““We don’t want to have honest conversations about poverty and segregation and race and class, all those other sorts of ills,” said Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union. “Those are really tough issues. So this gives them an excuse to focus on something else.””
We been having that “conversation” for 50 years where has it gone but to dumb down our schools and embitter entire generations to hate & resent their neighbor rather than to work hard and become like them.
Urban schools are failing because they have been run into the ground by theses democratic policy’s.
““We don’t want to have honest conversations about poverty and segregation and race and class, all those other sorts of ills,” said Karen Lewis,
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Indeed, it is the socialists who don’t want the conversation ...**because** ...we know what prevents poverty.
** Staying out of prison
** Having babies only when married
** Staying married and not getting divorced
** Going to school, on time, every day and graduating from high school
** Choosing to be illiterate and innumerate
** Getting a job, any job, and going to that job, on time, every day
Suburban schools are failing, too! They just don't seem to be that bad because the parents are doing **tons** of afterschooling.
Seriously, I mean it. I have had enough experience as a cub scout leader and helping with the tutoring program in my church to know. My conclusion:
If any child in my county can read and do arithmetic it is because the **parents** have taught that child to read and do the basic arithmetic. If a child has parents who aren't doing that, they **can not read** and they **can not to simple arithmetic!
We live in one of the reddest counties in one of the reddest states in the U.S. Or county is overwhelmingly middle class and vanilla ice cream **white**.