100 Percent of Black Students Graduate from Low-Income Brooklyn Public High School

[Anonymous]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/14/at-this-low-income-brooklyn-public-high-school-100-percent-of-black-students-graduate

This is for those of you who continue asking what black people are doing to "fix the problems" in the black community. Once again, it's happening all over the place, via grassroots efforts. This school isn't new, it's been around since 1986 and the story isn't even new, but it is a "mainstream publication" since that matters so much to some of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/07/14/at-this-low-income-brooklyn-public-high-school-100-percent-of-black-students-graduate

This is for those of you who continue asking what black people are doing to "fix the problems" in the black community. Once again, it's happening all over the place, via grassroots efforts. This school isn't new, it's been around since 1986 and the story isn't even new, but it is a "mainstream publication" since that matters so much to some of you.

+1. Thanks for sharing! And like you implied, that those of us who work, live and volunteer in these communities know dozens of stories like this - schools like Urban Prep in Chicago and the Jalen Rose Academy in Detroit. I wish that "mainstream media" focused as much on stories like this as they do other things within our communities. Maybe then, some armchair pundits on DCUM and other places would see the truth.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that it's an all boys school.

[Anonymous]

It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

Awwww...you mad cause it goes against the narrative of how you see young black men?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

Awwww...you mad cause it goes against the narrative of how you see young black men?

No, but it's just hard replicate a school's success if the school gets to pick the students and kick out the ones that fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

Awwww...you mad cause it goes against the narrative of how you see young black men?

They are hand picked. What it doesn't say is how many are expelled or dropped out over the years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

Awwww...you mad cause it goes against the narrative of how you see young black men?

They are hand picked. What it doesn't say is how many are expelled or dropped out over the years.

And you need the article to say that to confirm your prejudices correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

Awwww...you mad cause it goes against the narrative of how you see young black men?

They are hand picked. What it doesn't say is how many are expelled or dropped out over the years.

And you need the article to say that to confirm your prejudices correct?

This is insane. I suspect 100% of black boys who graduate from Stuyvesant and Bronx HS Science also attend college. Show me the school that doesn't get to select kids and gets 100% to college--- THAT will be something to replicate.

[Anonymous]

DC has quite a few schools also.

Here are some....

http://www.wjacademy.org/

http://www.sanmigueldc.org/

http://www.dbcr.org/about-us/welcome/

http://www.catholicacademies.org/

[Anonymous]

Okay so since that example of what black people are doing to "fix the problems" in the black community doesn't meet your standards how about this one then...
Group Of 100 Black Male Professionals Greet Students On First Day, Help Bust Stereotypes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-professionals-greet-kids-first-day-of-school_55e9d78be4b093be51bb647c



Looking forward to what you're going to say to rip this story.

[Anonymous]

Many of you are dramatically underestimating the odds that this school was up against - this wasn't Stuyvesant or Bronx HS. This was a school serving low-income boys - not wealthy children of the 1%.

I thought this was interesting, and absolutely replicable with enough funding/commitment:

"Each student has a guidance counselor, assigned starting in ninth grade, who works with them for all four years and becomes their college counselor. Caseloads at the approximately 600-student school generally stay under 150 students, compared with the national average of 478."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that it's an all boys school.

It's not. The mentorship group is for boys, but the school is co-ed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay so since that example of what black people are doing to "fix the problems" in the black community doesn't meet your standards how about this one then...
Group Of 100 Black Male Professionals Greet Students On First Day, Help Bust Stereotypes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-professionals-greet-kids-first-day-of-school_55e9d78be4b093be51bb647c



Looking forward to what you're going to say to rip this story.

I'm not looking to say anything about the black community's responsibilities to education or whatever. I don't see it like that at all. I am also not saying that the Brooklyn College Academy isn't going great things. What I am saying is that schools that select their kids -- either directly or through self selection- are not saddled with the kids that demand the greatest resources. They can devote tremendously more to the motivated kids and propel them much further. That's great -- but it's no miracle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a selective school, all. Not a great example.

Awwww...you mad cause it goes against the narrative of how you see young black men?

They are hand picked. What it doesn't say is how many are expelled or dropped out over the years.

And you need the article to say that to confirm your prejudices correct?

It is like saying TJ is successful because of the hard work but it is successful because of the students they pick. Since when is pointing out the obvious being prejudice?