Black Education Tragedy

Townhall.com ^ | July 10, 2013 | Walter E. Williams

[robowombat]

It's been going on for a long time. It is hand in hand with the complete lack of breeding and refinement which is apparent in young people ... especially young women. Their slatternly and grotesquely unrefined conduct and appearance are appalling! I see NOW that it is the default and NOT the exception in all commercial advertising.

Yes the ghetto chic has become the default for a significant part of white America. Visit any public area such as a mall and note how many young white females appear to be streetwalkers. They aren't but the slut look and slut behavior is something that many young white women emulate. The results can be seen in the large number of illegitimate births among whites and the growth of the same sort of culture of fatherlessness and family fragmentation among lower middle class, working class and increasingly middle class white Americans. Our culture is being debased around us and our leaders want to flood our country with third world types who are alien to our culture and mores. Also our leaders would like to disarm us. Do you see a pattern? Is the US government and the political class becoming the enemy in a fundamental sense of average normal Americans?

[SECURE AMERICA]

(How in the world did she manage to become a 12th-grader without being able to read cursive writing?)

You obviously don’t get to talk to many 12th graders...
Our education system sucks.
However in this person case the answer is simply that she is black.

[Kaslin]

Public school system that refuses to hold students back to help them. That’s how

[Kaslin]

Why should he?

[Kaslin]

Excellent points

[Kaslin]

Who says she wrote it in cursive? She probably wrote it in print

BTW I hate when I have to fill out forms in print. I can do cursive much neater then print

[Arm_Bears]

Someone must make the student do his homework, see to it that he gets a good night's sleep, fix a breakfast, make sure he gets to school on time and make sure he respects and obeys his teachers.

Dr. Williams nails it, as usual.

Mrs. Bears is an elementary school teacher; and she says she is tired of all the "student success" variables being on her side of the equation.

[CodeToad]

“Who says she wrote it in cursive? “

She did. Any more stupid questions?

[Venturer]

It stated she could not read it because it was in cursive.

It also stated she wrote it.

Now if she wrote it and then couldn’t read it because it was in cursive, obviously she can write cursive but cannot read it, or someone else wrote it for her.

[Kaslin]

Yeah, but you missed this part that the author wrote

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Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman's defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter that she allegedly had written to Trayvon Martin's mother.

The keyword is allegedly

Definition of Alleged

2 : questionably

[Kaslin]

I am a naturalized US Citizen who was educated in Germany. We had to learn writing in cursive in the second grade and were taught to write with ink pens. The type you had to put in ink wells. By the third grade we got refillable ink pens. The only times we were allowed to use pencils was for art class. We were not allowed to use ballpoint pens. Also we did not use lose pages but instead had booklets for each subject. The booklet for math were quads while all the other ones were lines. We were graded for correctness and neatness. Also we did not have spelling tests. We were expected to know how to correctly write a sentence which the teacher read to us repeatedly

In fifth grade we has to learn to write in Block letters which I hated as I could not write them neat which was expected

[Venturer]

If it was alledgedly written by her then it wasn’t evidence at all. It was irrelevant and should not have been submitted by the prosecution who you would think would check it to be sure any question of it’s legitimacy was for real.,

[Daffynition]

In the mumbo-jumbo lexicon of education it’s now called *Promotion by exception;* otherwise known a *social promotion.*

A bunch of teachers, school psychologist, social worker, reading specialist, principal get together and meet concerning the student. This is done so as not to hurt the child’s self esteem and classes from sixth grade on up don’t have kids who shave and have a driver’s licenses in fourth grade. Yeehah!

[RipSawyer]

We used pencils and I always wished I could have a decent looking penmanship but I just never could seem to master it. I have always been much more of a technician than an artist.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[PLMerite]

I think that’s Agenda 21.

[PLMerite]

“they don’t want their incompetence exposed...”

Actually I don’t think blame can always be put upon the teachers. Parental neglect and/or indifference, ethnic and pop culture get a lot of kids off to bad starts. It’s the difference between having a classroom full of children who want to learn versus an unruly mob of kids who don’t.

[GOPJ]

In the real world people have to produce. If they can’t do the job they’re hired for they lose their job.

[PLMerite]

“In the real world people have to produce. If they can’t do the job they’re hired for they lose their job.”

And how long have you been teaching in public schools?

[1010RD]

They are like us. They're God's children and He loves them just as much as anyone. Why abandon them to more liberalism?

We need an outreach program and now is the time. Blacks, urban blacks, want better schools, know that the ‘single mom’ model of parenting is a failure, they see the danger of illegal immigration and amnesty.

Let's get them and their votes back into the Party of Lincoln. The abolitionists of old would look on this as a grand opportunity to cut the Party of Slavery down. Why can't conservatives see it as an opportunity?