Posted on 07/15/2020 12:48:29 PM PDT by karpov
JACKSON, Miss.—After schools shut down in March, LaKenya Bunton would get home around 7 a.m. from an overnight quality-control job at a factory, doze for a few hours, then become teacher to her 16-year-old son, Amarrius.
Her son, a rising sophomore, had received no remote-learning materials from his school and didn’t hear from most of his teachers. Ms. Bunton’s method included collecting Amarrius’s cellphone and handing him the day’s work: a packet of practice college-prep questions she printed from the internet.
“I’m educating him the best way I can,” said Ms. Bunton, a 41-year-old single mother. “I don’t want him to be behind.”
With the next academic year quickly approaching, school districts and parents everywhere are racing to figure out how to resume learning during the coronavirus pandemic—with the interruption that upended the last school year beginning to look like a longer-term disruption. Los Angeles’s school system said Monday it will start the year online, while New York City recently announced a plan to bring students back to classrooms part time. Districts have to weigh the potential public-health risks of bringing students into classrooms against the shortcomings of remote-learning programs, which schools hastily rolled out in the spring with generally dismal results.
The problems were amplified for children in the nation’s worst-performing schools, including at Jackson Public Schools, where 95% of the students are Black and just as many are considered low income. District parents say if education is the great equalizer, their children are at a growing disadvantage.
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Mr. Bunton can't help educate the child of LaKenya Bunton because there probably is no Mr. Bunton. "Privileged" children have two parents trying to ensure they make academic progress.
Covid, George Floyd riots, and #BLM movement couldn’t have been designed better by the KKK themselves to knock blacks back another 20 years behind other groups.
Fauci is a composite of Dr. Mengele and Leni Riefenstahl ...
Mississippi voters get the kind of education that they voted voted for...
What is hard to understand. Vote responsibly.
It is possible that vouchers HAVE been tried? Is it possible that they failed? SOME less than honest people might even trade their vouchers for cash.
School will only be better when parents are better. Those families with only one parent are behind the eight-ball from the get-go.
Children will be better when their families are intact, financially supported by parents and not reliant on government ANYTHING.
At least, so far he’s not doing “voluntary” gender reassignment treatments on children, even though he may be dreaming about it.
That is, unfortunately, true.
Families are poor for many reasons. The governments, federal, state and local can't be "NANNY" to everyone. Families have to take responsibility for their failures. THEY know it.
The Democrat leaders will continue to push for more and more dependency on the government. The poor KNOW that and seem willing to accept the money, no matter who gives it to them.
Didn’t you get the news? Two parents (Nuclear Family) is racist according to the Smithsonian Institute.
Doesn’t matter. All that matters is the needs of the NEA.
Stay tuned. So let’s see if black and other minority parents get frustrated, that their public schools stay closed. Liberals run these school districts, and supposedly members of minority groups are supposed to be liberal themselves. At least the elitist liberals who run these cities think their subject peoples are supposed to be liberal.
Relative of mine taught in Jackson public schools for a year.
Anyone who thinks the goal of that school system is learning is delusional.
Relative finally got tired of being threatened by a class full of 4th graders who hated her for her skin color and quit. ‘my mama said you white, I don’t have to listen to you!’
Hmmm, wonder how the Asians are doing...
YES. And the rhetoric of BLM does not even container one once of self-empowerment. Its complete victimhood, abandonment of self-responsibility in the face of “white oppression," and justification of rage.
If you want to destroy someone, train them to go through life with the above mindset.
By Christmas he will declare it should be done to end the Plandemic
Democrats
This was an obvious outcome.
Very sad and so very awful for the black students.
Sad thing is that black students are every bit as capable.
IF they are properly motivated and expectations of their performance are not lowered.
My wife and I were talking about this earlier today. With high school and college students remote learning may be possible—if there is a parent there to make sure the kid is actually doing the work. But for elementary but for most elementary kids, the notion is absurd. The parent will have to become a full-time teacher to keep most kids that age on task. Not saying it can’t be done, but it takes a lot of effort.
The other problem with ‘remote’ learning that no one wants to talk about, is that in most cities and big towns, a primary goal for the schools is “to keep the kids off of the streets”. A secondary goal is to feed them two or three times a day. That’s not to say that actually teaching the kids isn’t considered important, it is. But in many urban school districts a student graduating with a diploma who actually has mastered the materials is a rarity, a gem to be fondly remembered by his teachers.
They wouldn’t already lag their peers if their parents would get married and have a solid family unit. This isn’t a “race” thing. It’s a victim thing.
And oh yeah, Trump is accused of endangering, if not wanting to kill (!) students and their families by re-opening the schools.
Yes, President Trump is a racist who obviously hates Black people. /s
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