Yep, we are supposed to be upset about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and all that.
Yep, that’s why today’s young black students have such poor achievement in school. It’s because of slavery and discrimination.
And all of the negative effects of ghetto culture are due to racism. The whole baby mama culture sprang up as a reaction to discrimination.
Roving youth gangs in the ghetto are there because of racism. People in the ghetto are grappling with poverty due to discrimination and racism. The man will keep them down.....................
And, the bottom line with these inner city schools is that we just don’t spend enough money on these schools, right??????
And why don’t we talk about reparations for slavery? We can’t expect these young people to do well in school, when their distant ancestors were slaves. We have to understand that young black men go into the gangs because there are no jobs. We have to understand that the baby mamas are grappling with poverty and struggling to survive on a limited budget. Their baby daddy’s can’t get a job because the man keeps them down. Racist prosecutors put too many young black men in prison.............
(sarcasm and tongue in cheek remarks!)
I was thinking about what I have been learning in psych classes. When an individual comes into hard times there are 2 ways to react. 1. keep trying, don’t give up. 2. blame everyone else in what is called -— learned helplessness.
This morning I thought that it could be reasonable to conclude that the education system is reinforcing bad parenting and teaching children learned helplessness by not letting them struggle through a problem and by taking out ALL competition in the early years. It’s just an idea, of course.
Oh, it is already documented that smaller classes are better all around. No need to spend more money.