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

[Luke Cage]

"unsurprisingly parents education levels and median family income are directly correlated with success on the SAT"

you can say whatever you want, i was just addressing the actual correlations in the topic. be mad at the article, not me

They acting like the facts don't support what we've been saying. This is an economic issue, not a black people not giving a shyt about school issue.

 

[keon]

It’s not a coincidence that the two groups of people that took the most L’s in America also got the lowest test scores.

add to the fact that the founder of that test was a firm believer in eugenics.

 

[acri1]

They acting like the facts don't support what we've been saying. This is an economic issue, not a black people not giving a shyt about school issue.

It can be both

 

[Luke Cage]

It can be both

it could but it isn't. if i asked you to produce facts supporting your argument, you would be unable to.

 

[hatealot]

This is why I left my hbcu. VSU. the education was dum. Downed because the barrier to entry was low and I felt I was getting a high-school education in college for 25k a year.

I say this as a drop out and a GED recipient.
I've been to 4 colleges before I graduated and every school would have different set if test.

For example, cuny York is easier than most of the CUNYs. They give you the easiest tests versus Baruch. When you take finance or econ at Baruch you are getting hit with harder questions.

I've seen the tests.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It’s culture. Overly stimulated. You can get on TikTok right now and see 100000 knuckleheads dancing in school hallways, clowning etc. It makes you wonder why the obsession with fitting in, this also leads to the preoccupation with the opposite sex.

Which is funny considering black male online spaces are disproportionately concerned with whether a broad can cook or not and nothing about education/business

i'm in Toronto next to several high schools and all the young brehs do is smoke weed at every break and emulate entertainers.

they have no care bout education. just drip and girls etc.

 

[acri1]

it could but it isn't. if i asked you to produce facts supporting your argument, you would be unable to.

That's because you can quantify income but you can't quantify how much of a fukk someone gives about school.

Doesn't mean it's not true. I grew up on the east side of Detroit and it was >90% black. Growing up a lot of black kids didn't give a fukk about school at all.


I don't like that it's like that and hope things change, but you can't address an issue if you don't admit there's a problem

 

[Tryna Makit]

If Only they could test us for rap lyrics, twerking, drip and swag.

Damn breh, I chuckled a lil too hard at that one...... then immediately hit the

 

[Luke Cage]

That's because you can quantify income but you can't quantify how much of a fukk someone gives about school.

Exactly , which means you have pulled this argument entirely from your ass, because you've literally seen zero evidence to support it. You just up and decided one day, that was the reason entirely at random. Moreover you probably don't have solution to offer had this actually been the case either, outside of saying to every black person who struggles academically

 

[Stuntone]

Most Black kids come from Single Parent homes. A single parent can only don't so much.

 

[fifth column]

I took that shyt in the 11th grade and got 1090 something with no prep

 

[levitate]

Should definitely be a SAT prep course offered in middle/high schools.

My high school (semi-hood area) had no info on the test. Like I literally learned about having to take the test from other students…

 

[Ahadi]

SAT is more about Test prep than education. Sort of like how a 4.0 gpa student can still fail their MCAT. Doesn't say anything about your education. Just how well you prepared for that particular test.

An realistically it takes money to be prepared properly for those type of exams. You can be the brightest student in your class but if your parents can't afford to enroll you in SAT prep courses online or with a tutor, you will be a disadvantage.

Thank you, it’s not we don’t take school seriously. It’s the amount of resources these parents can afford.

 

[Still Benefited]

A good education is expensive and requires resources. It’s not hard to correlate the results with means of finances.

Money wont motivate your kids to want to learn. Some kids are self motivated in that department. But their are far more who are completely unmotivated. There needs to be consequences and reprocussions when kids arent doing what they are supposed to. And that can really only come from parents actively following their kids education like they do Kanyes twitter account


Most parents just wait until the report card comes which isnt good enough,by then its too late. But most parents only have the expectation you graduate HS,maybe go to college.Unless they went to college,then the standard and floor becomes going to college.


So while I blame parents,its difficult to blame the ignorant. Some of us only know our experience and how are parents handled us. I have no problem directing my daughter to people I know are smarter than me. Sometimes you have to just tell your kids that you are stupid,but they wont be. Its the information age,where information is in the palm of your hand 24/7 when used wisely.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

It's simple, we don't take school seriously.

It really just comes down to this. And imagine what these numbers would look like if they excluded African and Caribbean students.

Blame college is a scam LLC culture

this is true too. The coli is full of anti college anti education rhetoric despite all the data that shows college grads do better than non college grads and self employed individuals. To be real the black community is the only place where you hear consistently hear parents making education optional. It blows my mind that parents would let their kids skip college to work a register at walmart. After high school, college isnt an option for asian, african or caribbean students. Its a requirement and not even debatable unless you wanna be disowned. Often they dont even get to pick their own major. They are forced into stem majors as well. As a parent your main job is to set your kid up for success in the future. we are failing miserably as a community in that regard.