New York Times to Release ‘Nice White Parents’ Series Blaming White Parents for Achievement Gap

Breitbart ^ | 7-23-2020 | Dr. Susan Berry

[Sir Napsalot]

The New York Times announced Thursday it is releasing a new podcast series titled Nice White Parents, about how white parents are preventing black and brown children from succeeding in public schools.

The podcast series, to be released July 30 from Serial Productions, will be available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google.

According to the Times, Nice White Parents is “about the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.”

Its premise is reportedly that the reason government schools are failing “black and brown kids” is due to powerful “white parents.”

[Think free or die]

Ben Carson’s personal story is truly inspiring. His mother busted her shoes for her kids and instilled an appreciation for learning that served both her sons well.

[kiryandil]

The racist New York Times has decided to use black Americans to regain power in the 2020 election.

We're watching slave auctioneer A.G. Sulzberger hawk his captive wares on the auction block of his POS rag.

[Think free or die]

I experienced much of what you describe as the deteriorating school situation. White kids were targeted, and usually by groups of black kids. I experienced bullying, racist epithets, threats, and theft. I was quick to get out of the way when I heard angry shouting or glass breaking and furniture being thrown around. I remember climbing out the window once when I was in about 8th grade. Another peaceful protest had begun and it wasn’t safe to be there so I walked home. This was in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s, as unrest spilled over from the big city protests. I was immensely relieved to get out of the public schools and off to college where this stuff wasn’t going on. My college classmates from sheltered suburbs were tremendous liberals of course. They’d never had to deal with this crap and feel unsafe so it was easy to flap their lips about injustice.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is the writer implying that white parents need to disengage from their children’s education in order to close the achievement gap?

There are always two ways one could go on this:
1) Recommend that some people (Whites) do a worse job.
2) Recommend that some people (Blacks) do a better job.

Since #2 is obviously racist, the Left must recommend that White people should start doing a much worse job raising their children.

[hanamizu]

“...government schools are failing “black and brown kids” is due to powerful “white parents.”

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Because, in the end black (and now maybe brown) are never responsible for the bad results in their lives. Isn’t that kind of, you know, maybe racist?

[hanamizu]

“Class disruptions became daily events and soon no one was learning because the increasingly outrageous, rude, disrespectful behavior by some black students.”

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I’ve seen this with my own eyes. I now sub at a semi-rural school I taught at for many years. Two years ago, two black families with maybe 12 kids between them moved into the district and changed the character of the whole school. People who aren’t teachers have no idea one or two kids can disrupt a classroom and make it impossible for the teacher to teach or the children to learn.

The fights can be and are dealt with. It’s all of the loud disruptive behavior short of a fight that wears everyone down. And of course the black kids who were perfectly fine before the families moved in started emulating the new kids. It was terrible. And we lost a couple of families of good kids who had the means to escape the hell their kids classrooms had become.

As you say, the teachers’ jobs become more crowd controller than teacher. Happily in my school’s case, the two families moved away after about a year and several visits to the home by the sheriff’s office. As soon as they left, the school returned to what it had been before. As a public school, we have to take every kid in the district, and it doesn’t take all that much to change the school for the worse.

[Sir Napsalot]

A lot of responses pointed out other high-achievers from non-white culture/ethnic groups.

Since I came from Taiwan, let me point out that Asian culture WANT competition since elementary schools, eventually by the time you graduate from high school, the cream already rise to the top.

Of course achievement gap also exists amongst Asians themselves, but they don’t want cuddling, or demand equality. Those who failed at college entrance exams (for example) have other options in life and there are no resentment because others do better than themselves in academic fields.

What I am trying to say is that demand equal outcome is fool’s errand. And those ‘experts’ with degrees and certificates should know better and NYT should know better than publish such trash.

[EinNYC]

This must be from the same author(s) of that insane Smithsonian poster blasting all the attributes of what would be considered a responsible citizen as “white”. Stupid is as stupid does.

[JimRed]

More white supremacy. We edjumacate our kids better than “they” do, to maintain our superiority and keep our “privilege”.

There’s nothing stopping them from doing the same...except themselves!

[JimRed]

Mister, if you can “identify” as a girl even though lacking lady parts, you can certainly identify as brown or black too.

[EinNYC]

I have had conversations with teachers and others who say that blacks do poorly because racist whites move out and abandon the area after blacks moved in. I always asked, isn’t it racist to think that blacks needs whites around for them to succeed? And why did the whites move away? I watched this happen in a community I lived in over the past ten years. It was interesting and frightening to watch. At first, everyone was neighborly and there were no problems. Then fights started in schools. These fights always involved multiple black attackers going after one white kid, when they weren’t fighting each other. Class disruptions became daily events and soon no one was learning because the increasingly outrageous, rude, disrespectful behavior by some black students. This behavior necessitated the teacher continually dealing with them and not teaching, so no one was able to learn. The behavior was not amenable to correction, and the teachers and deans were afraid to deal with it for fear of being called racist. State test scores began to plummet and schools that once exceeded state standards were now deficient. White kids were afraid to go to school and weren’t learning. White people started to leave the area. As they did, home prices began to drop. Some sellers started renting to section 8 clients, which brought people not invested in the neighborhood in, and their children who began tearing up the neighborhood. Crime went up and burglaries began to be common place. There was a big fight of 10 or more black males in the street a few doors down from me. My next door neighbor’s son was jumped by multiple attackers while playing basketball alone in his driveway. I cannot tell you how many times I had a conversation with neighbors who all said the same thing, “I just don’t feel safe. My kids can’t play outside, My kids are not learning at school”. They voted with their feet, and moved. That area is now 95% black. The vast majority of whites did not move because they were racist or blacks moved in. Many were welcoming or simply passively indifferent. But when they no longer felt safe, when their kids did not feel safe in school, and when their children were being denied an education by the uncivilized behavior and failure of adult educators to maintain order; they left. Whites are not responsible for the behavior of blacks. They also should not sacrifice their kids education or the safety of their families on the altar of political correctness and wokeness. My desire for all those on the New York Times staff is to get to live in the hell that their policies and recommendations create.

That's a pretty accurate picture you paint of what happens in areas with forced integration, or even when a lot of blacks move into an area. I wish it weren't true, but I've seen it happen often enough that it is pretty predictable. When I was in high school (a LONG time ago) in a provincial Midwest town, the city elders decided that our lily-white high school needed some black students bussed in from the center of town. Maybe there was some new legislation tying funding with integration, I don't know. Anyway, 10 or 20 black students were bussed in. Things started happening in our pristine school. Graffiti, often carved into the desk, began appearing on desk chairs. Disruptions of a serious nature began in classes. As for integration, the bussed-in students strictly stuck to themselves in the cafeteria during lunch period. As more and more were bussed in, the school tone changed, and respect for teachers dropped. More destruction of school property occurred. This is what actually happened. I saw it firsthand. And then I saw it repeat itself several times over as I grew older, especially when I became a teacher.

One would have to conclude that there simply isn't the respect for education in black culture as there is in white and Asian culture. And that's a shame.

[cyberstoic]

“ The fights can be and are dealt with. It’s all of the loud disruptive behavior short of a fight that wears everyone down. And of course the black kids who were perfectly fine before the families moved in started emulating the new kids. It was terrible”

The school in my area had a police Student Resource Officer and 15 security daily. At their lunches there was a second police officer. The fights were generally broken up quickly. But I agree with you that the loud disruptive behavior wears everyone down. Endless constant challenges to your authority over nothing (Lamarian, could you take your seat elicits, Bit**: you always fuckin with me, I ain’t taking no dam* seat, f u, and much much worse). Schools were built and designed to teach the civilized who had some level of self control, not to struggle with those who are openly aggressive and verbally assaulting their teachers.

And the level of control these kids have over peers is upsetting. They stop the other black kids from learning because that makes them sell outs and the harass and bully the white, hispanic, and asian kids who want to learn and cooperate.

Somehow this is all white peoples fault.

[allwrong57]

I guess you’re right. I’m definitely darker than Shaun King, he thinks he’s black.

[dirtymac]

The answer to minority underachievement is obviously to make white parents be as bad as minority parents.../s
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Or, Conversely, we have seem many examples where black parents behaved like white parents and we get Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson . . . and too many to name here.

[kearnyirish2]

Busing simply created bad schools at both ends - and eventually black areas at both ends.

[kearnyirish2]

Black Lies Matter has made it clear that we must all be brought down to the lowest common denominator when it called for an end to nuclear families - the true “white privilege”. Pushing to legal drugs and prostitution makes it even more clear.

The foreigners imported to replace the dwindling white population aren’t coming here to pay idle peoples’ bills; they want opportunity - and they’ll never be convinced they owe blacks anything. They’ll also never be convinced that wherever they are from, their culture isn’t superior to “black culture”.

[Kenny Bania]

While white, hyper-liberals send their precious little darlings to Sidwell Friends, Pace Academy, Phillips and Andover.

Buncha’ damn hypocrites.

[WhattheDickens?]

If when two children starting kindergarten, one of them understands 5,000 words and the other understands 2,000 words, the only way to close this gap is for the child who understands more to learn more slowly than the child who understands less. Thank you, Lord, for outliers, but for most, this is statistically impossible. Until we tell the truth about birth to age 5, we will continue to fail all children regardless of race. Dear God!

“If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public education system, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in our schools: White parents.”

[Freee-dame]

Ben Carson‘s book “Gifted Hands” should be read by every middle school child in the United States of America. It is an inspiring story no matter what background you are coming from.

[Think free or die]

"Ben Carson‘s book “Gifted Hands” should be read by every middle school child in the United States of America. It is an inspiring story no matter what background you are coming from."

I showed the film to some of my AP Biology students a few years back. It is a remarkable story.