Black Education
Found this editorial piece on CNS News.com By Walter Williams
This is a short clip from the shot that tells the whole story of why these Negros kids are destined to fail.
Hard Times at Douglass High - Clip 2
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Sphere: Related Content“Hard Times at Douglass High,” is an HBO documentary that aired last June. It captured much of the 2004-2005 school year at Baltimore’s predominantly black Frederick Douglass High School. The tragedy is that what is seen in the documentary is typical of most predominantly black urban schools.
Douglass’ students are four to five years below grade level. Most of its ninth-graders read at the third-, fourth- or fifth-grade levels. In 2006, only 24 percent of its students tested proficient in reading, in math just 11 percent, and that’s an improvement over previous years. Only one student managed to score above 1,000 on the SAT and another student scored 440 out of 1,600. You get 400 points for just writing in your name. Out of its 1,100 students, 200 to 300 are absent each day. Many of those who do show up don’t do so on time; they roam the hallways and leave the school during the day. Only one-half of the school’s 500 incoming freshmen ninth-graders return for their sophomore year and far fewer remain for graduation
Sixty-six percent of the teachers are uncertified. Even if there were no certified teacher shortage, I doubt whether many teachers with attractive alternatives would want to teach at the school. Douglass High School is not a place for teachers with high expectations for their students. English teacher Mr. McDermott resigned in the middle of the school year saying, “Teaching becomes secondary, and discipline is the main thing that goes on. I don’t feel like I’m making a difference anymore.”
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July 25th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Hi,I know this is completely off subject of the story, but I just wanted to make sure that you saw this, do you have an objection to straight forward commusism? Where there are no corporate leaders and everyone makes the same amount of money?
July 25th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Dude is this a joke? If you took the time to check out this blog you would not have bother to waist keyboard strokes asking me this question?
C’mon please tell me this was a joke so you can say GOTCHA!
July 25th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Um, no…I’ve looked at your blog a bit, and I understand why you dislike former governments labeled as communism, but I’m talking about the actual idea of communism.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Don’t know why I’m being quizzed on communism but what the hell. I’ll play!
The premise of communism is a ridiculously flawed one. It basically says that we are all equal that we all have the same levels of motivation for succeeding and advancing in this world.
The notion that someone who cleans toilets for a living has as much social value as someone curing diseases or healing the sick which is just nonsense.
Individuals who promote the notion of communism are frankly being intellectually lazy.
We are not all on the same societal and intellectual level therefore how can you have a successful and productive society functioning on that notion alone.
Oddly enough French President Sarkozy describes America’s greatness better than any current American politician.
“America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who–with their hands, their intelligence and their heart–built the greatest nation in the world: “Come, and everything will be given to you.” She said: “Come, and the only limits to what you’ll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.”
If you believe in class envy, if you are an individual who tend to be envious of others talents and contributions to this society, and an individual who promotes the notion of punishing achievement (mainly by taxation) but even more ridiculous think that human beings can function on the notion of “common ownership” then I suspect you might think that communism would be a good thing.
I’m closer to the “greed is good” mindset than I am the expansive communal existence mindset.
July 27th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Leo, FYI I am the one in the Snoop family who once thought the IDEA of communism wasn’t half bad. I am by nature an adopted of “stray puppies” and have at any given time had someone extra living in my home (still do for that matter). The idea of “share and share alike” and communal living appealed to me. However….
When you look at a few of the first attempts at that theory being put into action, you can see how it failed. The first Christians tried it, and even with recent memories of their Lord and Savior to guide them, they could not seem to get past the anger and division that can be caused by some dead beat wanting his/her “fair share” while doing nothing to contribute. The other shining examples of communism’s failure as a lifestyle include the Soviet Union (the proleteriat thrived while the plebians starved), China (do you think the re-educated peasant class live nearly as well as the government class?), North Korea (mini-China with far more class division) and Cuba (the closest to a success communism has come, but still with the wide devide between the ruling and working classes). Note that in every case where communism was attempted, there STILL was an unequal division of wealth - with the ruling class always coming out on top!
Human nature will always prevent pure communistic theory from actually working.
We are often too selfish AND survival orientated to sacrifice everything we have and do for the good of all. Especially when there are always going to be those parasitical types who take advantage of the worker bees.
So, in lieu of “share and share alike,” what works best to make sure that people can keep from starving? Pure and simple capitalism. Sure, it’s based upon self serving concepts. But that’s why it works so well and why even capitalists take care of SOME of the less fortunate. If you can show a human how it benefits them personally to do something, it is much more likely that they will do it!
So while you may (as I once did) wish people were all un-selish enough to make a true communal state work. But they aren’t. So what a realist and a survivor will then do is adopt the model that actual works. You want to be fair to everyone? Then realize that rewarding efforts and punishing failure is fair. For everyone.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Snoop, Mrs. Snoop
You guys need to move here toy Maryland and run for Mayor of Baltimore. I do not think it really matters which of you actually runs, but it is what this State and that City needs. Common sense. Well that and less corruption.