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NAACP calls for ‘state of emergency’ to close achievement gap in SF schools
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 24, 2017 | Jenna Lyons

Posted on 11/26/2017 11:27:07 AM PST by artichokegrower

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i suppose studying is out of the question...
61 posted on 11/26/2017 4:16:59 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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But they are much better in ATHLETICS...so they don't need to know what 1+1 is or how to spell Cat or what the US flag stands for...

Do I need to use /s?

62 posted on 11/26/2017 4:20:53 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Senator_Blutarski

It has to do with destruction of the family and religion among black Americans, the exaltation of ghetto thug culture - and miserable language skills (which also accounts for low IQ scores). I once read that the main obstacle to black mathematical learning is simply that the spoken language of pooe blacks doesn’t permit them to express or understand the concepts. Logic and math are not innate problems, because many older poor African Americans are fantastic chess players.

The schools must insist on standard English. In fact, many programs have had success with teaching Latin to poor black children as a gateway to standard English, because it gives them an understanding of the regular structure of a language.

Don’t forget that teaching slaves to read was a crime (a capital crime, in fact) in certain Southern states. When the American Bible Society tried to come in to the South, that was one of the big problems: it was illegal to teach slaves to read the Bible. So this is a problem of many generations, which was on the verge of being solved by education - until the “Great Society” came along and rewarded dysfunctionality.


63 posted on 11/26/2017 4:33:10 PM PST by livius
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