[mrsmel]

How will they fix this disparity? By forcing the white and Asian students to stay home on certain days? That’s partly how they’re dealing with the disparity in punishment for blacks students as opposed to other students, by not punishing the black miscreant students while cracking down on the others.

[GeronL]

Why do I imagine that SF Gate will find a way to blame this on whites and asians?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The entire purpose of Common Core is equality... making the non-black kids as dumb as the black kids. Maybe the schools could start handing out dope to non-black kids who are unfairly overachieving.

[bgill]

Whitey’s fault!

[Still Thinking]

Deep racial divide in Oakland schools’ attendance rates

Somehow the Amish ones must be getting discriminated against in public transport or something. It's the only explanation.

[Chode]

The first detailed look at attendance in Oakland schools shows a deep racial divide between students in class and habitual no-shows, a pattern reflected in grades, test scores and graduation rates.

and there it is, but she'll catch hell for that one...

[RightGeek]

Read the article for the “solution” which is basically to parachute in social workers.

[RoosterRedux]

Leaders in the Black community need to confront head-on this fear of "acting White."

Success is not a color or race.

But as long as Blacks refuse to assimilate because they will be accused of being Uncle Tom's, they are condemned to lives of poverty and violence and crime.

[Don Corleone]

Nearly 1 of 5 African American students in Oakland is chronically absent from school,

Why waste time in school?Hang out with the gang. Kill whitey. Obama and the Just Us department will see to it that we don't get prosecuted and if we do the Muslims will convert us to Islam in prison and turn us out to kill whitey in even more fun ways. Life is a blast if you don't have consequences.

[oh8eleven]

That big difference between who’s in class and who isn’t helps explain much of the achievement gap between white and Asian students and their African American peers.
Wow, BREAKING NEWS! I'm sure no one was EVER aware of this in the history of, of, anything!

[onedoug]

“I was surprised by the extremity of the results.”

I wasn't.

[Carl Vehse]

It’s the feral sub-human culture that needs to be eliminated. Until then the absentee problem and the associated violence will remain.

[al_c]

So the usual conclusion is that the school is racist. Right?

[Le Chien Rouge]

Somewhere , among the children missing class, is the NEXT Saint Trayon or a magnificent scholar like Michael Brown...

[jocon307]

Bush’s fault? Jeb Bush’s fault?

[Tzimisce]

...well I’m sure it has something to do with low taxes and lack of gun control....

[MeshugeMikey]

time for another beer summit

[DoughtyOne]

Our schools fail the African American because the studies are not African-centric, they teach English instead of Ebonics, and they don’t give away free rap albums for high rates of attendance. Why they won’t even let them stand around school dispensing crack! Why they even let white kids on the basketball and football teams.

How can a black child be expected to excel in that environment? It’s a national scandal! I’m surprised Al, Jessie, and the NAACP haven’t addressed this before now.

3/4s /s

[Molon Labbie]

Everytime I see the phrase “deep racial divide” I have the urge to vomit.

[goldi]

Maybe the kids are sick and tired of the crap they have to put up with in CA schools.