Why are predominately Black schools closing?

It's interesting to see your question right now. I was just in the car trying to explain to my 12 year old how ghettos form and what "white flight" was.

It's so sad what is happening with schools. I've been reading "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" (highly recommended) by Diane Ravitch. She's an education historian who served in Bush 2's cabinet and was one of the architects of NCLB.

She writes of the promise of NCLB -- to identify under-preforming schools and get them the help they needed, and of how that was quickly perverted to identifying them and cutting off funding, and closing them down. She's now one of the most vocal opponents of NCLB and Race to the Top.

One of the big problems is the corporate privitization of education with charter schools -- I imagine we'll see a lot of them springing up to take the place of all the schools that have been shut down.

And now we're coming up on Common Core....

What is happening in America's schools should be giving us all nightmares.

What it boils down to is the failure of our academicians to understand the inherent differences existing between students and children in general. education must meet the needs not only of the child but the needs of the culture and community that influenced him. trying to make scientists and physicists of young black kids is a waste of time,effort and money. [monkey]
But this is what black children are told. They, are smart enough to know they are being had .
All children should be tested at the earliest age possible and placed according to their aptitude and not to satisfy a particular racial quota.
this is as much a waste for blacks as it is for white kids. most white schools are having to operate on a tight budget in order to provide funding for minority schools. this is a waste of potential that this country will someday learn to regret wasting and ignoring.
but what can you expect out of a nation that has surrendered its will to resist the blood suckers and vultures operating out of zionist controlled congress.
there's precious little difference between the american congress and the knesset.

I guess I haven't had enough interactions with you to know that you're a racist. Now I do. Thanks. I like racists who are upfront about being racists -- they're so much easier to identify than the one's who pretend they aren't.

Is it safe to assume that your topic posted was just bait and that you really don't want to discuss it?

Should I assume that of any thread you might post in the future?

I thought i was discussing my topic. what do you want to know?
what part of what i wrote made you think i was a racist ;and of course I'm not.
why is racism an issue with you?

Yeah, boomer. What could possibly make you think he's a racist?

I was just getting ready to call Neil deGrasse Tyson and tell him he can't be a physicist anymore because it simply isn't possible for a black person to excel at any of that smart white people science stuff.

Now I'm thinking I'd better wait on that since Philip Emeagwali told me Tyson was pretty busy with other things.

Read it again snood.. if you think he's a racist, it's means you are.

...and if you stare long enough, a cloud can become a locomotive.

So then, you accept his premises without question? This clown has shown in literally dozens of threads that he's racist and a nazi-wannabe. You know, you will be judged by your friends. This is not someone an intelligent person would want for a friend.

"ready to call Neil deGrasse Tyson and tell him "

is he the moron on PBS? he's a plant . that guy's a jerk. another affirmative action scientist.