Posted on 08/12/2013 11:02:35 AM PDT by jazusamo
Two recent events — one on the east coast and one on the west coast — raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we say that we want better education for minority children.
One of these events was an announcement by Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., that it plans on August 19th to begin "an entire week of activities to celebrate the grand opening of our new $160 million state-of-the-art school building."
The painful irony in all this is that the original Dunbar High School building, which opened in 1916, housed a school with a record of high academic achievements for generations of black students, despite the inadequacies of the building and the inadequacies of the financial support that the school received.
By contrast, today's Dunbar High School is just another ghetto school with abysmal standards, despite Washington's record of having some of the country's highest levels of money spent per pupil — and some of the lowest test score results.
Housing an educational disaster in an expensive new building is all too typical of what political incentives produce.
We pay a lot of lip service to educational excellence. But too many institutions and individuals that have produced good educational results for minority students have not only failed to get support, but have even been undermined.
A recent example on the west coast is a charter school operation in Oakland called the American Indian Model Schools. The high school part of this operation has been ranked among the best high schools in the nation. Its students' test scores rank first in its district and fourth in the state of California.
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I don’t know who “We” are, but I’m serious about educating my kids. It’s nobody else responsibility or business to educate my kids.
Liberals and Democrats have had control of academia in the U.S. for close to a century. When they proclaim how stupid Americans are, I can’t help but wonder: Are they bragging about a fait accomplis or admitting their complete and abject failure?
No.
I think it’s all part of the larger picture to undermine democracy. Building a large underclass of uneducated, dependent voters ruled by elites is the goal.
As a public policy, "no."
To liberals, the level of "seriousness" is directly proportion to the number of tax dollars thrown at something. They're big on building large buildings with "state of art" facilities, because it shows "how serious they are," and it gives them cover for paying off their union construction buddies.
They also love to fund "educational programs" because it gives them cover for paying for more teachers, counselors, and administrators--all union, of course.
They are not serious about measuring whether or not students are studying the right things, or whether students are making progress.
Note to self. NEVER title a vanity as a question.
Right on. :-)
I think it’s all part of the larger picture to undermine democracy. Building a large underclass of uneducated, dependent voters ruled by elites is the goal.
I believe the goal has been achieved.
Tell me there is not a racist dumbocrap conspiracy to keep minorities down after reading this. Our own idiot “all middle finger Obama” is part of the plantation.
Sure are serious as Fistgate was or Obama the gay clown hate crime legislation. These programs punishing talent and heterosexuality are evil. Reminds me of the Ptolemy vs. Maccabe
Exactly ! By "We", authors usually mean "society". But for education, the only "we" should be each individual / family.
Education should be no more compulsory than nutrition, sleep, mobility, or air conditioning. All are things that most of us naturally value, and strive to obtain.
But ultimately, these goods and services are optional. No good reason to force public financing nor government control of them. In fact, there are a million reasons not to.
Same goes for medical insurance, medical treatment, housing, energy, retirement, etc. But the sheeple have largely bought into the notion that those things are mandatory entitlements that government must provide.
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During the time of slavery, black people would risk death to learn how to read and write. How angry and betrayed would these brave black slaves feel when they learn that once again, young blacks that want to learn how to read and write live in fear of persecution? Not from a fearful slave owner, but from a fearful classmate, who ironically, is also black.
Great, a state of the art building where students get a state of the FART “education”. The more we spend the less we educate.
Be sure to read the entire article. He gives details on others.
Who is “we?” If he means folks who voluntarily send their kids to government schools, then the answer is of course not.
There are three groups of parents who send their kids to government schools:
1. The unfortunate ones who cannot send them anywhere else.
2. The clueless ones who in spite of the overwhelming amount of damning information choose to send their kids to government schools.
3. The complicit who are just fine with what is going on.
While I respect Mr. Sowell, I think that his awesome intellect would be better spent figuring out ways to get the parents in group 1. into private schools or homeschooling.
You forgot the fourth group: Those that run towards gunfire (while others run from gunfire).
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