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Black Parents’ Righteous Fury At NYC Public School Failure
NY Post ^ | 06/15/21 | Post Editorial Board

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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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: failing; nyc; publicschools; statetests
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To: Enlightened1

This is sad many levels.
Kids deserve better. Nobody wants to be accountable.


I agree. There is no good reason that these children cannot learn, but the obstacles facing them are overwhelming.

Many of the teachers and administrators in the urban public schools are functionally illiterate themselves. I believe NY had to abandon competency testing for teachers because of the high failure rate. In addition, far too many see teaching as just a means to a steady life-long paycheck rather than as a calling. They form unions whose sole function is to guarantee that paycheck—and I say that as a retired teacher.

Too many children are raised by parents who have never exhibited self-control in their lives and pass that lack to their offspring. Many, but certainly not all of the black kids I’ve taught have absolutely no self-control. “We ghetto!”, they loudly (always loudly, it seems a trait) proclaim. And these are the ones who exert peer pressure on the kids who do know how to behave, not the other way round.

Because the problems in schools predominately appear to come from black kids, schools are accused of racism when they attempt to discipline the malefactors. Administrators then let their schools slide into chaos where no one, except the morally strongest and high motivated can learn. This is the easy way out. “It’s society’s racism, not us” both the schools and the failing kids can say.

Also, urban schools’ primary function has become to “keep the kids off of the streets” for 7 hours a day, because we all know what they’d be up to if they weren’t in ‘school’ or as one black elected official put it ‘mandatory recreation centers’. Because of this, expelling or suspending disruptive students isn’t allowed.

We should care because these kids and their parents are our countrymen (whether we like it or not) and deserve an education that gives them a chance at success in their lives. I have no idea on how to fix this problem short of tearing down the current system and building a new one from the ground up—which of course is politically impossible.

I realize the parents complaining are likely quite poor themselves and don’t have the means to do this themselves.


41 posted on 06/16/2021 8:42:00 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Enlightened1

The problem is the PARENTS (or lack of them). I don’t like this article’s implication that a massive state bureaucracy will EVER be good at “education”

I’ve seen very wealthy families with kids at expensive private boarding schools - but if the parents are absent or unconcerned, and the home had no discipline - those kids will be bad students.

How much worse then in the ghetto while sending the child into to a vast government bureaucracy?


42 posted on 06/16/2021 9:09:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: EinNYC

Thank you for your testimony. I’ve heard exactly the same from a teacher-friend in our deep-blue city. He’s a former Marine who can swear and threaten with the best of them, so he able to get some respect from the worst offenders in his school. He’s fed up too.

When the family is degraded, the culture is then degraded. NO government education bureaucracy anywhere will be able “educate” these wildings


43 posted on 06/16/2021 9:15:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Enlightened1
Most of our founders were home schooled up until college. Books and a chalkboard... pretty basic but effective when applied properly.

Education is NOT about money. In fact, the more we spend, the worse most schools become.

My neighbors have home-schooled their 3 children - while mom was also holding a part-time job. They formed study groups with other like-minded parents to share the burden. The public school educrats would have called them "deprived." the kids are super-high achievers. the youngest just graduated from MIT with a degree in computer science.

44 posted on 06/16/2021 9:23:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Enlightened1

You can win a million from the jab but free education = no thanks just give them all an honorary Lebron James Diploma and send them on to non essential colleges for free.


45 posted on 06/16/2021 9:37:49 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Enlightened1

Right. Teaching English and Math is so last century. Why do they even conduct tests in these subjects?

The subject matter of the tests needs to be revised to reflect our new understanding of systemic racism and they need to be graded in accordance with principles of equity and inclusion.


46 posted on 06/16/2021 9:43:20 AM PDT by RAldrich
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To: Enlightened1

“Greatest city in the world?” Ha!


47 posted on 06/16/2021 9:51:13 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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48 posted on 06/16/2021 9:52:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Enlightened1

Yep. It’s all the gubmnt skool’s fault. /s


49 posted on 06/16/2021 10:53:39 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: bgill

Parents are important to the process...

But as a society we’re PAYING TEACHERS our tax dollars to educate the young - those with involved parents and those without involved parents.

If teachers can’t do the job we need to find a different system of educating the young. I can think of several. That said, nice to know you’re a good and involved parent - that’s such a beautiful gift to your children.


50 posted on 06/16/2021 8:12:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (Rape isn't penis violence. Arson isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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