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In 2013, the LA Times ran a heartbreaking profile of Kashawn Campbell, and African American student who, after becoming class salutatorian in his South Los Angeles high school, found himself in danger of failing out of UC Berkley. After years as a straight-A student in high school, Campbell found he “had barely passed an introductory science course. In College Writing 1A, his essays — pockmarked with misplaced words and odd phrases — were so weak that he would have to take the class again.”

Georgetown University freshman Darryl Robinson found himself similarly challenged even after a stellar academic high school career in Washington, DC. He wrote bluntly in the Washington Post: “Even though I attended some of the District’s better schools…the gap between what I can do and what my college classmates are capable of is enormous. This goes beyond knowing calculus or world history, subjects that I didn’t learn in high school but that my peers here mastered long ago. My former teachers simply did not push me to think past a basic level, to apply concepts, to move beyond memorizing facts and figures.”

Very telling. After generations of liberal thinking infused into their schools, they are worse off than ever before.

I get “burned out” sometimes hearing about this subject. Black students have lagged behind for decades. This is nothing new. Problems in ghetto schools have been there and unsolved for decades. Ghetto attitudes such as trying to do well in school being derided as “acting white” have been there for decades.

A reformer such as Michelle Rhee in Washington DC was making some progress dealing with a tough inner city school system, but she was summarily fired from her job.

I get the impression that these problems in schools will simply never be solved.

Until the so-called elites recognize the IQ gap, there will be continued scratching of heads and more useless programs instituted.

The best that can be done for "minority" students is that the best students be separated from the troublemakers. The latter should be placed in schools with very tough discipline and severe penalties for bad behavior. And no more affirmative discrimination..uh..action.