Ba‘al Zəvûv;11159574 said:
Amen.
No racism in just calling things how they are.
Does that make people inferior as human beings? Of course not. Does that mean everyone in the DR is painted with the same brush? Of course not.
But what he said was true on the whole. I would like anyone to try to dispute that with data.
Him commenting after the situation.
The funny thing is Colin Cowherd is mostly left. Yet now, the left is going to attack him something silly.
Like Trump, he just says things like they are. And people don't like that.
He talks down to the callers, because most of them are dumb and he is smarter than them.
Most of the small minded get offended by that. I appreciate that. He's a prick. But he's smarter than 90% of the people who don't like him. And thats why they dont like him.
Like Trump, he just says things like they are. And people don't like that.
He talks down to the callers, because most of them are dumb and he is smarter than them.
Most of the small minded get offended by that. I appreciate that. He's a prick. But he's smarter than 90% of the people who don't like him. And thats why they dont like him.
It`s a rough crowd.....I`d be afraid to spit on the sidewalk these days.
Thats MY question as well. Were we always surrounded on all sides by touchy-feely pussies desperate for attention and we just didn't know it cuz we didn't have to hear their shit? But now the internet plagues us with having to hear every single one of them whine?
Or were they NOT amongst us and they exist now because of The Government putting too much Fluoride in our water has birthed these snitch-ass idiots? By dulling down folk's brains. Makin' em stupider. Which it is said Fluoride does.
"It’s too complex? I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is too complex.’ Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world-class academic abilities."
:think2:
Why is this guy, who attended Eastern Washington University, always talking about academics? He does not have the pedigree to address this topic. His BA from that school is not in any way impressive.
:think2:
Why is this guy, who attended Eastern Washington University, always talking about academics? He does not have the pedigree to address this topic. His BA from that school is not in any way impressive.
Colin was far and away the only on air talent ESPN has, it wasn't even close. And when he made his comments about Dominicans, I heard it live and didn't give it a second thought. They are all MLB or bust. If some of them don't like it, they should be dragged by their greazy hair, beaten and launched via cannon to their little 8th world island then starved and shelled
Dominican Republic revamps failing education system
The Dominican Republic has one of the world's worst education systems. Now it is finally investing money in schools. Thousands of classrooms are due to be built, although there are too few teachers for the existing ones.
Yovanny Gomez escapes from a sticky hot courtyard full of teenage students. He teaches math at the Republic of Argentina School, a free public school with 1,000 students in the Colonial District, a middle-class area in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Gomez plops down next to the breeze of a new air conditioner in the teacher's lounge.
"Two or three years ago this school was practically a cemetery of waste," he said. "There was trash, disorganization. The school wasn't painted. There wasn't air conditioning in the offices. Really everything was a mess because we didn't have any of the necessary resources to teach."
In the Caribbean nation of nearly 10 million people, the education system ranks among the worst in the world. Test scores in urban areas are as low as in rural areas. Poor students can't escape the failing public education system, making it difficult for them to break out of poverty.
Like its neighbors, the Dominican Republic struggles with overcrowded classrooms in shoddy facilities. There's a high dropout rate, an outdated curriculum, overage students who fail classes and have to repeat grades, among other problems. But perhaps the most worrying issue is poorly trained teachers.
Math teachers only understood 42 percent of the material they were supposed to be teaching, according to a recent study by education experts.
Felix Sanchez says that families need to do more to help their children at school too
Low pay, tough conditions
Low pay makes the profession a tough sell. School teachers like Gomez earn a base salary of about 250 ($344) euros a month. The average university-educated worker earns 457 euros a month, according to the most recent figures from the Dominican Central Bank.
Gomez opted to get his master's degree in teaching anyway. But it hasn't been easy to be a teacher.
"We don't make a living wage for a family," he said. "A teacher can't have his own house, a car or support his family. A teacher might want to have children, but can't afford them. We can't even afford Internet with this salary. We want a salary that will pay for these things."
The Dominican Republic is the first country in the Caribbean to undertake a major education overhaul. In 2012, voters convinced all presidential candidates to promise - if elected - to double the education budget. Now President Danilo Medina is staking his reputation on education reform. The country will spend 4 percent of its GDP - almost 2 billion euros in 2014. Deputy Education Minister Luis Matos de La Rosa says the reform targets five problem areas.
"We can't say which part is the most important," de La Rosa told DW. "Everything is happening at the same time."
"Obviously first we need new spaces. We're also hiring people to fill these spaces, expanding preschool enrollment, teaching people to read and extending the school day.
But all efforts aren't funded equally. Construction gets four times more money than teacher training and hiring.
The government will build 28,000 new classrooms by 2016, but right now there aren't enough teachers for the classrooms they already have. Student-teacher ratios in schools with more than 500 students are 78:1 - this accounts for 68 percent of total enrollment for public schools.
Teachers have also protested and temporarily shut down schools to demand a 100-percent salary increase over the past few years, but they've gained little ground.
Maribel Hernandez, the communications director behind the education-funding increase, said the decision plays to politics.
The Dominican Republic has one of the world's worst education systems. Now it is finally investing money in schools. Thousands of classrooms are due to be built, although there are too few teachers for the existing ones.
Yovanny Gomez escapes from a sticky hot courtyard full of teenage students. He teaches math at the Republic of Argentina School, a free public school with 1,000 students in the Colonial District, a middle-class area in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Gomez plops down next to the breeze of a new air conditioner in the teacher's lounge.
"Two or three years ago this school was practically a cemetery of waste," he said. "There was trash, disorganization. The school wasn't painted. There wasn't air conditioning in the offices. Really everything was a mess because we didn't have any of the necessary resources to teach."
In the Caribbean nation of nearly 10 million people, the education system ranks among the worst in the world. Test scores in urban areas are as low as in rural areas. Poor students can't escape the failing public education system, making it difficult for them to break out of poverty.
Like its neighbors, the Dominican Republic struggles with overcrowded classrooms in shoddy facilities. There's a high dropout rate, an outdated curriculum, overage students who fail classes and have to repeat grades, among other problems. But perhaps the most worrying issue is poorly trained teachers.
Math teachers only understood 42 percent of the material they were supposed to be teaching, according to a recent study by education experts.
Felix Sanchez says that families need to do more to help their children at school tooLow pay, tough conditions
Low pay makes the profession a tough sell. School teachers like Gomez earn a base salary of about 250 ($344) euros a month. The average university-educated worker earns 457 euros a month, according to the most recent figures from the Dominican Central Bank.
Gomez opted to get his master's degree in teaching anyway. But it hasn't been easy to be a teacher.
"We don't make a living wage for a family," he said. "A teacher can't have his own house, a car or support his family. A teacher might want to have children, but can't afford them. We can't even afford Internet with this salary. We want a salary that will pay for these things."
The Dominican Republic is the first country in the Caribbean to undertake a major education overhaul. In 2012, voters convinced all presidential candidates to promise - if elected - to double the education budget. Now President Danilo Medina is staking his reputation on education reform. The country will spend 4 percent of its GDP - almost 2 billion euros in 2014. Deputy Education Minister Luis Matos de La Rosa says the reform targets five problem areas.
"We can't say which part is the most important," de La Rosa told DW. "Everything is happening at the same time."
"Obviously first we need new spaces. We're also hiring people to fill these spaces, expanding preschool enrollment, teaching people to read and extending the school day.
But all efforts aren't funded equally. Construction gets four times more money than teacher training and hiring.
The government will build 28,000 new classrooms by 2016, but right now there aren't enough teachers for the classrooms they already have. Student-teacher ratios in schools with more than 500 students are 78:1 - this accounts for 68 percent of total enrollment for public schools.
Teachers have also protested and temporarily shut down schools to demand a 100-percent salary increase over the past few years, but they've gained little ground.
Maribel Hernandez, the communications director behind the education-funding increase, said the decision plays to politics.
We all know perfectly well that Media encourages on-air personalities to be "controversial" as this is a way (may be literally the only way in many instances) to get the best ratings then when the hosts do that and cause crybaby snitches to whine En-Masse these outlets seize the opportunity to take the "Oh You're So RIGHT" lane so as to appear to be sensitive to the public's feelings.
Win-Win for these networks, especially ESPN in this spot cuz Cowherd was gone anyway....this way they get to curry favor with the Public. Slash & Burn Napalm Clearing of a path to as high of ratings as they (figure they) can achieve. Total Prostitutes these folks to Ratings and kissing the asses of the ignorant masses. Its all so transparent.
I don't agree Acebb that one needs to be an expert and/or highly degree'd on a subject to express their opinion about it. Life Experience is often more valuable, more educating than Academic Education....paper degrees.
I'm personally not a fan of Dan LeBatard, but I think he nails it with his take regarding the Colin Cowherd situation:
I’m hispanic … I think we know what he was trying to say. But we are in a climate where it doesn’t matter you were trying to say, and if we don’t like you, and if have a past near the 3rd rail, we will hold your body of work against you.
I was not offended by this.
If you come from that kind of poverty in the Dominican – I have covered a lot of MLB, Vlad Guerrero, 5th grade education, Manny Ramirez, so poor that he breast fed until he was 6 years old – there is an absence of education across that sport.
I know people want to jump on the idea ‘he’s calling Dominicans dumb’ first of all, there’s a difference between education and smarts. Secondarily, there’s a difference between being smart at your sport – being a genius at your sport – and doing the measurements on smart through books.
I consider myself educated. When it comes to street smarts, I’m an idiot. An idiot! I’m dumb when it comes to street smarts. You can be smart in different ways.
If you want to be upset – with Hulk Hogan, do you forgive him? yes or no? He apologized. Do you forgive him? You don’t have to. I like forgiving people. All the time. I’m pro forgiveness. I’m not going to tell you to forgive him or anybody else they need to forgive him.
If you’re offended, be offended.
[Reads and email from a listener, two minutes, this:]
You guys want to talk about race when someone steps in it, or when you think someone steps in it so you can judge that person and become part of the angry mob and out-outrage the guy next to you. When, if i said what Colin Cowherd just said, as a Hispanic who covered baseball, who cares about Dominicans, who has reported in that country after Sammy Sosa went in that country to help those people after the hurricane … and i told you Sammy Sosa, not educated.
If I said the same thing the same way Cowherd said it. Major League Baseball wouldn’t be demanding an apology. Major League Baseball, mind you, that doesn’t have latin broadcasters. doesn’t have translators for the latin players, but does for the Japanese players. That it is still using bullpen coaches and assistant coaches to translate for the poor guys from other countries!
Major League Baseball, i demand an apology!
I was not offended by this.
If you come from that kind of poverty in the Dominican – I have covered a lot of MLB, Vlad Guerrero, 5th grade education, Manny Ramirez, so poor that he breast fed until he was 6 years old – there is an absence of education across that sport.
I know people want to jump on the idea ‘he’s calling Dominicans dumb’ first of all, there’s a difference between education and smarts. Secondarily, there’s a difference between being smart at your sport – being a genius at your sport – and doing the measurements on smart through books.
I consider myself educated. When it comes to street smarts, I’m an idiot. An idiot! I’m dumb when it comes to street smarts. You can be smart in different ways.
If you want to be upset – with Hulk Hogan, do you forgive him? yes or no? He apologized. Do you forgive him? You don’t have to. I like forgiving people. All the time. I’m pro forgiveness. I’m not going to tell you to forgive him or anybody else they need to forgive him.
If you’re offended, be offended.
[Reads and email from a listener, two minutes, this:]
You guys want to talk about race when someone steps in it, or when you think someone steps in it so you can judge that person and become part of the angry mob and out-outrage the guy next to you. When, if i said what Colin Cowherd just said, as a Hispanic who covered baseball, who cares about Dominicans, who has reported in that country after Sammy Sosa went in that country to help those people after the hurricane … and i told you Sammy Sosa, not educated.
If I said the same thing the same way Cowherd said it. Major League Baseball wouldn’t be demanding an apology. Major League Baseball, mind you, that doesn’t have latin broadcasters. doesn’t have translators for the latin players, but does for the Japanese players. That it is still using bullpen coaches and assistant coaches to translate for the poor guys from other countries!
Major League Baseball, i demand an apology!
Colin Cowherd is bigger than ESPN and whatever this Fox crap is. Most of these fools have zero talent. They love everyone and have the upmost respect for everyone.
I guess ESPN can go back to talking about the Mount Rushmore of clowns and how sickening Hulk Hogan is because afterall, we all want all tall blonde daughter's throwing their lives away.
I guess ESPN can go back to talking about the Mount Rushmore of clowns and how sickening Hulk Hogan is because afterall, we all want all tall blonde daughter's throwing their lives away.
