Recent Comments
Re: “Activist urges city to release police video”
I'm certain the 2 suspended officers can go to work at the Gates NY police dept. They condone and protect brutality, filing false charges and perjury. I speak from absolute experience.
Re: “RPD video strengthens calls for more oversight”
This is a Monroe County problem. If an officer is dismissed from the Rochester police dept, he will assuredly be welcome at the Gates NY police dept where unnecessary violence, filing false charges and perjury is permitted and condoned. So if you live in Rochester on the cusp of Gates and get violated in Gates, folks will act like you were assaulted in Albany NY as if Gates is some far away town. It's shameful. There is NO invisible partition separating Gates and Rochester.
Re: “People of color much worse off here, report says”
The report offers this definition of structural racism: "A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing, ways to perpetuate racial group inequity."
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THIS is extremely TRUE from the school to the job. What is equally as disturbing is that many Blacks in Rochester NY help to perpetuate the white mans evil ways.
Re: “RCSD students still struggle with the basics”
But in Rochester, precious few students are proficient in math or English. Few function at grade level. For instance, only 6.7 percent of city students are proficient in English language arts, up two points from last year. And math scores declined by 0.2 percent, which leaves just 7.2 percent of city students proficient.
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As a parent of a high functioning autistic Black male child i must declare that ....it ALL begins at HOME. He scores HIGHER than the students with no special educational needs that are considered proficient. Living in Rochester NY --- UNDER a Brooklyn roof.
Re: “Looking for positives in city schools’ news”
Smaller class size, for ONE.
Holding students accountable for bad behavior, NO BULLYING.
All staff must adhere to the SAME rules/regulations. No favoritism, nepotism, RACISM or cronyism.
I'd send my children to a Charter well before I'd put up with all the foolishness in the Diss Trick.
Re: “Dems say proposed integrity office lacks independence”
The ability for the fox to guard the hen house is too common in Monroe County, who are these people fooling ?
"While the aim of the legislation is laudable, its current form only gives 'public integrity' lip service, primarily because the office would not have independence, as recommended by the Association of Inspectors General," Wilcox said in a press release sent out by Democrats after the vote. "You can't expect someone to honestly investigate the person who signs their paycheck and can fire them at will."
Re: “Monroe County Jail launching drug treatment unit”
More addiction to combat addiction. Big Pharma stays paid