Only 17% of Black 12th graders nationally are proficient in literacy.

[Wildin]

Not saying hip hop is the cause but its a factor in this mess.

I'm placing the blame squarely on these c00ns.



Until black men and black culture let go of the stranglehold Hip Hop music has on us, nothing will change.

So another more worrisome statistic I read, regarding buying power, which affects things such as party and political support:

Latinx Buying Power: $2.5 trillion
Black Buying Power: $1.6 trillion
Asian Buying Power: $1.3 trillion

Growth rate:

Thirty years of change: Consumer buying power is more diverse than ever

UGA economist has charted the explosive growth of Hispanic, African American and Asian American markets since 1990.

news.uga.edu

Asians are the smallest minority group in the nation, they should not be about to lap and it's highly worrisome that they are, and not only in states like California.

If these kids can't shape up it ain't looking good straight up. Too much influence by people like Kai Cenat over the community.

def don't help, but it's not just the music. It's our culture that is portrayed in all media that needs to be examined.

i know it's not just us having to deal with social media clout chasing and attention whoring, but again we are not in the position to fall behind. Combine that with the image/culture and no balance portrayed with our people and we're in the state we are now.

music is the corner stone of the culture. And for kids its a much larger part of their life than we care to admit. What can you expect from a culture when sexy red is being invited to perform at black high schools? That's who they are propping up as successful and something to aspire too for black kids. There are 100 female rappers out now but name 1 not rapping about their coochie?

Back in the 90s even gangsta rappers were literate. Ice cube etc.. Lyricism and being a wordsmith was a badge of honor. 2pac was only 25 when he died. All that thought provoking music of his was made while a kid. Nas was 17 when he started illimatic. Now these kids are listening to functioning drug addicts that might be autistic like young boy and lil baby etc. They cant even string words together coherently in a interview much less in their music and we wonder why the kids are illiterate.

We gotta stop making excuses and blaming him hop, rap, videogames, social media, porn, sports for all of our shortcomings the rest of the country and the world has access to the same music, videogames, movies, porn as us. And they arent failing like we are. Whether in primary or secondary education, home ownership, business ownership, incarceration rates, etc.

Hell they buy more of it than we do too! They buy more rap music, spend more on videogames I know of a white kid who's parents have spend over 3g on Roblox and eventually fortnite, they go to more movies in theaters and have more subscription packages. They generally watch more sports and are significantly more likely to attend games in person (MLB, NFL, NBA) than black people.

So finding something different to point the finger at isnt going to uncover a source of the issue.

Parent-Teacher Conferences should be Mandatory in Schools, or at least mandatory communication between Parents and Teachers. Teachers also need to face harsher disciplinary actions if too many students are failing or below their Grade Levels. And kids need to be given a dose of reality and shown the many examples of what happens when you don't take your education seriously, which has a huge effect on their Lives.

Parent teacher conferences don't mean anything in 2024. They literally did them on zoom for a couple of years.

It's 2024 not 1994, not 1984. A kid doesn't have to wait for the mailman to come and race home from school before his parents get there to hide a report card or progress report. He doesn't have to delete a message off the answering machine and delete the call from the caller id.

Schools and teachers are in 24/7 communication with parents. They can call, text, schools even have their own app portals where parents can log in and receive direct messages, see grades and test scores in real time, see what events are coming up, etc.

If you are a stay at home parent, or you really like children, or wanted to be a teach but failed, it's completely fine to be on the pta, or be a room mom, or volunteer at the kids school and all of that. But if you just take your kid to school and drop them off that doesn't make you any less of a parent.

It has to be 50/50. The school has to provide the lesson. Whether it's multiplication tables, a lesson on Mesopotamia, George Washington, electricity, they have to provide. And as a parent you have to review and reinforce.

Reading a bunch of shyt, just to read ain't gonna help. If you tell your kid to read for an hour and they read Garfield. That ain't gonna help. They have to do lessons relative to what they are learning. Doing multiplication tables when they are working on geometric shapes, and geometry ain't going to help them know what the radius or diameter is.

 

[Pazzy]

Maybe its me but i dont believe those stats. they are always trying to downplay black peoples intelligence to the point that people REALLY believe that shyt. Stop looking for the enemy to show your greatness because they want to cripple you psychologically by showing you and making you believe that you are less than. You see how theyre throwing these bullshyt stats saying 17%. Thats purposely done and bullshyt lies. Understand of what controlling your image also has to do with how you think when it comes how you view blackness, black people, and yourself if you are black. Yall are so quick to believe that shyt too because subconciously you share the same views about black people being inferior like these white supremacists do. I didnt see anybody questioning how they conducted the research to come up with those stats. Yall need to question everything.

 

[How Sway?]

I'm not surprised. Half these young brehs seem to end every sentence with the phrases "type shyt" or "on gang" as if they're punctuation marks.

 

[Premeditated]

how is this even possible

did they get rid of the HS exit exam?

how is this logically possible

 

[Stuntone]

Swag and image > Literacy in Hiphop and the Black Community

Single mothers teaching their kids to be label whores and how to stunt on IG.

 

[3rdWorld]

People still expect the public school system to raise their kids for them..they just dump them there and expect an intellectual to somehow pop out.

No wonder every youth wants to be some sort of rapper..they dont even have the sense to realize its millions of them already and theyre playing a losing game

 

[UpNext]

Maybe its me but i dont believe those stats. they are always trying to downplay black peoples intelligence to the point that people REALLY believe that shyt. Stop looking for the enemy to show your greatness because they want to cripple you psychologically by showing you and making you believe that you are less than. You see how theyre throwing these bullshyt stats saying 17%. Thats purposely done and bullshyt lies. Understand of what controlling your image also has to do with how you think when it comes how you view blackness, black people, and yourself if you are black. Yall are so quick to believe that shyt too because subconciously you share the same views about black people being inferior like these white supremacists do. I didnt see anybody questioning how they conducted the research to come up with those stats. Yall need to question everything.

Nah these numbers are definitely believable. Just think of all the shillbrehs who read any post critical of the Democratic party and somehow comprehend it as some kind of support for MAGA.


They'd definitely fall in that 83%.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Maybe its me but i dont believe those stats. they are always trying to downplay black peoples intelligence to the point that people REALLY believe that shyt. Stop looking for the enemy to show your greatness because they want to cripple you psychologically by showing you and making you believe that you are less than. You see how theyre throwing these bullshyt stats saying 17%. Thats purposely done and bullshyt lies. Understand of what controlling your image also has to do with how you think when it comes how you view blackness, black people, and yourself if you are black. Yall are so quick to believe that shyt too because subconciously you share the same views about black people being inferior like these white supremacists do. I didnt see anybody questioning how they conducted the research to come up with those stats. Yall need to question everything.

These reports are real .

1000%.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Some people children don't take education seriously because their parents were too busy running the streets tryna create a reputation 4 themselves.

Whole time thier child is barely literate.
Smh and I can tell when I interact with people online that illiteracy has been a big concern for decades now

 

[MeachTheMonster]

These reports are real .

1000%.

The reports are “real”

But this is a measure of them being able to get a certain score on a standardized test. Not just generally being able to read and comprehend.

There’s lots a reasons a kid migh not do great on these tests. Also probably lots of them scored very close to “proficient”

Stories like this are misleading and mostly shared to illicit a negative response/view of black people

 

[King Poetic]

Go look at that situation in Atlanta a few years back where school administrators/teachers was pushing a lot of these kids through from one grade to the next and the kid could barely read or do math

Then u have parents themselves who has basic education and they too lazy to handle responsibility and accountability for their children..

 

[Kasgoinjail]

The reports are “real”

But this is a measure of them being able to get a certain score on a standardized test. Not just generally being able to read and comprehend.

There’s lots a reasons a kid migh not do great on these tests. Also probably lots of them scored very close to “proficient”

Stories like this are misleading and mostly shared to illicit a negative response/view of black people

As an SEN teacher
I can honestly say
Many children are on the autistic spectrum undiagnosed
Many children have mild dyslexia undiagnosed

So many factors Important to take into consideration concerning a child's educational development


Parents should be more Viligent ()

 

[Lambent55]

It's possible someone can read "very well", but have poor reading comprehension. That would cause them to have low scores in literacy.

I specifically point that out because it's a pain in the ass to communicate with someone who has poor reading comprehension, over the internet or email.

Have y'all ever had someone completely misunderstand something you've typed on here, and refuse to accept your explanation when you've tried to clear the air?

 

[Uachet]

I believe the stats. Years of school administrators pushing the problem down the line, by passing on to the next level children who fail and can't read and comprehend the content at their grade level. With too many school systems worried more about attendance rates and graduation stats, than they are math competency and literacy + comprehension rates.

Yet, even with all of that being considered, the true culprits in all of this are the parents. If the parents did not allow their child to move on without the skill-set needed to be successful, the schools would not get away with doing it. If the parents cared about how prepared their children are for adulthood, then their children would be literate and competent in math no matter how poor the school in their area is.

For most children, they do not take anything seriously that the adults in their lives do not consider important. Only a few children are self-aware and forward thinking enough to overcome the hurdle of having a school system that doesn't care about how competent they are in basic math and literacy; while also having parents who are so self-absorbed that they do not take the time to check on how their children are doing in between progress reports. So many fall through the cracks, because these days, both circumstances occur too regularly here in the US.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

I believe the stats. Years of school administrators pushing the problem down the line, by passing on to the next level children who fail and can't read and comprehend the content at their grade level. With too many school systems worried more about attendance rates and graduation stats, than they are math competency and literacy + comprehension rates.

Yet, even with all of that being considered, the true culprits in all of this are the parents. If the parents did not allow their child to move on without the skill-set needed to be successful, the schools would not get away with doing it. If the parents cared about how prepared their children are for adulthood, then their children would be literate and competent in math no matter how poor the school in their area is.

For most children, they do not take anything seriously that the adults in their lives do not consider important. Only a few children are self-aware and forward thinking enough to overcome the hurdle of having a school system that doesn't care about how competent they are in basic math and literacy; while also having parents who are so self-absorbed that they do not take the time to check on how their children are doing in between progress reports. So many fall through the cracks, because these days, both circumstances occur too regularly here in the US.

How many parents still read their children a bed time story every night?

A lot of these mothers (and fathers tbh) are busy stripping or creating 'content' at their child's bedtime hour.