Posted on 08/20/2014 5:35:23 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Back-to-school is just around the corner and 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, many children will be returning to “resegregated” schools. The anniversary year has prompted much investigation and analysis, most pointing toward waning enforcement of integration orders. But what if integration itself is part of the problem?
As a young girl in Bainbridge, Ga., I attended segregated schools two years before the 1954 Brown ruling and six years after. My teachers and school administrators lived in our neighborhood and knew my parents. These educators had high expectations for us and were daily role models and cheerleaders for our success. I had a rich, balanced educational experience rooted in strong cultural awareness. Then we moved to Sacramento, Calif. It was 1960, and my parents were warned that the segregated schools were inferior to the integrated schools and that I would probably have to repeat eighth grade. It was true that my segregated school didn’t have the modern facilities and equipment available to white students on the other side of the tracks, but I breezed through ninth grade and performed equally well in high school.
But still, something was lost. I had excellent teachers, but Black teachers and counselors disappeared from my academic life. Despite my good grades, my high school counselor had low expectations for my future, encouraging me to become a nurse’s aide or secretary. She didn’t think of me as college material.
Fast-forward 60 years and a big question looms large: Is it possible that integration was actually a major setback for Black educators and students?
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It certainly failed White children.
Beat me to it by one post!
They’ve been busing for how many years?? And still, the graduate rate in my old hometown is about 45%. In my day, 99.9% graduated.
They always blame everything but the falsely created “black culture” that the democrats created to keep them separate.
It doesn’t matter which school they go to as long as they are part of a false construct and fed false resentment.
No. Black parents’ thinking failed black children.
No, the black family unit failed their kids. With the absence of a father figure for 72% of all black newborns, there is no sense of family...no experience seeing a father go off to work each day to support his family. The matriarch evidently does not drive home and support the value of working hard in school and the advantages it brings down the road. They simply don’t invest in themselves. They grow up in an environment where they think everyone owes them something rather than putting forth the effort to improve themselves. Unfortunately, their long run planning horizon seems to be a few days rather than years. True, there are many exceptions to all of this, but until I see the black leaders point to their own house and say: “We have a problem and it is us” instead of playing the I’m-a-victim card all the time, I see no way for them to improve their lot in life.
What’s the point in education and self-improvement (i.e., acting White) when the benevolent Federal government will provide you with just enough to live on each month?
The author makes some valid points and then proceeds to fail in her conclusions which are more of the same old racist nonsense about black children needing to be educated by those who look like them.
The race hucksters failed.
In the ‘60s, being racist was over, in our world. And for kids that was easy. The instruction was to ignore bigoted rants from ignorant people and carry on.
I never knew true racist lifestyle until as an adult I worked in Manhattan among SEIU members, blacks, who came from, mostly Brooklyn and the Bronx. The hatred they had for me for being white, the sabotage and hostility, that was catered to by the administration of the organization was unacceptable.
Among more educated people, blacks, it was non existent.
The hucksters, union bosses, ditto but a little less out of control, in the military. And not a problem among the educated.
They get taken advantage of, their hatred stoked by the Sharptons and his wannabes.
There is not enough understanding, giveaways, benefits and overturning of the entire judicial system that will satisfy.
Only the reasonable can resist the race baiting that these people stoke.
But no amount of desegregation has proven effective. Just the Hucksters getting air time and wealth.
Ghetto culture failed black children
the idea that studying is for white people failed black children
It must have been because blacks were targeted,
but it has been a slight mystery why the welfare state / Grate Society
hurt the black family more than the general population
(though we’re catching up in the bastardity/divorce rate).
at my public highschool 96% went to college
I cannot tell you how many doctors, lawyers etc came out of my high school, but it was a lot. I will also tell you this: most kids lived in a 20,000 dollar house and didn’t have a car in high school and worked for their spending money.
It failed everyone.
An immediate result of school integration: 40,000 black teachers lost their jobs
Black school administrators, including principals, in 11 states lost their jobs
Black Guidance Counselors lost their jobs.
The author points out that this robbed black students of neighborhood role models. Instead of higher expectations, they were placed in an integrated situation where there were much lower expectations.
Ironically, "urban" education is now completely in the hands of African-American Superintendents, principals, and staffs who are simply not delivering the goods. Trayvon? a third Grade reading level. Michael, on his way to "college" with a record of criminally aggressive behaviour... semi-feral youth in every major city who can neither read nor write ... and yet hold worthless diplomas due to "social promotion."
A relative of mine ran the Head Start Program for a fairly large northern city. A woman of vast experience who had literally taught many thousands of children to read and write was asked to resign for pointing out to the Affirmative Action Appointees in her charge that there was no reason why black children could not learn to read and write ... except that the teachers were not doing their jobs properly, and in many cases, not at all. Their primary failing her her opinion, not maintaining basic discipline and thus not winning the respect of their students.
It is also fair to point out that in the era of somewhat successful segregated education, there was not the problem of 80%+ black bastardy in the African-American community, so that family influence was more available.
Maybe old President Ike said it best:
Parents of black children failed black children.
I know of a white teacher who graduated from school in about the 1970’s and insisted on teaching in a black school. She wanted to help black students. One of her students was failing badly and she wanted the child to repeat his grade.
When the student’s mother complained to the black principal, the teacher was threatened with dismissal.
The student was promoted to the next grade without having learned enough.
The teacher had learned her lesson. She transferred to a white school.
They learned to be victims instead of learning to take their advantages, except for a very notable number.
vaudine
ALL educators should have high expectations for ALL of their students.
Since the federal DOE was formed during the Carter administration, and the NEA as gained dictatorial powers over our public school systems, high expectations by educators have declined precipitously - for ALL students.
So, no, school integration did not fail black students, the federal government and the National Education Association have failed ALL children
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