[Svartalfiar]

That is not true: they get the same education opportunities as others: they are simply less prone to take advantage of it: there is not a difference in curriculum or any other “opportunity”.

ESSAY BY A TEACHER IN A BLACK HIGH SCHOOL

[driftless2]

Ditto. There is a book out called "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools" by Robert Weissberg. He goes through all the wrongheaded, good-intentioned ideas and programs that have been devised and implemented in the last fifty years that were designed to propel "minority" children up the level of the rest of the nation's schoolchildren. All failed miserably.

Weissberg's conclusion after careful study was that the students and their families were the main culprits in their childrens failure to learn. The fact is there are programs for minority parents to get their kids into better schools. Most of the parents don't care, or the kids don't want to go the better schools. It's like the old adage about leading a horse to water.