high dropout rates? The story of established neighborhood schools – with acceptable school rankings – closing their doors for lack of enrollment should be a reason for investigative stories by the media. The community should be outraged, right?
Not in San Antonio. Who’s going to tell this story? Here, one Hearst chain newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News is blitzing its ads on the front page as it seeks even more profits. Corporations, according to Jimenez Reyes, are the real power behind the closing of the six schools in a balance-the-budget bottom-line mentality as the developers seek prime inner-city real estate.
Accordingly, the newspaper’s editorial legitimized the SAISD’s budget-tightening decision as a positive move toward staunching the city’s high dropout rate.
On the other side of the street, the alternative paper, the San Antonio Current stuffed with sex ads, doesn’t have the time to follow the story.
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Michelle De LaRosa, reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, interviewed the Travis Elementary School parents after the library’s closing. According to Reyes Jimenez, she took notes but didn’t ask questions. She seemed unresponsive, and she told the parents she wasn’t sure she could do a story. When the parents around her brought up the SAEN’s corporate interests, she got defensive.
“What do you want me to do? I also work for a corporation.”
WHAT!!!!!!
WTFBBQ!?!?!?
*SCREAMS*
WHEN THE FUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKK WILL WE REALISE THAT RUNNING ESSENTIAL SERVICES LIKE CORPORATIONS WILL FUCK THE POOR OVER SO BAD THAT THE USA WILL BE A THIRD COUNTRY IN NO TIME FLAT?!?!?!?!? ACTUALLY, WILL WE FUCKING CARE!!!!!
Deregulation!!! Media consolidation!! Profits over people!! Oh DAMN, DAMN, DAMN THE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC ENABLERS, DAMMIT!!
Last week, Michelle Jimenez Reyes, mother of a Travis Elementary School student in San Antonio’s inner-city schools, discovered that her daughter’s school library was closed – with eight weeks to go before the end of the schoolyear.
It was only the latest shocker since the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) announced they were shuttering six inner-city schools – citing decreasing enrollment. The city of San Antonio is one of the largest cities in Texas, and with over a million residents, is not losing population. It’s building new schools – in the farthest reaches of its spidery suburbs as its citizens move out in search of jobs and cheap housing, leaving behind the oldest and most valuable inner-city housing stock remaining in Texas.
...
The story of thousands of schoolchildren without a library and books should be front-page news. Since when did sending inner-city children to bigger schools become a positive educational step in a city concerned with high dropout rates? The story of established neighborhood schools – with acceptable school rankings – closing their doors for lack of enrollment should be a reason for investigative stories by the media. The community should be outraged, right?
Not in San Antonio. Who’s going to tell this story? Here, one Hearst chain newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News is blitzing its ads on the front page as it seeks even more profits. Corporations, according to Jimenez Reyes, are the real power behind the closing of the six schools in a balance-the-budget bottom-line mentality as the developers seek prime inner-city real estate.
Accordingly, the newspaper’s editorial legitimized the SAISD’s budget-tightening decision as a positive move toward staunching the city’s high dropout rate.
On the other side of the street, the alternative paper, the San Antonio Current stuffed with sex ads, doesn’t have the time to follow the story.
...
Michelle De LaRosa, reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, interviewed the Travis Elementary School parents after the library’s closing. According to Reyes Jimenez, she took notes but didn’t ask questions. She seemed unresponsive, and she told the parents she wasn’t sure she could do a story. When the parents around her brought up the SAEN’s corporate interests, she got defensive.
“What do you want me to do? I also work for a corporation.”
WHAT!!!!!!
WTFBBQ!?!?!?
*SCREAMS*
WHEN THE FUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKK WILL WE REALISE THAT RUNNING ESSENTIAL SERVICES LIKE CORPORATIONS WILL FUCK THE POOR OVER SO BAD THAT THE USA WILL BE A THIRD COUNTRY IN NO TIME FLAT?!?!?!?!? ACTUALLY, WILL WE FUCKING CARE!!!!!
Deregulation!!! Media consolidation!! Profits over people!! Oh DAMN, DAMN, DAMN THE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC ENABLERS, DAMMIT!!
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Date: 2008-05-09 03:07 am (UTC)But I totally agree with your sentiments.
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Date: 2008-05-09 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-05-09 11:21 am (UTC)Pisses me off.
Hell, I think we're seeing more and more schools have libraries but don't even higher librarians w/ a degree anymore. It's just parents volunteering.
I think people are just becoming ridiculously self-centered. If it's not happening to their kid, then everything is alright and it's just lazy parents gaming the wasteful system of government, when they could just shut their legs and stop having kids. Bleh.
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Date: 2008-05-09 03:15 pm (UTC)