Philadelphia 5th Graders Forced to Celebrate "Black Communism"
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I did some contracting work about 15 years ago for a school with almost the exact same demographics and performance as this one, except it was rural. You're pretty much spot on. The entire district was pretty much entirely run by black people. They weren't the smartest of the bunch in that regard either. I'm pretty sure there was only about 2-3 white employees in the entire district.
Funding wasn't an issue either. The company I was a sub-contractor for specifically existed to go to these really poor schools and take advantage of the federal eRate funding for technology. It was a smart idea as they'd essentially sell the schools the stuff for about 90% off and do all the federal paperwork for the rest. These super ghetto poor schools had more tech gadgets than the nicest of public schools in the state. We were putting in WiFi, smart boards, video equipment, etc. at these places in a time when most schools were still teaching with whiteboards and worksheets.
The parents were all total shit too. I'd hear so many stories. They didn't even pretend to be interested in their kids education or even sort of a good person at all. Once most of the kids got to teenage years most were already resigned to being gangsters or hookers.
I went to a high school that was 90% black.
The classes were a total joke. Domino games in the back of the class, multiple kids straight up acting a fool to get a few laughs from other kids, constant outbursts, constant open bullying of others kids (especially towards a Russian kid who didn't speak English well), etc. Everyone was always trying to prove how hard they were. That's all they seemed to care about besides sports.
The looks I saw on the teacher's faces said it all. It was hopeless. Nothing they said or did could change anything. These kids just did not give a fuck about learning, or even just behaving like normal people so others could learn.
I noped out after 1 year because fuck all that.
Part of me will always feel bad for these kids because they didn't ask to be raised by shitty parents who didn't raise them properly, but that only goes so far. The fact that they don't take any responsibility for their actions and just blame whitey for their failures eliminates those feelings pretty quickly.
All the high tech tools aren't going to learn for you. Access to information has never been easier but it still takes effort to master concepts and apply them to new situations.
The education system and kids will continue to fail as long as they are allowed to shift responsibility for learning. But it's not what they want to hear, so their leaders aren't going to tell them (the ones that know).
It's so sick, twisted, and obvious.
Oh yeah the tech tools certainly don't, I might even argue they are worse. I mainly brought that up as an example of how it wasn't a funding difference.
I only did it for the money. The income from those school jobs I did were a huge part of why I didn't spend my 20s with a bunch of student loans.
I'm with you 100%.
The school funding implies that the [impoverished] kids want so badly to learn, but they just don't have the proper resources. If they only had pencils to write with and books to read and a building with heat then they could learn!
Systemic racism implies that the black kids want so badly to learn, but obviously the teachers and administrators are keeping them from learning to read, withholding knowledge, and access to information. If only they had ... wait, what?
These kids don't want to learn, their parents don't and didn't make education a priority. So all of the resources and all of the not racist [sic] policies in the world aren't going to educate them. All the talk of racism does is create resentful people who Burn, Loot, and Murder almost like that was the goal from the start.