Posted on 07/09/2013 11:05:15 PM PDT by Perseverando
As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman’s defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter she allegedly had written to Trayvon Martin’s mother. She responded that she doesn’t read cursive, and that’s in addition to her poor grammar, syntax and communication skills.
Jeantel is a senior at Miami Norland Senior High School. How in the world did she manage to become a 12th-grader without being able to read cursive writing? That’s a skill one would expect from a fourth-grader. Jeantel is by no means an exception at her school. Here are a few achievement scores from her school: Thirty-nine percent of the students score basic for reading, and 38 percent score below basic. In math, 37 percent score basic, and 50 percent score below basic. Below basic is the score when a student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. Basic indicates only partial mastery.
Few Americans, particularly black Americans, have any idea of the true magnitude of the black education tragedy. The education establishment might claim that it’s not their fault. They’re not responsible for the devastation caused by female-headed families, drugs, violence and the culture of dependency. But they are totally responsible for committing gross educational fraud. It’s educators who graduated Jeantel from elementary and middle school and continued to pass her along in high school. It’s educators who will, in June 2014, confer upon her a high-school diploma.
It’s not just Florida’s schools. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, nationally most black 12th-graders test either basic or
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Further proof that America really needs some education reforms.
If you think the answer can be found in school reform and not in strengthening the home, you need some schooling yourself.
It’s not a tragedy to even the slightest degree.
America bends over backwards to provide education for these people, along with countless other special perks and benefits.
If they’re either too stupid or too contrary to take advantage, then it’s not a tragedy, it’s the sheerest sort of willful stupidity and there’s no one to blame but themselves.
Couldn’t education reforms also inspire families to come closer together? It’s families that will drive these reforms to greater success.
Not really. She’s GUARANTEED to vote Democrat. Mission accomplished for the labor union-controlled teachers of America.
don’t call it a failure of the public school system, call it an epic failure of democratic social, economic, and educational policies within the black community.
If you are right, and I believe you are, we are doomed in the long run. At least, the black community is doomed. Third generation welfare, no daddy, no work, no education, and all the Left can say is Pump more money into the system. Good grief they are so stupid.
the piece doesn’t negate your point, it’sjust focusing how education has failed american kids, in particular black kids.
She can always get a government job.
Bull O knee.
It is demostrative of parents who always have alibi’s for why they are not the example to their children, that interested parent in their education and that parent who fervently desires for their children to thrive as adults and be be self determined.
Yea, yea, yea. But, it’s hard out here.....
Whatever...
You have a minimum 18 years to get yer kids flying the right direction or in this case, maybe, 20+...probably forever.
I’m sure Rachel’s life will a real big surprise in your old age...
>> But they are totally responsible for committing gross educational fraud.
I disagree with Williams regarding his point on “gross educational fraud.” PE has many faults, but fixing the indifference that handicaps the educational process isn’t one of them. And why should the taxpayers fund the additional years to hold back indolence? Better to move the complacency through the system, and keep room for those willing to learn.
And their Black Messiah is proposing amnesty for millions of illegals which will make job prospects for the indigenous undereducated vanishingly smaller (whatever color they are).
Home and culture is precisely one-half the problem. The other half is that when the inner city black kid shows up at school, he's left in the hands of a Karen Lewis' union and its teachers -- most of whom are "below basic" in the course they're "teaching".
Urban school districts need to be managed for the purpose of educating children, not as jobs programs for unqualified (and otherwise unemployable) blacks and their politicized unions.
Look at the violent crime in Chicago. Those youths are products of their nonexistent families.
There is no moral foundation nor a work ethic among these thugs.
How can the school system work with the ineducable?
Teachers don’t demand anything from students, they just push them to the next level every year.
I drew some looks not too long ago for mentioning the cultural superiority of the 1950s over what we have today, specifically and particularly with regards to the family and to the concept of a male family and spiritual leader. I’m finding it to be more and more the truth: the havoc that the past few decades have brought on the nuclear family has absolutely decimated our nation.
We stand for very little these days and take responsibility for even less.
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