Posted on 09/23/2013 4:25:56 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Culture.
Wow, race based school hiring.
Gee, what happened 5 years ago? Maybe we have more of an entitlement mentality.
But, it helps sop up the poorly educated liberals. They can teach pre-K level stuff.
Wow, talk about not trusting your family. Also, congratulations on your successes. What are your books on and what were your businesses?
If you want to make certain your kids are solid conservatives and morally straight keep them out of government school until at least 5th grade. By that time kids have internalized their culture and rarely reject it.
No, it is not. Given similar family situations, white kids will do just as poorly in school as minority kids.
I believe the single most important thing, from birth, up to middle school, is a parent or family member who will READ to a child. In this day and age, where every school has a library, and every town has a public library, there is no reason for a child not to have some book or another to read, or which can be read to him.
When a child is a good reader, the world opens up, and anyone can be self-taught, if the culture around him values intelligence and education, and not necessarily that which occurs within a school building.
They actually did well. Remember South Africa?
Working Americans are delaying their childbearing because they are heavily taxed to subsidize the careless. Maybe that is the evolutionary strategy that is favored (shudder) under the current circumstances.
Since there are no genes for social problems, evolution has nothing to do with it.
But evolution is a handy word, isn't it? Evolution can be inserted into a sentence just about anywhere. "evolution favors basketball fans over cricket fans in America, that's why have more of them, blah blah". If you replaced the word "evolution" with "magic" or "aliens" it would sound just as convincing.
I have never lived around blacks so don’t pretend to know why they don’t excel at school as a group.
The other group with issues according to this article is Native Americans, which I grew up with and went through school with. The biggest issue I saw with NAs when it came to school was the parents did not put any emphasis on school so the children had no support at home. I think parental support is critical, children need to be told over and over that learning is important and parents need to make sure they have supplies they need, help with homework- whatever it takes. Children also need the praise of parents when they do well at school and help when they are struggling. If parents and other adults in a child’s life do not act as though school is important then the child does not see it that way either. I have rarely seen books in homes of NAs, books of any type- usually no magazines, no adult books, no children’s books, nothing to read. I did notice if there were books in a NAs home, their children did do well at school. In contrast when I go to homes of poor whites there usually are books, a few children’s books, maybe comic books, some adult reading- at least tabloids, some type of woman’s magazines- something to read.
We have an issue here with children of illegal aliens struggling with school (most due to language issues in the beginning of course but even after learning English) and most illegals could care less how their children do at school so they have no parental support either. There was one girl with IA parents that did have a burning desire to learn and her parents did support education and in fact told her every day that the way to live better was to get an education. That girl excelled at school, teachers helped her because they saw that burning desire to learn, she did very well, graduated at the top of her class, earned scholarships to college and is doing well now.
I have to wonder if the issues with black children struggling at school does not have more to do with what is going on at home than what is going on at school. I have yet to see a teacher ignore a student that comes to school enthused about learning, and has a real desire to do well, and has parental support to help them succeed- no matter what race that child is.
It is not about income. It is not about location. It is about attitude.
I’m sure the average freeper and the average citizen never went to preschool....
not that there aren't really smart black people because there's a ton, a lot smarter than me for sure...
The truth is, black teachers spend more time with black students because they connect with them. White teachers spend more time with the black students to prove they're not raciest. The white children have to rely on their parents and one another for help.
The novels:
My first business manufactured jewelry and was called Gryphon Cottage Inc. It ran for seven years.
The second was Technical Service Associates and I leased employees to military contractors. (Don’t deal with the government!)
Somehow ... way back when ... I developed a love of reading.
Reading was an escape and an education and just damned interesting.
I can't put my finger on one person or event or anything that "did" that to me, but .. I've always loved to read.
People reading to kids are just a live TV.
If this is the case then we don't need political forums like Free Republic. Biology predestines us to be either sensible conservatives or liberal moonbats. No point arguing about it.
Anything is possible, but that would be depressing. It would be the end of what's left of US civilization if Jeopardy were rigged.
“Given similar family situations, white kids will do just as poorly in school as minority kids.”
At the very least, this appears to be an unproven assertion.
From the article: "Poor, white students outperformed black students from poor and wealthy families."
Charles Murray's recent book shows that “family situations” for poor whites are in a state of advanced deterioration (lack of marriage, high illegitimacy, low final educational achievement, poor work histories, etc.). Thus, it's unlikely that these poor whites are outperforming blacks because of overall better "family situations."
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The argument is as old as the ancient Greeks; i.e. nature versus nurture. I come down on the nature side. Those who study intelligence feel it is about 80% genetic. However, I feel it gets worse for the blacks as another curse in their demographic is poor impulse control, another biologically based trait.(Thomas Carlyle noticed this in the 1840’s; “a race singularily deficient in self governance.”) The trillions we have spent trying to improve the lot in life for blacks has obviously been wasted. Some say they are worse off today than say 50 years ago. The solution to the problem will be biological. There are already some medicines that seem to increase intelligence. That ultimately will be the solution. For those who point out Condi Rice; that is no argument as intelligence is a normal curve implying some blacks will be at the upper end. However, the black normal curve is shifted lower on the average.
Another story is of course the ongoing cultural collapse of Western Culture which is increasing anarchy. However, as stated that is another story.
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