Puzzling Racial Gap

The Hartford Courant ^ | Oct 7 2007 | Roger Frahm

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BLOOMFIELD - A generation ago, Bloomfield was heralded as the all-American community. Blacks and whites lived side by side, chasing the American dream of middle-class stability without regard to skin color. There were trimmed lawns and good schools.

Now, Bloomfield operates one of the most racially segregated school systems in the state. Minority students, mainly black children, account for 95 percent of public school enrollment.

And when results were released recently on the state's annual 10th-grade achievement test, this quiet, middle-class suburb found itself confronting a question more often associated with the nation's poorest urban school systems:

[ABN 505]

The same old excuses, the same old remedies, the same old liberal mentality but a new generation sinks into the abyss.

[Clemenza]

FYI: Now that Hartford is a northern suburb of San Juan (and Santo Domingo), did Bloomfield absorb the “black flight” from North Hartford?

[janetjanet998]

This sounds just like Peoria....the crime rate has rocketed..the city is setting records for murders mostly by black males and neighborhoods and the school system suck

The middle class is moving out of the city and into the surrounding towns where it's quite and where the good schools area

[longtermmemmory]

it is really about competition.

those who could flee the incompetence of public schools did so.

Of course no matter how much money you waste on a public school, you do not eliminate useless PC lessons or useless public school teachers.

[ABN 505]

There is a preponderance of Puerto Ricans in the city but Bloomfield has been changing complexion since the sixties just after the riots in Hartford when a lot of Blacks decided to get the Hell out.h

[umgud]

The problem ain’t racial. It’s liberalism.

[Clemenza]

Good public schools = mediocre schools.

Mediocre public schools= urban hellholes.

[Garden Island]

Puzzling racial gap? Puzzling only to journalists, educators, and other various democrat voting blocks.

[ridesthemiles]

Good public schools = mediocre schools.
Mediocre public schools= urban hellholes.”

Urban Hellholes==White Flight.

[Clemenza]

Ding ding!

[LibFreeOrDie]

Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University...Although family incomes may be similar, some families do not have the advantages or stability that comes with inherited wealth or several generations of college education, he said.

What a crock of Ed School BS! How many of us (and how many previous generations) didn't have those advantages, yet managed to learn?

[gidget7]

As I understand it, Hartford kind of spread into Bloomfield.

[sarasmom]

I agree that it is the liberal mentality, which also happens to be vastly overrepresented in “public education administration positions” that is at fault here.

They would like to do the same thing to health care, that they have done to public education.

[Archon of the East]

The debate is over Liberalism has failed time to move on!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Puzzling, because the left won’t admit what we know:
leftist policies have kept blacks down.

[gidget7]

Kids who don’t pass these tests, don’t pay attention, don’t apply themselves, don’t take school seriously, treat school as though it were either a prison or a social event, and little else. These things are not either or, except the last examples. They are all encompassed in the same students. And Teachers...........some enable, some are frustrated as they are forced to enable against their will.

It all boils down to the NEA, pretty much, and their policies. No surprise that over 30% of the students have left public schools!

[Clemenza]

A real shame what happened to Hartford. Its one of those places where folks go downtown to work and then leave by 6PM without sticking around. All the "urban renewal" that has been tried over the past 35 years has been for naught.

I've been meaning to go to the Wadsworth Atheneum for many years. All I really know well in Hartford is the airport which is in Windsor Locks anyway.

[proxy_user]

Bloomfield absorbed the flight of the black middle class, the college-educated group working in fairly low-level jobs.

You can get a decent house in Bloomfield for $250K, which would be affordable to a two-income couple making $80-100K or so, say a nurse and a police officer.

Bloomfield is not a slum, the houses are generally well-maintained.

[MichiganMan]

Heard something like this addressed on the Michael Baisden show (Good Show BTW) where he asked a guest about the phenomena where African college students in America (presumably subject to the same color based racism as American blacks) consistently do better than American blacks, even in historically black colleges. Obviously this is a bothersome detail. It was handedly answered by the guest who replied that the African black, even facing whatever they did in their country of origin, didn't have to deal with the effect of 400 years of racism that saddles American blacks.

So there you go. Its the white people's fault.