Some parents give a damn. They make sure their children are educated. They send their children to first grade already reading. They correct the erroneous excrement that their children are taught. They spend endless hours teaching real mathematics. They provide their children the ability to teach themselves so their children can survive the abject failures of government school teachers. It has nothing to do with race.
My middle son enjoyed the strong academic environment and pushed for the same level of academic excellence. Multiple AP classes with top scores. Conducting review sessions for the AP classes in the evenings to help other students succeed. Often taking the lead teaching the content in the classroom because the seat warming teacher didn't know the material.
My middle son tried a "magnet" school with a marine biology focus. To do so, he was at a bus stop at 6:30 AM and didn't get dropped off until 5:30 PM at the bus stop. The program was at an elementary school in a heavy minority neighborhood. It turns out the magnet school was a fraud. Poor academics. The "magnet" content was 30 minutes every other Thursday. The school was a 3 meals per day feeding operation. My son was orders of magnitude ahead of his classmates and often endured a beating during recess for being the top fly on the dung pile. He asked to leave the program and return to our neighborhood school. It took 3 weeks of effort to catch up with grade level work at the neighborhood school that wasn't getting done at the "magnet" school. The only "win" from the magnet school experience was lighting a fire to be fluent in Spanish. He is very fluent and leveraged that skill as a real estate broker in the San Diego area.
Some parents give a damn.....
“It has nothing to do with race.”
” I contend America’s education system has intentionally and systematically failed people of all races. Considering that Caucasians are still a majority in America, the education system has failed more whites than any other race. There are people who despite the education system that still succeed. The number one reason is very simple: parents. It's not teachers. It's not teacher unions. It's not government.”
” Some parents give a damn. They make sure their children are educated. They send their children to first grade already reading. They correct the erroneous excrement that their children are taught. They spend endless hours teaching real mathematics. They provide their children the ability to teach themselves so their children can survive the abject failures of government school teachers.”
No truer words have been posted here at FreeRepublic. I did take your last sentence and put it first, every word is spot on.