NAACP calls for ‘state of emergency’ to close achievement gap in SF schools

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 24, 2017 | Jenna Lyons

[Chode]

i suppose studying is out of the question...

[Deplorable American1776]

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?

[livius]

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.