Why do precious few adults admit the truth out loud? Because in America the taboo against questioning the current orthodoxy on race is too strong and the price is too high. What is failing our most vulnerable populations is the lack of political will to acknowledge and solve the real problems. The first step is to change the ”anti-discrimination” laws that breed anti-social behavior. Disruptive students must be removed from the classroom, not to punish them but to protect the majority of students who want to learn.
Fully agree. I attended a high school in the late sixties (Class of 1970 here) which had mostly whites but significant minorities of Mexicans and Native Americans but no blacks. The Mexicans were largely integrated but they tended not to be that interested in education. The Native Americans self-segregated and harassed whites whenever they could. They were even less interested in higher education and the tribal leaders encouraged that attitude because, I suspect, they didn’t want the kids to leave the reservation. During the seventies, serial suicides swept among my former classmates on the reservation. Tragedy all around. I did have one Native American friend but she was not of the local tribe and had been adopted by a white family. She did fine.