Posted on 07/28/2005 5:15:43 AM PDT by liberallarry
...three decades of policies ... have landed young men of color at the top of all the wrong lists. They perform poorly in school even when their backgrounds are the same as their white counterparts and are overrepresented in jails and juvenile detention centers...
...Neither schools, churches, jails nor community groups have found an answer...
...on average, 60 percent of black male students do not graduate from high school, according to a study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Wrong.
There are a lot of young people, male and female, who feel shut out
They're right. They can't compete successfully.
Zero percent of Amish youth graduate from high school. Nearly zero percent of Amish youth get in trouble with the law. Zero percent of Amish youth are in economic difficulty. Nearly zero percent of Amish youth father children out of wedlock.
I am a public high school teacher. My school has an 18% minority population (including Asians, who are extremely successful, generally), want to know why some minorities succeed and some don't? It has to do with whether there are two parents at home who take their kids to church on Sunday.
Yes! It's THAT simple. Caring parents who raise their kids under God raise kids who succeed. IS ANYBODY LISTENING?
Does anybody want the truth? No. I guess not.
They want to be Rap Stars...Basketball Players...drug dealers...or Pimps.....and its "cool" to have ten kids ...just listen to the music your children listen to. It amazing to me that RAP is a hit among youth. Its the dumbing down of America...
Why can't they just do away with the grading system altogether in highschool? If ya fog up a mirror in front of your mouth, you graduate.
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it really that simple? I don't think so. The article says that blacks do not do as well as others of similar backgrounds.
"Does anybody want the truth? No. I guess not.">>>>>>
You preach to the quoir on this forum, take that message to the NAACP where it is needed.
How dare you imply that dead students not be allowed to graduate? Next you'll be saying that dead people shouldn't be allowed to vote!
RAP and Hip Hop are very destructive influences. I have seen first hand what it does, and it is not pretty.
It has been mainstreamed into every facet of our lives. Coupled with the breakdown of the family and other institutions, it has successfully done what all the social engineers failed at. It has created true equality among the races.
Unortunately, it hasn't accomplished this by raising people up to higher levels, but by dragging everyone into the gutter
Ninety-five percent of the murders in this country are done by the six percent of the population that both black and male. More than a third of black males will spend time in prison or on probation. These problems didn't exist on these levels before liberals decided to replace communities with high rises, and husbands with welfare checks. It's going to take years to undo the damage liberals did to the black community.
I wouldn't blame this all on liberals. Black communities all over the world have the same problems.
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