Posted on 11/29/2017 6:33:33 AM PST by Kaslin
The educational achievement of white youngsters is nothing to write home about, but that achieved by blacks is nothing less than disgraceful. Let's look at a recent example of an educational outcome all too common. In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient on the state's mathematics exam. In six other high schools, only one percent tested proficient in math. In raw numbers, 3,804 Baltimore students took the state's math test, and 14 tested proficient. Citywide, only 15 percent of Baltimore students passed the state's English test.
Last spring, graduation exercises were held at one Baltimore high school, 90 percent of whose students received the lowest possible math score. Just one student came even close to being proficient. Parents and family members applauded the conferring of diplomas. Some of the students won achievement awards and college scholarships. Baltimore is by no means unique. It's a small part of the ongoing education disaster for black students across the nation. Baltimore schools are not underfunded. Of the nation's 100 largest school systems, Baltimore schools rank third in spending per pupil.
Baltimore's black students receive diplomas that attest that they can function at a 12th-grade level when in fact they may not be able to do so at a seventh- or eighth-grade level. These students and their families have little reason to suspect that their diplomas are fraudulent. Thus, if they cannot land a good job, cannot pass a civil service exam, get poor grades in college and flunk out of college, they will attribute their plight to racism. After all, they have a high school diploma, just as a white person has a high school diploma. In their minds, the only explanation for being treated differently is racism.
Let's look at math. If one graduates from high school without a minimum proficiency in algebra and geometry, he is likely to find whole fields and professions hermetically sealed off to him for life. In many fields and professions, a minimum level of math proficiency is taken for granted.
Let's look at just one endeavor -- being a fighter jet pilot. There are relatively few black fighter jet pilots. There are stringent physical, character and mental requirements that many blacks can meet. But fighter pilots must also have a strong knowledge of air navigation, aircraft operating procedures, flight theory, fluid mechanics and meteorology. The college majors that help prepare undergraduates for a career as a fighter pilot include mathematics, physical science and engineering.
What's the NAACP response to educational fraud? At a 2016 meeting, the NAACP's board of directors ratified a resolution that called for a moratorium on charter schools. Among the NAACP's reasons for this were that it wanted charter schools to refrain from "expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate" and "cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious." Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys is a charter school. In 2016, 9 percent of its students scored proficient on the state's math test. This year, over 14 percent did so. It's in the interest of black people for more of our youngsters to attend better schools. However, it's in the interest of the education establishment -- and its handmaidens at the NAACP -- to keep black youngsters in failing public schools.
Few people bother to ask whether there's a connection between what goes on at predominantly black high schools and observed outcomes. Violence at many predominantly black schools is so routine that security guards are hired to patrol the hallways. The violence includes assaults on teachers. Some have been knocked out, had their jaws broken and required treatment by psychologists for post-traumatic stress disorder. On top of the violence is gross disorder and disrespect for authority.
The puzzling question for me is: How long will black people accept the educational destruction of black youngsters -- something that only benefits the education establishment?
You're right, and a deep pockets, Republican conservative did just that. His name was Booker T. Washington. His Tuskeegee Institute not only handled all those academic levels at once, plus college-level material, but as you suggest it also taught proper dress, social graces, and the specific skills needed in various trades. It was tremendously successful, which is why he and the racial-grievance industry, which was flourishing even then, were enemies.
Someone could call it Tuskeegee II. Or perhaps Washington College. The feeder school would be Washington Prep.
Hmmm. I really like this idea. . .
At least when blacks were slaves, they longed for freedom. Now their democrat plantation masters have sold them into welfare bondage so completely that not only do they no longer yearn to be free from it, they don’t even know what freedom is.
The problem and solution were dealt with in the book ‘The Bell Curve’
That was when liberals were allowed to help the poor to succeed.
Eloi.
A black family lives across the street from me. Nice guy, I’ll have a beer with him from time to time and we help each other with various home projects. He takes care of his stuff; his house, cars and yard are immaculate. He is a good father and their mother is a good mom, too. He demands that his two sons study and get good grades. He spends time with the kids, too.
And that’s the whole point. If there are no good and decent fathers in the home, and no expectations are set, what do you think you’re going to get?
They plan on turning all of us into Eloi with bread and circuses.
Blacks are occupationally obsolete at this point. As a group they seem to have no idea of what it takes to function effectively in the 21st century and less interest in making the effort to find out.
Have you read the book “Radical Son”?
It describes that situation.
winning with the liberal democrat formula.
They can see that it's not going to work with a considerable segment of the population. That's why they're so intent on disarming us.
No I haven't, but I will. Another and "post-desegregation" school test came about as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane devastated both public and private (mostly Catholic) schools in NOLA.
Once Katrina was passed, the Catholic schools were up and running almost immediately in makeshift fashion to be sure, but up and teaching.
The public schools were stifled by bureaucracy and hurricane damage and were closed and stayed closed and just couldn't seem to get going. So the Catholic church opened their doors to the public student population and "just taught". The results were a shocker....the former public school students learned just as well as the private Catholic students.
I don't know if anyone has produced a book about that situation yet or not. I heard about it because the wife's first cousin works (volunteers) in the NOLA Diocese's media department.
Unfortunately, the pathologies of black culture are largely the result of the lack of inherent ability. That is not to say that cultural degeneration is not greatly worsening the situation.
I can't agree. I've worked with too many black researchers who can hold their own with any white or Asian.
Current AMERICAN black culture is a result of a fundamental split in the black community once de-jure segregation disappeared.
One group adopted the "success culture" (get educated, get married, stay married, work hard, save money, and succeed) and did succeed.
The second group identified the "success culture" as "acting white", avoided the "success culture", and especially "get educated", and as a result are multi-generational failures livin' in da hood. They failed to understand that the "success culture" applies to ALL RACES.
Now, you might say that the bad decision made was due to "lack of inherent ability", but I think it would be very hard to prove that.
My belief is that liberal intervention (all with great intentions) that dates back before the Civil War has blunted the self correction of social Darwinism.
The people with “the lack of inherent ability” are protected and that creates a Bell Curve that is heavy on the downside.
>By the time their first seniors graduated, I expect they would be on a par or even better than white students from charter schools. Much better than white students from public schools.
You’d be disappointed. It’s been tried before. The IQ differential is too great. You can make people smarter, but it requires sexual selection to do it.
For instance, Europeans long required young men to own their own home before marriage and children. Men not smart enough to be able to handle this generally ended up without children. This caused a positive increase in general IQ. That process however requires tight control on female sexual activity.
Except that, in the 1950s, even in segregated schools, black students were almost on a par with white students. The commonality was that, even though they were segregated, both kinds of schools provided a serious education, with no time devoted to social engineering.
The bottom line is that, if students are educated, without having their time wasted on nonsense, they do better. And that is wholly independent of IQ.
>The bottom line is that, if students are educated, without having their time wasted on nonsense, they do better.
Correct. There would be vast improvements if discipline was restored and proper subjects taught.
No dad, no math.
Nothing academic is wholly independent of IQ. The rest is true.
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