Posted on 07/07/2006 9:52:25 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Racial discrimination has nothing to do with what's no less than an education meltdown within the black community. Where black education is the very worst, often the city mayor is black, city council dominated by blacks, and often the school superintendent is black, as well as most of the principals and teachers, and Democrats have run the cities for decades. I'm not saying there's a causal connection, just that one would be hard put to chalk up the rotten education to racial discrimination.
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No one can solve the educational problems that black people confront except black people themselves. First, it's foolhardy, and black people cannot afford to buy into the idea that no black child should be saved from the education morass until all black children can be saved. That means we must find a way to permit the escape from rotten schools for as many black children who want to be educated and have supportive parents as we can. Educational vouchers or tuition tax credits would provide such a mechanism.
At one time in black history, there was a high value placed on education, so much so that blacks risked punishment to acquire education in areas of our country where black education was prohibited. Being 70 years old, I know there was a time when schools and black parents cooperated with one another to see to it that children behaved in school and did their work. In principle, the solution to black education problems is not rocket science. The problem is summoning the will.
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Ms. Rice is a perfect example of what an education can do.
Williams and Marva Collins know what to do about the problem...
The students! Generally when I underachieve at something it tends to be MY fault. I don't go looking for someone ELSE to blame it on......
The ever candid and effective Mr. Williams, once again, is right on the mark!!! Bottom line is: Current black leadership & the Democrat Party = Education that stinks!!! Wonder if Black folk will ever wake up and dump these economic slavemasters!!!
The only ones to blame for the low achievement levels of black students are their black parents.
Without people accepting victimization, the black leadership and the Democratic party would cease to exist.
Thank Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society.
Speak truth to power, Brother Walter!
How 'bout the stoodentz?
The parents are part of the issue. They're to guide their children, lead by good example, and discipline their children when necessary.
Very true.
I have to say you are wrong. Ms. Rice was nearly a child prodigy.
Ok, Ms. Rice would have done well no matter what. But what about the kids who are not child prodigies ?
How about this from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1367314,00.html
Frankly, she sounds like Tiger Woods.
To confirm their notion that their daughter was gifted the Rices took her to Southern University in Baton Rouge for psychological testing. Angelena told the family: “I knew my baby was a genius!”
By age four Condi had mastered a handful of pieces and given her first recital. She spent more time indoors — practising the piano and French — than most of the other girls on the block. Two who lived across the street remembered “waiting for what seemed like hours for her to finish her latest Beethoven or Mozart and come outside”.
When she did come out to play, it wasn’t usually for long. “She played with her parents,” recalled Ann Downing, a neighbour.
By the time she began school at six Condi was already a serious music student and more ready to get down to business than most of her classmates. She was accustomed to paying attention, behaving well and keeping an orderly routine. Some of her schoolmates took this maturity and perfectionism, as well as her dainty manners and habit of walking nearly on her tiptoes, as a sign of being prissy. But Condi got bored in situations where time was being wasted.
In her spare time she tackled the best literature for her age group. One of the downsides was that books were always an assignment, never an escape. “I grew up in a family in which my parents put me into every book club,” she said. “So I never developed the fine art of recreational reading.”
answer: g w bush and his evil weepublican wascals
"IMAGINE the scene: it is 1867 on a cotton plantation in civil war-era Alabama."
What the hell is this?
Unless you realize that Democratic policies are inherently racist...
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
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