[bill1952]

My 40+ years experience in education suggests it isn’t so much black kids are “discouraged” from reading is that more than half of them just can not read, period. Their ancestors never developed a written language so it is somewhat presumptuous to believe the people of a geographical area, with relatively pure genetic lines, where written language was never developed, can hit the ground running and pick up all the requisite anatomical necessities in a few generations.

Pardon me. That is purely the most STUPID post of the day - the virtual EPITOME of what is wrong in modern education.
And I'm not trying to be insulting - note that I did not call you stupid, just your post.

Your veiwpoint belongs on, well, the View

[triumphant values]

That is purely the most STUPID post of the day - the virtual EPITOME of what is wrong in modern education.

Don't just hint at it. Tell us what you specifically find to be in error in his post. Then we can fact check it against known history and available psychometrics studies and see who is right.