Good read, we need more of this mentality in the black community....
That ain't keeping it real
As a parent I would do this, my boys and girl are in school and quite honestly it's sad. They are all dong extremely well and if anything is holding them back it's the lack of quality education. Sending 3 to private school isn't economically feasible so we gotta do "side" stuff, which we would do anyways but essentially we are getting little to no help from the school.
I shyt you not my 9 year old learned MAYBE 2 new concepts in school this year IN school. He left 2nd grade STARTING to do multiplication, he left 3rd grade STARTING to do multiplication, if not for his HOME work, he'd havbe learned nothing.
If you're not teaching your kids OUTSIDE of normal school then they are NOT, i repeat NOT, going to reach their potential.
we do have it... in African immigrants but they get made fun of for being or white washed "square"
but this is what it takes to make it, this is what the Asians do. It's not a secret just a lack of effort. Most ignorant parents seem to think that they just send kids to school and that is their whole involvement in the education.
I don't know how to feel about this. One one hand I'm glad to see black youths succeeding and on another hand I can't help but feel like people are acting like its some sort of great feat for blacks to encourage their children to succeed in school as if its something that is inherently difficult for blacks to do. You're supposed to encourage your kids to study, you're supposed to be there for them. That's a requirement for being a parent. When you're thinking about having kids you should be thinking about how you will create an environment that facilitates learning and how you'll make time to read with them and cultivate the curiosity and desire for knowledge that kids naturally have so they actually enjoy learning new things and being creative. You shouldn't be patted on the back for doing what you're supposed to do. I feel like articles like this patronize blacks a little bit.
Major props to the parents for wanting their kids to do better though, no hate being thrown their way and I do think that its important for positive images of black youths to be shown in order to counter these negative images and to raise the self esteem of people of colour.
Editors note: Why would someone one star this thread?
