Special school programs for blacks: racist or essential?

StPeteTimes ^ | 03/25/2007 | THOMAS C. TOBIN

[Amelia]

Have they specified what they think the district ought to be doing differently?

[P-40]

It is called discipline

I don't think teachers are allowed to use discipline any more.

[Sherman Logan]

Black kids, they contend, will need uniquely tailored programs if the district ever hopes to erase an education gap that has them lagging behind every other ethnic group in school performance.

Note the total absence of any attempt to define what these "uniquely tailored programs" would be.

The truth is that we know exactly how to effectively teach poor black kids. It's the same way to teach kids of any other color. The problem is that these methods are neither easy nor politically correct. They require teachers to work their tails off and are not particularly expensive to implement. Thus they are unpopular with teachers' unions.

Google Marva Collins. Starting in 1975, she consistently took poor black kids who had been expelled from the Chicago public schools (!) as being incapable of learning and turned them into scholars.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement"
Named after the communications officer on Startrek?

[P.O.E.]

The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement linked to terrorism

[Atlas Sneezed]

Your post makes so little sense in so many ways.

[Chode]

i agree with you 100%!!! but without that parenting part of the equation, the teachers don 't have a chance...

[MissEdie]

You just stated what everyone I have ever met that works in public schools have been saying. Unfortunately, there's got to be some truth to it.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

Academic success is dependant upon accountability. However, a white teacher demanding accountability from a black student is considered racist and oppressive in todays' society. I have experienced this first hand.

Most teachers are liberal white women who don't exactly command authority in the first place. I have observed this first hand.

Add to this the concept that black parents oftentimes tell their children not to respect or obey white people, so there is no motivation from home to behave; and in fact these parents acually WANT to live a vicarious life of "fighting the white power" through their children. I have been a victim of this first hand.

Perhaps all the preceding stems from, as the author references, "cultural differences". But if that is truly the case, the culture in question must be destroyed and replaced with something else, before it destroys us all.

[Sherman Logan]

Agree.