Bravo to the father.
The most entrenched area of systemic racism is not where it is said to be. It is the inner city school systems of America. These inner city schools are allowed to continue operating with 50%+ dropout rates and 3rd grade reading scores in grade 12. These districts are run by the same people who demand equity in all t…
The most entrenched area of systemic racism is not where it is said to be. It is the inner city school systems of America. These inner city schools are allowed to continue operating with 50%+ dropout rates and 3rd grade reading scores in grade 12. These districts are run by the same people who demand equity in all things while demanding little of themselves.
These districts teach the kids to blame people they never met for all past and future problems. These are the same people for whom “Choice” is gospel in that other facet of life; but who refuse to give caring parents the choice of a better education for the kids they choose to have. The funders of the equity pushers and race baiters happen to have a stake in the education status quo. Another school year will end soon and the failing inner city schools will graduate yet another massive class of kids with a future darker than their very dark past. Many will die on the streets they were condemned to live for life because we had a difficult choice and chose the status quo. Shame on us.
Poor parents want a choice. Wealthy parents have a choice. This father is so very lucky. He has common sense and enough money to send his lucky daughter to another school. Forcing poor children into failing schools is child abuse. These abused children eventually grow up embittered by the deprivation and abuse they experience on a daily basis. The fear and anger stay with you the rest of your life. Poverty is a life sentence and frequently a death sentence. Education can change that. Pouring more money into a failing system has never been shown to work. Giving poor parents the freedom to move their kids the way wealthy parents are able to would work. But it will take years as it took years of failure to get where we are.
Calling Math and Shakespeare racist will do nothing for these kids. Studying Math and literature and History and logic and religion and languages prepare you for adulthood. Graduating kids without exposure to civilization’s great thinkers releases them into the meat grinder of a subsistence existence. A good education is exercise for the brain. Being exposed to these areas of study teach you how to think by showing you great thinkers at work.
Bravo to the father.
The most entrenched area of systemic racism is not where it is said to be. It is the inner city school systems of America. These inner city schools are allowed to continue operating with 50%+ dropout rates and 3rd grade reading scores in grade 12. These districts are run by the same people who demand equity in all things while demanding little of themselves.
These districts teach the kids to blame people they never met for all past and future problems. These are the same people for whom “Choice” is gospel in that other facet of life; but who refuse to give caring parents the choice of a better education for the kids they choose to have. The funders of the equity pushers and race baiters happen to have a stake in the education status quo. Another school year will end soon and the failing inner city schools will graduate yet another massive class of kids with a future darker than their very dark past. Many will die on the streets they were condemned to live for life because we had a difficult choice and chose the status quo. Shame on us.
Poor parents want a choice. Wealthy parents have a choice. This father is so very lucky. He has common sense and enough money to send his lucky daughter to another school. Forcing poor children into failing schools is child abuse. These abused children eventually grow up embittered by the deprivation and abuse they experience on a daily basis. The fear and anger stay with you the rest of your life. Poverty is a life sentence and frequently a death sentence. Education can change that. Pouring more money into a failing system has never been shown to work. Giving poor parents the freedom to move their kids the way wealthy parents are able to would work. But it will take years as it took years of failure to get where we are.
Calling Math and Shakespeare racist will do nothing for these kids. Studying Math and literature and History and logic and religion and languages prepare you for adulthood. Graduating kids without exposure to civilization’s great thinkers releases them into the meat grinder of a subsistence existence. A good education is exercise for the brain. Being exposed to these areas of study teach you how to think by showing you great thinkers at work.
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This is so true.
Spot on target.