Again, I could care less how people talk as long as they are literate, can understand written directions, do basic math. It seems that the education system is failing a lot of people with these simple things.
How many people are they failing? And as a percent of the total, how has it changed by year? Are you saying it is getting worse? Because I gave you direct evidence that it is not, no matter how much people you 'know' 'feel' it is in their 'experience'.
Graduation rates increasing is a good thing and is somewhat unrelated to the point that despite domestic test scores increasing, people are graduating less educated, less literate, and less numerically inclined. This is proven by international testing standards such as pisa.
You have any link to those stats? Because just saying things doesn't make them true.
Number of teachers or total funding would be a better metric but sorry I skipped it, same with the trailer park example. In these cases I agree with you, nuff said. I have to do more research on the number of deaths in trailer parks and rural communities but I agree that school systems in the citied are horribly mismanaged and hurting bad due to funding and brain drain.
Defiantly those stats would also be a big factor, but you should understand that walking into a school with on average has around 5,000 students is vastly different in the approach of being in a school with a few hundred kids.
And you shouldn't slip in something acting like I said it, that is very troll-esque and I am trying to play nice and don't want to fall into responding to things like that if you are actually trying to have a conversation and are not just trolling my time.
Segregation of the smart from the less smart. Not to be confused with the advantaged from the less advantaged. Until recently anyone could go to new yorks most prestigious schools just by writing a test and so a little bit more than 15% of the student body at some schools like colombia are made up of disadvantaged students who can excel. This process has just been declared racist. Who is winning here?
Yeah, unfortunately it is too closely linked to have what you would consider 'smart' from 'advantaged'. I would want to look into what it is that you think is happening before I took an opinion on it.
A lot of these things get described in a way that doesn't reflect on reality.
Boo hoo. Every race and every inch of the earth has been conquered many times over.
Just curious, exactly which tribes have treaties and which treaties cover what? Wouldn't want to remunerate the wrong natives now would we. Which of those tribes had treaties with other tribes and how should we solve this issue. How does this apply to slavery? Can we do like french and ask them to pay us reparations for their freedom? Also, I don't see much outrage over china breaking it's treaty obligations with Hong Kong, what's up with that?
Im sure if you were that curious you could research treaties of the country to your south. Where are you getting any link from genocide of the Native Americans to slavery?
And who is 'we'?
These are all good things. It is a small subset that aims to tear others down I guess, stuff like whole word pronunciation, the banning of streaming and aptitude testing, no child left behind laws, etc.
Again it doesn't tear others down when others are helped. This whole argument is designed to scare people into thinking that something is going to be taken away from them. It is a bullshit line of thinking that racists like to push.
It is black people that make their streets unsafe by not working with the cops and turning in their criminals. It is black people promoting fatherlessness and gangs to other black people, and it is black students disrupting other black students. This is what I meant by neighbours taking opportunities away from neighbours.
Right, so victim blaming in the community and racist logic about students.
How about you also take some time to consider that part earlier with 2200 cops in a 160 square mile city vs 160 cops in a 600 square mile radius. Also the facts around how redlining and mortgage practices stopped these communities from being able to move out of the cities when they could have taken advantage of the post ww2 boom, and how the high population and purposefully kept low income levels of the cities we stuffed people in causing a increase in crime rates.
Also when you look at those trailer park crime stats, look up how many police calls they have vs the surrounding towns they are in and when start to think about what the related rates would be to city states, how poverty and proximity might be a driving factor in a lot of crime you are wrongly associating with skin color.
How do you expect to end racism with racist policies? How about classist policies, we don't give food stamps or welfare to the rich. We could use free daycare for working mothers, etc.
Racist policies are ones that actively hurt a race of people. It is not a racist policy if it is aimed at helping a portion of our society that have been purposefully kept out of achieving the same level of economic success until much too recently.
Wealthy white people have access to many more benefits offered by our economy and have for a very long time. It is not racist to help other races, that is racist logic.
I agree about daycare/early education too. And not just for mothers (that would be sexist) as single fathers also would have the same struggles with being a single parent.
Because of yesterday's racism, yes. But the problems we need to solve are not racist in and of themselves. I feel the hick is probably just as disadvantaged when it comes to success as the inner city person. I do feel like the problems stated above need to be achieved through grassroots movement and not by throwing money at it - it's why they can't get africans to maintain a well so they don't die from dysentery, nobody cares because it's not their baby. Black people need to own their problems and deal with them - and they are, we see progress. Responsible stable families will beget more responsible stable families and eventually economic and opportunic equality.
There are different programs aimed at different parts of our society. One thing racists don't like to talk about is the fact that white people in America use more of the social safety net than minority communities do.
And just wow at the racism that is dripping for your african remark. We can't get white people in America to wear a mask to help keep everyones exposure to the virus as low as possible when they work with the public.
And the sooner we start helping people to easily gain as much success as possible in our nation we get to 100% of our population working at their full potential the better.
The spending money troll on this is just ignoring the facts that this would be the best investment we can do as a nation.
Edit: lmao, I didn't mean the math as a problem for you to solve, the system obviously didn't fail you, but as an example of how many youth aren't getting the skills they need for even the most basic of jobs such as moving boxes around. I will try to take s picture of our cleaners SOP binder tomorrow, it is several hundred pages of procedures they are supposed to follow to the letter, never mind the beast that is msds.
Funny enough it did fail me, I only had people on me with school to stay eligible to play sports, if it wasn't for that I would have never graduated. When I went to college I left in my second year with a 1.6 GPA. My highest math in high school had four seventh graders in it and I was a senior.
Later on I went back and killed it.
If I was a little darker, and got profiled a lot more often, or was stuck in a school with 5,000 other kids might not have stood out enough for a teacher to care enough to talk me into playing sports, or a community around me that helped me with the support I needed. Who knows I might have had a record and never gotten the opportunity to use the federal loans we have here to get my education funded while I worked to gain my degrees.
Racism impact is still very much being felt in our minority communities. Pretending otherwise is just being willfully ignorant.
It is late, sorry if some of this didn't make sense, I will re-read in the morning.
