Posted on 04/11/2014 7:15:18 PM PDT by reaganaut1
AUSTIN, Tex. — Former President George W. Bush called the achievement gap between white and black children “a national scandal” on Thursday and urged both parties to come together to address it as the central civil rights issue of the modern era.
Paying tribute to President Lyndon B. Johnson at a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Mr. Bush said the real test of the nation’s commitment to equality would be to fix an educational system that has tolerated low standards for too long.
“There’s a growing temptation among public officials in both political parties at the federal, state and local levels to lower expectations,” he told an audience. “Without meaningful accountability, it is poor and minority children who suffer most. The goal of ending achievement gaps should unite Republicans and Democrats, it should unite teachers and parents.” He added, “It is only right to blow the whistle on mediocrity.”
Mr. Bush’s speech concluded the three-day conference hosted by the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, where three other presidents also commemorated the landmark antidiscrimination law of the Johnson era. Mr. Bush reached across the aisle to hail Johnson’s domestic achievements, including his commitment to education, and noted that he signed a law naming the Department of Education for him.
“Lyndon Johnson was continuing the work of Abraham Lincoln, which is really the work of the Declaration of Independence — ‘All men are created equal,’ ” Mr. Bush said. “He made us one people. I’ve got great respect for the way President Johnson used the presidency to achieve big goals. He understood the risks to his party and the risks to his coalition.”
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Since blacks not raised in a culture of violence and welfare and “modern” scools do as well as whites in school we can forget the ugly eugenics pseudoscience. It IS a scandal and it is created by an education system that is hopelessly compromised by progressive psychological claptrap. Unless all the “experts” with their pseudoscientific degrees are removed from the system the conditions will continue to deteriorate for all groups and races.
Yesterday I was shopping at Walmart. There was a mother (I assume) with a baby boy who looked about two. There was the grandmother (again, I assume). The little boy was in the buggy and whining and the mother would smack him. I saw her do this several times and of course, he would cry more. I see a lot of black women treat their children terribly in public. If children receive no love from their mothers (and don’t have fathers), how do we expect them to grow up?
Now I am sure there are a lot of bad white parents as well, but it seems from my personal observation in life that black women are just mean to their children. I don’t know why that is.
Is there even one politician who realizes how fed up we are with this never ending barrage of racial whining, affirmative Action, racial references, wealth redistribution and stealth reparations?
Didn’t Dubya and the late Teddy (lion of the senate, arggghh) team up on huge spending increases for public edumacation?
So that was an utter failure then too ay? The LIEberals hated Bush but he was a bit like one in some ways—not all but case in point.
Bush is still a liberal.
Exactly. Most people will know when to use slang and informal vs. formal usage. Most urban youth only speak in some weird pluralized version of English.
this is why we need no more Bushies = they cannot be trusted to do what is right for America.
Why make this into a racial act?
This is due to Democrat’s 50 years of dumbing down the blacks so they are dependent upon the govt and have taken away the stigma of handouts instead of working.
We need to start taxing stupidity instead of subsidizing it with welfare checks and EBT cards.
Charge parents $10 for every test their child fails and $1000 for every failed course; let them help reimburse the school for wasting their time and money.
Like we’ve all heard, tax something if you want less of it and subsidize it if you want more.
Hey Bush and feds.... butt out.... where is the FAMILY.... where is the individual responsibility..... Ben Carson has programs that seem to work with voluntary contributions. we dont need government intervention in education... government can do NOTHING RIGHT... NOTHING.. HEY FEDS, READ THE CONSTITUTION AND ENFORCE THE law of the land... Bush- keep working on your artwork... it doesn’t impact anyone else... thanks
Ha! Truth hurts huh sonny? George W. Bush’s very best pals, the Islamic “Religion of Peace” folks as he calls them never met a head/neck they didn’t want to start whackin’ away at! Of course since it is well known now, (and has been for a time now to those paying attention), that he and his NWO promoting family have been sacked up with the muzzies for years so they look the other way. Sadly so do more than a few ordinarily intelligent people that are STILL, (Most FReepers have seen the light though....check the Bush for/against % on FR), SOMEHOW snowed by the globalist Bushs. I have voted in quite a few Presidential elections down through the long years, (including 2 times for Daddy Bush and 2 times for Junior), but I wouldn’t vote for another Bush if he were the only one running. Palin/Cruz or Cruz/Palin in 2016!!! Whaddya say ‘boy? How about Sarah Palin and Cruz teamin’ up?
The only “scandal” are Black parents who don’t give a sh*t, and Democrats who doom Black families to failure for their own cynical gain. If Bush had a spine, he would simply say that, instead of blaming America.
What? You mean W's No Child Left Behind legislation passed in the early 2000s didn't solve that problem? And that was not the Feds first cure all program for education(Goals 2000).
Maybe the Feds just need to get the heck out of education.
My recollection may be hazy, but I remember education being a cornerpiece of his political campaigns. I understand that some dipwads want to change the subject to muzzies, but I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Utterly despicable and unconscionable comment. LBJ was a tyrant, who unleashed the Great Society to DIVIDE us for his party's gain ("I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years"). What little respect I had for Dubya just left the building. I truly hate the entire Bush family for how they utterly destroyed the Reagan legacy.
no pity for the LAZY!!!
I’ve got great respect for the way President Johnson used the presidency to achieve big goals.
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Explains a lot. This is the Bush family in one. They loved the sixties.
Why the (heck) won’t they just run as Democrats?
“Seeing as the average black student has an IQ of 85, the only way to “close the achievement gap” is to dumb the non-black students down.
Enter Common Core.”
It is not a matter of IQ. We are all the same in that respect. It is the culture that doesn’t value academic achievement.
We all have the same level of intelligence?
How politically correct of you.
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