Learing to reed and rite is racist.
Literacy is literally white supremacy. ;^)
Even worse, it's "acting white." That is worthy of severe castigation, including death.
I tutored in my state college for some extra money and the people who came to me were pathetic, almost all blacks without even a 4th grade mastery of English or math.
It's a crime that they were passed through high school with a diploma.
When I went to primary school in the late 1950s, I remember thinking my teachers were a bit scary. They didn’t tolerate failure. You couldn’t get too far out of line before the teacher would single you out and subject you to some well deserved “public shaming”, which often involved letting the rest of the class laugh at you. If you didn’t finish an assignment you’d be held after class until you did.
And if the parents had to be involved - the same pressure was continued at home.
The bottom line is that our parents and teachers didn’t forget that although we were adorable little innocents, we needed to be exposed to the fear and consequences of failure because that is what we all encounter in real life.
We all saw kids being held back a year if they didn’t make the cut - or having to attend summer school - and avoiding those prospects kept many a child on the straight and narrow.
It wasn’t that different when my children went to primary school in the 1980s.
I doubt very much these black and brown kids are being subjected to any such pressure or facing any such consequences. That would be ‘racist’.
They just advance them to the next grade - and the fact is most children need a little fear of negative consequence in order to straighten up and fly right.
Sure, there are kids that don’t need much of a push - they are naturally competitive or naturally curious to learn. But many children need a push here and there - then something magical happens and they get up to speed and read their first real book... and get a taste of what that feels like.
Learning to read and write for the first time is just as exciting as learning to ride a bike or learning to swim - and let’s admit - these experiences were a bit scary when we did them for the first time. But it was also unthinkable NOT to do those things - no one wanted to be that kid who never learned to swim!
I remember not being the first of my friends to ride a bike - and I sure remember not wanting to be the last! It became very important to pass those hurdles - there was peer pressure - and that was a good thing. Getting my drivers license - getting accepted to a college of my choice - my first real job.
Can you imagine if you were never pushed into trying to swim across the pool or ride a bike for the first time? Or read and write?
“Learing to reed and rite is racist.”
You misspelled racis.
They may be illiterate, but they know how to vote, and what else counts?