Only 17% Of Black Students In Maryland School District Scored Proficient In Math

[B86]

80% of teachers are white women, this is not helping young black boys.

I swear to God we will find every excuse in the fukkin world to not be held accountable for anything. 90% of my teachers were white women and I was in the Scholars: Gifted Program, honors almost every year, and all kinda other accomplishments because my parents took the time to teach me and make sure I stayed on the right path

"Young black boys" could use math for so many different careers. All this technology out here and you're saying there's no use for math? Everything needs to be programmed nowadays...that's all math.

 

[PhonZhi]

A culture shift is needed BADLY



"I coulda went to school to be a doctor/
But I dropped out and chose to be a baller"

Being intelligent and educated needs to become "cool" again

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Our grandparents and forebears were problem-solvers. Their everyday survival depended on it.

Amazingly, while attempting to survive, they excelled.

They did not possess the luxury to jump on white-owned tech platforms like Twitter, or message boards to complain about their condition.

There is much to learn from their resolve.

But the Coli has told me that generation were a group of colossal fukkups, bootlickers and c00ns.

Our fearless leaders on Twitter state that we aren't our grandparents. Hashtag. White supremacists WILL get these hands. Eventually.

 

[LurkMoar]

I swear to God we will find every excuse in the fukkin world to not be held accountable for anything. 90% of my teachers were white women and I was in the Scholars: Gifted Program, honors almost every year, and all kinda other accomplishments because my parents took the time to teach me and make sure I stayed on the right path

"Young black boys" could use math for so many different careers. All this technology out here and you're saying there's no use for math? Everything needs to be programmed nowadays...that's all math.

Honestly don’t disagree, but it does have an affect I believe

 

[Booker T Garvey]

A culture shift is needed BADLY



"I coulda went to school to be a doctor/
But I dropped out and chose to be a baller"

Being intelligent and educated needs to become "cool" again

it'll never happen though, we as a community need to embrace this reality and move forward accordingly

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

One of my best teachers was a white man. Another one a white lady (totally useless as a collective but a rare decent individual will present themselves). One of my greatest Principals a white man. All teaching in predominately black or minority schools. You can't ALWAYS blame whitey, not at the rank and file level. The white people that are poisoning the schools, most of them never set foot in the classroom.

Either way, until the shyt is overhauled for the betterment of our people (good luck) we are going to have to take matters into our own hands. And that doesn't mean looking our nose down at those who are behind. We know why they are behind. What can we do to bring them forward? shytting on their parents isn't a solution because like it or not the solution will involve their cooperation and willingness to work towards a common goal. Insulting them is not going to open their minds. Perhaps finding out WHY they aren't involved (not assuming but actually collecting the data and facts of the situation) would be a good place to start.

Also, you can't push math and STEM on people in their 20s hungry for money. The shyt has to start EARLY. There needs to be a better connection between the basic arithmetic with it's easily identifiable practical applications and more advanced mathematic concepts whose applications aren't so easily discerned. If this link is identified and established early in a child's academic development they'd be less likely to fall behind in the subject.

Random fun fact - I have no idea how I learned to read. I just remember being able to do it. My mom says she read to me but never had to sit down and guide me. She also taught me how to do math when I was extremely poor at it. I excelled until I began to question the application of advanced math and was just told to do it. I'd remember the formulas just enough to pass. Now so much math may as well be Greek to me.

Also more concrete histories of math need to be taught. If a child says they understand that 2+2=4 but they want you to explain WHY it equals 4 and why not 5 and you can't do that it will be harder to explain the origins, concepts, and reasoning behind advanced mathematics and formulas.

Children want to know how AND why the world works. A lot of the time we're told to accept the how (and sometimes not enough direction to digest it) and don't question the why.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Good post.


Unless I',m getting the name confused ..Bordentown was a reform school in the 1990s..
My buddy played high school football and they scrimmaged against them. My friend went to a rough high school and he told me how much tougher the Bordentown team was. I think it was last alternative before juvenile jail.

I'd hate to think that it's the same school..and that it went from a trade school to school for troubled/incarcerated kids.

Looks like you are right.


Group seeks to make use of former boarding school in Bordentown Township
By David Levinsky

Posted Mar 5, 2018 at 7:00 AM

New Jersey plans to close its only girl’s prison in Bordentown Township, and an advocacy group is pushing for the state to reopen a public boarding school on the campus as a modern, integrated public school academy that could draw students from all races and backgrounds.

BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — For more than 50 years, African-American students from New Jersey came to the Industrial School for Colored Youth, an elite public boarding school nestled on a 300-acre former estate off Burlington Street that attracted the likes of Albert Einstein, Booker T. Washington, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson and Eleanor Roosevelt to visit and lecture there.

The school, also known as the Bordentown School, closed in 1955 after the state mandated that all public schools be desegregated. Today, the once prestigious academy is the site of the Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, New Jersey’s only youth prison for girls.

But with the state planning to close the prison, also known as Hayes, an advocacy group is pushing for the state to reopen it as a modern, integrated public school academy that could draw students from all races and backgrounds.

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice lays out its vision in a report released last week called “Bring Our Children Home: A Prison-to-School Pipeline” that calls for the closing of both Hayes and the nearby Juvenile Medium Security Facility, which is considered the state’s most secure youth detention facility for boys, and the reopening of the Bordentown School. It also calls for a statewide study of disciplinary actions and policies in schools, and how they may contribute to the racial disparity among black and white students in youth prisons.

According to the report, black students in New Jersey are four times more likely than white students to receive out-of-school suspensions and are twice as likely to receive expulsions, even though white and black students commit most offenses at similar rates.

Similarly, the report found that while black students make up about 16 percent of the total enrollment in New Jersey schools, they make up about 34 percent of school-related arrests and just over 31 percent of law enforcement referrals.

http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.co...former-boarding-school-in-bordentown-township

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

Math can be hard if you don't understand the logic and/or don't know how to apply them.

It was impossible for me to learn that in a 50 minute math class once a day so I started going to my math teacher's class at lunch for more 1 on 1 time and occasionally went to the free after school tutoring program. I think most kids can learn math or any other tough subject but some just have to put in more work than others or need someone to explain it in more details.

 

[NoMayo15]

If anything, this suggests teachers/parents should beat kids for getting problems wrong.....

 

[Micky Mikey]

Agreed, but its better to take full accountability for our success, than partial responsibility for our failures.

The Bordentown School (officially titled the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, the State of New Jersey Manual Training School and Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth, though other names were used over the years), was a residential high school for African-American students, located in Bordentown in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Operated for most of the time as a publicly financed co-ed boarding school for African-American children, it was known as the "Tuskegee of the North" for its adoption of many of the educational practices first developed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.[2] The school closed down in 1955. Bordentown School - Wikipedia

I agree with you about taking full accountability for our success. We need to take a step back and examine what worked for us in the past and forge a future from it. The only question is - How?

How do we change an entire culture and get everyone on the same page. How can those who are aware invoke a systematic change in thinking of over 42 million people?

 

[B86]

Honestly don’t disagree, but it does have an affect I believe

No doubt it has an affect but it's not the sole reason or even a major reason why our youth aren't excelling

 

[LurkMoar]

No doubt it has an affect but it's not the sole reason or even a major reason why our youth aren't excelling

It’s mostly poverty and tough family situations

 

[get these nets]

Looks like you are right.


Group seeks to make use of former boarding school in Bordentown Township
By David Levinsky

Posted Mar 5, 2018 at 7:00 AM

New Jersey plans to close its only girl’s prison in Bordentown Township, and an advocacy group is pushing for the state to reopen a public boarding school on the campus as a modern, integrated public school academy that could draw students from all races and backgrounds.

BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — For more than 50 years, African-American students from New Jersey came to the Industrial School for Colored Youth, an elite public boarding school nestled on a 300-acre former estate off Burlington Street that attracted the likes of Albert Einstein, Booker T. Washington, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson and Eleanor Roosevelt to visit and lecture there.

The school, also known as the Bordentown School, closed in 1955 after the state mandated that all public schools be desegregated. Today, the once prestigious academy is the site of the Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, New Jersey’s only youth prison for girls.

But with the state planning to close the prison, also known as Hayes, an advocacy group is pushing for the state to reopen it as a modern, integrated public school academy that could draw students from all races and backgrounds.

The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice lays out its vision in a report released last week called “Bring Our Children Home: A Prison-to-School Pipeline” that calls for the closing of both Hayes and the nearby Juvenile Medium Security Facility, which is considered the state’s most secure youth detention facility for boys, and the reopening of the Bordentown School. It also calls for a statewide study of disciplinary actions and policies in schools, and how they may contribute to the racial disparity among black and white students in youth prisons.

According to the report, black students in New Jersey are four times more likely than white students to receive out-of-school suspensions and are twice as likely to receive expulsions, even though white and black students commit most offenses at similar rates.

Similarly, the report found that while black students make up about 16 percent of the total enrollment in New Jersey schools, they make up about 34 percent of school-related arrests and just over 31 percent of law enforcement referrals.

http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.co...former-boarding-school-in-bordentown-township

I got Bordentown(girls) confused with Jamesburg(boys).
Thanks for the heads up about history of Bordentown.

 

[BigMan]

Side note: Burlington County nj has some cool black history

 

[Cobalt Sire]

What the? We have a thread based on black kids failing in schools and...people are finally holding parents somewhat responsible? It's not solely the kids' fault anymore? Well damn, looks like progress is finally being made.