Posted on 08/08/2013 1:38:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, are taking a moment to reevaluate things.
According to WBTV, district superintendent Dr. Heath Morrison has taken steps to confront serious problems in the education system. Of the 22 task forces Morrison created, one is tasked with addressing recurring problems of the black male youth. In the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district during last year alone, 20,000 black males were given short-term suspensions while 3,000 white males were given the same punishment.
The discrepancy was one motivating for the task force to recommend the founding of a new, all male, all black school.
Proponents argue that such a school would be safer and foster greater empathy.
“The African American male wouldn’t have to argue over females,” says rising 9th grader George Whitley. “And we can just get along and relate to each other. We wouldn’t have to worry about insults and racism.”
However, the school may encounter some legal troubles. Mary McCray, chairperson of the school board, argues, “If we are going to have an all-black school, all male school then we must create an all female school because of Title IX.” On the one hand, an all-male school may alleviate some tension. On the other hand, the presence of girls may have a mollifying effect on adolescent boys.
This is to say nothing of the troubles of implementing a one-race school program when students of other races apply from the surrounding area. Some have raised concerns of a return to segregation.
The proposal is still being discussed.
Will it be called the Orval Faubus Comprehensive School?
Yeah, that’s how they do it at my sons’ high school. No girls. Dress slacks, dress shoes, ties, blazers. Juniors and seniors get a different color blazer to show rank.
Most young men thrive in a disciplined environment where education is a priority and distractions (like the presence of young ladies) are minimized. Each year, between 99% and 100% of the graduating class at my sons’ school goes off to college.
Did I mention that their school is majority minority?
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Good point, IMHO.
My daughter just graduated from a coed Catholic school where the classes are sex separated after 5th grade. I didn’t know many of the boys in her graduating class but during the graduation activities it was easy to see a different kind of maturity and collegial spirit among them.
What about diversity?!?!
NYC has a new all-LGBT school, the Harvey Milk HS.
This brings to mind a joke with the punch-line being delivered by a red neck: “I think I’ll have a Coke.”
Can’t help but not the irony: Charlotte Mecklenberg was one of the major school desegregation cases
That must have worked out really welll
Yeah. I was there. Starting in 7th grade I went to four schools in six years (without changing neighborhoods) to satisfy the 30/70 black/white balance. It was lots of fun being one of the new kids over and over again. Thanks CMS. And it did a lot of good, too. CMS is still a crappy school district.
the idea, though appearing “racist” is to allow the black male youth to have little in school social relationship distractions to sideline them from focusing on the academics they need to be focused on
Thomas Sowell has written on his studies of education in the 1950s how the segregated all black schools in Washington D.C. had academic scores higher than the national averages, without knowing their education was “inferior” because no whites were in their classroom.
It would be wonderful if such an idea was not even considered necessary, but considering the MOTIVATION as racist is an error I believe. The only real concern should be what environment will be best for the students to focus on acadmeics above everything else.
Blacks get to have black pride, that ain’t racist.
Whites don’t get to have white pride, that’s racist.
Why can’t we have human pride. That would solve the pride problem in an equitable fashion.
(Actually, why can’t we give God equal glory for everybody? We ARE His images... even if some of them go on to choose to do bad things with themselves.)
Think positive thoughts: at least all the wannabe felons will be collected in one place.
“Charlotte Taskforce Recommends All Male, All White K-12 School”
Liberals wouldn’t have a problem with that headline would they?
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