All i read is woe is me bullshyt that flew in the 90s but in 2010 it is unacceptable with so many tutorials online and classes for kids and prep exams and all other stuff it is unacceptable to still spew this woe is me mentality and lets face honesty ...we don't stress education like we should and as parents we are not invested in our kids education the way we should be
Don't say "We" breh, that shyt isn't telling the whole story.
I come from a family which was originally low income, and yes, I'm ADOS, family directly from the SOUTH.
I'm only a third generation college student in a family which coalesced in neighborhoods that aren't too far from
Chicago as far as crime rate, educational opportunities and job opportunities.
I'm only where I'm at because I had some shoulders to stand on, some strong people who could use their highschool
diplomas to earn decent paying jobs so that their kids could attend college and afford to offer the next generation
a greater chance in this country.
Are there black people who do not understand the power of education or don't believe in it ? YES.
However going off to college can be a dicey proposition when you're a first generation college student
and you don't know how to navigate the myriad of degrees or were never even told it was a possibility in the first place.
Or when you couldn't even fathom going to college directly out of highschool and now you're attending
school in your mid-twenties and you're considered a "Non-traditional" College Student
Today's Non-Traditional Student: Challenges to Academic Success and Degree Completion
By the Numbers: Trends in Nontraditional Student Enrollment
Nontraditional Undergraduates / Definitions and Data
I feel strongly on this topic because I know people PERSONALLY affected by their circumstances, NOT their lack of desire to achieve.
It's hard to think about going to a math class or chemistry class when you're trying to get some decent living conditions (i.e. not in a car
or in someone else's house under threat of being thrown out all the time....)
We can't have genuine discussions about education and black america's relationship with it when the conversation turns into
self hating diatribes from presumably well meaning (online only) black nationalists with arguments that mirror those speoken by
White Supremacist sympathizers which boil down black american culture into "Twerking, Drug Dealing, & Gun Toting....".
The Black academic achievement gap has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with the fact that the system for American public school funding is set up in a way that makes it almost impossible for economically disadvantaged people to get a decent education. School funding largely comes from local property taxes, which obviously puts mostly black schools at a huge disadvantage. That combined with segregation rates that are as high as they've ever been have created the gap that exists today.
Anyone who disputes this is arguing in bad faith or hasn't done any actual research into the issue.
This.
Bad schools, understaffing, summer vacations without continual learning, disproportionate poverty, and the feedback loop associated with slight underachieving before 3rd grade almost exclusively account for the achievement gap.
Not to mention systemic racism and White-flight changing school composition.
This.
Black People have become the face of degenerate behavior this is facts.
