In October, the Brookline Tab reported that 68 percent of white students in Brookline met expectations on the math MCAS last year. The number for Black students? Seventeen percent.
Members of the Brookline School Committee were “shocked and horrified,” but amid hundreds of millions of dollars of spending on new construction, the school committee has produced no tangible measures to address these disparities.
How about telling black students to work harder?
When black students do poorly, it's everyone else's fault.
About 49 percent of students in Brookline identify as non-white, 6.4 percent of whom identify as Black.
Huh, yet you are comparing blacks to whites, and not to Asians or other non-whites. I wonder why.
These statistics do not signify that Brookline’s Black students have a lower capacity for achievement. I know because I am one of them.
Complete non sequitur. You being black in no way establishes that black students do not have a lower capacity for achievement. Considering your idiocy, if you were to prove anything (which you do not), it would be something very negative about blacks.
Structural racism perpetuates, creates, and exacerbates disparity. My experience bears this out.
I failed, it's everyone else's fault.
In seventh grade, a fellow Black student gave a speech about how it bothered her that she and I were regularly confused by teachers. Immediately after, someone called me by her name.
MY GOD! They did not immediately gain the supernatural ability to distinguish between you two based on your whining?
Much, much easier on the ego to construct some vast network of oppression keeping you down rather than accepting that your failure was because you were fucking about at school, isn't it?
How about telling black students to work harder?
When black students do poorly, it's everyone else's fault.
Huh, yet you are comparing blacks to whites, and not to Asians or other non-whites. I wonder why.
Complete non sequitur. You being black in no way establishes that black students do not have a lower capacity for achievement. Considering your idiocy, if you were to prove anything (which you do not), it would be something very negative about blacks.
I failed, it's everyone else's fault.
MY GOD! They did not immediately gain the supernatural ability to distinguish between you two based on your whining?
Exactly what I was thinking. Poisonous thinking to blame “the man” instead of yourself
Seductive, though - as it's designed to be.
Much, much easier on the ego to construct some vast network of oppression keeping you down rather than accepting that your failure was because you were fucking about at school, isn't it?
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