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(The New York Times) Interesting How do you save a failing inner-city school? Why, send a Hasidic Jew with military training to be principal, of course   (nytimes.com) divider line 126
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EsteeFlwrPot 2008-02-09 05:28:39 PM  
flame war?

 
AwCrap 2008-02-09 05:34:27 PM  
"So, vermin, you are wanting a diploma? You should choke instead! Oy vey!!!!"

 
TheHopeDiamond 2008-02-09 05:55:29 PM  
I saw that movie.

 
Swantum Leap 2008-02-09 06:46:03 PM  
That headline reminded me of the Hebrew Hammer.

 
Rodeodoc 2008-02-09 06:46:26 PM  
This would make a great movie theme! If only there was someone who could write for movies...

 
semiotix 2008-02-09 06:47:36 PM  
TheHopeDiamond: I saw that movie.

Ah yes, Eddie Yeshua Olmashewitz, one of my favorite actors. He's even better on Battlestar Gefiltefish.

/Jewish
//not that that makes it any better

 
goofycaca 2008-02-09 06:48:17 PM  
Is this a sequel?

Hopefully Louis Gossett jr. is available.

 
JOEKC 2008-02-09 06:48:24 PM  
Begs for Obvious tag

 
jayg22 2008-02-09 06:48:25 PM  
I have seen this movie! It is really good, I think its on lifetime.

 
Sueil [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:48:56 PM  
That headline reminds me of the newest episode of house.

 
yagottabefarkinkiddinme 2008-02-09 06:50:06 PM  
I read Hasidic Jew as Sadistic Jew. Put a different meaning to the story there for a few seconds. Benefits of having the flu.

 
theoutlaw 2008-02-09 06:50:30 PM  
In fact, one parent, Angie Vazquez, 37, acknowledged that her upbringing had led her to wonder: "Wow, we're going to have a Jewish person, what's going to happen? Are the kids going to have to pay for lunch?"

/why

 
UrinalPooper 2008-02-09 06:50:30 PM  
elvis t. christ!!! someone copyright the screenplay!~!!!11

 
100 Watt Walrus 2008-02-09 06:50:40 PM  
semiotix: TheHopeDiamond: I saw that movie.

Ah yes, Eddie Yeshua Olmashewitz, one of my favorite actors. He's even better on Battlestar Gefiltefish.

/Jewish
//not that that makes it any better


img458.imageshack.us
/thread over

 
serial_crusher [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:51:30 PM  
Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school

Aren't Jews also a minority?

 
Moses Bellybutton 2008-02-09 06:51:43 PM  
www.crownheights.info
Available for comment.

 
Tactful 2008-02-09 06:52:06 PM  
I have a bad feeling Vince Vaughn and/or Owen Wilson would get involved in this movie somehow.

 
ne2d [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:52:51 PM  
WTF just happened? This article just became registration only and it wasn't before.

/damn, there goes my greenlight

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:53:34 PM  
serial_crusher: Aren't Jews also a minority?

Not "their" kind of minority.

 
skinink 2008-02-09 06:53:36 PM  

Shimon Waronker: "This is not a damn democracy! We are in a state of emergency and my word is law! There's only one boss around here, and that's me. The HJIC."
[exits]


Mr. O'Malley: "HJIC?"


Ms. Levias: "Head Jew In Charge."


 
ne2d [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:54:07 PM  
JOEKC: Begs for Obvious tag

I almost did, but thought it would be too flamebaity.

 
tyguy101aa [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:54:17 PM  
isnt this an adam sandler movie or something?

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 06:54:21 PM  
Well, Krav Maga does have its uses.

/Systema seems more effective, though

 
kbarham 2008-02-09 06:54:55 PM  
Can Edward Almost, Jr. play a Jewish role?

 
TX-Law 2008-02-09 06:55:14 PM  
What do you do with a fahkahkta school?

images.rottentomatoes.com
Send in the less-talented Belushi!

 
kilgorn 2008-02-09 06:55:46 PM  
www.americanrhetoric.com

Get, yo ass, in gear...

/rookie

 
LargeCanine 2008-02-09 06:55:57 PM  
theoutlaw: In fact, one parent, Angie Vazquez, 37, acknowledged that her upbringing had led her to wonder: "Wow, we're going to have a Jewish person, what's going to happen? Are the kids going to have to pay for lunch?"

/why


Um... shouldn't students pay for their lunch?

serial_crusher: Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school

Aren't Jews also a minority?


Yes, but they are not an officially recognized 'disadvantaged' minority. So they don't get special treatment.

 
logruszed 2008-02-09 06:55:59 PM  
FTA "Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school,...."


And Hasidim are a majority? Say what you mean New York Times "colored".

 
LordJiro 2008-02-09 06:56:28 PM  
Wouldn't he melt through the floor?

Oh, Hasidic

 
goldielox 2008-02-09 06:57:08 PM  
FTA: In fact, one parent, Angie Vazquez, 37, acknowledged that her upbringing had led her to wonder: "Wow, we're going to have a Jewish person, what's going to happen? Are the kids going to have to pay for lunch?"


I can't believe this comment pissed me off as much as it did.

 
Spenser 2008-02-09 06:57:26 PM  
Students hate the guy at first, they trash his car, he's ready to quit, theres a narrowly averted fight, his girlfriend thinks he's nuts, he experiences self-doubt, then he decides enough is enough, he gets tough, maybe he's not so bad, the one kid is a gifted athelete, the big dumb lookin kid learns to read, a child protege is in their midst the whole time but was too embarassed to admit his love for poetry 'cause it's just like rap, he appeals to them to use their minds, they pull together, the real bad kid gets stood up to by the other kids and he says screw this shiat, I'm outta here, but the principal is too smart for him and follows him home where he's actually the man of the house and has to watch over his little sister 'cause momma ditched out on 'em, the tough kid is just misunderstood and he comes back and promises to be cool and saves the principle from gtetting hurt in an industrial accident, then the whole school finally gets national recognition for their excellence and are sponsored to attend a scholastic merit awards ceremony in Washington, and on the way there, the plane goes down in fog and all is lost, there are no survivors. But the principle was there the day before and blames himself, but accepts the award anyway, holds it aloft and says "We did it, guys." And then he goes home and lives happily ever after, because he's salaried he doesn't have to finish the remainder of the year and goes to St. Thomas and has a real nice time.

 
laebshade 2008-02-09 06:58:22 PM  
Hero tag conspicuously missing.

 
Zulgaines 2008-02-09 06:58:40 PM  
serial_crusher: Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school

Aren't Jews also a minority?


They mean brown minoritys.

 
logruszed 2008-02-09 06:58:45 PM  
CygnusDarius: Well, Krav Maga does have its uses.

/Systema seems more effective, though


Any post-menses woman not related to him could just threaten to touch him and he would lose.

 
Enemabag Jones 2008-02-09 06:59:02 PM  
Bet he gets nicknamed 'the hebrew hammer'.

/Great movie.

 
echomike23 2008-02-09 06:59:14 PM  
Samuel L Bronkowitz already covered this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6699JGyEtI

/rickroll free

 
ramathorn83 2008-02-09 07:00:32 PM  
Summon Tatsuma!

 
logruszed 2008-02-09 07:00:55 PM  
"You control the Golan heights, you control the terrain,"

FTFTFA

 
theoutlaw 2008-02-09 07:01:54 PM  
LargeCanine: theoutlaw: In fact, one parent, Angie Vazquez, 37, acknowledged that her upbringing had led her to wonder: "Wow, we're going to have a Jewish person, what's going to happen? Are the kids going to have to pay for lunch?"

/why

Um... shouldn't students pay for their lunch?


Exactly my ponderings. Kids don't pay for their lunch now? Would like five years of lunch money back.

 
zahal [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 07:02:19 PM  
I like the woman who asked if her kids were going to start paying for lunch.

As if the second a Jewish guy walks through the door hes going to start demanding money.

Nu? If her daughter were to walk through that door, donning my Kevlar I would.

 
Pixelvision 2008-02-09 07:02:27 PM  
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manciasal 2008-02-09 07:03:45 PM  
Maybe they need this:

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theoutlaw 2008-02-09 07:05:03 PM  
zahal: I like the woman who asked if her kids were going to start paying for lunch.

As if the second a Jewish guy walks through the door hes going to start demanding money.


it's charming how stereotypes work, isn't it?

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 07:05:40 PM  
aaaaaand this was posted on a Saturday so you-know-who won't be here...

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-09 07:07:31 PM  
ne2d: WTF just happened? This article just became registration only and it wasn't before.

/damn, there goes my greenlight


works ok for me

 
EsteeFlwrPot 2008-02-09 07:08:18 PM  
Omg Moses Bellybutton that pic of Matisyahu is teh hotness

/I'll be in my bunk

 
Farkinson's Disease 2008-02-09 07:10:55 PM  
Shaalom in the Home School System?

 
mythicknight 2008-02-09 07:11:41 PM  
Of course, the shiatty teachers he booted wonders why things got better.

Good for him.

 
Skwidd 2008-02-09 07:14:56 PM  
"Military training" is a bullshiat term. Did you know the military trains secretaries? Oh, we call them "Yeomen" (or now, "Personnel Specialists") and some services require them to shoot icky rifles once a year, but they're still in the military getting "military training." Didn't you people see I'm Gonna Get You Sucka? "Military training" != "molded into a badass killing machine."

/military
//pet peeve of the non-rotsky variety

 
pr0t3us 2008-02-09 07:16:10 PM  
Wonder which military he was trained in? I met some of the Israeli army guys in Haifa, back in the Gulf War.

Usually, when soldiers meet like that we'll exchange hats or something for souvenirs, but these guys wanted to trade their hats for electronics and Walkmans.

The Israeli military is one of the most battle hardened on the planet, and they know it, apparently.

 
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