Posted on 11/20/2005 7:05:53 AM PST by pleikumud
Florida School Board Sued for Unequal Education Friday, November 18, 2005
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A first-of-its-kind class-action lawsuit in Pinellas County, Fla., could force the local school board to reveal how it teaches and disciplines its 20,000 black students, who struggle academically in disproportionate numbers to students of other races.
"Public education, to me personally, is specifically set up to dumb us down," said William Crowley, who filed the lawsuit.
Click in the video box to the right to watch a report by FOX News' Orlando Salinas.
Crowley said the white-run school system allowed his son to fall behind. His remedy doesn't call for monetary remuneration. Instead, he said he wants the system fixed.
"The facts are overwhelming and not just in Pinellas County, but nationwide, there is a high failure rate of black students across this country," Crowley said.
The lawsuit cites a consistent gap between black and white high-school graduates in Pinellas County. The class failure rate is more than twice as high among blacks. Discipline problems are 39 percent more frequent than with white students.
School board Superintendent Clayton Wilcox says the explanation is simple: More black students break the rules. He says his teachers can't be held accountable for life lessons some students never learned at home.
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Whitey's fault
"The lawsuit cites a consistent gap between black and white high-school graduates in Pinellas County. The class failure rate is more than twice as high among blacks. Discipline problems are 39 percent more frequent than with white students. "
Well when you have 70% of black children born out of wedlock, no one home to supervise what's going on and that included NO discipline, is it ANY wonder there is a problem?
"Public education, to me personally, is specifically set up to dumb us down," said William Crowley, who filed the lawsuit.
** Well sir if you had any imagination, you'd homeschool your child if that's how you feel. There are lots of parents doing this right now.
It is also impossible to teach children who insist on being discipline problems.
"It knows no race although blacks have the highest percentage of this problem."
So true!
"The youths just need those role models, you see."
Yeah, like Marian Barry in DC and I forget the one in Philadelphia. Yeah great examples.
Do you vote for the plantation masters?
Public schools as they stand today are pure poison for young black children. People on both sides have stereotypes of black children that will hamper them. One side thinks they need their help and the other side believes they're too stupid to educate.
This is going to open up a real can of worms, and snakes!! I do not blame the man for wanting a really decent education for his children, nor should anyone stand in their way trying to achieve this. That being said, the problems foisted on public education by governments tying to be "nannies" is staggering. In the black community we have rampant drug cultures, out-of-wedlock births,high unemployment, crappy schools, no parental involement, high crime rates, and a welfare state that has fostered most of this. We have the same thing in the white community too, just not the same percentages. Until we grab hold of the problems involved, and find mutually acceptable solutions and standards, we will continue to bastardize our educational system and continue to fail our people.
[["The facts are overwhelming and not just in Pinellas County, but nationwide, there is a high failure rate of black students across this country," Crowley said]]
Is it maybe because they are too busy glorifying gangstas like fiddy cent, snoop dog, and trying to live the gangsta lifestyle rather than hit the books and studying? You can only blame so much on whitey.
If he does, then he should not complain.
One critic argues it's not the school's fault that black students are not learning.
"To suggest that the school district can somehow uniquely single out black kids and give them inferior educations while giving other kids a better education is kind of ludicrous," said Ward Connerly, head of the American Civil Rights Institute.
Actually, it's set up to dumb EVERYONE down!
Vouchers, vouchers, vouchers.
That's the ugly secret about liberalism. They refuse, absolutely REFUSE to be responsible people. The elites get off on playing god and the peons get relieved of ALL responsibility and blame. And the cycle goes on and on.
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