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Schools are realizing that black students have different needs that students of other races. While some are changing their curriclums or structure of the class, many still don’t understand or get the needs of black students. Most black students still remain in deeply segregated school districts. They are often the poor and low income districts with little to no resources.
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I think the institution of public education in the United States changed the strategies used to educate students when they were forced to integrate. They ultimately created other forms of segregation that utilizes current data from research that explains how human development and learning happens. Those left in the public schools are typically test subjects and placeholders in the mission lines of funding proposals. But I digress…individuals within the school systems are beginning to challenge the status quo.
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I like your comment. I think we have to think outside of the box when it comes to educating our kids and not let the public school system dictate all the rules. That is why it is important to stay engaged and informed. We also need to be active politically around this subject.
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How do you think political engagement should look in order to cause change? In my efforts, I have been so unsuccessful that now I am almost completely unengaged as my objective is migration to an African nation.
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I respect that. However, I consider revolutionary when it comes to education. It is my knowledge that public education is innately corrupt just as the systems of government, justice, and economy in the United States. In effort to maintain the institution of White Supremacy on the planet, the education system has to be a foundational element of intellectual and academic control. The goal is to retard the development of Black children who enter public schools much further advanced than their non-black peers. They are speaking more readily and clearly, holding full conversation, understanding the foundations of mathematics, etc. Yet, on cue, at 3rd grade they suddenly fall short. This is the time when reading moves from learning to read to reading to learn. This is also the time when systems develop future building plans for the new field slave housing developments (prisons). That said, I have encouraged the parents I encounter to teach their children at home and find support in those areas where they find themselves academically weak. I am not very mathematical, yet my homeschooled daughters are in college for biophysics and veterinarian science. I went into the public system with the mindset that I could change something for the better. But its like going to the farm and trying to civilize a pig. It is what it is.
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(edit)* However, I consider myself a revolutionary when it comes to education.
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“We have one colored boy,
Moses Davis, who has a genius for architecture, whose work in this
department is attracting attention. Somebody ought to give him a
chance, not too much of a chance, as it might spoil him, but a chance
to work his way up.We are convinced that the Negro needs physical as well as mental
and Christian training. He needs the ten hours’ drudgery which he
gets in the shops to put him in shape for the struggle of life. He
must go to his work with an appetite.” …wow.
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