no amount of money or well intended educators can fix the ills affecting large swath of black culture in places like Washington DC my friend.
the reason is that it's the parent's job and schooling cannot fix what is broke at home
it gets back to personal responsibility and free will
neither messianic Democrats nor nuts and bolts conservatives can fix a child who lives in a wasteland at home though admittedly we do believe conservatives can do more
this has been going on so long now it's complimentary.
in the old days nationwide those areas that were largely black were under mostly white administrators...blacks were not very represented politically except in Harlem maybe.
after they started taking over in the late 60s til early 80s all over the nation in urban areas where they were, they began to control the school districts but most urban areas were already white Dem machines, they just became black Dem machines.
the disintegration of the already lagging black infrastructure of family, education and work ethic had begun due in part to the plethora of Civil’s Rights legislation that began in the mid 60s and for which many GOP voted for too.
Now we are bearing that fruit and folks like me who live in areas with a sizable black population...like here in Nashville it's 25%...we are dealing with it.
Here they bus in black kids to my kid's affluent public school at the rate of around 20%. The problems these kids have is obvious and so sad. We help as best we can directly but we can't adopt them all and give them a real home instead of the tragic circumstances they call home.
It's just how it is. Any city that is so predominately black in America today has this problem and I am afraid that all we do is put band aids on it and encourage it frankly. It is folly and demeaning to think black culture has it's problems simply because of something government or the white man did and that only “we” can fix it. Blacks have been hearing this since Reconstruction to no avail....why so many still listen beats me.
Biden spoke the truth....unintended...how we got there is the contentious bone.
I’d say you are both correct...wardaddy more than ari, though.
You can get beyond lousy teachers and terrible curriculum if there are parents at home who are interested in their children’s education.
I know parents who have done just that.
One in particular had to deal with “creative spelling”, among other lunacies.
This was in one of the best school districts in Oregon.
They would have done better homeschooling.
I’m glad my grands are in private school.