Posted on 06/07/2016 9:07:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It's been more than a half a century since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling found that "separate but equal" has no place in U.S. public schools.
And yet, true racial equality in our education system is yet to materialize.
That's clear from the startling revelations in the latest Education Department report released Tuesday. Entitled the Civil Rights Data Collection, the survey is conducted biennially. This one surveyed 50 million students in 95,000 schools during the 2013-2014 school year.
It shows how much African-American and Latino students still lag in terms of opportunities.
The disparity "tears at the moral fabric of our nation," Education Secretary John B. King Jr. told reporters. "What sets the U.S. apart from any other country is the idea that opportunity is universal," he said. "These data show that we still fall far short of that ideal."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Any black child who values education and not a culture that casts such as somehow “white” will probably do okay.
White kids who adopt a subculture that disparages education and embraces things gangster will probably end up basket cases.
Neither possibility should be news to anyone who isn’t a race baiting so-called “progressive”.
the kids wore uniforms, studied the same stuff that THE best of the best Chicago private day schools ( Latin, Parker, Lab ) did and more. She threw kids out who didn't do the work, didn't behave and those kids did as well, with some doing better than the mostly white, upper middle class and upper class kids at Latin, Parker, and Lab did! WHY ? Because she expected them to behave and learn and their parents cared !
The whole dumbing down of ALL children, has been happening all over this nation for quite a while; even in the nest of the best private schools.
When the huge influx of LEGAL immigrants hits the states, over 100 years ago, the kids were thrown into all English speaking classes and they learned English in less than a year. They also kept up with their American classmates, or were left back or thrown out of school. It all worked! So did the old fashioned "NORMAL SCHOOL" training of teachers!
Ditto. There will be no end until America is finally dragged down into the 3rd World Communist dung-pit. Race, false narratives, character assassination and class warfare are the tools the Communist Left has used against America since FDR foolishly recognized the Soviet Union as an equal government in 1933. Anyone who recognizes the real game is immediately destroyed and silenced as a conspiracy theorist or worse. Some conspiracies aren't theories.
Gifted classes (we used to call them college prep) require extra effort. Not every student is as intelligent as the next or willing to put in the extra time required to pass gifted classes. If the opportunity is there but students choose not to participate, then how is it a racial disparity problem?
Houston, we've had a problem.
How on earth does a PRE-School child get an out of school suspension?
That sounds like a pretty messed up kid.
Ms Collins got to throw out the do-nothings and trouble-makers. That made all the difference.
Public schools can’t do that. Westside Prep is a good argument for vouchers, Skim off all the students who want an education and let them have it. Three trouble-makers in a class make it impossible for others to learn; three good students are not going to sprinkle some kind of magic good student dust on all the others. Let them learn in peace.
It is both dna and culture.
A Nigerian friend told me that some of her Nigerian friends living here were sending their children BACK to Nigeria for school - didn’t want them influenced by black American culture.
SPOT ON !
While I agree with post-FDR activist justices in principal concerning segregation, it remans that these justices were wrong to ignore state sovereignty and effectively amend the Constitution from the bench to prohibit the states from practicing segregation.
After all, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for INTRAstate schools.
Also, the only race-related protection that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect is voting rights evidenced by the 15th Amendment. And intrastate schooling issues are clearly outside the scope of voting issues.
Noting major problems with the ratification of the 14th Amendment (14A), I wish that Congress had foreseen problems with segregation when it drafted and proposed 14A to the states, and had included an anti-segregation provision in that amendment.
Again, the post-FDR era Supreme Court was the wrong entity to fix the problem imo.
As a side note to this post, regarding segregation, it’s ironic that we can be sure that the same 1950s justices who prohibited the states from practicing school segregation would probably have kicked the state sovereignty-ignoring, PC idea of everybody using the same restroom out of the Supreme Court building.
Translation: Liberal educational policies have failed. First it was busing. Then it was no dress codes, then it was do poorly and it’s the test’s fault, then it was teachers’ unions, and then it was no academic standards. I went to a majority minority public HS in the early 60’s - what a great experience. Now, the public school system in CA is destroyed, and private school tuition is built into every family’s budget. Or, just move out of state.
Aren’t these averages low? 107 is the highest in the world?
Scroll down lower on the page for the low scores in the 70s and 60s.
Our high school had an advanced and an honors program at junior and senior levels...
...after 8 years of Odungo’s devisiveness to expect any else
is foolish
Outlaw the teachers union and fire all their members!
More racialist whining.
Yawn.
Eliminate welfare and bring back fathers and discipline. The gov’t has expanded the former and outlawed the latter.
Why study or even go to school when you don’t need an education to be a drug dealer or welfare queen?
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