Posted on 12/02/2020 9:28:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Just saw that he had passed. He will be missed.
Great article. My wife is a teacher, and the struggles are huge. Honestly online is better, because the troubled kids refuse to log in.
However that is a huge bomb that will go off in a few years. These kids will have even less education, and the cycle will get worse.
Too many black kids think doing well in school is acting white. We aren’t allowed to say such things to liberals. To liberals , the major problem in our schools is that we just haven’t spent enough money on schools.
Exactly as it was designed to do...................
Amazon Prime has a terrific documentary on the life of this good man.
What a loss.
America was much better for his presence and good works.
We had a better education system in the US BEFORE there was a Department of Education...................
The same holds true for whites. Not in sheer numbers but the magnitude of the decline is similar.
I have had the good fortune of meeting many well educated 9th grade graduates from Appalachia. These people had trig and Shakespeare before leaving. The problem is they all graduated in the 50’s and early 60’s. These are people who in some instances went to school barefooted.
Today? You have to give a basic math and reading test to COLLEGE graduates to be sure they aren’t illiterate.
The title says then and now.
Where’s the Now part? Has there been any progress?
And if this is still a problem, and I assume it is. Then what’s the solution? Discipline is mentioned with no plan to restore it. What else?
This insight is applicable in many areas of life.
Well said.
I will miss the great wisdom of Walter Williams.
This is sad news, I’ve long admired Williams. He will be greatly missed, and at a time when this country needs voices like his. I wonder if anyone will step up.
“In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading.”
In the olden days it is said some states had laws prohibiting teaching slaves to read.
If the bad guys had been serious about stopping reading, they would have forced slaves to attend public schools.
We have lost a great man this morning. Sadly there is no one who can step up and fill his place.
“The same holds true for whites. Not in sheer numbers but the magnitude of the decline is similar.”
Because the white population is far larger the absolute number is probably the same and the cause is the same; fatherless lids. Whites now have as many as blacks do.
Another great American passed. His columns were great reads, and missed him subbing for Rush.
RIP to a great American.
Yup, thanks for posting it. Don’t know when he has to submit these but his column officially published on Wednesdays.
So so sad to lose my very favorite black conservative. :*(
I don’t know when I’ve felt so deeply a stranger’s passing.
Liberals are the real materialists. They think every ill is not enough money. That the reason some people do well is because they have money.
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