Reading and math competency chart broken down by race and state. Black Americans are doing pitiful.

[Blessings]

subs for later

 

[Lurkio]

Has anyone noticed that black kids and natives cluster at the bottom? Yall don't think that's a 'funny coincidence'?

This is a great point and observation obviously…but some of us are tryna figure out what black ppl can do for ourselves to even slightly move the needle…the needle needs to be moved somehow to even begin to take on those forces…and right now it’s going in the wrong direction

 

[Space Cowboy]

who do you think is responsible for teaching a child how and why to take their education seriously?

You negroes think that kids are just supposed to pop out of the womb is fully formed adults.


No motherfukker, you have to nurture, teach and discipline your child

Culture. I'm black and my grandma, a teacher, drilled reading into me at a very young age. She bought me lots of books and had me reading a lot at a young age. You have to teach them to value education at a young age and keep the fire to their feet.

 

[I Really Mean It]

it’s embarrassing.

only so long you can blame racism for failures that are self-inflicted.

he got a lot of criticism for it, but bill cosby was on point when he made the ‘pound cake’ speech.

 

[BaileyPark31]

Is there a breakdown by gender?

 

[Space Cowboy]

People in poor/impoverished/dysfunctional areas have worse education for a variety of reasons and unfortunately a lot of us live in those locations.

Mother fukker I lived in the suburbs in a white majority school district. We had good schools, good teachers, good facilities, good resources, and the yet still the black kids wanted to act like fools even if they had two parents at home and lived in a house.

Pointing the finger at poverty just excuses our deeply entrenched cultural issues that don't value education to our detriment.

 

[Samori Toure]

Not that surprising. Facists all over the country have defunded public schools.

 

[vino]

I have my children in several academic programs. Actually headed to a school book fair today. But, I see very few of us at a lot of the events or utilizing the free resources provided through school/public library. Every city or state provides them and it’s not a lack of resources but more so people not researching or getting active within their school district

 

[Gloxina]

Where? Also, hasn't black classism already "failed"?

There are definitely affluent African Americans/Black folks in general who do not associate with or occupy the same spaces as “less privileged” Black folks.

Neighborhoods, private schools, extracurricular programs, churches, etc.

The casual social scene and events, yes obviously, but you can separate pretty easily if you wish.

 

[Matt504]

it’s embarrassing.

only so long you can blame racism for failures that are self-inflicted.

he got a lot of criticism for it, but bill cosby was on point when he made the ‘pound cake’ speech.

Black people as a collective clustering at the very bottom of reading and math scores is a self inflicted failure eh?

 

[I Really Mean It]

Black people as a collective clustering at the very bottom of reading and math scores is a self inflicted failure eh?

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

mufukkaz definitely need to stop bringing kids into a world/situations where they cannot afford them. It's selfish as fukk, especially nowadays.

Thank you.

Been saying this for years. It's bad for society and bad for the kids. If someone feel it's the teachers fault and they don't have time to reinforce education. Don't have kids.

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

Mother fukker I lived in the suburbs in a white majority school district. We had good schools, good teachers, good facilities, good resources, and the yet still the black kids wanted to act like fools even if they had two parents at home and lived in a house.

Pointing the finger at poverty just excuses our deeply entrenched cultural issues that don't value education to our detriment.

I saw similar things as a child and teenager. One of my good friends whose parents both had good jobs and multiple properties decided he wanted to be a drug dealer and didn’t make it to adulthood. Got blasted trying to do what was “cool”.

I, on the other hand, saw poverty at an early age and my birth mother (not the one who raised me) had me at 14 and is to this day, a drug addict. But my Pops who also came from a poor neighborhood and saw violence his whole life, taught us better. So it’s over for all that bs some of y’all are talking about.

Excuses aren’t going to change anything.

 

[Matt504]

Then according to the data, Black people by and large aren't good parents.

 

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gen alpha ain't learning about black history so they believing cac's lies on tiktok about slavery and the Civil rights movement