You may have heard me callin to some talk shows in CT, I used to ask the Shef supporting hosts a simple question:
How come little black kids cant learn unless they sit next to little white kids?
I hoped to point out the total hypocricy of their stance: that little sheff (who is now 22?) could learn if he actually read his books and did his homework, and the teachers held them to that standard.
Instead, we get this politically correct midnight-basketball logic: Black kids cant learn in a black school unless we control their environment through government action; translating to the idea that we must send them to suburban schools where there is less crime already because we dont want to deal with the crime issue/lack of parental support issue/lack of personal discipline issue.
I am so sick of the dems using race as the underlying issue in all things that are only due to personal behaviour and character.
I hoped to point out the total hypocricy of their stance: that little sheff (who is now 22?) could learn if he actually read his books and did his homework, and the teachers held them to that standard. You're expecting way too much Race! ;^)
It's got nothing to do with the fact that many little inner-city kids don't even bother to show up to school a good amount of time. Witness the celebration over 70% attendance on the first day along with the obligatory prizes and give-aways to those who actually show up. I don't care how much money you dump into the inner-city schools (and Lord knows in this state they dump a ton), if the kid's parents can't get them to go to school, they ain't never gonna learn nothin'. Whether the teachers teach or not.
It's a vicious cycle. Many inner-city parents have a disdain for education and pass that on to their unwitting children who only see what their parents allow them to see. They in turn, put forth no effort when it comes to their education, drop out, then have kids who they then pass their outlook onto. Until truancy and not punking out (that is being the aggressor) are demoted as status symbols in many city schools, nothing will change.