Posted on 08/15/2016 3:13:30 PM PDT by jazusamo
We keep hearing that "black lives matter," but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media.
What about black success? Does that matter? Apparently not so much.
We have heard a lot about black students failing to meet academic standards. So you might think that it would be front-page news when some whole ghetto schools not only meet, but exceed, the academic standards of schools in more upscale communities.
There are in fact whole chains of charter schools where black and Hispanic youngsters score well above the national average on tests. There are the KIPP (Knowledge IS Power Program) schools and the Success Academy schools, for example.
Only 39 percent of all students in New York state schools who were tested recently scored at the "proficient" level in math, but 100 percent of the students at the Crown Heights Success Academy school scored at that level in math. Blacks and Hispanics are 90 percent of the students in the Crown Heights Success Academy.
The Success Academy schools in general ranked in the top 2 percent in English and in the top 1 percent in math. Hispanic students in these schools reached the "proficient" level in math nearly twice as often as Hispanic students in the regular public schools. Black students in these Success Academy schools reached the "proficient" level more than twice as often as black students in the regular public schools.
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“Only 39 percent of all students in New York state schools who were tested recently scored at the “proficient” level in math, but 100 percent of the students at the Crown Heights Success Academy school scored at that level in math. Blacks and Hispanics are 90 percent of the students in the Crown Heights Success Academy. “
I’m not taking away from the kids that did well but why aren’t there more whites and Asians enrolled?
It IS a public school.
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If “black success” is defined as “acting white,” clearly it doesn’t matter. If it is defined in that community as “no limits n-—ga” (Treyvon’s self-caption), then its heroic.
There’s a big gap between Thomas Sowell and street culture.
If “black success” is defined as “acting white,” clearly it doesn’t matter. If it is defined in that community as “no limits n-—ga” (Treyvon’s self-caption), then its heroic.
There’s a big gap between Thomas Sowell and street culture.
I hear you and don’t know the answer other than it might be that the Crown Heights Success Academy school is in a minority area.
LBJ’s 1964 “Welfare Socialism” destroyed the inner city family and morals...and LBJ knew that it would when he stated, “This will keep those ni**ers” voting Democrat for the next 200 years.
Charter schools are not for the most part allowed to discriminate in any way in terms of admissions other than a pure lottery. So, most likely, it’s just a function of who lives around there. I’m fairly certain in fact that those schools would love to have a more balanced ethnic makeup, as white and Asian kids generally score higher, have more active and supportive parents, etc., and thus make their job that much easier. But likely it’s not an option.
Some of these charter schools, KIPP schools for example, are really amazing in terms of their accomplishments. As I was researching schools for my kid a couple of years ago, I noticed that a couple of KIPP schools operating deep in the badlands of South Central L.A. scored in the top five schools in the state, not adjusting for demographics whatsoever.
but what bothers me is the almost endless dwelling on the blackness, not the individual student, as if the blackness caused this great accomplishment, not the student...
Thanks to all of you for your informative replies.
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#AllSuccessMatters
real black success does matter...and the whole population except for cynics rejoices when they do, especially if they come from poor or dysfunctional families.Unfortunately, demagogic cynicism is an extremely potent political force. In America, only just less so than elsewhere.
Some of the many of the arguments against the success of charter schools is that they only cherry pick the best or they only work in non-minority areas.
Well here you have a minority school that admits by lottery so there is no cherry picking possible.
And it is a success.
It provides basis for the argument that it is not the students but the system that is the problem.
I didn’t watch much of the Dem convention, but I did happen to catch a bit when a group of Black kids from New York, all who came from some kind of distressed or underprivileged background, were on stage heralded as exemplary students with high graduation rates. They thanked Hillary because they said it was her foundation that set up the program that allowed this small group an opportunity to get a good education. I felt I was the only one watching who thought “why isn’t every kid in every county entitled to the same high level of education? Why are we applauding a person who supports keeping 99% of public school kids in failing systems just because she helped a few dozen escape the failing system?”
The left lives in a perpetual state of denial, patting themselves on the back for their efforts to save a few while hundreds of thousands unseen drown from the weights they tied around their ankles.
Nope. You be “actin’ white.” Or Uncle Tom. Or a sell out. Or a coon. Or any other horrid thing the rest of the crabs in the bucket call you as you try to pull yourself out.
Oreos. Black PHD’s are Double Stuffed Oreos.
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