[cyborg]

My sister has black friends who are teacher aides in public school that are predominantly black. The teachers could care less about black students. The white teachers assume that since many of the black students don't want to learn, then ALL of them don't want to learn. The black teachers aren't that much better either. Public schools are a cesspool of mediocrity. Clarence Thomas went to a private Catholic prep school where those white nuns kicked his a$$ and said he could be something great. Supreme Court is great. Either many black parents have to get over the stereotype of homeschooling being a 'white trash' thing or bitch about improving the public schools.

Joe Clark is the template for a thousand clones.

[wardaddy]

Hey gurl...I got pics....gonna work on it some more at the office in the AM.

[bdeaner]

My sister has black friends who are teacher aides in public school that are predominantly black. The teachers could care less about black students. The white teachers assume that since many of the black students don't want to learn, then ALL of them don't want to learn.

I agree this is a big problem. There is a lot of empirical research that shows how teacher expectations effect student performance. If the teacher has low expectations for black students and high expectations for white students, that is going to have an impact. We know this without a doubt. The findings have been replicated in many, many studies.