5/13/2009: PREVAILING SINGLE-DIGIT INNER-CITY GRAD’N RATES

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WHO/WHAT WE ARE

We are a U.S. public-policy monthly discussion group founded in the Fall of 2005 that meets on the third Wednesday of each month (with adjustments to avoid secular/religious holidays).

Since February 2020, we have met via Zoom. [For the first 14.5 years of our existence, we met at the Salt Lake City Library (210 East 400 South) with remote participation via Skype.]

The topic is selected by the attendees of the previous month’s meeting. The focus is usually a book but frequently comprises only news items from magazines/newspapers/etc. This bulletin board serves, inter alia, as a place for members to post comments or additional reference materials prior to each meeting.

Our attendance averages 11-12. Participants come from all walks of life but our regular attendees include 4 attorneys and 3 scientists.

There are approx. 225 recipients of our weekly newsletter, many of whom reside outside Utah and participate by Zoom.

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40 SIX-DEGREES-OF-SEPARATION E-MAIL CAMPAIGNS, 4 REPORTS & 9 REPRISES

We take great pride in our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail campaigns to America's decision makers which, with only a few computer keyboard key strokes, can be sent by each of our members (1) to the decision maker, and (2) to all of the member's friends and acquaintances requesting them to do the same in an unending chain.

Accordingly, we also take great pride that each of our official recommendations has been approved unanimously at one of our meetings or, at most, received only one dissent.

All 40 e-mail campaigns over the years are collected in this section. They include 10 e-mails sent by John Karls that did not receive an official endorsement for the rest of our members to send. The titles of the 30 official recommendations are ALL CAPS and the titles of 10 unofficial recommendations are lower case.

The date of the meeting at which each of the 40 campaigns was adopted is listed so that voluminous additional information about that campaign can be accessed by scrolling down to the sections of this bulletin board that relate to that meeting.

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There is also a 1/20/2021 “Report” of our JCPOA Working Group.

Finally, there are eight items whose descriptions begin with “REPRISE.” They describe additional actions that were taken IAW previous official e-mail campaigns to bring their approved policies to the attention of additional decision makers.

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5/13/2009: PREVAILING SINGLE-DIGIT INNER-CITY GRAD’N RATES

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Call to Action
by johnkarls » Sat May 16, 2009 12:04 pm

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From: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
To: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
Bcc: Our E-Mail List of Approximately 150 Addressees

Subject: CALL TO ACTION - The ONLY Way To Transform SINGLE-DIGIT Inner-City High School Graduation Rates to 65%-70% - Only 5 Minutes Needed to Answer the Call to Action

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time: 1249 EST > 1356 EST
Attachments:

Dear Friends,

Our next meeting is WEDNESday June 10th - 6:30 pm > closing (formal discussion 7:00 pm > 8:30 pm) - Salt Lake Public Library (210 East 400 South) - Conf. Rm. C (special elevator just inside EAST entrance).

We will focus on Utah Owl’s recommendation of William Greider's new book, “Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country” on his ideas about why America is losing its global leadership position and how ordinary people can use profound global changes at hand to build a more equitable society. You can download audio of Diane Rehm's interview with Greider at http://wamu.org/programs/dr/09/04/08.php#25615 - second segment of this show. The book is available at your local library or from Amazon.com for $16.52 new & $14.17 used + shipping.

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CALL TO ACTION - Separate BUT UNEQUAL Public Schools

We take pride in the fact that there are NO MORE THAN SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION between us and 100% of the American electorate.

And that, on important occasions, we can send to all of our friends and acquaintances an already-prepared e-mail (1) for them to send to America's decision maker(s) to influence governmental policy, and (2) for them to send to all of their friends and acquaintances to do the same in an unending chain.

At our meeting this past Wednesday, we decided that this is one of those occasions. That all of us should (1) contact President Barack Obama, and (2) contact all of our friends and acquaintances requesting them to do the same in an unending chain --

to urge President Obama (A) in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2007 reversal of Brown v. Board and return to separate AND UNEQUAL public schools, and (B) faced with the inconvenient truth that America has produced a permanent inner-city under-class despite identical-twin studies that consistently show that inner-city IQ's are equal to suburban IQ's, and (C) in recognition of the fact that SURROGATE PARENTS (a tutor, mentor, etc., who is able to bond with an inner-city student) is THE ONLY FACTOR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A QUANTUM TRANSFORMATION OF INNER-CITY H.S. GRADUATION RATES from single digits to 65%-70%:

(1) to use a portion of his proposed economic-stimulus funds to replace some of the failing inner-city schools with federally financed and operated K-12 magnet schools that attract suburban students who, together with their families, will become SURROGATE FAMILIES for the inner-city students; and

(2) as such federal K-12 magnet schools prove their worth, to dedicate a portion of the $10 billion/month savings from winding up the war in Iraq to replacing all failing inner-city schools with such federal K-12 magnet schools.

Timing is crucial because the FY 2010 Budget will be passed in the next few days and the unheard-of $5 billion of discretionary funds it contains for education will probably be committed shortly after passage.

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ANSWERING THE CALL TO ACTION IN 5 MINUTES

Below is an already-prepared e-mail that you can use for this purpose.

All you have to do is -

(1) hit your e-mail forward button and erase from this e-mail which will now be forwarded, everything down through the line of asterisks following the second PS below, and then put the e-mail addresses of all your friends and acquaintances into the address section.

(2) send to President Barack Obama a copy of the already-prepared message following the instructions contained in the e-mail message you are forwarding to all your friends and acquaintances.

Timing is crucial because the FY 2010 Budget will be passed in the next few days and the unheard-of $5 billion of discretionary funds it contains for education will probably be committed shortly after passage.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.

Your friend,

John K.

PS - To un-subscribe, please press "reply" and type "deletion requested."

Note - In forwarding this e-mail to all of your friends and acquaintances you should, after pressing your e-mail forward button, erase from this e-mail now being forwarded everything through the following line(s) of asterisks (however, this will leave intact the subject of this e-mail).

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Dear Friends,

Single-digit high school graduation rates and the overwhelming majority of households headed by single-adult druggies who turn over any receipts to the pusher so the kids have to steal just in order to eat were typical conditions for the first 180 I-Have-A-Dream Programs in 50 American cities as documented by John Karls, IHAD's volunteer national treasurer in the 1990's. He also documented that SURROGATE PARENTS (a tutor, mentor, etc., who is able to bond with the Dreamer) is THE ONLY FACTOR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A QUANTUM TRANSFORMATION OF H.S. GRADUATION RATES from single digits to 65%-70%. (For further details, please see www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.)

In the wake of the Supreme Court's 2007 reversal of Brown v. Board and return to separate AND UNEQUAL public schools, and faced with the inconvenient truth that America has produced a permanent inner-city under-class despite identical-twin studies that consistently show that inner-city IQ's are equal to suburban IQ's, it is respectfully recommended that President Obama -

(1) use a portion of his proposed economic-stimulus funds to replace some of the failing inner-city schools with federally financed and operated K-12 magnet schools that attract suburban students whose families will become SURROGATE FAMILIES for the inner-city students; and

(2) as such federal K-12 magnet schools prove their worth, dedicate a portion of the $10 billion/month savings from winding up the war in Iraq to replacing all failing inner-city schools with such federal K-12 magnet schools.

I have received an e-mail from a friend requesting that all Americans contact President Barack Obama to urge that he champion federal K-12 magnet schools.
Timing is crucial because the FY 2010 Budget will be passed in the next few days and the unheard-of $5 billion of discretionary funds it contains for education will probably be committed shortly after passage.

If you agree with our proposal, please

(1) hit your e-mail forward button and put the e-mail addresses of all your friends and acquaintances into the address section so that, through no more than six degrees of separation to 100% of the American population, we reach everyone, and

(2) send to President Obama a copy of the following message at www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (which will require (A) inputting your name, an e-mail address and a ZIP code), (B) selecting "Other" from the pull-down menu for “Subject” and then (C) pasting the following message into the box provided.


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President Barack Obama

Dear Mr. President:

Re: The ONLY Way To Transform SINGLE-DIGIT Inner-City High School Graduation Rates to 65%-70%

SINGLE-DIGIT high school graduation rates and the overwhelming majority of households headed by single-adult druggies who turn over any receipts to the pusher so the kids have to steal just in order to eat were typical conditions for the first 180 I-Have-A-Dream Programs in 50 American cities as documented by John Karls, IHAD's volunteer national treasurer in the 1990's. He also documented that SURROGATE PARENTS (a tutor, mentor, etc., who is able to bond with the Dreamer) is THE ONLY FACTOR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A QUANTUM TRANSFORMATION OF H.S. GRADUATION RATES from single digits to 65%-70%. (For further details, please see www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org or ask The Hon. Hillary Clinton who served on Eugene Lang’s IHAD-National Advisory Board for many years before the 1991 Iowa caucuses.)

In the wake of the Supreme Court's 2007 reversal of Brown v. Board and return to separate AND UNEQUAL public schools, and faced with the inconvenient truth that America has produced a permanent inner-city under-class despite identical-twin studies that consistently show that inner-city IQ's are equal to suburban IQ's, we respectfully recommend:

(1) that a sizable portion of the $5 billion of discretionary funds in the Education Department’s portion of the budget currently being approved be used to replace some of the failing inner-city schools with federally financed and operated K-12 magnet schools that attract suburban students whose families will become SURROGATE FAMILIES for the inner-city students; and

(2) that as such federal K-12 magnet schools prove their worth, you dedicate a portion of the $10 billion/month savings from winding up the war in Iraq to replacing all failing inner-city schools with such federal K-12 magnet schools.

PS – Thank you for being so accessible to the ideas of your constituents, and thank you for increasing last January the size of messages such as this that you will accept from 500 characters to 5,000 characters.


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