How to Fix the Education Divide

What about parents, parents, parents? Reply

oh no, it's not EVER the parents fault..it's all the schools and the white people, I can't count how many times in school I have seen ENGLISH 1301 WHITE VERSION, BLACK VERSION, CHINESE VERSION, HISPANIC VERSION, Ect.......if all the books are the same for everybody at the very begining, and remain so throughout the entire curriculum then the big difference is????....MY daughter is a straight A student, why because she is white?.....NO...because I work my butt off to support my family, so my wife can spend the time needed to (just an expression folks...not literally) beat the education into my daughter....Parents raising their kids is where it starts....Poor decisions return poor results......I chose not to do drugs, not to drink excessively, and did 4 years in the NAVY, and they payed for my education when I got out, and thats how I got started, by good decisions......My daddy wasn't rich either, so any excuse about *well we aint rich like yall * is bullsh**....first and foremost, it's the parents...a mother of 5 welfare crack smoking parent will not likely have children that grow up to be doctors and lawers...A single parent of 5 or more that strives to keep themself clean and works hard to get their kids educated, and takes charge of the familly, and not claim victim status, on the otherhand may have good results parents parents parents, as atris999 said...riff Reply

The sorry state of black education in this country is the direct result of Jim Crow and white flight combined with local--as opposed to federal--funding and control of schools. To say otherwise--to generalize about black parents--is not only ignorant but racist. Racist in much the same way the implementers of American apartheid were racist. Reply