Why African-American boys often fail in school

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 8/8/03 | ERNEST HOLSENDOLPH

[Lancey Howard]

The Democrat breeding process in full swing.

[randog]

Most of all, school systems need to consider dropping the vocational education pathway, a convenient way to divert students who don't fit. Instead, the regents say, put everybody on the college track and make it clear the schools expect all to achieve.

So, becoming a plumber, carpenter, machinist, technician, etc. is an achievement one should be ashamed of? Are those the jobs the lib'rals keep telling us the illegal immigrants are here to fill? How utterly eletist, although I would expect nothing less from the pampered denizens of the Ivory Towers.

[optimistically_conservative]

ping ...

[PhilDragoo]

Oh, it's a malaise. There you go.

[Mr. Mojo]

They get caught up too much in fads, in whatever seems to be happening right now. Following the crowd means more to them than to girls.

More important than girls? ....That's a serious affliction.

[Mr. Mojo]

dubs," outsized 20-inch wheels or "Sprewells" -- double rims that can cost $7,000 and more a set.

Never heard of them, but I'd imagine hoopster Latrell has a nice set.

[MattAMiller]

You'd probably hear similar things from white girls. Girls just mature faster. Maybe we need toput the two genders on different tracks. Boys could maybe lag a bit and spend their energy and need to "be somebody" on some sort of community service.

Just something that was rattleing around in my head as I read this.

[optimistically_conservative]

LOL ... means more to them than to girls.

[optimistically_conservative]

Oh, it's a malaise. There you go.

Yep, my dad had a great cure for boyish malaise. My mom threatened me with it all the time.

[Mr. Mojo]

Oops :)

[Clinging Bitterly]

Two words: "Low expectations".

[Jonathon Spectre]

Perhaps when literally everything in your entire culture celebrates criminality and thuggishness and derides work and school as being "white" (is that really an insult?) you might only become interested in being a criminal thug.

Just an idea.

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> "I sit here ready to help but my phone does not ring often."

Probably not many calling who have read the report. Blaming low achievement on materialism and SUVs? Could he have just misunderstood when the guys told him all they wanted was a hummer?

Just damn.

[etcetera]

"Boys could maybe lag a bit and spend their energy and need to "be somebody" on some sort of community service."

Like military service, maybe?

[NMFXSTC]

Not military service...the services won't take a drop out these days.

IF the military is a viable option, they can spot a loser quickly (given the street mentality and act) and they end up on the streets anyway.

[MMcC]

Latrell owns a company that specializes in customizing cars.

http://www.sprewellracing.com/main.htm

[Chief_Joe]

Two words: "Low expectations".

Yes, low expectations, but where do those low expectations come from? I found it interesting that the article never addressed the structure of the black family as a potential cause of the problem. From what I've read, it seems that over 70% of black households are headed by single black females. It also seems that black males did exceptionally well academically in the 50s and 60s when more were raised in traditional two-parent family homes. Is it possible that there is some kind of phenomena occurring within black, female-headed homes that significantly contributes the problem of low academic achievement in black males?

[tkathy]

The black community is held hostage by the democrat politics of victimhood, where all their problems are caused by white people, plus an absense of personal responsibility.

[dagnabbit]

...and the elephant in the living room.