A reader commented, with reference to Arne Duncan’s infamous remark, followed by Frank Bruni’s column on “coddling” our kids:
Really, it’s like a very bad joke: a food critic and a basketball player walk into a bar and insult white suburban mothers and their kids, twice.
Wish I could find the humor in it.
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It may get sillier if we ask Bill Gates to comment on the topic of parents and children. How parenting is impacted by our children’s lost brilliance and grit?
Still not funny, but we can keep gathering so-called expert comments by total non-experts in education.
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Duncan was coddled. Look at his behavior.
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Frank Bruni should stick with coddled eggs.
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I believe that might be a quite adequate description of the Dunkster’s brain-“coddled”.
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That is if he isn’t actually a scarecrow in disquise!
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I think most people—even prominent columnist Frank Bruni and Obama buddy, Arne Duncan—would agree that it’s reprehensible to stereotype any human being by virtue of their nationality or ethnicity.
Why then is it not equally reprehensible to castigate white mothers or our current generation of K-12 students?
Are Duncan and Bruni somehow immune from all this and entitled to some sort of free pass in those instances?
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“Really, it’s like a very bad joke: a food critic and a basketball player walk into a bar and insult white suburban mothers and their kids, twice.”
I think the joke is on them.
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A food critic and a basketball player walk into a bar…..That explains a lot!! They must have been loaded when Duncan made the remark and Bruni wrote about it.
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