The big myth about why Black kids can’t get ahead

[DonB90]

So we need three parent families is what your saying OP

 

[Tair]

you guys can never argue what youre point.

it all starts in the home.
Affirmative action and DEI mean nothing when our kids cant read and do math

Sorry, Your Kid Probably Doesn’t Read Proficiently

Despite decades of debate on reading methods, many US students, especially Black children, struggle to read at grade level. What's the solution?

theatlantavoice.com

That article's solution is exactly what my post suggested. Lazy ass sambo posted some shyt you didn't even read.

Dr. Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University, puts it plainly: “Black students are often in school districts that have concentrations of economic disadvantage or poverty. And those schools often lack the critical resources readily available in affluent ones.”

In 2021, 37% of Black students attended high-poverty schools, compared to just 7% of white students. And those high-poverty districts? They get about $800 less per student in state and local funding. That gap shows up in fewer resources, less experienced teachers, and limited access to advanced coursework.

Solution:

In decades past, Mississippi’s NAEP reading scores hovered near the bottom. This year, however, the state had the third-highest percentage of Black fourth graders scoring at or above proficiency. Experts chalk the improvements up to a state law passed in 2013 that mandated phonics instruction and mandatory retention for third graders who couldn’t read fluently.

“Democrats and Republicans have pushed for more reading coaches to help students who had fallen behind and more career coaches,” Blount told the Mississippi Free Press. “We passed a new funding formula that increases funding with greater equity. We have been working together.”

Tyner also advocates for recruiting more Black teachers, making federal investments in early childhood literacy, expanding teacher training around biases, and training educators in strategies to help support reading at home can also help.

Try reading the articles before you decide to post them next time.

 

[King Poetic]

Do whatever u think is best

But living in the hood and seeing the benefits of two parent households compared to single parent households is a big plus

Can a single parent household do good? Yes

But im around single moms who trying they best but they have to have others watch they kids because they working evenings and who knows what your kid is doing with others watching them and majority of the time the other person watching your kid isn’t doing any homework with your child and actually know what you’re kid is studying

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

That article's solution is exactly what my post suggested. Lazy ass sambo posted some shyt you didn't even read.






Solution:




Try reading the articles before you decide to post them next time.

How are white babies learning how to read? I’m asking because of what you put in bold..

 

[Tair]

How are white babies learning how to read? I’m asking because of what you put in bold..

As the article intimates, they have more resources.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Could it be that white supremacy informs the unequal disciplinary measures in public schools?

Could it be that the twin forces of white supremacy and unregulated capitalism limits the ability for parents to find work that pays them enough to provide for their children and the time to review what they have learned in the school day and be more active in parent teacher meetings?

Could it be that a lack of funds contributes to parents not being able to pay for tutors to help their children catch up if they're falling behind?

Could it be that the purposeful slashing of school budgets and the unwillingness to do anything about textbook publishers owned by white millionaires who can use them as propaganda to minimize the role white supremacy and unregulated capitalism played in the suffering millions are going through every day, especially black people?

"Naaaaah"- most of white Americans. We been knew this shyt. The only people at this point who are surprised by the persistent systemic and culturally enforced white supremacy are white people and sheltered non black people themselves. White people want to live in a comfortable delusion where the system is not rigged against poor and black people and rather than having the greatest propaganda system ever developed, america never used propaganda to demolish people's imagination and critical thinking skills to the point where they can't imagine a better society. Every time they're reminded that the world they want to live in doesnt actually exist and never did, they react aggressively at worst and engage in narcisstic simulations of sympathy at best.

 

[JT-Money]

Nothing else matters without financial literacy. Too many black people especially women are drowning in debt. With no hope of paying it off.

What good is making all this money if you just gonna lose it all in the end.

 

[jilla82]

That article's solution is exactly what my post suggested. Lazy ass sambo posted some shyt you didn't even read.






Solution:




Try reading the articles before you decide to post them next time.

I know what the article says...
everything yall say is regurgitated stuff from the same schools and articles I went to and read.

I only care about the stats...
it all starts at home.

Do you believe black kids arent testing well because the curriculum is too easy for them?
or is it because they arent even trying?

Have you been to majority black schools?
the kids arent paying attention and not even trying because its not emphasized at home.


if you believe in white supremacy why would you depend on those same white folks to teach your kids everything?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

As the article intimates, they have more resources.

That’s vague as fukk…. We’re talking about learning how to read…. not building infrastructure or trying to start a start up/hedge fund…

 

[Gloxina]

Will need to look into this more, and also see whether two parent black families were compared to single parent black families. Barring some shift that she found, two parent black families out perform one parent black families. So I need to read this when I get home.

My concern is that often two parent families are dismissed or attacked by a certain segment of black academia that despises nuclear families and heterosexual marriages. Not saying that's the case here, I'm not familiar with this author at all. But I'm wary of anyone telling black people that marriage has no benefits.

This is an absolutely valid concern and was also my concern when I watched one of her interviews last week.


What I gathered is that she wanted to highlight the importance of community in our, well, community and how Black children who don’t have present fathers are essentially brought into the fold and nurtured by the extended family and family friends. On the other hand, when the White nuclear family loses the dad (through death, abandonment, etc), the mother and children are on their own. There is no sense of community or responsibility for those children.

Black children in single parent homes still have a good chance of faring better and making social connections because Black people look out for each other.
-The “uncles and aunties” who aren’t blood, but are family.
-The neighbors who look out for you.
-The uncles and aunts and cousins who are like another set of parents or siblings because of how tight you are.

White people don’t function that way. It’s basically “every man (in this case every family) for himself”. So White kids are essentially isolated from the social benefits of the group because if the dad isn’t in the picture, there is no entree into their society. For the most part, they aren’t gathering at grandma’s house every Sunday, playing with cousins 1-3x a week, getting reprimanded by uncles and aunts as if they are parents, etc.


Black kids from two parent households still face more challenges than White kids from two parent households because of all the reasons we know (operating in a system with racism ingrained in it).

Basically, without a father present, White kids fall more drastically than Black kids because Black society will still lift up and include the children. White society will not.

It’s like how in the past (and still kinda now, but not as bad as before) White society ostracized White women who were divorced. If they weren’t with that man they were out of the group, and that went for the kids, too.
That happens with all groups, but it’s really pronounced with White folks. I think those attitudes contribute to the difference she noted between Black and White families in this study.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Nothing else matters without financial literacy.

I gotta keep asking… what is financial literacy?

 

[Gloxina]

 

[JT-Money]

I gotta keep asking… what is financial literacy?

In a nutshell if your incapable of saving more money than you spend. Whether it be due to ignorance or sheer incompetence.

People who consistently pay more money than they should for services. Generally don't believe in investing their money. And they end up living paycheck to paycheck their entire lives. There is a whole cottage industry that preys on these people ensuring they stay broke. Yet these people can't seemingly recognize this because they don't pay attention to interest rates nor fees.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

In a nutshell if your incapable of saving more money than you spend. Whether it be due to ignorance or sheer incompetence.

People who consistently pay more money than they should for services.

That’s not financial literacy… That’s common sense and simple math….

Riddle me this, why was it significantly easier for all Americans to save money from the 1950s to 1990s as opposed to the 2020s?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Get this propagandist bullshyt out of here….