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Deep racial divide in Oakland schools’ attendance rates
SFGate ^ | September 27, 2014 | Jill Tucker

Posted on 09/27/2014 9:01:45 AM PDT by Right2BareArms

The first detailed look at attendance in Oakland schools shows a deep racial divide between students in class and habitual no-shows, a pattern reflected in grades, test scores and graduation rates.

That big difference between who’s in class and who isn’t helps explain much of the achievement gap between white and Asian students and their African American peers.

Nearly 1 of 5 African American students in Oakland is chronically absent from school, missing at least 10 percent of the 180-day school year. Just 1 in 20 white and Asian students miss that much school.

“It’s a critical issue that seriously affects academic and life outcomes for children across our city,” said Jonathan Klein, executive director of Great Oakland Public Schools, a public education nonprofit that was among the sponsors of the report released Friday.

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To: vette6387

Well, you get what you pay for, and as a country, we have spent more subsiding dependency, baby mamas and bastardy, the thug life, and various other dysfunction, than almost anything else, except perhaps bailing out businesses which were “too big to fail”. Social engineering at the extremes, the government picking the winners and losers-and the loser is the taxpaying middle class.


41 posted on 09/27/2014 11:05:39 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: GeronL

I seem to recall reading, I think just last year, about some school in NYC which actually planned to implement a program of paying the students to attend class (on the taxpayer dime of course). I don’t know if they actually did implement it or not.


42 posted on 09/27/2014 11:07:41 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: vette6387

Didn’t mean to sound accusatory, just adding on to your well-said comment :)


43 posted on 09/27/2014 11:08:38 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: mrsmel

“Didn’t mean to sound accusatory, just adding on to your well-said comment :)”

No offense taken! What you wrote was the truth! Stay safe!


44 posted on 09/27/2014 11:41:56 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387

I just read the article and about halfway through the comments. The leftists are doing their usual of defending the stance of Rebecca Brown, research coordinator for the Urban Strategies Council, who says, “I think it’s important to get past the blame of parents and start looking at the challenges that the parents are facing,”.

Now that is just really rich, when they are unfailing in their attempts to blame whites for every problem in the black “community”, even to the point of digging up such things as “white privilege” (being born white), and “micro-aggressions” (being in the presence of a white person) because they have run out of real, pervasive racism to blame. So, when it can be blamed on whites, no matter how contorted the “reasoning”, that will be the go-to position. If it can’t (yet) be blamed on whites, then no blame must be found at all.


45 posted on 09/27/2014 12:07:17 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: mrsmel

I was impressed by the number of people in the comments who were like “YES blame the parents!”

It’s not little 5-yo Tamika’s fault if she doesn’t go to class. It’s not the teacher’s fault. It’s not whitey’s fault. It’s not Obama’s fault. It’s not Al Sharpton’s fault. It’s not society’s fault.

It’s 100% on the parents to make sure their kid is in school every day.

No excuses.


46 posted on 09/27/2014 1:30:13 PM PDT by Right2BareArms
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To: Right2BareArms

I’m not too surprised, considering even the most big-mouthed leftist is a hypocrite who loves to push “diversity” on the middle class while trying to keep it away from their own schools and neighborhoods. See Tim Wise, one of the biggest-mouthed of the cheerleaders for the demise of the white race, who lives in a gated community with other whites.


47 posted on 09/27/2014 1:33:57 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: RoosterRedux
” condemned to lives of poverty and violence and crime. “

Exactly the outcome all the race baiters are looking for. They need the disparity to keep the $$$ flowing to those “providing solutions”.

48 posted on 09/27/2014 1:35:26 PM PDT by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
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To: Right2BareArms

Everytime I see the phrase “deep racial divide” I have the urge to vomit.


49 posted on 09/27/2014 2:05:31 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Right2BareArms

Maybe the kids are sick and tired of the crap they have to put up with in CA schools.


50 posted on 09/27/2014 2:19:13 PM PDT by goldi
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To: RightGeek

Maybe they can hand out Swisher Sweets at the front door in the mornings, that way no one will have to miss school in order to restock...


51 posted on 09/27/2014 2:25:33 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Right2BareArms
Unexpected(lol)
52 posted on 09/27/2014 2:30:57 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: mrsmel

The simplest ‘fix’ would be for parents to pay for the education of their own brood.

Even better, would be to pay each teacher...kids more inclined to the arts? Pay for band, pottery, drawing, etc. Inclination to ‘hands-on’? Maybe shop, vo-tech. That’d really show how much sex-ed it needed, and better teachers would be sought out and as ‘on the hook’ as the parents for teaching (no more ‘passing ‘em just to get rid of the problem).


53 posted on 09/27/2014 4:23:24 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: i_robot73

In my most totalitarian moments, I think kids that don’t make a certain GPA, cut up in class, ditch class, and so forth should be bussed out to the woods and made to thin forests all summer.

Hard labor has a way of teaching a kid what’s up, and it’s better than a summer of hanging out with hood rats, making babies, smoking weed, and drinking cough syrup.


54 posted on 09/27/2014 6:56:52 PM PDT by Right2BareArms
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To: mrsmel

“Now that is just really rich, when they are unfailing in their attempts to blame whites for every problem in the black “community”, even to the point of digging up such things as “white privilege” (being born white), and “micro-aggressions” (being in the presence of a white person) because they have run out of real, pervasive racism to blame. So, when it can be blamed on whites, no matter how contorted the “reasoning”, that will be the go-to position. If it can’t (yet) be blamed on whites, then no blame must be found at all.”

Excellent analysis! Yeah, the whole problem with Black failure as a “community” here in the US is the fault of everyone but the Black’s themselves. Now, I think that soft racism (and some hard racism too) still exists, but it seems to devolve down to who is going to “blink” first. Until Blacks successfully tackle their huge “contribution” to the nation’s crime picture, they are in for continued rough sledding. And that’s sad for those in their community that have the will to try and get out because they are continually tarred with the “crime brush” the “less well motivated” in their ethnicity cause all to be painted with.


55 posted on 09/27/2014 8:17:13 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Right2BareArms
We see that a lot in NYC schools, too. About 75% of blacks are born outside of wedlock in NYC and about 60% or more of Hispanics are born outside of wedlock. Their absenteeism rates are far above those of white students. Their suspension, detentions, and any other disciplinary rates are far above those of white students as well. Many of them are barely socialized. They reply to requests to put their cell phone away or to stop talking in class with, "F__ you, I gonna kill you wid a knife/gun/whatever." They fail to take notes in class, or do homework, or turn in assignments. When you call home, it is amazing how many of these "parents" didn't know that grade cards just came out, let alone saw their kid's grade card. They aren't even sure their kid is in school! "Well, I dropped him off..." Ha, and the kid didn't even go into the school--they ran off somewhere to hang out. Not that you, "parent", would know that.

It starts at home. Nothing else to be said.

56 posted on 09/27/2014 8:48:33 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Right2BareArms

It was growing up in BFE (the ‘country’) that put me straight. Knowing I didn’t have mass-trasit, had to pay for the car/insurance/gas/maint./etc....And then being in MD, under 25; talk about a raping but to make a few $$$

Sorry, by ‘my solution’ would mitigate the problems of the ‘slackers’. A few uppity moments w/ the payment up front (now forfeited as they get tossed); parents WILL make sure they fall in line and LEARN.

Course, I guess there is a place for ditch diggers still...


57 posted on 09/27/2014 9:59:36 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: Right2BareArms
WARNING!

The phrase "deep racial divide" is code for "White People Are At Fault".

58 posted on 09/29/2014 12:04:36 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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