My problem is I graduated from Neptune High School. My mom and dad still reside in Neptune, my two oldest daughters graduated from Neptune and my twins graduated from Asbury Park High School and my youngest is a cheerleader for AP Pop Warner.
Many of the parents in AP say they bleed blue I have to say I bleed red and blue. Love both towns still. My parents and relatives taught me about my history. I don't put it all on the school to teach and we can't truly put all the blame on the teachers for what is wrong with the children of today. Little Johnny can't read because little Johnny has not been adopted by a village to teach him. It starts at home when I went to school there were two classes offered to me and I took both. There was American History taught by my Italian teacher Mr. Cafone, then there was Black History taught by my African American teacher Mr. Jake Jones. If there were things I did not understand or was confused about I went home and asked my parents. If I still had quesions I knew where the library was to do further research. Whatever the outcome I had various sources to draw my conclusion from. I worked on my youngest child from the womb. I had to put pillows in a chair so she could reach the keyboard at the age of 1 now she's teaching me a few things about electronics. ________________________________ From: justifiedright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:26:35 AM Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: OMG - WTF - Again ! Hi Denise! Thanks so much for these thoughts below. VERY insightful. Don't congratulate me on the win - unless my kid is on the Howell team, my heart is always with AP ;-). My friend and I in the booth were in that rare position of cheering for both teams touchdowns and tackles. We've heard all about AP's program in Howell this year. Outstanding! Let me add a bit to your thoughts below. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, denise <denisemchd@ ...> wrote: > The names are not new and not considered traditional. I named my >daughters what I thought was at the time unique names. I did not >want the traditional names like Denise, Sara, Amy, Joanne, Katie. >(Taniya,Tivona, Tamara,Tierra, Tayana) I wanted to be creative. If >you look at their names you see they all begin with T and end with >a and they all have 6 letters. Their middle names are traditional >>(Michelle, Danielle) I know what you mean. We thought we were being creative in combining two names for my daughter (Annalisa). She's only met two others. > In my opinion I think the next generation after me started naming >children after what they thought were muslims names with some >adjustments . Some also took traditional names and added letters >to make it different for instance Shawn became(Eshawn, DeShawn, >DaShawn, MyShawn). Then some went in my opinion overboard with >names that probably made it hard for the child to pronounce like >Ashanasia, Ashaquasia then some names became probably like the >names you discovered on that list --only for the child to be given >a nickname that was easy to pronounce. Great history lesson, Denise. Really shows the evolution. >Also the late 80-90's generation considered the traditional names >as slave names. I thought that. It's a real cultural problem. I blame the schools for teaching the wrong things. I did a column on it not to long ago. It's here: http://tinyurl. com/6yhg8q > I don't think the idea was to be as you say deliberately separate >because I would say to you what makes the names like Tommy and >Denise, Concetta right and the names like Ashanasia, DaShawn, >Chiquetta wrong. I know what you mean. I didn't put my sister's name in the common name column though. That's why it was hidden from her until she was 14. The family thought it was to ethnic at the time and didn't want her having any problems fitting in. "Generations have their own trends. What we thought was right in our younger years is not what is considered right to today. Most young people have they're own mindset these days that's why you now see spiked hair-, you see the gothic look, you see the pants hanging off. Do I agree with the new trends no. But you also have seen the comeback of pedal pushers(capri pants) mini dresses , penny loafers." GREAT POINT! > But at the same time a certain name has hurt some people. Someone >could have a master's degree and have graduated at the top of her >class but because her name on the application for employment was >Shamika she was never even considered for the job. Exactly right! That's my fear too. Aren't we putting the children at a competitive disadvantage with the non-traditional names? That's why I call it culture clash. The European mindset was always to Americanize. The Black mindset, which has every right to America, seems to be trending toward separateness. > I grew up in Belmar then Neptune now Asbury Park. What is going >on in any community right now. I work in Freehold and it used to >be that when you heard a car pulling up besides you in traffic >blasting rap music with the base so strong you could feel your >heart beating in your chest I thought it would have be an young >African American, but instead it was a young White American. The >younger generation are coming together more, I also see young kids >of all colors walking around with their pants hanging off so it is >not just in the black community. I just recently came from Disney >they have booths that charge to put cornrows and beads in your hair >which traditionally started in the black community. I did a column on this too. Blacks are always the trend setters in pop culture, particularly music. White people always follow what they do. 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