Reader response: Types of Crimes
Doc Scott, from the Reducing Violence Study Committee, would like to share these thoughts. Any comments?
The truth will set you free; let talk about crime in Jacksonville. There are three types of crimes going on in this city perpetrate on one race of people. These crimes have elements of racism, nepotism, deception, politic and religion. Too often we focus on the physical form of crime in Jacksonville. This city overlook the real crimes that have long term affect on this city; because it affect only one race of people. This crime involved taking money from the lower to middle income people on the Northside; and given to the boule’s class of black ministers or the political connected republican black folks in this city.
Times Union Article
There are many reasons the decision by Mayor John Peyton and the City Council to give $1.1 million of taxpayer money to First Timothy Baptist Church to build a gym is just flat-out wrong. The gym will sit on church-owned property, and $600,000 of Lockett-Felder's bond money will help pay for it.
As has been reported, the push by Councilwoman Pat Lockett-Felder to give the money to the church, which is pastored by the politically connected Frederick Newbill and which counts Councilman Reggie Fullwood as a member of its congregation, overrode an earlier decision by the council and mayor that determined district bond money should only be used on publicly owned property. Ken Hurley, the president of the Jacksonville chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, raised another question in an e-mail to council members and Peyton.
He asked if the deal violates the part of the state constitution that reads:
"No revenue of the state or any other political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."
There's another fundamental question Peyton and council members need to answer.
The remainder of the $1.1 million gift to the church - $500,000 - comes from the Northwest Jacksonville Economic Development Trust Fund. You may remember that when voters approved the Better Jacksonville Plan, they approved $25 million to go into the economic development trust fund.
A slick booklet promoting the Better Jacksonville Plan called it "a growth management, transportation, environmental and economic development plan for the future."
The ordinance implementing the Better Jacksonville Plan said the trust fund is for "targeted economic development."
The ordinance also said the money raised by the half-cent increase in the sales tax would only be used for programs listed in the ordinance. Economic development is listed over and over. A church gym isn't mentioned anywhere.
How can Peyton and the council so easily ignore what voters voted on and spend Better Jacksonville Plan money on a gym that has nothing to do with economic development? Jacksonville.com
History
This city racism and nepotism goes back as far as the early 1900’s; when the mayor of Jacksonville at that time and other white powerbrokers agree to keep blacks in one part of town. This side of town was full of paper mills, chemical companies, dump sites and other harmful manufacturers. The crime here is racism through redlining communities by races. The affect on the health condition of the people (blacks and poor whites) in those area are affect their family today in school and the communities. All over the Northside of Jacksonville are harmful toxic sites, Jefferson Street Pool, Lonnie Miller Park, and schools on the Northwest side of Jacksonville.
2006, over a hundred year’s later racism, and nepotism still existed in the Mayor’s office. When will we as a city have a government that care about all people and believes in doing the right thing in Jacksonville regardless of party, races or income? The 90 percent of the people on the Northside are very good citizens just like the people who live in Queen Harbor, Sawgrass or anywhere else in Jacksonville. To be honesty I would say they are better because they take the little they have and do fantastic jobs to raise there family. The problem with most people in the city they let racism, nepotism, politic and religion keep them from seeing the truth.
Let talk about the crimes that take place in Jacksonville against blacks.
1. First, Political crime against blacks (Mayor Office, Black Ministers and Politicians). Political crime is the most criminal element there is because it affect hundred, or thousands of people for years to come. This is part of why we have violence crime, poverty driven workforce, high risk health condition for a lot of the people on the Northside and economic inequality.
a. The Better Jacksonville Plan sold to the black community by the black republican ministers and politicians as a good plan for the city. In the process they receive grants or economic development money for their own personal endeavor; millions of dollars that should be allocated for the Northwest Economic Development.
b. The money Northside taxpayers needs to improve the quality of life for its community has been redefined with harder stipulations for blacks and some whites to get the money. As the quality of life improves for the Northside it affects the total essence of the area; family, education, jobs, environment and provide a sense of respect for the city.
c. How could the Mayor office and the city government allow for a church to receive 1.1 million dollars for a gym on private ground? Taxpayer’s dollars needed for more policemen, economic development programs for lower to middle
class citizens and ex-offenders, reading and math tutoring at community centers and schools on the Northside, youth and ex-offenders support group and facilities for Mad dad.
d. How could the mayor cut the money to a grassroots organization like Mad Dad and other who are fighting on the frontline to decrease crime and a support group to ex-offenders? Where is the logic in that somebody tells me because my head is smoking trying to figure it out?
2. Second, most dangerous crime against blacks in this city is the boule black ministers. The crimes they commit have a bigger impact and affect black people in all area of their life for a lifetime. We have black political connected religion leaders selling out to political parties for self gain. The last of the true black ministers of post civil right era were connected to the black communities not by just location but spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. The Black ministers represent the light in a dark room for most black people from the beginning of slavery in America. They would put there life on the line for righteousness and equality for black people. Today, we have the Bishop Dollar’s who will sell his mother and religion for a dollar, Mercedes, gold ring, gold watch and a pair of snake shoes. Most Black Ministers today are religion pimps in the black church. They receive in the name of Jesus give back like Pharaohs; spreading misdirection and misinformation to their black constituents in the church through emotional preaching and preying on sisters hate for the brothers. Instead of bring the black family together to combat the issues that is destroying us as a people. Black ministers self centered mentality bases on sex, money and power is helping to add to the black crime waves, the poverty, mis-education of blacks, the lack of business ownership and divorces in the black family.
How can you teach religion when you are not empathy or understand the love and the personal sacrifice it require, Bishop Dollar?
The Black Church emerged from the period of slavery as the most stable and dominant institutional sphere in black communities in the United States. The Africans who were brought as slaves to the New World came as human beings who were already socialized in their own African traditions and values. But it was not until the early decades of the 19th century, during the Second Great Awakening, or national religious revival, that many of the slaves became converted. But for most whites, Christianity was largely viewed as an instrument of social control, to produce "obedient and docile" slaves.
While the social control aspects of Christianity were quite effective when intermeshed with other constraints such as laws and black codes, illiteracy, and an omnipresent threat of extermination, religion became the only institutional area in which African slaves also exercised a measure of freedom, despite the many efforts to hinder or control their religious life.
They also developed their own leaders so that the "invisible institution"—the underground slave religion—could effectively merge with the rise of institutional black churches in the latter half of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As a consequence of these historical factors, religion among black people became the only institutional area that was permitted to develop to any significant degree. Finally, as the only significant social institution other than the black family, the Black Church took on multiple roles and burdens that differed from its white counterpart. While the Baptists founded the first black churches, it was the Methodists who organized the first black denominations, which also became the first national associations for African Americans.
Political Leadership
As the most educated and best trained in leadership skills, black clergy
emerged as the prime leaders of black communities nationwide in the 18th and
19th centuries, not only in religious matters but also in the secular
spheres of politics, economics, education, and socio-cultural activities.
During the period of slavery, efforts at liberation and abolitionism were
often led by religious leaders, as exemplified by the three largest slave
revolts in American history, namely those revolts led by Gabriel Prosser in
1800 in Richmond, Virginia; Denmark Vesey in 1822 in Charleston, South
Carolina; and Nat Turner in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Black
churches were not only used as secret meeting places to plot slave uprisings
but they also served as Underground Railroad stops for abolitionists. With
the end of the black franchise in Southern states in the late 19th century,
black people continued to vote in their churches, electing bishops,
preachers, deacons, and other church officers. During the Reconstruction
period (1865-1877), the phenomenon of the "preacher-politician" arose with
the election of the first black senator, the Reverend Hiram Revels of
Mississippi; and congressman, the Reverend Richard Cain of Georgia. The
pattern of the preacher-politician continued throughout the 20th century,
for example, the election of such notable figures as congressmen Adam
Clayton Powell Jr., William Gray, John Lewis, and Floyd Flake, as well as
the presidential campaigns of Reverend Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. Both
black and white politicians have also discovered the value of speaking at
political forums at black churches during election campaigns to mobilize the
black vote. During the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s,
black churches provided many of the leaders, such as Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.; they also served as the location for members to mobilize for the
movement, because the buildings were the only ones large enough to
accommodate mass meetings in the highly segregated urban and rural areas of
the South.
Economic Development
In the economic sphere, black churches has been involved in economic
development enterprises and in creating economic institutions. As W. E. B.
Du Bois wrote in 1907, the study of "economic cooperation among Negroes must
begin with the Church group." Beyond the economic cooperation required in
building the churches themselves, other economic projects were created. In
1866 five lay leaders of the Bethel AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland,
pooled their funds to develop the first black-owned dry dock company and
joint stock institution after black ship caulkers were fired because whites
had protested their job competition. After the collapse of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company in 1874 (see Freedman's Bank), which resulted in
the loss of the bounties paid to black Civil War soldiers and the savings
accounts of many black people, the churches helped to develop some 50
black-owned banks beginning in 1888 and lasting until the Great Depression
of the 1930s. Together with the financial resources of fraternal lodges and
mutual aid and burial societies, the churches also helped to create the
first black life insurance companies, such as the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and the Afro-American
Industrial Insurance Society of Jacksonville, Florida. A highly segregated
society resulted in the creation of parallel institutions by African
Americans. In the late 20th century black churches have become the largest
builders and sponsors of housing, pooling federal, state, and private funds.
The 5,000 single-family, mixed-income dwellings of the Nehemiah Houses of
East Brooklyn, New York, are one example.
Education
Even more than economic projects, black clergy and churches have always
viewed education as the key to upward mobility in American society. Churches
have often doubled as schools, beginning with church school on Sunday
morning for children and adults. The first lessons in reading and writing
often occurred in Sunday school. Morehouse College began as a school in the
basement of the Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, while
Spelman College was founded in the basement of the Friendship Baptist Church
of Atlanta. Tuskegee University also started as a school in one-room shanty
adjacent to the AME Zion Church in Tuskegee, Alabama. Just as Harvard and
Yale were founded for the education of the clergy, the curricula of many of
the best black colleges like Fisk University and Howard University were
steeped in religious and moral instruction. All of the black denominations
founded their own schools and seminaries. Besides serving as places of
worship, black churches have also performed other functions. The first black
newspaper, Freedom's Journal, was started by the Reverend Samuel Cornish in
1827. The first speeches or musical recitals in public for black children
occurred in the sanctuaries of black churches. Black artists often exhibited
their work in the dining halls of the churches because the public art
museums and private galleries were closed to them. However, the true genius
of the Black Church resides in the fact that it has given status, dignity,
and respect to common people who were often invisible in American society.
How can you say you love God when people are hurting all around you Bishop
Dollar?
3. The third crime that has an affect on the whole city is a School Board
build on nepotism and racism. It elementary when it comes to the crime
perpetrated on the communities by the school board especially against
blacks. The School Board need to be revamp to remove the old racist element
and install an open minded proactive system that caters to all students and
learning levels. No one should go to school twelve years and graduate
reading on a third grade level with no life skills or training. All schools
should be on a C grade level or better and the whole communities should
demand that from the School Board nothing less will do.
It's not the duty of the School Board to deal with discipline in schools.
Disciplining duties fall totally on the parent, community leaders and
churches surrounding that school.
a. A school system incorporating a proactive Think Tank made up of business
leaders, religion leaders, PTA President from each school, UNF and FCCJ
representatives.
b. We need to revamp and re-focus the Duval County School Board into a Duval
County School System; changing curriculum from a testing mentality to a
career development curriculum at third Grade, base on early reading;
understanding basic math and early development testing at the ages of 8.
c. Move 6th grade back to the elementary level
d. Eliminating the magnet program. When you remove the best students from a
community you take away role models. All Duval County Schools should be a C
grade or better regardless of the location. A proactive school system use
technology, community and parental involvement, protect and compensation
teachers and require the best for all students.
e. Improve reading and math skills with focus on engineering, computer
programming, science, personal finance, and factual world history of all
nationality from the 5th grade.
f. School Dropouts should be required to work until 18 years of ages. A
successful completion of a one year in Life Development Training Job
students will receive a Career Diploma (based on reading and arithmetic
comprehension testing).
g. Total Parental responsibility for student’s behavior in School and
community until the age of eighteen.
h. FCCJ is an excellence Community College for all students to advance
regardless of income. The community needs to highlight this resource in the
daily print and visual media.
• Students with behavior problems are using up too much valuable resources
and time during school hours. Parents need to understand and address their
child or children’s behavior with the School Board immediately. The COJ, the
School Board and the Chamber of Commerce must invest in an Independent
Children Behavior Advisor Board. If the student is a continuous problem he
or she must meet with an ICBA interviewer. A three step program:
1. Meet with an interviewer
2. Meet with a second interviewer
3. Meet with the 3-panel group for final interview.
• The interviewers will address the parent or parents separately on the
first two interviews and together with student on the third interview. Once
a report is completed the school board can determine what type of curriculum
is best for that student. If his or her behavior cannot be controlled then
the student must get a job or be expelled from school at the ages of 15.
Everything we do in life consists of causes and effect that include crime
too. The violence in Jacksonville has many elements for blacks that
different from our white counterpart. The crime wave in Jacksonville
requires the whole community working together. It requires that we admit to
our mistakes for a better day and life for the city and families especially
the youth under 13 years of ages. We can decrease crime and be a role model
city to the country if we will destroy racism, nepotism and find some
empathy for all citizens regardless of races.
Stanley L. Scott
Doc3507@msn.com
The truth will set you free; let talk about crime in Jacksonville. There are three types of crimes going on in this city perpetrate on one race of people. These crimes have elements of racism, nepotism, deception, politic and religion. Too often we focus on the physical form of crime in Jacksonville. This city overlook the real crimes that have long term affect on this city; because it affect only one race of people. This crime involved taking money from the lower to middle income people on the Northside; and given to the boule’s class of black ministers or the political connected republican black folks in this city.
Times Union Article
There are many reasons the decision by Mayor John Peyton and the City Council to give $1.1 million of taxpayer money to First Timothy Baptist Church to build a gym is just flat-out wrong. The gym will sit on church-owned property, and $600,000 of Lockett-Felder's bond money will help pay for it.
As has been reported, the push by Councilwoman Pat Lockett-Felder to give the money to the church, which is pastored by the politically connected Frederick Newbill and which counts Councilman Reggie Fullwood as a member of its congregation, overrode an earlier decision by the council and mayor that determined district bond money should only be used on publicly owned property. Ken Hurley, the president of the Jacksonville chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, raised another question in an e-mail to council members and Peyton.
He asked if the deal violates the part of the state constitution that reads:
"No revenue of the state or any other political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution."
There's another fundamental question Peyton and council members need to answer.
The remainder of the $1.1 million gift to the church - $500,000 - comes from the Northwest Jacksonville Economic Development Trust Fund. You may remember that when voters approved the Better Jacksonville Plan, they approved $25 million to go into the economic development trust fund.
A slick booklet promoting the Better Jacksonville Plan called it "a growth management, transportation, environmental and economic development plan for the future."
The ordinance implementing the Better Jacksonville Plan said the trust fund is for "targeted economic development."
The ordinance also said the money raised by the half-cent increase in the sales tax would only be used for programs listed in the ordinance. Economic development is listed over and over. A church gym isn't mentioned anywhere.
How can Peyton and the council so easily ignore what voters voted on and spend Better Jacksonville Plan money on a gym that has nothing to do with economic development? Jacksonville.com
History
This city racism and nepotism goes back as far as the early 1900’s; when the mayor of Jacksonville at that time and other white powerbrokers agree to keep blacks in one part of town. This side of town was full of paper mills, chemical companies, dump sites and other harmful manufacturers. The crime here is racism through redlining communities by races. The affect on the health condition of the people (blacks and poor whites) in those area are affect their family today in school and the communities. All over the Northside of Jacksonville are harmful toxic sites, Jefferson Street Pool, Lonnie Miller Park, and schools on the Northwest side of Jacksonville.
2006, over a hundred year’s later racism, and nepotism still existed in the Mayor’s office. When will we as a city have a government that care about all people and believes in doing the right thing in Jacksonville regardless of party, races or income? The 90 percent of the people on the Northside are very good citizens just like the people who live in Queen Harbor, Sawgrass or anywhere else in Jacksonville. To be honesty I would say they are better because they take the little they have and do fantastic jobs to raise there family. The problem with most people in the city they let racism, nepotism, politic and religion keep them from seeing the truth.
Let talk about the crimes that take place in Jacksonville against blacks.
1. First, Political crime against blacks (Mayor Office, Black Ministers and Politicians). Political crime is the most criminal element there is because it affect hundred, or thousands of people for years to come. This is part of why we have violence crime, poverty driven workforce, high risk health condition for a lot of the people on the Northside and economic inequality.
a. The Better Jacksonville Plan sold to the black community by the black republican ministers and politicians as a good plan for the city. In the process they receive grants or economic development money for their own personal endeavor; millions of dollars that should be allocated for the Northwest Economic Development.
b. The money Northside taxpayers needs to improve the quality of life for its community has been redefined with harder stipulations for blacks and some whites to get the money. As the quality of life improves for the Northside it affects the total essence of the area; family, education, jobs, environment and provide a sense of respect for the city.
c. How could the Mayor office and the city government allow for a church to receive 1.1 million dollars for a gym on private ground? Taxpayer’s dollars needed for more policemen, economic development programs for lower to middle
class citizens and ex-offenders, reading and math tutoring at community centers and schools on the Northside, youth and ex-offenders support group and facilities for Mad dad.
d. How could the mayor cut the money to a grassroots organization like Mad Dad and other who are fighting on the frontline to decrease crime and a support group to ex-offenders? Where is the logic in that somebody tells me because my head is smoking trying to figure it out?
2. Second, most dangerous crime against blacks in this city is the boule black ministers. The crimes they commit have a bigger impact and affect black people in all area of their life for a lifetime. We have black political connected religion leaders selling out to political parties for self gain. The last of the true black ministers of post civil right era were connected to the black communities not by just location but spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. The Black ministers represent the light in a dark room for most black people from the beginning of slavery in America. They would put there life on the line for righteousness and equality for black people. Today, we have the Bishop Dollar’s who will sell his mother and religion for a dollar, Mercedes, gold ring, gold watch and a pair of snake shoes. Most Black Ministers today are religion pimps in the black church. They receive in the name of Jesus give back like Pharaohs; spreading misdirection and misinformation to their black constituents in the church through emotional preaching and preying on sisters hate for the brothers. Instead of bring the black family together to combat the issues that is destroying us as a people. Black ministers self centered mentality bases on sex, money and power is helping to add to the black crime waves, the poverty, mis-education of blacks, the lack of business ownership and divorces in the black family.
How can you teach religion when you are not empathy or understand the love and the personal sacrifice it require, Bishop Dollar?
The Black Church emerged from the period of slavery as the most stable and dominant institutional sphere in black communities in the United States. The Africans who were brought as slaves to the New World came as human beings who were already socialized in their own African traditions and values. But it was not until the early decades of the 19th century, during the Second Great Awakening, or national religious revival, that many of the slaves became converted. But for most whites, Christianity was largely viewed as an instrument of social control, to produce "obedient and docile" slaves.
While the social control aspects of Christianity were quite effective when intermeshed with other constraints such as laws and black codes, illiteracy, and an omnipresent threat of extermination, religion became the only institutional area in which African slaves also exercised a measure of freedom, despite the many efforts to hinder or control their religious life.
They also developed their own leaders so that the "invisible institution"—the underground slave religion—could effectively merge with the rise of institutional black churches in the latter half of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As a consequence of these historical factors, religion among black people became the only institutional area that was permitted to develop to any significant degree. Finally, as the only significant social institution other than the black family, the Black Church took on multiple roles and burdens that differed from its white counterpart. While the Baptists founded the first black churches, it was the Methodists who organized the first black denominations, which also became the first national associations for African Americans.
Political Leadership
As the most educated and best trained in leadership skills, black clergy
emerged as the prime leaders of black communities nationwide in the 18th and
19th centuries, not only in religious matters but also in the secular
spheres of politics, economics, education, and socio-cultural activities.
During the period of slavery, efforts at liberation and abolitionism were
often led by religious leaders, as exemplified by the three largest slave
revolts in American history, namely those revolts led by Gabriel Prosser in
1800 in Richmond, Virginia; Denmark Vesey in 1822 in Charleston, South
Carolina; and Nat Turner in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Black
churches were not only used as secret meeting places to plot slave uprisings
but they also served as Underground Railroad stops for abolitionists. With
the end of the black franchise in Southern states in the late 19th century,
black people continued to vote in their churches, electing bishops,
preachers, deacons, and other church officers. During the Reconstruction
period (1865-1877), the phenomenon of the "preacher-politician" arose with
the election of the first black senator, the Reverend Hiram Revels of
Mississippi; and congressman, the Reverend Richard Cain of Georgia. The
pattern of the preacher-politician continued throughout the 20th century,
for example, the election of such notable figures as congressmen Adam
Clayton Powell Jr., William Gray, John Lewis, and Floyd Flake, as well as
the presidential campaigns of Reverend Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. Both
black and white politicians have also discovered the value of speaking at
political forums at black churches during election campaigns to mobilize the
black vote. During the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s,
black churches provided many of the leaders, such as Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.; they also served as the location for members to mobilize for the
movement, because the buildings were the only ones large enough to
accommodate mass meetings in the highly segregated urban and rural areas of
the South.
Economic Development
In the economic sphere, black churches has been involved in economic
development enterprises and in creating economic institutions. As W. E. B.
Du Bois wrote in 1907, the study of "economic cooperation among Negroes must
begin with the Church group." Beyond the economic cooperation required in
building the churches themselves, other economic projects were created. In
1866 five lay leaders of the Bethel AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland,
pooled their funds to develop the first black-owned dry dock company and
joint stock institution after black ship caulkers were fired because whites
had protested their job competition. After the collapse of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company in 1874 (see Freedman's Bank), which resulted in
the loss of the bounties paid to black Civil War soldiers and the savings
accounts of many black people, the churches helped to develop some 50
black-owned banks beginning in 1888 and lasting until the Great Depression
of the 1930s. Together with the financial resources of fraternal lodges and
mutual aid and burial societies, the churches also helped to create the
first black life insurance companies, such as the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and the Afro-American
Industrial Insurance Society of Jacksonville, Florida. A highly segregated
society resulted in the creation of parallel institutions by African
Americans. In the late 20th century black churches have become the largest
builders and sponsors of housing, pooling federal, state, and private funds.
The 5,000 single-family, mixed-income dwellings of the Nehemiah Houses of
East Brooklyn, New York, are one example.
Education
Even more than economic projects, black clergy and churches have always
viewed education as the key to upward mobility in American society. Churches
have often doubled as schools, beginning with church school on Sunday
morning for children and adults. The first lessons in reading and writing
often occurred in Sunday school. Morehouse College began as a school in the
basement of the Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, while
Spelman College was founded in the basement of the Friendship Baptist Church
of Atlanta. Tuskegee University also started as a school in one-room shanty
adjacent to the AME Zion Church in Tuskegee, Alabama. Just as Harvard and
Yale were founded for the education of the clergy, the curricula of many of
the best black colleges like Fisk University and Howard University were
steeped in religious and moral instruction. All of the black denominations
founded their own schools and seminaries. Besides serving as places of
worship, black churches have also performed other functions. The first black
newspaper, Freedom's Journal, was started by the Reverend Samuel Cornish in
1827. The first speeches or musical recitals in public for black children
occurred in the sanctuaries of black churches. Black artists often exhibited
their work in the dining halls of the churches because the public art
museums and private galleries were closed to them. However, the true genius
of the Black Church resides in the fact that it has given status, dignity,
and respect to common people who were often invisible in American society.
How can you say you love God when people are hurting all around you Bishop
Dollar?
3. The third crime that has an affect on the whole city is a School Board
build on nepotism and racism. It elementary when it comes to the crime
perpetrated on the communities by the school board especially against
blacks. The School Board need to be revamp to remove the old racist element
and install an open minded proactive system that caters to all students and
learning levels. No one should go to school twelve years and graduate
reading on a third grade level with no life skills or training. All schools
should be on a C grade level or better and the whole communities should
demand that from the School Board nothing less will do.
It's not the duty of the School Board to deal with discipline in schools.
Disciplining duties fall totally on the parent, community leaders and
churches surrounding that school.
a. A school system incorporating a proactive Think Tank made up of business
leaders, religion leaders, PTA President from each school, UNF and FCCJ
representatives.
b. We need to revamp and re-focus the Duval County School Board into a Duval
County School System; changing curriculum from a testing mentality to a
career development curriculum at third Grade, base on early reading;
understanding basic math and early development testing at the ages of 8.
c. Move 6th grade back to the elementary level
d. Eliminating the magnet program. When you remove the best students from a
community you take away role models. All Duval County Schools should be a C
grade or better regardless of the location. A proactive school system use
technology, community and parental involvement, protect and compensation
teachers and require the best for all students.
e. Improve reading and math skills with focus on engineering, computer
programming, science, personal finance, and factual world history of all
nationality from the 5th grade.
f. School Dropouts should be required to work until 18 years of ages. A
successful completion of a one year in Life Development Training Job
students will receive a Career Diploma (based on reading and arithmetic
comprehension testing).
g. Total Parental responsibility for student’s behavior in School and
community until the age of eighteen.
h. FCCJ is an excellence Community College for all students to advance
regardless of income. The community needs to highlight this resource in the
daily print and visual media.
• Students with behavior problems are using up too much valuable resources
and time during school hours. Parents need to understand and address their
child or children’s behavior with the School Board immediately. The COJ, the
School Board and the Chamber of Commerce must invest in an Independent
Children Behavior Advisor Board. If the student is a continuous problem he
or she must meet with an ICBA interviewer. A three step program:
1. Meet with an interviewer
2. Meet with a second interviewer
3. Meet with the 3-panel group for final interview.
• The interviewers will address the parent or parents separately on the
first two interviews and together with student on the third interview. Once
a report is completed the school board can determine what type of curriculum
is best for that student. If his or her behavior cannot be controlled then
the student must get a job or be expelled from school at the ages of 15.
Everything we do in life consists of causes and effect that include crime
too. The violence in Jacksonville has many elements for blacks that
different from our white counterpart. The crime wave in Jacksonville
requires the whole community working together. It requires that we admit to
our mistakes for a better day and life for the city and families especially
the youth under 13 years of ages. We can decrease crime and be a role model
city to the country if we will destroy racism, nepotism and find some
empathy for all citizens regardless of races.
Stanley L. Scott
Doc3507@msn.com
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