More than one of five Blacks had dropped out of school (21%)—versus a dropout rate for Whites of 12.2%.
Americans without a high school diploma have considerably lower earning power and job opportunities in today’s workforce. Over a working lifetime from ages 18-64, high school dropouts are estimated to earn $400,000 less than those that graduated from high school.
CLMS May 2009 Report
They are those that don't want to learn and those that don't want to work. What do you expect?
Solution: Teach them to pull their damn pants up, adopt a culture of education, work ethic, success, respect and peace. Throw away the culture of the thug life, the gangbanging, drugs and being a player. Respect family. Respect marriage. Be a good parent. Study hard. Don't have kids until you are economically ready to provide for them. Don't look for a handout. Take responsibility for your future, your home, your car, your kids and your actions. Keep a clean home, clean street, clean clothes, clean appearance. Be a leader. MAKE YOURSELF A ROLL MODEL! Show and teach others success. This goes for every person regardless of race or gender. This is how this world works.
In Chicago when a kid walks down the street that wants to study hard and not join the thug life they murder him. Until this culture is changed no amount of money for teachers or schools is going to make a damn bit of difference. Change the culture of destruction. Change from within and you will see a real change that is not dependent upon anyone in office.
go to Africa.... where you see it first hand. If one is educated...they call a blackman white... and they shun him or make fun of him.....
RE: “They are those that don’t want to learn”
I live far enough out in the woods that there ain’t no AM radio reception when the engine’s running. Only talk radio I hear is with the key in the ACC position while I’m working on the car, or Nat’l Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” on my rotating-shift commutes. Good to know one’s enemies, eh?
And NPR may be less of an enemy, this week. Was shocked — shocked— to hear an NPR report about failing schools say something like “...difficult to enable inner-city kids to learn, or even get them interested in learning...”
My old Dad, skidding logs in the local hardwood forests behind a part-Percheron horse named Diamond, 45 years ago, could probably offer some insight. Sometimes, late into a hot, muggy morning, old Diamond would stand knee deep in cool, rushing creek water for five minutes or more with sweat literally dripping off his belly, but he wouldn’t drink. Just wasn’t thirsty, yet. Didn’t need water. Would drink water later, maybe, but didn’t need any right now.