Posted by
Greyhawk in Alabama on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:58:26 AM
Benjamin, you made some good points about education. But, the education system that has been created with Federal Interventions has been destroyed for all: blacks, whites, and others regardless of socio-economic status.
Our public edcuation system, as it exists today, has, in the vast majority of cases, dumbed down and brainwashed the entire population of children who are exposed to the system, regardless of race or socio-economic status.
It has likely impacted poor blacks and whites most as the vast majority of poor blacks and whites are single parent homes, or no-parent homes and their caretakers are either on total welfare and live in public housing, and most of the large pockets of these poor, welfare recipients live in large metro areas where Socialist Governments usually prevail.
In days past, even segregated black schools did a good job of educating their youth. I graduated high school in 1966, and most black kids I knew who graduated from all black schools were well educated in academic skills and had good family values, a work ethic and love of God and Country. Crime was almost unknown amongst the youth, black or white, and kids killing kids, black or white was literally unheard of. Even the kids who dropped out of schools at age 16, black or white, already had acquired good enough academic skills and work ethic to go to work and make a life for him or herself or to pursue vocational training and apprenticeships.
While desegregation was a good thing, the way that it was handled and the resulting federal mandates, has consistently and exponentially had a detrimental effect on all kids involved in the Dumbing Down and Brainwashing that took place and is still taking place.
Public Education is a Local and State Responsibility, the Feds have no Right To be Involved Period. Local schools should and would reflect the communities values, customs, beliefs and traditions, and not the Values, Customs, Beliefs and Traditions of Perverts and Subversives From San Francisco, or other Metro City Socialist and Subversive places such as that. Putting school back under Local Control would mean a better and more effective education system for all. Lowering the Standards over and over has produced teachers who have teaching certificates and college educations, who do not have basic 6th grade reading, writing and arithmetic skills and cannot teach something they cannot do themselves.