What does this have to do with school segregation?
Most Black students have Black teachers, and most Black students attend schools more segregated than they were in the 70s and 80s
And the outcomes are horrific due to outdated funding schemes, housing segregation still retained from red-lining, magnet and charter schools causing brain drain, and state governments cutting funding + social education services
You're on point with this.
Education is still pretty well-noted - test scores at the majority of schools are not the sole goal - its just portrayed that way in media.
No. The white man had water, and we did not. That's a far more apt metaphor.
You're right, but most Black kids have Black teachers.
Your thread premise is not only misguided, it's openly and flatly wrong.
Why do you say that?Username to post ratio is on point
Blaming teacher's unions is as stupid as can be.
It was 10% in the 50s, about 3 times as high as the white illiteracy rate, and about 30% of Black men had no more than 4 full years of education.
Black-owned or Black-controlled? We don't need more piss-poor charter schools or Black private schools that funnel money for the same results.
It's not just misclassification, it's largely parental advocacy failure. Kids having trouble concentrating or learning often come from broken families or parental neglect, and don't actually have any significant disabilities. But without an advocate or a specialized teacher, they end up getting shuffled into special-ed.
Yeah, what you're describing are many of the Black magnet schools that have succeeded across the country.Yes, and people need to start putting this shyt into that proper context.
I always have the thought...if a school was majority black, with funding, and the students are aware of the history...with funding...the teachers are all black and as successful as possible, and the school alum have a history of success too. Would these same students struggle. You could even go down the rabit hole of how that would've affected the black family unit...jobs...wealth...everything
It almost sounds like I've described a regular ass white school...which nowadays would be private
Only the white man would attack organized labor as somehow the root of a problem created by white supremacy, racial capitalism, brutal segregation and disinvestment from the Black community.
Yes. Junior Achievement covers student loans, loans, credit cards, building credit, etc. for a massive chunk of the U.S. student population.
We never assimilated or even fully integrated.
There's definitely a lot of "Black Wall Street" talk that is just openly ahistorical, and its been pretty sickening watching it happen.They think we all lived like the folks on black Wall Street and the streets flowed with milk and honey. It’s sad because the folks that think segregation was so great for us should be in this class getting a tough love lecture , because they’re very ignorant.
The people in this thread wishing for the times before integration are spitting in our ancestors faces thinking they are pro black, they aren’t
All of this. This is the key.
More than home economics - their parents and grandparents are teaching them, and aren't putting them in summer camps or after school programs.Man this is one of the reasons why there are so many Millennial "Adulting" classes out there today. Home economics got tossed to the bushes and a lot of folks don't know how to do basic shyt.
You're a little light on them - the state governments cut the funding for a massive number of Black schools as backlash against integration, and to break burgeoning teacher's unions they fired a huge chunk of Black teachers.
One semester at the school I taught at, we had 5 parents come to parent-teacher conferences; only one of the kids was even doing badly.
This. Even kids that couldn't care less about learning are elevated depending on what school they go to - there are school districts where 99% of kids go off to college - and it has nothing to do with their laziness or attitudes.
I got a full-ride to undergrad.
