"What it's Like to Teach Black Students?"

[Dalton Fury]

Despite almost 50 years of large and accelerating efforts to improve the school achievement of African-American students, the gap between their achievement and that of whites and Asians remains about as large as ever.

Yet proposals for what to do about it are basically unchanged: Spend more money and divert existing money to reduce class size and train teachers better, have more students take a rigorous college prep curriculum, work on improving self-esteem, have high expectations, eliminate ability-grouped classes, use cooperative-learning techniques, and reassign top teachers to schools with a high percentage of African-American students.

I have become especially doubtful about whether those approaches will work better in the future than they have in the past when I read this report from the trenches. (I have added boldface to the previous sentence after having posted the essay because some commenters, despite the essay's byline, think I wrote it.) Usually, we hear only from politicians and education leaders (who also are politicians) spouting lofty rhetoric. Occasionally, we hear of a promising program, but which never turns out to be scalable. Or we see a Hollywood movie about some amazing teacher.

http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2009/...hat-is-it.html

[Sikeliot]

You're obsessed with black people. Obsessed.

[Contra Mundum]

You're obsessed with black people. Obsessed.

So are you. You both have niggers in your avatar.

[Dalton Fury]

You're obsessed with black people. Obsessed.

I would like for every negro to go back to da muddaland. They are sub-humans

[Supreme American]

You're obsessed with black people. Obsessed.

You're obsessed with defending them. Is there a reason we're seeing threads uncomplimentary of blacks erased while those slamming Americans and other groups are allowed to stand?

[Sikeliot]

You're obsessed with defending them.

I have African heritage, don't forget.

Is there a reason we're seeing threads uncomplimentary of blacks erased while those slamming Americans and other groups are allowed to stand?

Tell me, we're here to talk about European culture, so what good do threads like this or the one about a black woman having a baby on the toilet serve, other than to sit around dissing another group and cackling like hyenas over it?

[mvbeleg]

"What it's Like to Teach Black Students?"

Have you ever taught them?

[Dalton Fury]

Have you ever taught them?

Blacks can't be taught anything by anybody. Their 80 IQs are proof of that. If I had my way, blacks would be swinging on the end of a rope from a tree limb or dealt with NKVD style.

[Pallantides]

Tell me, we're here to talk about European culture, so what good do threads like this or the one about a black woman having a baby on the toilet serve, other than to sit around dissing another group and cackling like hyenas over it?

It seems many Americans are not interested in learning about the many cultures of Europe.
Not long ago I encountered an American that thought Norway had been a colony of Russia...(the unimaginable ignorance)

[Piparskeggr]

When I was a youth counselor at a military child care/recreation center, I guess I worked with a different level of black, American children (and parents). I saw no difference in learning.

However, these were the children of educated, motivated, involved parents, which is the key for the children of any race.

I was the child of such parents.