I get “burned out” sometimes hearing about this subject. Black students have lagged behind for decades. This is nothing new. Problems in ghetto schools have been there and unsolved for decades. Ghetto attitudes such as trying to do well in school being derided as “acting white” have been there for decades.
A reformer such as Michelle Rhee in Washington DC was making some progress dealing with a tough inner city school system, but she was summarily fired from her job.
I get the impression that these problems in schools will simply never be solved.
The solution is pretty simple, actually.
Stop subsidizing bad choices.
African students (if they survive school) are simply replacing “African Americans” in society; they work hard for it, and detest American blacks for squandering the opportunities afforded them.
Until American blacks are treated as whites (in terms of eradicating affirmative action in education and the workplace), they will always be inferior to whites - because our government has made them so (and by policy admitted as much).
The enduring problem of schools, education, and minorities reminds me of an old joke...
On his evening stroll a man encounters another man near a lamppost on his hands and knees. The stroller engages the man and asks if there is a problem he could help with?
The other man replies, “Yes, I have lost my keys”.
Trying to be helpful the stroller asks where he had them last?
The man points to a location far off in the distance.
So the stroller asks why he is looking way over here?
“Because the light is better here”
Most nearly any problem is solvable but you have to have the discernment to be able to detect what the actual problem is, the wisdom to think through a viable solution, and the courage to pursue a remedy through to its conclusion.
Modern leftists (who happen to control most of the educational industry) hold none of those attributes.