lol at "School isn't a place of learning, it's a place of selection", what kind of thinking is this? My wife is a teacher. She's taught in both public and private schools. The idea that we have to segregate ourselves speaks more to people who haven't truly lived in the world. I'm sure most of the people in this thread went to schools at one time where most weren't black, who really cares? We're like 13% of the country, it's how the world works. When you get to college, and then a career, it will be the same. We aren't weak and we thrive no matter what situation is thrown at us.
It's also wild how you throw the Congressional Black Caucus under the bus. I'm sure they would be surprised to find out their success is something people shouldn't aspire to. And that they didn't go to predominantly black schools, even though many did lol. The whole concept of this is straight outta the 1960s really.
Most of us are middle to working class. The idea that we "cant' afford shit" is a stereotype. And with involved parents a kid will reach the levels typically of the environment they are put in. Which is why so many give back and open quality schools in bad areas, because that's what matters, not demographics. And I'm not saying there can't be challenges, btu that's true in any type of school
According to the UNCF's African-American Youth's Perception of K-12 Education, which surveyed the impressions of K-12 education by low-income black students, the biggest obstacle to going college wasn't the quality of their education but their inability to pay for college. Out of the 11 obstacles listed, the quality of their education was second to last.
This is despite their curriculum being subpar and their school underperforming because the most important to them is being around people that actually care about them. 70 percent of the students said there was an adult that tracked their progress.
School vouchers does not improve performance. A study that focused on voucher programs in D.C, Louisiana, Ohio, and Indiana found that students that went a voucher to attend private school had worse performance than similar kids that do not attend a private school. Funny enough, they found that D.C public schools spent more time on reading and math than public schools.
www.brookings.edu
I wonder why?
How private school vouchers might harm minority students. For decades, policy wonks, lawmakers, and educators have wrestled with the phenomenon of the achievement gap in U.S. schools. The answer to the essential question—why does such a racialized gap exist?—has proven elusive. Race itself...
newrepublic.com
Even Milwaukee, the city that blazed the trail for voucher programs, public school students do better than private.
Wisconsin voucher schools scored significantly worse than public schools on reading and math, but facts don't matter in the education debate
wisconsinexaminer.com
Which brings me back to the point education being more about selection than scholastic learning. Parents determine the educational attainment of their children more than schools. The curriculum, the pupil to teacher disparity, dollar to student expenditure, none of that is more important than parental and family background.
And when it comes to Black American student's performance, the most important thing are social connections and the feeling of belonging. Black American's social exclusion in private school settings has an impact on their overall performance.
How private school vouchers might harm minority students. For decades, policy wonks, lawmakers, and educators have wrestled with the phenomenon of the achievement gap in U.S. schools. The answer to the essential question—why does such a racialized gap exist?—has proven elusive. Race itself...
newrepublic.com
Most of these voucher programs funds get pocketed by White families that can afford to send their kids to private school and their children have never attended a public school.
Most Private School Voucher Recipients Are Wealthy Families Who Never Attended Public Schools
www.ncpecoalition.org
Which brings me to the New Blacks, the Carltons of the world, the Congressional Black Caucus types that haven't done shit for anybody. They stay sequestered among their own kind while the rest of the Black America crumbles.
The school voucher programs, Black kids in private in schools, are no different than Black folks up in Washington DC and every city hall across the country.
Surrounded by White folks raking in the money while their district and city in the shitter. White folks privatizing everything to keep Black folks out. But we send them up to Washington DC with the impression that they are exceptional for being selected and they can't compete with the average ass dumbass White boy or paranoid deranged White woman in securing resources for us.
Black Americans are 13.6 percent of population and hold 4.7 percent of the the wealth.
Households with a Black householder were less likely than those with a White householder to have home equity, retirement accounts, stocks and mutual funds.
www.census.gov
The racial wealth gap is growing and not closing anytime soon.
This paper is now forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. A groundbreaking new study on the Black-white wealth gap in the U.S. shows that progress on closing the gap has all but stalled since the 1950s and inequality is on track to grow moving forward. The study by Princeton’s Ellora...
economics.princeton.edu
In 2022, 49 percent of Black people made less than 50K.
Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.
www.pewresearch.org
We have the data, if the New Blacks are so good and so exceptional, why we are locked out of wealth and income? The richest Black person in America got like 5 billion? They ain't even rich.
I have a theory, the imagined proximity that Black Americans have to White people, the worse they perform. White psychologists call it stereotype threat, I call it the Carlton Syndrome.
Lol, if I want my kid to be president, I'll send they ass to Phillip Exeter Academy, so they can learn how be a Carlton.