I think education based on skin pigmentation is about the dumbest idea ever conceived. At what level of pigmentation does it really start to impact learning? How dark does the skin need to be to teach at Dark Pigmentation High? A black teacher is automatically good for black students? This whole thing sounds to me like parents trying to turn things they should be responsible for into failures with the system.
DENTROBATE54 said:
Teachers tend to invest as little effort as they can in ensuring the black students keep up with everyone else. If teachers can score a higher class passing average overall by neglecting the one or two black kids in the class they'll do it.
If that was true wouldn't it be worse if you took all the black people out of the class and put them into the same school. If what you are saying is true, the black students are slowing down the class, so if you take them out the remaining class will excel further and then the black school will really have to really be good to catch up. In any case, I fail to see how the solution to teachers investing little time in students that don't seem to want to be in school is solved by creating a school filled with other students who are equally uninterested in school rather than putting more effort into figuring out why certain students fall behind and how to motivate them.
If black schools and black teachers are the solution then if you were to look at a naturally black school in central Detroit then you would see grade 'A' students. Black students from primarily black universities would be better educated than black students from mixed universities. I don't see any evidence of this though.
I see evidence that students who don't want to learn don't learn, see that students with absentee parents tend to be more at risk, and that students with a poor diet and home life don't tend to reach the same level of education. I see this as true in all white communities as much as I do in mixed communities. If you go to a less prosperous area of Scotland where both parents need to work and financial pressures seem to have led to greater levels of divorce you can find white kids running around like hooligans causing trouble and not getting a decent education.
again, what makes you think this is a race issue? i was an underachiever in elementary school. was it a race issue? no, there were other factors at play. i changed schools and got better grades.
I agree. I was in the office and underachieving all through elementary school. I was in the principals office almost daily. It wasn't until I separated myself from friends less interested in education that I was able to achieve anything significant. It would probably be better to take a problem student and put him in a school without his peers, force him to be involved in specific extracurricular activities, and enforce a dress code so he can focus on school rather than whatever preoccupies him now.
I sucked at finding a job after school as well. I wonder if I would blame all the rejection letters I received on being a minority if I had been one and had had a level of mistrust with society in general because otherwise I would have had to accept that I was not doing a good job of finding empty positions or had an uninspiring resume and cover letter.
I'm not saying that there is no racism because there certainly is and it impacts many, but it is hard to know how much it plays a factor. Creating a black school to me is almost like saying that it is so prevalent that all the existing teachers should be fired and the only reason that certain black students are underachieving is due to racism at school. I don't buy it. I want someone to explain to me why skin pigmentation impacts certain groups more than others. People don't want to see that skin pigmentation, while it may play some part in discrimination, is so far from explaining the whole thing that creating a black school is ridiculous.