NAACP issues call to end inequality in schools

AP ^ | Nov 15 2001 | Tamara Henly

[stainlessbanner]

WASHINGTON

[TexanAmerican]

Tell the kids to stop smoking crack in the hallways and leave the "fotee onses o malt licka" at home and the schools will be equal!

[Ligeia]

I'd like to see the NAACP spend some time focused on what is right about the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, an inner-city school with a high population of at-risk students. The students succeed in spite of the odds against them. When comparing the students of FDA with the failing students depicted in Kozol's Savage Inequalities; what appears to be the key to success at FDA is expectation, something lacking in the East St. Louis schools in Kozol's book.

Nat Hentoff's column at JWR

[mafree]

Sounds like they want us to lower the standards AGAIN.

Where does the article say that? I don't see it, though I do think they are looking the wrong way for solutions. (Thanks for the ping summer)

[mafree]

Welfare must be ENDED not mended.

Where have you been the last 4 years? Welfare is ended. Able-bodied parents now have to work in order to get benefits. What we're dealing with now is the aftermath of welfare.

[mafree]

I wonder if this means they are going to call for the end of inequality at the, socalled, Traditional Black Colleges?

What inequality? (BTW, they're Historically Black Colleges, mostly started because few black students were admitted to white private or public colleges).

[mafree]

Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president and CEO, said the group is asking President Bush, Education Secretary Rod Paige and school leaders nationwide to cut the racial achievement gap at least 50% over the next 5 years.

OK, but when will he ask the parents, students, and culture to do their part?

[caseyblane]

It is time to get rid of public schools. They are at the heart of this country's problems.

[Amelia]

It is time to get rid of public schools. They are at the heart of this country's problems.

Good idea. What would be your alternative? Please do let me know....Could you also explain how public schools are causing the problems in this country as opposed to reflecting the problems in our culture?

[MarkL]

If anyone wants to see a good example of what Federal intervention in a school district does, take a good look at the Kansas City, MO, school district...

After 25 years and BILLIONS of dollars, the KCMOSD lost it's state accreditation last year, due to lack of performance on standardized tests!

Mark

[caseyblane]

Extreme local control over education is what we need, such as self education, home schooling, and private schools. Public education does reflect our culture of self-irresponsibility. So many parents take so little responsibility for the future of their children. They dump them at a government run school which operates on a basis of appeasement and political correctness as opposed to achievement and efficiency.

[caseyblane]

Not only do they reflect the problems, they encourage them to develop even further by legitimizing them as norms of society. Norms of a socialist society not a free one.

[leadpenny]

What inequality?

How 'bout addressing the issue? If equality is good for one segment of society, then it should be good for all.

There is/are no:

NAAWP
WET
Congressional White Caucus
White Police Officer's Assn.
Historically White Colleges
etc.

I take it you do approve of this inequality? BTW, at what hypothetical future point-in-time would you say there would not be a need for the NAACP and like organizations?

[gjenkins]

"In issuing a Call for Action, the NAACP recommends that all state school superintendents and governors submit to the NAACP by May 10, 2002, an outline of the steps that education agencies will take to bring more equality to education."

Why doesn't he issue a call for action to all of the NAACP members. They should detail how they are going to plan and provide for the material and educational needs of their children before they have them.

[mbb bill]

Abolish the education department. First step. Get the schools back on the local front. The unions are working against education also!!

[Neets]

All talk and no action as usual by Queezy...there is a real easy solution to this so called ineuaility....RESPONSIBILITY...

Pouring more money into an ready broken system doesn't fix diddly squat..it just breaks it even more.

Clean up the BOEs in the districts...if you don't accomplish your end goal you don't get paid...it's the simple things like WE teach our kids...but then again, it is futile with these people..they come from the old school of keeping the Black Man Down.

It is their profession and people like Queezy and Papa JJ and Al Sharptongue are making themselves into millionaires.

[alrea]

Why doesn't he issue a call for action to all of the NAACP members. They should detail how they are going to plan and provide for the material and educational needs of their children before they have them.

they are too busy trying to get laid and making more out of wedlock future NAACP members for such details

[lavaroise]

Reward kids who don't want to work, punish those who want to work, all for the god of "equality" they seek unequal justice. Bin Laden would have not said it better.

[Amelia]

Not only do they reflect the problems, they encourage them to develop even further by legitimizing them as norms of society.

I've noticed. Parents help too, by threatening ridiculous lawsuits.

[summer]

Re your post #83 -- My pleasure, mafree. And, thanks again for posting that uplifting article I linked to in my ping to you. I hope others read it and find out there IS some good news coming out of the black community.

[summer]

To: ALL -- see my post #79 for the link described above.