education
Whoopi suspended for only two weeks after Holocaust remarks
Whoopi Goldberg has officially received her punishment for her insensitive Holocaust comments: two weeks suspension. Her consequences have sparked intense debate over whether suspension is a harsh enough response from the network, as well as anger as to why it took over two days for ABC to make the decision at all.
Goldberg said the Holocaust was “not about race” but rather “man’s inhumanity to man.” She also said it was “two white groups of people.”
Sparks fly as The View panel confronts Whoopi after she says "the Holocaust isn't about race. No. It's not about race."
"Well, the considered Jews a different race," Joy Behar says."But it's about white supremacy. It's about going after Jews and Gypsies," Ana Navarro adds. pic.twitter.com/GZwZSi2qXi
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 31, 2022
The New York Post reports ABC insiders insist her apology came too late and have demanded she be fired. The outlet added that Goldberg’s co-hosts Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar and Ana Navarro are furious that she was suspended because she is a “lifelong ally to the Jewish community” and it was “an incredibly unfortunate incident.”
However, Holocaust survivors and their families have come out in droves to confront Goldberg with her rhetoric. Sami Steigmann was sent to a labor camp with his parents in 1940 and was subjected to inhumane “medical experiments” for the Nazis.
Steigmann told Fox News “Someone of her stature has to be extremely careful to use the proper language and not to perpetuate false narratives.” He added “I’m extremely disappointed in her for making such as stupid comment. I don’t know the motive for why she said it, but the damage has been done.”
education
Parents, advocates call on leaders to step down after ZERO children pass math at 13 Baltimore state schools
How long will leaders who let our children down blame Covid-19 for their failures? Anger swept across Baltimore, Maryland, after not a single student passed their state math exams, and almost 75 percent testing at the lowest possible score.
The Daily Mail reports “The poor performances came in the latest round of Maryland‘s state testing, where 13 high schools in the city – a staggering 40 percent – failed to produce a single student with a ‘proficient’ score in math.” Baltimore City Schools not only received $1.6 billion last year from taxpayers, but the school district also received $799 million in Covid relief funding from the federal government.
“So, it’s not a funding issue. We’re getting plenty of funding,” said Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of Baltimore-based nonprofit People Empowered by the Struggle, to Fox Baltimore. “I don’t think money is the issue. I think accountability is the issue…This is educational homicide, there is no excuse for the failure, which has come after years of warnings over the city’s poor education standards,” added Rodriguez.
A bombshell study published this month by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) found that 16 million students were chronically absent during the pandemic. “The millions of students had missed more than 10 percent of schools days during the 2021-22 year, twice the number seen in previous years. More than eight in 10 public schools also reported stunted behavioral and social-emotional development in their students due to the pandemic, according to a May survey cited in the report.”
However, six years ago a similar report by Project Baltimore found that 13 schools in the city had zero students test ‘proficiently’ in math. An almost identical finding. “We’re still dealing with these same issues year after year,” Rodriguez continued. “It’s just scary to me and alarming to me because we know that what’s happening now, you know, it’s just opening up the floodgates to the school-to-prison pipeline. I’m beyond angry… This is why we’ve been calling for the resignation of the school CEO.”
Daily Mail notes that Rodriguez’s group has previously held rallies over the mounting educational crisis in the city, and in 2021 led calls for Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises to resign over low test scores and falling graduation rates.
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Profx
February 2, 2022 at 5:17 pm
Perhaps the Woopie should be put in a Chinese Concentration Camp for a couple of years. The experience might educate her.
Nancy
February 3, 2022 at 5:23 pm
Whoopi can’t possibly be that ignorant for a lack of a better term. I know based on the medias record had it been a Conservative, they would blow this up & destroy the individual until they were fired & moved away!! It shows how ÷ we are. This needs to stop and parents need to monitor your children closely! Peace
JJ Chester
February 5, 2022 at 10:46 am
Whoopi could make a gesture of contrition by giving back the Jewish name she appropriated and begin using the name she was born with…Johnson. As for the silly first name Whoopi, she can keep that since asking her to take back the name Caryn might be too much.
Sally K King
February 5, 2022 at 5:06 pm
Maybe this gal never took a class or read a textbook on World History.