Sunalmighty
Superstar
a lot of folks cant afford those programs real talk
BTW i commend you on that, what programs do you have your children in?
Only 17% of Black 12th graders nationally are proficient in literacy.
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BTW i commend you on that, what programs do you have your children in?
Field Marshall Bradley
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Even if you double that number its...barely 40%
Lets be honest...with the loss of affirmative action we're in for a MAJOR deficient but... what it takes to get out of that
Affirmative action has never been awarded to anyone who was barely literate. If a black person was awarded affirmative action, they were qualified to begin with
didn’t even think about this
12% though bruh? If they said like 30-46% cool..BUT 12?! Ain’t no fukkin way
Fam, 40% is appalling
Silver Surfer
Veteran
Racism / Race Baiting
The culture....
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Don’t fall for this bullshyt. Do y’all honestly believe just 12% of black high school kids are literate?!
Like >20% of Black high school seniors go to college. Something seems off though I don't doubt huge parts of our community have reading comprehension issues.
Fill Collins
I didn't mean to verge!
There really ain't, it starts at home, my parents left books out in the open, you don't even need to buy books anymore
We had Levar Burton on Reading Rainbow too, ppl don't know how encouraging that was, at least to me as a jit
Don't believe everything you read. I know what I see in real life, and I don't see 5 in 6 kids having the deficiencies they tell us we have. Go outside and talk to real people.
Sunalmighty
Superstar
a lot of comprehension issues stem from not being able to focus.
that can either be environment related
or
do you guys think that some of these kids have issues with ADD, and have gone unnoticed due to lack of medical coverage?
Silver Surfer
Veteran
The bar for college is not high
what do you think sports scholarships were?
I Really Mean It
Veteran
Have you looked at the state of the black community? What it considers entertaining? The people our children look up to? There is practically zero critical thinking being exercised by black people. We are uneducated zombies, by and large, drones programmed to do what massa has inputted in our brains. Open your eyes and stop being in denial.
Don’t fall for this bullshyt. Do y’all honestly believe just 12% of black high school kids are literate?!
Consistently staring at a phone screen will f*ck up your attention span. Concentration because extremely difficult if your trying to block out hours of tic-tok videos dancing around your head.
Voice of Reason
Veteran
Shut up c00n!!
Native Americans are doing just as badly, they are at 17% proficient
Its a problem of structural entrenched racism that has caused a rot.
Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
Isn't this based on standardized testing?
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
See here: NAEP Reading: National Achievement-Level Results
NAEP has four levels: Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced
Proficient is a level of mastery. Black folks are lowest but at 17%, not 12%, though it isn't much better. But NAEP Proficient is not literacy.
Only 50% of Asians and 47% of Whites achieved NAEP Proficient for comparison. Along with us Native Americans were at 23% and Hispanics at 25%.
There is a problem though in 50% of Blacks are Below Basic and only 1% are advanced. Compare that with 10% of Whites and 13% of Asians at Advanced and only 21% of Whites below basic. So yeah, for half of us basic functional literacy is tentative.
What is crazier is 30 years ago in 1992 only 39% of Black people were below Basic so shyt is going downhill.
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