[theBuckwheat]

Do the simple math: If it only costs $8,000 per year for public schooling (and in many districts it costs much more), then it costs about $100,000 to bring a single black student to the point they graduate high school and go on to enter college. But at 5% readiness, it costs $2 MILLION dollars to bring a single black student to be ready for college, ignoring how few black youth stay in school to even take the ACT let alone graduate. How can we bring ourselves to admit that the public school model is broken and dangerously so? Clearly, it is time for alternatives such as allowing parents to choose how they want their own children to be educated and where.

[Venturer]

The colleges do not care if they are ready or not as long as they can cough up the tuition, and as long as they can get that by getting a Gubmint loan.

[freebilly]

We new school...!

[Aevery_Freeman]

I tutor kids preparing for standardized test (ACT, MCA, ASVAB, etc.) and am amazed and appalled at how little knowledge and/or critical thinking skills have been imparted to our kids by an unbelievably expensive "educational" system - a system that helps to bankrupt local and state governments.

The millennial generation is not necessarily dumber than previous generation, just more poorly educated.

[Fightin Whitey]

dey b ignant

[RFEngineer]

Entirely explainable by IQ.

approximately 50% of whites have an IQ of 100 or higher
approximately 5% of blacks have an IQ of 100 or higher.

There may be other factors at work, but if you do not have the IQ to grasp certain concepts, you’re out of luck whether you’re planning to go to college or not.

If the government tries to encourage some group to go to college anyway, one should not be surprised to see average intelligence become a factor in whether that population is found “fully ready for college”.

[UglyinLA]

I read that the math scores are slightly better.

Chicago teacher: Now kids, if I have ten bullets in my gun and I shoot a victim with three bullets, how many bullets do I have left ?
Kid in back holds up his hand: I know, I know !!
Teacher: Yes, Traybama, what is the answer.
Kid named Traybama: Five
Teacher: and why five Traybama?
Traybama: Juscuz last week forreal I needa bust five caps bae cuz my bad aim hit the mutha ass cracka only three times

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Every standardized test, every IQ test, and academic achievement averages always show this particular demographic trailing others regardless of the decade the results are from or the nation the results are from. Draw your own conclusions.

[ßuddaßudd]

otay, surely then we must ban handguns to level the playing field for them , , /sarc

[11th Commandment]

No doubt that this is true and the public colleges have adjusted the requirements. In Missouri, the math placement was determined by ACT and a placement test. English is determined by the ACT. I was also amazed by the amount of remedial math offered by colleges. When I went to school I can recall two math classes offer lower than College Algebra. In fact, if you need the lowest Math, my school recommended the community college. Now I see Math 99 offered.

It is all about the money for these schools. By offering High School Classes in College they get tuition. Then the kids who can't handle majors that actually have jobs prospects, they are herded to the Psychology and Sociology department. They graduate with little employment skills and mounds of debt paid for by the US Taxpayer.

[animal172]

I’m surprised it is as high as 25%. Most young people I encounter don’t have enough sense to get in out of the rain. But, they do know a lot about their smartphones.

[Wurlitzer]

Let me guess the root cause:

1) Poverty! So a bank account can increase/decrease IQ. Who outside of the race pimps knew?

2) Teachers not paid enough! Any teacher not performing to the best of their ability because of their pay should have been fired long ago. This cannot be tolerated.

3) No breakfast! Well we have stolen enough money from the producers and what has not been flushed down the Middle East toilet of sand monkeys should be sufficient to give the children food. Too bad their useless parents did not think about supporting them before they squirted out another one.

4) No fathers! This might have some merit but IMO it falls on the inferiority of certain groups to raise a family in today’s society.

5) Oh, and lets never forget the most important excuse, WHITE PEOPLE. You know those evil people who build a better society that allowed minorities an opportunity to advance should they not be too lazy to try. Well if you want to know what a world run by minorities looks like take a daytime trip to Detroit (just make sure you leave before the sun goes down).

Certainly nobody has the balls to say it might be certain groups are mostly at fault. Well I will.

Thanks to bHo, I no longer belong to the excuse merchants who will dance on the head of a pin trying to excuse every failure of a group which needs to look inward and stop blaming everyone else.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Your statement assumes that someday they will be ready for college. That probably will never happen for 95% of them.

[MasterGunner01]

It should come as no surprise that only 5 percent of black students are ready for college. With a 70 percent illegitimacy rate, single parent homes the norm, and no parental guidance, education is continually decried in the black community as “trying to be like whitey”. A great number of blacks shun education, many numbers drop out of school to maembrace embrace hip hop or ganstra culture. These losers become feral animals that prey on society. Those that stay in school are ill equipped to function if they can complete high school (usually through social promotion). Example: Trayvon Martin's girlfriend Rachel Jeantel.

Bill Cosby has been trying to tell blacks to stop playing the victimhood and race cards. He urges them to effect change in their own hearts and minds; he urges them to speak good English and to embrace learning. For this stance, he has been excoriated by the professional race baiters. Sadly, it appears significant numbers of blacks are beyond redemption at this point.

[Bigg Red]

Products of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Boggles the mind when one compares this to the accomplishments of someone like Washington Carver during times of segregation.

[popdonnelly]

Our education system is clearly failing. It takes a certain amount of discipline for kids to learn. That seems to be lacking today.

[capt B]

“Root causes”.. easy- African Kings, for 150 years, sold their lame, lazy, crazy,criminal, etc. population to the traders. Think of Castro’s 100,000 “Marielito’s” that were dumped on America in 1980

[bgill]

It’d be far less than 5% if the ACT were in cursive.

[i_robot73]

A consequence I lay squarely at the foot of the problem....gov’t AND parents (or ‘parents’).

REMOVE the tax from the community, starve the NEA and unions and have parents pay for the education of their brood.

Then and ONLY then will you see improvement.

[Jim Noble]

It is not a problem with the public school system (which has lots of problems). The "college for all" mania has to stop sometime, might as well be now. Anyone with an IQ <110-115 is probably wasting precious time and money they don't have on college. What percentage of various groups are in that range is unimportant. What IS important is that to achieve the imaginary result of near-universal HS graduation the complete debasement of education is required. Somebody posted here yesterday that 30% of HS seniors are unready for college, and posted it as a criticism of public schools. Yes, it's a criticism all right - but not the one he thought. Any test that says 70% of HS seniors ARE prepared to do baccalaureate work is a worthless test. That number is not, CANNOT be higher that 25%. It's probably closer to 10%. The forest of lies about education in America is very dense. Let's not join the party. What percentage of HS seniors have IQs >115? If THEY are not prepared to do college work at age 18, we have a problem. The 5% African-American figure, in isolation, is meaningless.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Dang. And here I am praying my daughter will get accepted into Baylor with a 28. I’m still pushing her to take the ACT one more time.