Posted on 01/19/2010 6:02:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Key ghost, please remove the A ;-)
New book: “Why Jamal Can’t Read”
Waht’s the point - no one in the target group can read... :)
1. Start with how they are, not how you would wish it to be. Maybe the class of kids with no fathers could motivate and encourage each other. They could form study groups, and have some healthy rivalry to try to keep up with or move ahead of each other. They do it on the basketball court, in a sense. They could also do it academically. At my kids’ school, the motivated kids are a good peer influence on each other, although I admit that it is not as strong an influence as their motivated parents.
2. Young men need to start to have some pride in their future as fathers, as respectable men, and make decisions about sex, marriage and parenthood accordingly. They need to pick women who, like them, have accepted “the mission” of making the raising of their family the main goal of their lives. There was a book awhile back about “the mission”. It seems that the author established that it wasn’t whether you were rich or poor that made a difference in your kids. It was whether the parents were dedicated to “the mission.”
We have to start calling a spade a shovel. The vast majority of blacks do horribly (not just poorly) in school for the reason cited. When the first question on a test is “father’s name”, it is like putting a person in a round room and telling them to piss in the corner. They can’t win. I have said it before that Obummer is out to destroy the country and he is using the blacks and minorities as his first wave of fighters. He is turning blacks against whites and “the rich” and he has a ready army to do his bidding. Problem for them is I am one of those whites, fairly rich and I own guns. Bring it a**holes. Justice will be done.
Why don’t kids do well in school? The Education Trifecta - the federal dept of ed, teachers’ unions, and poor quality teachers.
No- it’s about the democratic plantation. The message is you can make on you own merit. The deck is stacked against you. Just give up now and we’ll find you a place on the plantation. As long as you do as we tell you, everything will be just fine.
Learnt, hahaha.
Maybe the most prescient post I have ever had the pleasure of reading...
I won’t argue there are some crappy schools and staff, but even with the best of everything it still comes down to the parents. I’ve seen schools where kids who want to learn can’t due to poor surroundings and other disruptive kids.
If it were up to me, I’d close all the public schools.
I wouldn’t close all of them. There is a public charter school in my state nicknamed “the immigrant school.” The kids are Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, 45% eligible for free lunch, most parents foreign born, all children speak a foreign language at home and they just blew the fancy schmancy upper middle-class public schools out of the water as far as state test scores are concerned. They did better than the middle school next door to me, and my town spends about $14,000 per student. The charter school spends about $7,000 per student. Parents are standing in line to get their children into this school, so you’re right when you say it all comes down to the parents. It comes down to the students too.
The point is that according to the Left it is more important to be conscious of your race, gender, sexual orientation etc... and to learn the implications of those things than it is to learn readin’, ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmatic (so to speak). They believe that learning about the social “sciences” is paramount to anything - which is why they believe meritocracy is crap and why we believe their ideas are crap.
John McWhorter was saying this 15 years ago.
Interesting question. Part of my job is to help kids get back on track when they are having difficulty. Many times people don’t see the reason why they should bother doing the heavy lifting and the hard work when they can have everything provided for them without having to do so.
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