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Byron Matthews, a sociologist retired from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a partner in an educational software company, lives near Santa Fe, NM.

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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Unexpected...

Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected

Give me a break.

"Than expected"? That's rich. Who was it, exactly, that was so delusional as to actually think black males were performing at anything close to grade level? The failure there is massive, pervasive, and enduring, and everybody knows it. It is, by far, the preeminent scandal of American society, our national shame. What it has done to black family and community life is all too obvious.

Second, where is the condemnation of the disastrous inner-city school systems that so many of these kids are trapped in? Trapped by the granite intransigence of teachers unions who find it their number one priority to kill any hint of school choice.

Third, The policy directions suggested are worse than pathetic, basically to throw yet more money into the rotten, failed maw. What is specifically NOT discussed, the gutless report admits, "are policy reponses identified with a robust school reform movement." Well, of course not, because that would implicate the teachers unions and the Democrat political machines identified with the big-city public school bureaucracies that have stood by and allowed, or worse, enabled, this pattern of failure for decades. Obama's Chicago is the perfect example of that, the model.

Fourth, where is any sign of interest in any of this on the part of our First Black President and his fashion-plate wife? The rarest of opportunities squandered. Nothing but silence, with not a word of criticism from the lap-dog media or "black leaders." A conspiracy of silence for the purpose of mollifying big-money Democrat supporters, primarily the teachers unions, selling generations of black kids down the river, all the while shouting "Racist!" at the opposition. It's contemptible, ludicrous.

Fifth, isn't it obvious that nothing is going to change as long as blacks continue to vote 90% Democrat? Reform will come when black voters start defecting to the GOP in large numbers, when they finally recognize who it is that's keeping them where they are.

Byron

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