Give me a break. You saw the hundreds of parents who were trying to get their kids in the school - these poor, uneucated people are not in much position to fix the issue alone.
My parents are not engineers. My mom is a house-wife turned cafeteria cook and my father was a car salesman. By the time I was in 6th grade I was doing school work above my parent's level.
The way they helped me was by encouraging me. That is how the culture can change. More parental encouragement (not helicopter parents, that is the other extreme)
This is part of the informationm gap I'm referring to when people who had a lot better system and situation sit back and point fingers at the poor.
Whites benefit generally from a better situation, a better system, the advantage of generations of not being held back by racist policies, and you ignore that no matter how many times I mention it.
And the way that will change is a change in culture surrounding education and that needs to be done by those who have the most face-time with the students, by those that have the power to encourage, by those who are raising them.
$5,000 a year. Could it much cllearer when they talk about how cheap that is compared to not doing it?
During the last century we did a lot of investing for whites but not as much for blacks.
I am not sure where 5000 per student comes from. I saw $76000000 a year total funding. With 10,000 students (which I believe was the figured number that they wish to cater to) that comes out to around $7600 per student, which is awfully close to my former districts $8500 per year (2005-2006) per student. This is done on a total funding basis for our disctrict.
However, I notice that they had ~250 spots open for kindergarten. That places the total students at ~3250 (assuming all class sizes are the same). Now taking a look at that funding, 76000000 / 3250 = ~$23,000 dollars per student per year. Now I know not all of that may go directly into the students, but I am using the same metrics as my former school district.
Yes, poor, poorly educated parents aren't able to all homeschool their kids as the solution. You are surprised by this?
Read above. I was not homeschooled. I was taught the value of being educated. The prospects of doing well in school. These are the topics parents can teach about.
I'd like to put you in the situation of a poor black parent, culturally, geographically, education, for a bit and then let you post again. Stop pointing fingfers and try to understand the situation a bit and what helps.
I am understanding the situation. I am looking at it from a "how do we fix this" not a "how much pity do we need" way. Bill Cosby agrees with my sentiment even.
Yes, poor Asians on average seem to do better than poor blacks at providing one part of the environment for their children to get better educations. That's not an answer - 'blacks are just worse' - it's a question - 'why is that and what can help with it'? The answer IMO includes the effects of the long history of cultural discsimination that whites tend not to have a clue about. It's not normally part of what they're taught, of the normal political debate, and so they don't get it.
Once again, the cultural attitudes of blacks towards education needs to improve if we wish to see an improvement in the metrics of their eduction
But again, I appreciate you watching the video at all, it does help the discussion.
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