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He said many inner city and predominately minority schools lack qualified teachers and adequate educational resources. Also, Mfume said, the schools have a higher rate of student suspensions and expulsions, and increased placements in special education.

I'd bet the schools lack qualified teachers because qualified teachers don't want to teach in a war zone. Higher rate of student suspensions and expulsions means a lot more kids who don't know how to behave.

I wonder if the increased placements in special education are related to high drug use among pregnant mothers?

Unfortunately, there is a real problem, but I'm not sure if it's one the government can fix. First of all, the NAACP needs to quit screaming that every attempt to raise standards is "discriminatory" - they can't have it both ways. Perhaps they could start after school tutoring programs for the kids in these neighborhoods?

A second problem is the high illegitimacy rates and the high percentage of teen mothers in the black community. Children without fathers are much more likely to live in poverty and be juvenile delinquents than children in intact families. For some reason, mothers who are 14 or 15 when they have their children generally don't seem to do a really good job on the discipline end - and undisciplined children don't seem to do very well in school.

Unfortunately, there is a real problem, but I'm not sure if it's one the government can fix. First of all, the NAACP needs to quit screaming that every attempt to raise standards is "discriminatory" - they can't have it both ways. Perhaps they could start after school tutoring programs for the kids in these neighborhoods?

Amelia, you are right. If the underacheiving kids competed in academics like they do on the football field or basketball court, (or any sport for that matter) the disparity between the races would end overnight. And its not due to discrimination. Its up to the individual to acheive as best they can. Right now would be a good time, when the country is engrosed in a desperate struggle between good and evil and we all need to pull together. We don't need lower standards. We need to acheive. NAACP, look up, not down.

BTTT to your post #15, and see my post #22. From your fellow teacher, summer :)

If blacks would stop the destructive out of wedlock impregnation cycle, perhaps more black children could be born into families that could support and nurture their young ones. As it is - with 70+% of all black children born as bastards - to mothers that use them as a meal ticket to secure federal and state welfare payments - the blacks will continue down their self destructive path...

The Federal and State governments NEVER learned, the more you subsidize, the more you get. By rewarding unwed mothers with more money than they could earn working - they preferred screwing their way into an income.

Welfare must be ENDED not mended.

I fear it has already gone beyond correction. This will be the next major problem America has to deal with --- a disowned and bastard criminal class.
Semper Fi