Is this to say that the few kids who managed to actually graduate in Ferguson can’t even read their diplomas? Is it because they’re printed in cursive?
Teachers unions retain a stranglehold
And that is a HUGE part of the problem. Another part is that too many parents expect the school to raise their children for them. And if little Johnny is disciplined they cry that the teacher must not like their child instead of accepting responsibility themselves.
If he had spent one year studying at Khanacademy.org he’d have had a better education than 12 years in the public school. This is true for a LOT of kids in public school. It is an institution that has outlived its usefulness.
One room school houses with no more “resources” than desks, a blackboard, a wood burning stove, and a small library of standard texts used to produce a public that could read, cipher, and knew its own history. The problem is not some lack of resources it is a whirling mass that contains unionized incompetent teachers and a home and community culture which over generations has come to not just tolerate criminality and ignorance but glorify it.
Vouchers not only for “poor, minority” communities...but for ALL children. I thought the progressives/liberals were all for CHOICE?
Schools should have a basic program for kids who may not want or be able to go to college or who’s IQ may be low. Their curriculum should only be basic skills to function in society. Forget all that other crap they teach in high school. Give them only classes in learning how to read competently, do basic math necessary for a sales job, and teach them a craftsman-like skill they can use to find a job.
Oh, no, no, no! Acting white is never acceptable!
If I have a failing school district with 5,000 students in it, and I say, "OK you can all have vouchers to go to any school you want" then what? Where do they go? Do they troop across district lines to the successful school district next door, thus adding 5,000 students to their enrollment? Where would these extra students be put? What if they are so far behind that they drag down the district scores to the old district's level? Are people to establish private schools? What guarantee is there that they will be any better or any more successful than the public schools were? And how are the students supposed to get to the new schools? Will the state provide transportation? And finally this scheme does nothing to address the primary reason why school districts fail - lack of support for education by the families in the district. Teachers have the kids for less than 8 hours a day. Unless the family is pushing for school work to be done during the other 16 then the kids are going to fail.
Shame on American Blacks that keep voting for the party that destroys their children. It's time for a spanking.
I see in Memphis Tennessee the sheriff or police chief is calling for laws that charge the parents of teens who commit crimes like the racially motivated beating that happened at the Kroger store there.
I’ve got mixed feelings on it because teens can be more than a parent can handle and with black teens its pointless because the parents just don’t care.
Personally I think we need to bring back reform school type settings where release is largely dependent on completion of school and learning a useful skill. Maybe releasing them as self supporting adults away from the old neighborhood.
The Black Alliance for Educational Options
So why is OK to point out by race the problems here and have race organization for this?
Either race matters and is a factor or it isn’t.
But we also shouldn't forget the long term influence of the Great Society, Progressive politicians, and public unionization which has turned once vibrant urban landscapes into moral and economic wastelands.
There's lots of blame to go around for "Ferguson", and the list could be much longer than the above given reasons.