Only 17% Of Black Students In Maryland School District Scored Proficient In Math

[#1 pick]

This is embarrassing. I came from the PG public schools and know plenty of us who were great students in elementary, middle and high school and ended up doctors and engineers etc. But even as a kid I wasn't cool with how they separated us in the 3rd grade between "Talented and Gifted" and "Comprehensive" and just left us on that track for the rest of our career. I guess this is the result...we gotta do something about this

This is in very C tier school system. Not just PG County. The difference is, they put 70 to 80% of Blacks in the bullshyt and there is no hard work jobs readily available for Black youth like there is for white folks

 

[ogc163]

Some good books for those with children in here...

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

That’s sad to see, especially counties closer to the DMV. Maryland has too many, at least economically, decent to above average black communities to have the same abysmal numbers as the rest of the US. But shows that money (a lot of the households simply lucked into high paying government jobs) doesn’t change social norms, values and engagement.

 

[BigMan]

That’s sad to see, especially counties closer to the DMV. Maryland has too many, at least economically, decent to above average black communities to have the same abysmal numbers as the rest of the US. But shows that money (a lot of the households simply lucked into high paying government jobs) doesn’t change social norms, values and engagement.

we need to have a real conversation about why the black middle class is underachieving. it'll never happen on the coli tho

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

we need to have a real conversation about why the black middle class is underachieving. it'll never happen on the coli tho

No, it won’t. Anytime you mention some of the real issues we perpetuate in our own community, some dap fishing “militants” start screaming “but white supremacy” and “c00n”.

 

[ahdsend]

During segregation, we USED to know what worked.

After the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the complete breakdown of the cohesive two-parent black family, and the marketed culture of the Crack Trade, successful strategies for youth achievement were all but abandoned.

Its time to take a look backwards, in order to move forward.

"Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. These enormous challenges did not stop the local community from rallying for the cause of educating its children. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary faculty: one early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, almost all the teachers had graduate degrees, and several earned PhDs—all extraordinary achievements given the Jim Crow laws of the times.

Over the school’s first eighty years, these teachers developed generations of highly educated, high-achieving African Americans, groundbreakers that included the first black member of a presidential cabinet, the first black graduate of the US Naval Academy, the first black army general, the creator of the modern blood bank, the first black state attorney general, the legal mastermind behind school desegregation, and hundreds of educators.

By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college.

Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math."

dr. john henrik clarke kept it 100, and he would know cuz he was a grown man before world war 2.. he saw black society before AND after "integration"...


"...in the Civil Rights Movement we reached for the wrong things. We thought the thing to be is to be like them, when we had a higher standard of morality than them. Why be like them? Why not set an example and let them be like you? We wanted to be close to them. We wanted our children to sit next to them and soak up education through osmosis and our children got cut to pieces. Many of our children could run rings around them educationally. Then why did they go to these white schools and got dumbed up and confused? We should have given our children strength and confidence when they went to school..."


"I must make a deeper assessment of the civil rights movement, when we began to dismantle the institutions in the black community and run toward everything white. When we got into the the NAACP syndrome, in that bag of worms called integration, that we should have never asked for. Had we asked for desegregation and justice we could integrate on our own terms or not integrate at all. You do not integrate institutions that hold you together culturally and spiritually. You can welcome them into your institutions but you do not change the rules to suit them."


"Let's go back and look at that period when the civil rights movement began to lose it's steam. When those who intended to control it began to get their acts together and systematically buy it off or destroy it. The high ceremonial point was the march on Washington. A picnic on the grass, a publicity, media miracle that achieved absolutely nothing...You got the illusion that we were moving forward but we were conceding something...when Kennedy could not control the march, he integrated it"


"...We kept asking for change but all some people wanted was entry in their master's house"


"We have to stop crying for other people's acceptance and...accept our selves and build ourselves and strengthen ourselves, the question is not whether they will accept us but whether we will accept them and on what terms."


"No one should call for black power unless someone has made up their minds on what you are going to do with it once you get it, beyond the slogan...We became a sloganizing people that substituted slogans for action. We shouted "black is beautiful"...the world is not ruled by beauty or blackness. The world is ruled by power."


"the passive resistance of the civil rights movement was sold as a way of life. A strategy is never a way of life. A strategy is something you use, the same as you use an orange, when the juice is gone you through it in the garbage can."

but not everyone back then supported it cuz they knew what would happen economically...


from 1964....


"Movie theaters, hotels, and restaurants appear to be the hardest hit."

lets u know what integration was really about for alotta them folks back then, white sexual access...

 

[el_oh_el]

Some good books for those with children in here...

I have a son in 5th grade thats an underachiever. Its hard as fukk to get him to understand the importance of giving it your all. He is a habitual half-asser (like his father). It shows in his grades. I have been wondering the best way to get him on track over these years. Im going to go over these books and have him read the ones I choose. Good lookin out, repped.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I can almost guarantee you that apart from school work, book reading is not stressed in black households; studies have shown that a persons amount of reading has a huge impact on cognitive tests. Talking to your kid and the number of different words a kid hears up to 3 yrs old is also critical. TV was shown to have the opposite effect and black folks watch 2 more hours than the national average Imagine a poorly educated single parent who always sits their child in front of a TV(They aren't the only ones who do this though).

I have a friend who does this. Alllows her kids to come home and play video games or watch endless hours of YouTube...I mean her 5 year old goes to sleep at like 11, just stays up watching bullshyt. WTH. I mean I never see these kids pick up a book to read, no documentaries or educational programs.

My family wasn’t strict about tv, at the same time my parents read to me...in fact, between how much I liked being read to and being the last kid, my mom made a cassette of her reading books and gave it to me at one point so I could have books read to me without bothering her ...I was also lucky enough to live next to my grandma who used to take me to goodwill and buy all sorts of used books on various topics including random used textbooks, I had supplemental math and reading activity books I’d come home and do, not a summer went by from 1st-10th grade that at least one of my summer activities wasn’t some learning/academic summer program...like you can’t just think 5 hours of school, half of which isn’t really learning, is enough to reinforce subjects.

 

[BigMan]

No, it won’t. Anytime you mention some of the real issues we perpetuate in our own community, some dap fishing “militants” start screaming “but white supremacy” and “c00n”.

or we'd get bogged down with one aspect

remember the threads shytting on suburban brehs?

 

[THE MACHINE]

when I found out my wife was pregnant I started reading about what universally leads to "success" and "happiness" and was determined to do whatever it takes to giver her an advantage. Fast forward 6 years and she's in first grade but tested into 4th grade math and reading . Funny thing is, it's easy to do.

I study with my daughters all the time, my oldest daughter was in the first grade and tested the highest in the school. My wife was ecstatic but I was like " thats not a good thing". My daughter is smart but that is a terrible sign for the school. There should not be a school in this country where a 1st grader has the highest reading and math scores. Now, the school only went up to 3rd grade last year because it's a new spanish immersion curriculum, but still.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

The teachers and parents will get the blame

Anything to ignore the fact that some of us are just innately dumb

we can accept the fact that not everyone can shoot like Jordan or Golf like Tiger

but when it comes to stuff like this it's somehow no longer innate, there are external factors. Genes are not a factor

Einstein's, Hawkings and Newton's genius had nothing to do with external factors (Hawkings in fact never studied at all and breezed through his classes)

These kids will receive the help they need once the narrative changes and we have a better understanding of human nature

Until then, they'll continue to suffer, we'll continue to have crime and unemployment

Being proficient doesn’t mean being the smartest shiniest 4.0 student. Spelling, reading and math don’t require you to be “smart” to master. It requires practice.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

dr. john henrik clarke kept it 100, and he would know cuz he was a grown man before world war 2.. he saw black society before AND after "integration"...


"...in the Civil Rights Movement we reached for the wrong things. We thought the thing to be is to be like them, when we had a higher standard of morality than them. Why be like them? Why not set an example and let them be like you? We wanted to be close to them. We wanted our children to sit next to them and soak up education through osmosis and our children got cut to pieces. Many of our children could run rings around them educationally. Then why did they go to these white schools and got dumbed up and confused? We should have given our children strength and confidence when they went to school..."


"I must make a deeper assessment of the civil rights movement, when we began to dismantle the institutions in the black community and run toward everything white. When we got into the the NAACP syndrome, in that bag of worms called integration, that we should have never asked for. Had we asked for desegregation and justice we could integrate on our own terms or not integrate at all. You do not integrate institutions that hold you together culturally and spiritually. You can welcome them into your institutions but you do not change the rules to suit them."


"Let's go back and look at that period when the civil rights movement began to lose it's steam. When those who intended to control it began to get their acts together and systematically buy it off or destroy it. The high ceremonial point was the march on Washington. A picnic on the grass, a publicity, media miracle that achieved absolutely nothing...You got the illusion that we were moving forward but we were conceding something...when Kennedy could not control the march, he integrated it"


"...We kept asking for change but all some people wanted was entry in their master's house"


"We have to stop crying for other people's acceptance and...accept our selves and build ourselves and strengthen ourselves, the question is not whether they will accept us but whether we will accept them and on what terms."


"No one should call for black power unless someone has made up their minds on what you are going to do with it once you get it, beyond the slogan...We became a sloganizing people that substituted slogans for action. We shouted "black is beautiful"...the world is not ruled by beauty or blackness. The world is ruled by power."


"the passive resistance of the civil rights movement was sold as a way of life. A strategy is never a way of life. A strategy is something you use, the same as you use an orange, when the juice is gone you through it in the garbage can."

but not everyone back then supported it cuz they knew what would happen economically...


from 1964....


"Movie theaters, hotels, and restaurants appear to be the hardest hit."

lets u know what integration was really about for alotta them folks back then, white sexual access...

You can't ever go wrong with a quote from Dr. Clarke or Dr. Ben. Thanks...

And this is just undiluted truth:

"No one should call for black power unless someone has made up their minds on what you are going to do with it once you get it, beyond the slogan...We became a sloganizing people that substituted slogans for action. We shouted "black is beautiful"...the world is not ruled by beauty or blackness. The world is ruled by power."

 

[ogc163]

I have a son in 5th grade thats an underachiever. Its hard as fukk to get him to understand the importance of giving it your all. He is a habitual half-asser (like his father). It shows in his grades. I have been wondering the best way to get him on track over these years. Im going to go over these books and have him read the ones I choose. Good lookin out, repped.

Another book I would recommend is...

Her argument is that leisure reading is a major factor in academic performance, if children only look at reading as a "job" it serves as a long term disincentive. Sad truth is even a large number of my Black white collar friends admit to not reading for leisure.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Perhaps the biggest reason is that those white and Asian kids have parents pushing them and making them study.

I did great in my math tests without studying during my time in public schools, but my bad studying habits killed me in my first two years of college. A lot of black parents will say they have high expectations for their child, but won't be active in making them be a great student.

Black people are just as smart as Asians and white people. We need to start taking our academics much more seriously if we want to truly compete though


Edit: Obviously, there are systemic reasons as well, but nothing beats taking a subject from school home with you and actually spending time to sharpen your skills and knowledge of it in your own way.

This...Nigerian immigrants in the US are one of the most educated groups. Black folks have the same aptitude for achievement, you just got to prioritize it.

White supremacy is the structure that keeps us in shytty schools, keeps us from achieving as much success with the same credentials, it’s not the reason we can’t avheive within our environments or master subjects. I get that going to a shyt school may not give you the same opportunities, at the same time going to a shyt school doesn’t keep you from mastering the subjects taught and getting good grades at the shyt school.

 

[el_oh_el]

Another book I would recommend is...

Her argument is that leisure reading is a major factor in academic performance, if children only look at reading as a "job" it serves as a long term disincentive. Sad truth is even a large number of my Black white collar friends admit to not reading for leisure.

That’s the main difference between my son and I. He has came up in this YouTube obsessed generation, and books are definitely looked at as a chore. I read books like there was no tomorrow. I need to be mor strict on his reading time/screen time balance. As of now, he gets 2 hours of screen time a weekday. I’ll check this one out as well.