Why not close the achievement gap from the top down?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools can’t close the achievement gap.

This. Only parents can close the gap. It is a parenting gap.

[Anonymous]

It’s a cultural gap. Not every culture prioritizes education. Schools are taught to value every different culture, but how do you do this when some are permissive of skipping school, not studying, and dropping out. You can’t.

[Anonymous]

Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

Who counts as "white"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

Strange to call it an I grained instinct and then give an example of something that people won't learn unless you sneak it into their candy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

Who counts as "white"?

Whites as in Europeans. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

Who counts as "white"?

Whites as in Europeans. Duh.

But also sometimes white latinos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

Strange to call it an I grained instinct and then give an example of something that people won't learn unless you sneak it into their candy.

You have just proven the point lol.

Go to a majority African American school and it’s very doubtful that a unit on Black Wall Street and the Tulsa race riots would need to be “taken with candy”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a cultural gap. Not every culture prioritizes education. Schools are taught to value every different culture, but how do you do this when some are permissive of skipping school, not studying, and dropping out. You can’t.

Well said.

Agree with you completely. But you and I are in the minority.

Our ideas and votes are meaningless, while the voting majority keeps doing things such as eliminating the gifted and talented programs in NYC and Seattle, and so many other examples in public education.

[Anonymous]

Why not make every child equally stupid? Then we will have achieved equality.

Is that not the end result of all the efforts listed in this thread, which are seeking to “close the racial achievement gap from the top down?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Learning is engrained as human instinct. No child or parent point blank “ doesn't care about education” but the subjects have to be relevant to them.

When the killers of the flower moon movie came out recently it became apparent that a lot of people hadn’t heard of the Tulsa race riots but where engaged with the movies depiction.

Unless you are white, the predominantly white middle class people who design school curriculum can’t/won’t prioritise your history and culture and when they do it gets called CRT and gets abolished by white voters.

Strange to call it an ingrained instinct and then give an example of something that people won't learn unless you sneak it into their candy.

You have just proven the point lol.

Go to a majority African American school and it’s very doubtful that a unit on Black Wall Street and the Tulsa race riots would need to be “taken with candy”.

Are you suggesting that only Black people need to learn about racism?

And if they are naturally curious to learn about it, why would they need the movie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're already doing this which is why we're leaving public school, and OP knows it 😂

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a cultural gap. Not every culture prioritizes education. Schools are taught to value every different culture, but how do you do this when some are permissive of skipping school, not studying, and dropping out. You can’t.

What's weird is why you immigrated to a culture that doesn't prioritize education, when your home country did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a cultural gap. Not every culture prioritizes education. Schools are taught to value every different culture, but how do you do this when some are permissive of skipping school, not studying, and dropping out. You can’t.

What's weird is why you immigrated to a culture that doesn't prioritize education, when your home country did.

People immigrate to the US despite the culture, not because of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a cultural gap. Not every culture prioritizes education. Schools are taught to value every different culture, but how do you do this when some are permissive of skipping school, not studying, and dropping out. You can’t.

What's weird is why you immigrated to a culture that doesn't prioritize education, when your home country did.

People immigrate to the US despite the culture, not because of it.

You have that backwards.

As in: 180 degrees backwards.