#tim barrus on education

[timbarrus]

Every piece the New York Times publishes, that is about children, childrens’ rights, the exploitation of children, child trafficking, is done by a writer who at the very least, sounds like a very nervous amateur. It is hardly safe for me to say the Mommy America Suburban Stuff (consumer culture) has had everyone else pussy whipped. Property is everything you need to begin to compete with every other mommie on the block. Our garage only fits two cars and one truck and eight off the road vehicles, and a dirt Bike. We were going to have a pool but then we had a pool. Childhood is relative. It is also a fetish painted nice for another mommy’s smile. I know that look. After all, we live in the same neighborhood.

Childhood becomes a paradigm and there are rules. Your son will be targeted for a concussive event. It’s called piling on. Get the fuck back in that game. That’s childhood. Are they really going to be ballerinas. Some wear diapers. It shows. The New York Times doesn’t know Jack Shit about kids. All of us do not live on Long Island, and some of us, and the children of us, not that unlike the Children of the Vatican you tourists completely ignore which seems to be your answer to everything. Their arrival in America is not their fault. They have landed in a country where everyone hates them. They are more at risk for everything from everyone. There are still children in institutions who were, indeed, ripped from the family’s arms. Those arms cannot be replaced. What we have done with those children is criminal. The middle class guards who physically grabbed those kids – we were just doing our jobs – would not refuse to turn the shower poison on. They would have relished it. Just doing their jobs. Fuck your jobs. And fuck you. These kids will be aging out. Sooner than you think. And then what. How about those prisons still at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and Torture Chambers. Blaring music. Everyone here needs a shower.

Why did you do it and who do you know.

Who believes those kids are receiving a great education. We are making felons. We do it every day. They will be interrogated, you never know who the communists are. Order in the house. Order in the House. Mr. Chairman, I move that these communist children go take a long shower. It smells bad in here. The South shall raise again. Mr. Chairman, I hold that these charges cannot be real. I did teacher training for Head Start in my abandoned youth. Hundreds of them. All women. Every last one. Suddenly, I go off like a bomb because I am the worst brat in the class and everyone knows it. Horrified and staring. This is not how teacher trainers act. “Give me a name. What is the name of this child. He is in every class. You know him. You hate him. What a verbal and physical mess. No parenting.” This is where the suggestions begin. He’s going to prison. It has been decided. Everyone white nods. I want their names. Raise your hands. They all had names. One girl. She had a name, too. The entire family works the midnight shift at the slaughterhouse. The twelve-year-old pushed blood down a drain. Failing in school. He was crazy. No. We are failing him. I want to know why the mommies don’t deal with this. Deal with this. – Tim Barrus

[timotheebarrus]

I have only recently discovered that the teacher who abused me had a huge family. All of them boys. That is why I don’t use his name. His children are innocent. And he is dead. Why would I want to drag this family through the horror of it. I did not know what was happening. It was confusing. I tried for years to not think about it. This guy was solidly connected. But his boys are not at fault. Why should they suffer now. I wonder how safe they were all those years. And they would. Suffer. They would be shunned by the community they live in. I am the one who did what the teacher told him to do. It is pounded into your brain right from moment 1, act 1, adults are in charge and you are a complete afterthought. Not the main event. The main event for me was living with the every moment of the abuse over and over again. Don’t tell me survivors can block it out. I have never met anyone from that tribe. Sometimes really bad people do extremely well. It happens. These people have immunity for anything they do. If you’re lucky, you get to learn how to get around them. I smile and nod a lot. But I do not look people in the eye. My eyes are a two car garage filled with rats and cats.

[timothybarrus]

Foster Children in Appalachia are going hungry. Many have lost what little hope they had been clinging to. They are systemically left out of the equation on a good day. In a pandemic, the good days are few and far between. Child suicides have become common. The numbers for everything from Malaria to tuberculosis to HIV to addiction to Covid are at emergency levels. Then, hunger. Appalachia has serious food deserts. No place to buy food even if you could afford it. We are about to see diseases we thought were in the past.

Death is coming to schools. Pretending that school districts can protect children is laughable. WHERE the fuck do you live. School districts are social institutions, and they have never protected children. Ever. 

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Timothy Patrick Barrus, also known as Tim Barrus (born 1950), was born and grew up in Lansing, Michigan. His parents were European American, with his mother being of Scandinavian descent. At the age of 19, Barrus married Jan Abbott. Together they have a daughter named Kree, born in 1974. In 1975 they adopted Tommy, a boy who Barrus said had severe developmental problems. After two years, they turned him back to the state, finding they were unable to care for him adequately. Barrus and Jan later separated and divorced. He moved to San Francisco and later Key West. Barrus remarried in 1993 in San Francisco, to a special education teacher named Tina Giovanni. Barrus began publishing articles in the late 1970s, primarily for the gay leather magazing Drummer, where he worked as an associate editor. After his move to Key West in 1984, he also wrote for The Weekly News, a local gay newspaper. From 1985 to 1992, he published five novels, all dealing with homosexuality in different genres. Titles included Mineshaft and My Brother My Lover. While some were favorably reviewed, he never broke into mainstream acceptance. His novel Genocide was recognized as an early contribution to AIDS literature, described by critic Toby Johnson as “dark and pessimistic.” He is credited by Jack Fritscher with coining the term “Leather Lit.” In connection with his book Anywhere, Anywhere, a novel about Americans in Vietnam during the war, Barrus said that he had been a Vietnam veteran. This account was disputed by people who knew him. In 1999, Barrus submitted an unsolicited manuscript to Esquire magazine under the byline Nasdijj. He noted to them that the magazine had never published a work by a Native American author. “Nasdijj” wrote that his essay was about the death of his adopted son from fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), and that he also had it. His essay, “The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams,” was published in Esquire in 1999 and was a finalist in the National Magazine Awards that year. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-nJIyhwnI/?igshid=1jh44uyh2swcb

[timbarrus]

To this day, the stuff they did to us was a form of terrorism we will not forget. This piece does not tell anything from the real story of it.

[timbarrus]

I grew up born-and-bred to work the assembly line at Oldsmobile. We did not attend college. No idea what university was. That is where the rich kids went. Whoever they were. We kinda made them up. So we could blame them for the poverty of our lives. I blame them, too. Our class went to Vietnam. To kill people. To shoot babies. You do not want to hear that. You put your educated hands over your ears, eyes, and all your wounds. We were not born to run. We were born to lose. Everything. You never hear our voices. Higher Education keeps us out. What I want to know -- it's the focus of all my work -- is why. Why don't we matter. What we see is a certain amount of pleasure on the part of a culture of Gatekeepers. This paper is one. Where they get to kick us out (not always successfully) we invent new ways to connect shooting guns at beer cans. I would argue that patriotism is a scam. I would argue that teaching literacy is a scam. We need more of it. In fact, we have yet to come to terms with a reality where math and its fellow creatures should not be taught until age twelve because -- look at the data -- the humanoid brain loses its way until you hit adolescence. But literacy is different and there is nothing in this chummy conversation that remains an idea that transcends status. Status wins. And. The fear begins. Faster. Harder. Meaner. Get that job or you, too, will be in that factory they don't talk about. Your culture is on suicide watch. Higher Education will not save you. -- tim barrus

[timbarrus]

I don’t think they mean us. I see (they are probably there) no mention of Foster Home Placement having a dramatic effect on learning. Or learning systems. The kids I am thinking of are children from homes where the parents are in prison. School for kids who are at such enormous risk get to be supported by Authority. The government. We are turning these children into institutional failures. We never talk about how we have failed them. And. Those children will tell you exactly that. I am sorry but children with parents in prison need more support than they are getting. We say we love children. Loving cities. We say a lot of things. We talk the talk but we most definitely do not walk the walk. For heaven’s sake, quit talking to me. Show me. Show me.

North Carolina Criminal Law

“The 2022 Annual Report from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force (CFTF) highlights a significant increase in firearm-related deaths among North Carolina’s youth. The CFTF Annual Report, submitted in May of 2022, details child fatalities that occurred in North Carolina in 2020. According to the CFTF, rates for suicides, homicides, and firearm deaths for children in North Carolina all increased in 2020. CFTF Annual Report, p. 2. Firearms were used in 12 of the 20 suicides reported among youth ages 10 – 14 and in 19 of the 35 suicides reported among youth ages 15 – 17. All 11 of the homicides reported against youth ages 10 – 14 involved a firearm and 48 of the 50 homicides reported against youth ages 15 – 17 involved a firearm. Table 1, CFTF Annual Report. Suicide was the leading cause of death among youth ages 10 – 14 and homicide was the leading cause of death among youth ages 15 – 17.”

When you attend school, and other kids are killing themselves, these are not statistics to grieving communities. Thriving is asking too much of them. I live in Appalachia. Thriving is not exactly what we do. Try collecting fire arms sales data in a community where the schools are failing. You CANNOT have a culture of guns in communities constantly reeling from defeat. Canvas people if they own a gun. 

There is a lot of failure to thrive in Appalachia. All, I’m saying is keep an eye out for guns in the communities. Schools are not immune. This includes Head Start where they walk into classrooms (armed) and scoop up screaming four-year-olds who may never see their parents again. How are educational systems going to cope with kidnapping in the classroom, and if any teacher even questions any of this attack by animals, they are scooped up too. Red light. Red light. Red light. Get on the floor and crawl to the closet and lock the door. How do you build thriving cities from Rubble Housing Policy. Another issue for education is assisting access to housing. Housing and School are connected. Everyone wants a better system. We’ve been clutching our pearls, People.

You talk about love. I am talking about confrontation. Love is permission. To become indifferent. Sure, love has a lot of power to it. But do not quit with confrontation because a war has been declare on our students. 

The government itself has declared war on the people. Loving cities do exist somewhere. But I have 40 years in SPED, and I have never seen such a community in my life. Justice for these kids whose parents are incarcerated (it is not the kid’s fault), just like any other detention, and no one is asking the question, what is the role of the teacher in a classroom with children who are contemplating suicide. The numbers are there. They are alarming. I wish you success in your focus on educating systems in America. You have one tough job. My work is never over. Never over.

[timbarrus]

I am a communist. Home schooling. No media, and I am glad. Homeschoolers perform far better than traditional students on state testing exams. I could finally be a teacher and not a  cop or a babysitter. I could foresee exactly what was going to happen, and it did happen, and I have no respect for MAGA's buyer remorse. Don't point to us as failures. We are survivors of the American people. No one wants to be the victim of the media. There are more home schoolers than anyone knows because we keep our heads down. The separations in the traditional school setting are set in concrete. No one wants their kid in special education because kids in special education never leave special education until the day they turn twenty-one, you move your wheelchair into the street.

Teachers have religious cops. Censor cops. Cop cops. School board cops. State Boards of Education cops. Union cops. Health Department cops. Lunch cops. That drawer in your desk is where you store the bourbon. The tech cops. The New Rules of the Day cops. The Do Not Run In the Hallway cops. The IEP cops. I do not care what you do. You, too, will be a cop. People with families should not apply for these military jobs. Homework cops. Grading cops. Degrading cops. As a teacher trainer I said: One name. Give me one name. Eyes wide open. Names of boys spill out. We all know who he is. What can we do to help him become literate. Religion has no emotional safe place. Crammed into the janitors closet is not a safe place. 

[timbarrus]

I take kids fishing and watch them learn new things.

[timbarrus]

They made little movies. I was working with young boys who were trying to live with HIV. This scene has changed. But not much. Some had parents in prison. It was rock and roll. If there was a problem in the world, they would find it. Take social media. In order to be on social media, you have to know how to spell. Math helps, too, if you want edit your own videos. Real Stories Gallery Foundation gave them phones, gopros, computers, lap tops, tablets, books, art supplies, and hope. Everyone told me the boys would steal the tech. 10 Years of it. No one stole anything. They wore stuff out. What kind of projects can we make. This is code for What Do You Want. Make art, and talk to me. I am asking boys who would rather die than be around any adult who will tell them what to do. In Special Education, we call what we do, SPED. Some of the boys rarely talked. They had crawled up inside themselves. Boom. Tech arrives in boxes. Unexpectedly, the room got loud. With talk. Social media. A challenge. It would be a mistake to tell your Tumblr friends that you have HIV. Don't tell anyone where you live. It would be a mistake to tell your FB friends that your parents were in prison. They had seen prison, and they were scared. Parents get released. They come looking for you. You might have testified against them. Social media, too, wants conflict. Some parents did not know where their kid lived. Suicide watch is not teaching. What other kids would say shocked my boys. Can they say that. Yes.

[timbarrus]

The writing is brilliant even if I cannot agree with anything Ross Douthat says. I do not read people like me because there aren't any. What is the Other Side plotting. We need more toddlers who can plot. Hundreds of thousands of toddlers in toddler offices. I am from the Marx Institute of Leftist Fiddledeedee. And exactly who are these Leftist Suits Who Have Ruined America. Why aren't there any leftists at the NYT.  An island somewhere. You have everything else covered.

The leftists have left the hotel.

They are blamed shamelessly. But who are they. No one knows.

I need to understand so I might put this black spot on their permanent record. What are the humanities and why are they growing dark. Inquiry as punishment. That is some of us. Not all of us. The humanities originates in the Classical Greek paideia, a course of general education -- the Sophists -- in the mid-5th century bce. Young men for active citizenship in the polis, or city-state; and in Cicero’s humanitas, a program of training proper for orators, first set forth in De oratore (Of the Orator) in 55 bce. In the early Middle Ages the Church Fathers, including St. Augustine, himself a rhetorician, adapted paideia and humanitas—or the bonae (“good”), or liberales (“liberal”), arts, as they were also called—to a program of basic Christian education. We are being prepared for the meat grinder of the Stupid Machine. Where's it's always dark which is every color in the spectrum.

[timbarrus]

SPED kids Take On the School

[timbarrus]

Tim Barrus: NYT

I, too, view smartphones with some disdain and suspicion. I worked in special education for forty years. One of my students had no arms. He had flippers. They had no function. This was during the era when inclusion was all the rage in SPED. No school district is going to pay for the kind of tech that Steven Hawking had (and deserved to have). Today, we are not so sure about inclusion. Some lawsuits you want to just go away. Every time a school district turns the lights on in the morning, there's another lawsuit. Tech is not going to go away. That young boy with flippers now has access to technology (artificial arms) that have improved his life faster than anyone could have imagined. He can do some stuff better than I can. Do not play Grand Theft Auto with him. You will lose. The smartphone does not engage him because of its shape. All this stuff costs money. The kids we are most worried about are children on the spectrums of the middle class that still think they are masters of their fate. Who cares. The kids who don't have phones are overwhelmingly poor. We do not care about them.

I know their parents, and those parents are afraid. That there could be an accident, or a live shooter, and they all know the number of children who disappear (they must be the bad children) is real. FBI Numbers: 26,000 American children disappear (hold on) every month. Different reasons. Same result. Forbid phones? Walking to school is a minefield. Parents are freaked out enough. Shame on us.

[timbarrus]

Take notes. Appalachia: I have coffee in the coffee shop on Main Street. We call it Main. The City Fathers arrived to answer questions. There is really only one question: Why did no one show up to help us through a hurricane. You rebuild. Struggling. There used to be mountain people who thought Climate change was a hoax. Great Leader said so. You have to look at education in the South. There is little tolerance for kids who ask too many questions. So you never ask questions. You slink around marginalized. You put adolescent energy into basketball. Sports is your only option. You will Comply. I am the unofficial Secretary of State. I arrive every morning with a long list of the Felon's crimes.

We have one woman who the gossips say: She's a Lesbian. Half the people left. Good riddance. Some of us (including me) think that the Felon wants to kill us. We think he will succeed because Americans (this is where you would tobacco spit on the floor, and you catch yourself) are weak. Women serve us. Coffee? Bleached blondes. No high heels. Hospital shoes. Everything comes home. These are men who own tomato fields, cucumber fields. Potato fields. Apple orchards. They need migrants to pick the crops or they go broke fast. Migrant workers arrive in August. Changing your mind is hard stuff, you all. They are slowly coming to realize I am a radical. Not a liberal. We swear. “Language.” The women don't like it. “Language.” In time I will teach them to hate the Felon’s guts. -- tim barrus

[timbarrus]

tim barrus

Take notes. We need more babies on this planet like we need global warming. I am anti-baby all the way. Hope and famine. There is no hope for the planet when there are so many people on it that must be fed. As a teacher, I am perhaps supposed to be in favor of education. Education has failed us. Who would want to bring an innocent child into a world that will devour them. Let's have a good time with poverty. Let's have a good time with the loss of any kind of economic stability. Upper middle class parents compare their babies with what. My baby is best. Mommies need to grow up.

Having kids is not a competition. It is a curse. How many jobs will this kid have to survive. I put my kids on a flight out of here the day after Trump won. How can anyone bring a child into a culture controlled by a rapist. I am not allowed to use the word rapist in the New York Times. Or I get kicked off again. But if they can't allow that word, how is it that women tolerate a structure for a rapist to even have a bully pulpit. He will do it again. I am not going to parent a child who is going to learn the ways of a Rape Culture as institutional indifference. You have options. Wow. You can choose not to rape. How visionary. The idea of choosing to not have kids feels like a betrayal. The idea of choosing to not have kids is Radical. Anyone who does this will confront hostility from family, friends, and the community will shun you. It is unethical to bring anyone into the rot we have become.