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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever schools are mentioned and equity is mentioned, it always seems to be for African Americans. No other ethnic group struggles the way this group does.

I have seen African immigrants excel. I have seen uneducated refugees from all over the world work hard and succeed. The US has so many opportunities. You have to take advantage of the opportunities.[/quote]

Because people who descended from slavery have generations of trauma epigenetically encoded into their genome.
Even when slaves were freed, they were sent out with no money to survive on their own in a country that still treated them as subhuman. Family networks so critical to survival were not intact.. Slaves weren’t taught to read, so of course they weren’t reading books to their kids. Poverty itself  affects brain development. It’s a very deep hole to try to climb out of. [/quote]

You need to do a bit more in-depth research on each of these assertions before you try to design education policy.  [/quote]

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