I hear the schools in Africa are fabulous.
Diversity——Equality
Pick ONE....you can’t have both.
If we really cared about educating minorities we would:
Ban teachers unions and institute school choice.
Well Saeed, it’s like this. Barack Hussein Obama has been the president for the past 8 years. Stop your whining and talk to him about it.
they won’t accept the dna-shaped elephant in the room. Okay, it’s dna
I’d say the opportunities for whites are dwindling in choice of college and advancement in one’s career. The Left just keeps beating that drum until anyone successful is beaten down.
Points to Ponder :
1. Why are we discussing this? Legally segregated schools no longer exist and have not existed for decades.
2. Many school systems with large minority school populations, such as our major cities, are run by minorities. The teachers, principals, school superintendents, etc. in cities with big black populations are themselves black. So by definition, there can be no racism involved.
3. Many of these same places are, politically, run by Democrats. So for our Democrat Education secretary to decry the situation in these schools, makes no sense, since his fellow Democrats run these places.
4. Why do we have such problems after 7 plus years of the Obama era? Obama is a good Democrat. Obama allegedly has compassion as Democrats do, for the poor and downtrodden. What has Obama done to address the problems of inner city schools??
Is there really a gap in terms of opportunities? Might it not actually be a self-inflicted gap in making use of the opportunities that are there? Can’t be actin’ white, doncha know.
There's no end to it, is there?
With my advancing age, I have witnessed, and participated in, what is now an historically significant span of these fesitivities, and I'm ready to call it a game.
Carrying on and whining about "not having equal opportunity" is SOOOO pass-the-buck-on-blame. They have been handed the opportunity for a free education. It is THEIR choice to not take advantage of this. I am sick of hearing this pack of lies.
It is not opportunity that they lack. In the case of blacks it is the lack of home support and the drain on the individual by a sick and twisted hip hop, gangster, basketball culture. As far as Latinos go they are doing fine in areas where they assimilate, but in sh!t holes like L.A. and Houston they suffer from a culture of entitlement. Opportunity is there for the taking if the individual can overcome the negatives of the culture they live in.
It's called, "Ambition".
Starin’ ‘em right in the face and they still don’t get it.
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”.
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?
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.