You’re right, we’re not allowed to talk about correlation between single parent homes and student achievement.
We’re not allowed to talk about parenting, upbringing, or any of that. we’re not allowed to make value judgements. We’re not allowed to say that children do best when raised by their mother and father together. We’re not allowed to make correlations between juvenile delinquency and the numbers of those kids who come from fatherless homes.
And, of course, we can’t talk about a seeming lack of respect or encouragement of academic achievement in too many people in the black community. That would be racist. Yes there are people of all races who don’t give a damn their kids schools, but it seems worse in the black community. But we’re not allowed to talk about any of that, so who knows. We’re not allowed to talk about a “ghetto” culture which abhors education.
It’s interesting to talk about contributing factors to social problems, but it’s frustrating when some obvious issues are not allowed to be discussed. Then the liberals stand around and assume it must be racism if there aren’t “enough” minority kids in certain academic programs.
But nobody says anything if a mostly white school has a mostly black basketball team.