Posted on 06/16/2021 7:34:03 AM PDT by Enlightened1
How bad? District-wide, just 28 percent of black students in grades 3-8 passed their 2019 state math exams and just 37 percent passed English. At some schools, almost no one passed: A whopping 94 percent of fifth-graders at PS 134 in Hollis, for example, flunked math; 83 percent bombed English.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/black-parents-righteous-fury-at-nyc-public-school-failure/
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lol!
Right.
Right.
don’t be needin ta no nuffin’ to gets dat EBT card
Always blaming someone else for their own failures.
Do those black parents provide their kids with a stable home? Do they promote education? Do they make sure their little angels are home at night and have their homework done? Do the parents go over that homework and help when needed? Do those parents make sure the kids get a good night’s sleep on a full belly and breakfast the next morning? Do they make sure the kids are at school before the last bell rings and their homework is turned in? Do they make sure their little darlings aren’t creating a ruckus in the classroom?
If they aren’t, then don’t come crying to us parents who do take responsibility.
Freaking double posts again! WTH??
Ours were reading simple sentences and doing addition and subtraction before kindergarten. All it takes is a little attention from mom or dad. With so many 5th graders failing, it isn’t the school but the home to blame.
DC public schools spend over $30,000 per year per student. We could voucher the schools, enroll the students in the typical neighborhood Catholic school, pay full tuition, and fund four years of college tuition with the money left over. The kids would be far better off academically, and they would attend schools that still enforce discipline and good behavior.
exactly, let the money follow the student, not the union schools. I’m amazed that Blacks do not fully embrace choice, the Dems have shackled them into failed public inner city schools with no way out.
So true. In US educators’ race to bring everything to the level of students, tiptoeing all around students’ deficiencies and differences.... that’s a great disservice and an insult to students.
Where is the challenge in going to a class that never asks you to see something different from yourself, or something above or outside yourself??
Students show up to class knowing about themselves... they shouldn’t leave there knowing nothing more than that!!
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
Sydney J. Harris
Probably doesn’t help when the teachers DONT have to demonstrate their ability to read and write.
Regents Drop Teacher Literacy Test Seen as Discriminatory
The teachers still get at least $58K per year.
ML/NJ
I don’t live in NYC, but the schools in my area have gone downhill too. Apparently, the new policy is that kids can turn in ALL their homework at the end of the semester. I don’t see how that policy works for either students or teachers.
Teachers in these schools are too busy teaching the finer points of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism, BLM/Antifa, climate change and the glories of liberalism/leftism/libtardism/Socialism to spend time on the boring old 3 Rs.
Awesome quote.
Exactly right. This problem begins in the home, but like everything else, they blame others for their failures.
The school system cannot change the neighborhood culture. That is up to the residents.
More money does not work. There will be no improvement until there is a change in culture.
Yep or a “white supremacist”. I was listening to Merrick Garland the other day saying the #1 threat to the nation is white supremacy. Really. Yeah those KKK guys just wont stop those riots in Portland
Well, after we patch you up from your "fell", let me tell you something as a retired NYC public schools educator. The first kids to act out in class were almost always black kids. The kids most often disrupting the class were black kids. There were herds, not one or two, of black kids walking the halls during class instead of helping themselves to an education. While walking the halls, said kids would vandalize work by more studious students which had been hung in the hall. They would peer into door windows of classrooms and distract other students. They would do stuff like throw those huge pedestal fans down stairs (I was almost hit by one once, which could have very seriously injured me), make out with silly giggling girls in stairwells, smoke in stairwells, and anything else you can think of. Homework? What's that? Assigned class projects? Huh? They didn't even bother with "the dog ate their homework". On parent-teacher nights, there were far fewer black parents attending. If the student did have someone come to talk about their progress, it was more often a grandmother, an aunt, even a sibling. Half the time, the parent didn't even know if their kid was IN school, let alone how they were doing. They didn't know that report cards had just been handed out. They hadn't responded to letters home about misbehaviors or truancy.
Toward the end, I heard excuses like, "You white. I don't have to listen to you!" I had enough years to retire. The anti-white culture was already taking root under DumblASSio. It was time to get off that mad merry-go-round and wash my hands of that mess.
I am sure that there are responsible black parents who genuinely care about their kids and what they learn in school, and that they DO learn. I met more than a few of them along the way. But unfortunately, they were in the very clear minority.
Even if their primary advocates do not stand up for them, substituting indoctrination for education is a heinous betrayal of the sacred role educators are supposed to play in our society.
I have seen polling results that indicate that over 80% of black parents want school choice, but then vote for Democrats who won't let them have it. Go figure.
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