One of my ex wives is an elementary school teacher in Las Vegas.
She says the unspoken (anywhere) fact is that “kids of color” are not as smart as white and Asian kids. And their parents are dumb too.
Not uneducated, but actually dumb. Lacking the cognitive tools to acquire and process information and turn it into knowledge and skill. A kid with a 71 IQ is never going to be able to understand a tech manual, and a kid with an 84 IQ will never learn Algebra.
Just like their parents.
And there’s not a damn thing anyone on this planet can do about it.
Half the people on the planet are dumber than average. That is a fact. Most honest teachers will admit that in private.
RE: She says the unspoken (anywhere) fact is that “kids of color” are not as smart as white and Asian kids.
How about the other possibility — that the black community does not have the CULTURE that values education and the hard work that is needed to succeed the way Asians kids have.
I have seen lots of black kids succeed in a charter school environment, some even going on to enter prestigious colleges ON MERIT ( e.g. good SAT scores ), not affirmative action.