The entire education system has failed in American. What is seldom recognized is that blacks have suffered most from this tragedy. Starting in first grade, their lives become a series of failures and humiliations. When the socialist educrat John Dewey eliminated phonics from American schools it prevented 25%-30% of students from learning to read. (I have my own suspicions about why Dewey would want an illiterate population.)
However, the greatest burden of illiteracy falls on black kids, 60%-75% of whom can't read worth sh*t. All because our modern-day followers of Dewey don't care enough to make sure ghetto kids learn to read. (Reading studies using the phonics method show blacks and whites score equally well.)
Imagine you're a frightened little black kid living in a neighborhood where the only male role models are pimps and drug sellers. Your mom is on welfare and your brothers and sisters all have different daddies. Going to school each day is a relief, at first. You get breakfast. But in the classroom your dream of learning to read comes crashing down. The room is disorderly as the ADHD kids take over. The teacher means well but she has long ago given up and now just collects her salary. On the playground you get beat up. If you show any promise as a scholar you get punished by the bullies for "acting white."
If Obama really cared about his black brothers he would radically overhaul public education.
Nice post...