LET THEM STARVE!!!!!

Does the city, in fact, hire debaters or educational video makers? The adults-in-charge might need to introduce a little reality.

It's probably a mistake, but the Algebra Project's website is currently blocked from BCPSS servers as being "pornography".

Who knew that improving education would be considered obscene by North Avenue? OK, you can all put your hands down now.

What's next? Self-immolation? Streaking?

Some of you who posted above ought to be ashamed of yourselves!! Here are kids who are successfully and passionately resisting the forces that would make them apathetic and careless - and some of you tell them to starve?? I wish I knew about the Algebra Project back when I was a BCPSS teacher. Our kids are fighting for what we as adults should be providing them anyway - an excellent education, useful jobs, etc.

We should be encouraging these Scholars, not calling them names and hindering their hard work. And if the Target comment is true, SHAME on the Mayor. A job at Target is not going to better prepare you for college. A job at Target will not help you move further forward economically than your parents. A job at Target is essentially telling these kids where society expects them to be and stay.

And for those of you who support this idea, if I may be frank, does the color of the skin of our students have something to do with it? Because Lord knows City leaders would think twice before making that statement to students in Montgomery County. Things that make me go hmmm.

I am so proud of these kids - they are engaged in the process in a meaningful way as opposed to so many people who only name call and point out problems but do nothing that amounts to much.

Speaking of which:

bbear: Nice attitude for kids who are fighting for funding for public schools and trying to hold elected leaders accountable. Maybe you would rather they are on the streets causing problems so that you can point out what trouble makes kids are?

To Granny: Yes, debaters are also sometimes called CEO's, politicians, community organizers, policy developers, busienss people, and with the exception of the current holder of the office, Presidents. As for educational video makes, television stations hire them as do film companies (remember how much of that happens here in good ole' Baltimore?), news papers hire people who can research stories and tell sides of issues, You know, we call people who have these skills, umm, what's the word for it, oh yes, citizens. Maybe even productive citizens. Maybe even future leaders. Hmmm.

And for Baltimoron, I have also asked myself that question although in a different light. My view is, where is the outrage at the state of things in this city? Where are the public protests about the state of the education system, the state of dealing with the homeless, the state of dealing with poverty, the state of, well, just about everything that we have a state of? I am glad to see that instead of sitting on their porches calling young people monkeys (see the Canton story about Friendship for this reference please), these "kids" are doing what people have done for years - protesting in meaningful ways without being violent.

And as a point of clarification, there aren't adults pulling the strings on the algebra project - it's the kids doing the heavy lifting here.

Who knows, maybe these kids will be able to get the "powers that be" to make real, meaningful change where adults have failed. Wouldn't that be something?

the algebra projects website is not blocked. we are the baltimore algebra project and u can access it from school. if u google it or type in the url, its baltimore-algebra-project.org so i dont know which algebra project page u were trying 2 access.