Only 3% of Black students scored a 1200+ on the SAT

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34 ACT gang tapping in. Most folks are getting all kinds of ACT/SAT prep, tutors, studying, etc. I didn't even know schools offered prep courses until I got to college.

Plus even some black kids who did good the first time, you're encouraged to just sit on that number and not take the test again because you already "killed it" and "should be good anywhere". Other folks get taught to retake the exam regardless of what your first number was. Who knows if I would have done better or not retaking the exams, but nobody told me anything about having multiple chances at the exam and everyone was saying I was good after my first try. It is what it is.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

34 ACT gang tapping in. Most folks are getting all kinds of ACT/SAT prep, tutors, studying, etc. I didn't even know schools offered prep courses until I got to college.

Plus even some black kids who did good the first time, you're encouraged to just sit on that number and not take the test again because you already "killed it" and "should be good anywhere". Other folks get taught to retake the exam regardless of what your first number was. Who knows if I would have done better or not retaking the exams, but nobody told me anything about having multiple chances at the exam and everyone was saying I was good after my first try. It is what it is.

This is the other part of it.

How can we say SAT success has nothing to do with economics when the test itself cost money to take?

It doesn’t cost a lot of money it, it’s clear kids with more money have a better chance at success.

 

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This is the other part of it.

How can we say SAT success has nothing to do with economics when the test itself cost money to take?

It doesn’t cost a lot of money it, it’s clear kids with more money have a better chance at success.

Man in High School, I legitimately thought everyone was just taking the exams raw and only retaking because they got like a 8 or something. It's a bunch of bullshyt that goes into our numbers that nobody wants to talk about.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Most black kids don’t have the connections or opportunities your kid has.

Most white kids can tell a story just like yours.

The SAT is just another American tool of inequality as it currently stands.

There’s also a TON of free resources out there he showed me that we just don’t know about or take advantage of. A lot of it already available for free through the schools. Reach out to school guidance counselors. They really want to give out the info and help but many students and parents don’t ask or follow up on it. Caca be on it like white on rice. These more affluent cacs whose kids he works with get so much free money that we don’t take advantage of that it’s disgusting.

We can’t do better if we don’t know better. So we gotta put our people who don’t know on game.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Either way, it's not economics. To suggest poor kids, especially poor kids today, can't do well is laughable. Plenty of free resources. The problem is the parents and the culture.

100%

Don’t sleep on Khan.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

ITS NOT THE QUALITY OF SCHOOLS IT THE QUALITY AND CULTURE OF PARENTING.

The institution cannot parent your fukking children.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Got to start making folks take accountability. Get rid of all this c00nery and buff00nery. Stop propping up these Trump voting rappers.


The first step is having schools automatically send kids home when they act up. If a kid hadn't done their homework? Send them home. Zero tolerance. Make the parents take off work and deal with their offspring.

Also schools need to stop bending the knee to parents and their sorry woes. Principals, teachers, parents, and students need to get together and have a real discussion from day 1 on what's expected.

c00nery and buffoonery?

You one of the most prolific c00ns on this site, and you talking way too tough about education but be talking anti college shyt, I don’t necessarily care but some of yall posters need to start posting proof and credentials about what yall been doing education wise your whole life cause you one of the biggest perpetrators

 

[Gritsngravy]

In my opinion it’s a losing battle to think parents who barely got through school themselves to be able to instill a success plan for education into they kids, in some cases the grandparents can’t read

To improve education across the board where everyone is getting good education not just the people on the right school district maybe schools need to create some type of military school environment or something, I really think the state/feds need to take more control on schools across America, and certain changes need to be made, and adjustments need to be made with the teachers as well

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

c00nery and buffoonery?

You one of the most prolific c00ns on this site, and you talking way too tough about education but be talking anti college shyt, I don’t necessarily care but some of yall posters need to start posting proof and credentials about what yall been doing education wise your whole life cause you one of the biggest perpetrators

I'm not a c00n buddy, never was.

If you want to make excuses for why your kids will fail in life, then that's you.

My kids will be successful, no excuses not to.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

There’s also a TON of free resources out there he showed me that we just don’t know about or take advantage of. A lot of it already available for free through the schools. Reach out to school guidance counselors. They really want to give out the info and help but many students and parents don’t ask or follow up on it. Caca be on it like white on rice. These more affluent cacs whose kids he works with get so much free money that we don’t take advantage of that it’s disgusting.

We can’t do better if we don’t know better. So we gotta put our people who don’t know on game.

Yes there are free resources but if there was no economic value in SAT prep, there would be no market for it. Kids in a good situation are being prepped for this test from like 7th grade up.

There’s no way to argue that a test that cost money to take, which has also spawned a billion dollar market, is not an economic situation.

Yes on a personal level you should help people find available resources, but when talking about policy on a societal level, you have to address the inequalities in opportunity.

There’s a reason lots of colleges aren’t considering SAT scores as very important anymore.

The system is flawed, and it does not offer fair opportunities to kids or a clear picture of potential educational achievement.

 

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the Asians really got white folks afraid to move into certain school districts, because they know their kids can’t compete with them. It’s definitely a parenting issue. Black kids could be at the top of we put the work in and invested into our kids like others do.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Yes there are free resources but if there was no economic value in SAT prep, there would be no market for it. Kids in a good situation are being prepped for this test from like 7th grade up.

There’s no way to argue that a test that cost money to take, which has also spawned a billion dollar market, is not an economic situation.

Yes on a personal level you should help people find available resources, but when talking about policy on a societal level, you have to address the inequalities in opportunity.

There’s a reason lots of colleges aren’t considering SAT scores as very important anymore.

The system is flawed, and it does not offer fair opportunities to kids or a clear picture of potential educational achievement.

100% the system is flawed, So we gotta go out of our way. I also don't buy into the economical reason why our people can't do as well in school overall (not standardized testing).

Love the fact that more schools are moving away from using standardized testing in admissions. Learning and paying for how to take a test that doesn't really measure aptitude IMO is bullshyt.

Placing a value on education starts young, other cultures do it better than ours does.

Starts at the crib (double entendre), always has, and will.

 

[Chrishaune]

If ya'll don't get out of this indoctrinated mindset you're about to set your kids up to be forever slaves.

These schools aren't teaching your kids anything that will give them true freedom.

The "education" system is only going to give them enough to be workers in the system.

 

[Houston911]

Sheesh and this includes black kids who go to private and top magnet schools
Not sure if they still do it but Morehouse and Spelman use to give automatic admission and money to any body who got over a 1200
Like 6 dudes from my HS got in that way (including me), I remember thinking that was a low barrier for such an elite HBCU since they use to act like the avg SAT at a place like UPENN was 1400

Yeah the hbcus make a strong push to get the black students who score well on standardized tests

I got full rides to Howard and morehouse without even applying. They gave it to me off the psat

These scores are misleading though. Black kids just don’t prep for the test. These other kids get SAT practice books in like 6th grade.

 

[CHICAGO]

So who's failing these black children—especially the boys?

THEIR BLACK FATHERS
OR LACK THERE WERE OF



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