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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's correct. Ask Black America how schools work for them.[/quote]

It's not the schools that are the problem.  It's the total lack of parental help/involvement in academics.  The black kids with parents who are involved in their education do well.  Those who depend entirely on the schools don't.  No school, including predominantly white ones, will do well if there aren't parents encouraging reading, stressing the importance of doing academic work outside of school, and helping where necessary.  The help could include finding free tutoring for areas in which the parent is unable to help.  People can bash public schools all they want, but lack of parental involvement is the real issue. [/quote]

This is correct.  I tutor at a poor performing school and the children talk about their aunties, grannies, and papas with whom they live. Very few actually live with a mother much less a father.  Often the grandparents and various aunts and uncles are taking care of multiple children and are doing their best to keep everyone clean, fed and to school.  They are older, work and do not have the extra time or energy to devote to children who in most cases were dumped on them.  I have no credentials in teaching reading but for the last 10 years have taught many third graders to read by simply sitting with them and working out the words with them.  It takes so little, but makes a big difference in how the children do in others classes.[/quote]

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