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“Racial minorities….taught by lower-paid teachers with less experience…” says Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office in March, 2014.
White Supremacy’s Golden Rules of Education & Opportunity Are: Get Rid of Black Teachers & Give ‘Um Young White Inexperienced White Kids Then Leave Them Behind
TOGETHER WE RISE: THIS TEACHER WON’T LET ZIP CODE DETERMINE OUTCOMES
In high school, the study found that while more than 70 percent of white students attend schools that offer a full range of math and science courses — including algebra, biology, calculus, chemistry, geometry and physics — just over half of all black students have access to those courses. Just over two-thirds of Latinos attend schools with the full range of math and science courses, and less than half of American Indian and Native Alaskan students are able to enroll in as many high-level math and science courses as their white peers.
“Folks who cannot teach effectively should not be working with low-income or African-American kids, period,” he said, adding that the problem was difficult to resolve because individual districts are allowed to make decisions on how to assign teachers to schools.
Teach for American recruits new college graduates, gives them five weeks of summer training and then places them in some of America’s neediest classrooms, presuming that just a little over a month of training is sufficient to do the job. Critics point out that high-needs students, who are the ones who get TFA teachers, are the children who most need veteran teachers. In fact, some veterans are now losing their jobs to TFA corps members, because TFAers are less expensive to hire, and some school teaching communities are becoming less cohesive because TFA members promise only to stay for two years and leave teaching at a greater rate than traditionally trained teachers.
In his speech to the US Congress on the 24th I heard Pope Frances speak to the issues of poverty and opportunity when he said
“How much has been done in these first years of the third millennium to raise people out of extreme poverty! I know that you share my conviction that much more still needs to be done, and that in times of crisis and economic hardship a spirit of global solidarity must not be lost. At the same time I would encourage you to keep in mind all those people around us who are trapped in a cycle of poverty. They too need to be given hope. The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes. I know that many Americans today, as in the past, are working to deal with this problem.”
“Now is the time for courageous actions and strategies, aimed at implementing a “culture of care” (ibid., 231) and “an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature” (ibid., 139).
“…I think of the march which Martin Luther King led from Selma to Montgomery fifty years ago as part of the campaign to fulfill his “dream” of full civil and political rights for African Americans. That dream continues to inspire us all. “
“I would encourage you to keep in mind all those people around us who are trapped in a cycle of poverty. They too need to be given hope..”
“I know that Let us remember the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Mt 7:12).”
“This Rule points us in a clear direction. Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities which we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow, as we would like to be helped ourselves. In a word, if we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities.”
What the Pope said is nice, great and true; it was good to hear him tell the wealthy white men in Congress and else where to follow the Golden Rule but it’s my opinion that we need to pick-up the baton and do for ourselves as we did prior to desegregation and that’s to teach our children ourselves and create our own opportunities. Why, because it’s my opinion that whites can’t do it…their culture will not allow them…psychologically, they’er incapable, if but because they usually, aren’t willing to teach racial pride or don’t know how to serve as a role model for our children.
