'Alarming' new test-score gap discovered in Seattle schools (racism, private school, party)
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African-American students whose primary language is English perform significantly worse in math and reading than black students who speak another language at home — typically immigrants or refugees — according to new numbers released by Seattle Public Schools.
District officials, who presented the finding at a recent community meeting at Rainier Beach High School, noted the results come with caveats, but called the potential trend troubling and pledged to study what might be causing it.
Sounds like the libs are going to spend more money uselessly.
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At the recent community meeting, much of that distinction was lost on the parents in the audience.
"It's very alarming that students that were born right here are at the bottom of the barrel," said Vallerie Fisher, whose daughter is a senior at Rainier Beach. "How is that possible?"
Actually, this is pretty impressive for "the libs". They're acknowledging a problem exists, that it must have a cause, and are pledging to study to find said cause!
I don't find it surprising. How many immigrants that we let into this country come from a long legacy of slavery? Slavery, and the loss of education, culture, and self-respect it causes cast a long shadow. I am heartened that African immigrants with different cultural backgrounds are doing better. It means that there is hope for our kids, when we can figure out how to remedy the cultural problems that plague our African-American community.
Seattle is an interesting dichotomy. We're the most educated city in the entire nation, boast some of the best private schools in the country, and here in the Eastern suburbs, we have some of the finest public schools anywhere in the nation.
The city of Seattle itself, however....the schools there are almost universally atrocious, and do the typical liberal "one size fits most" philosophy that just hamstrings a system. I don't believe they're reading the difference in scores right, or rather the reason behind them.
The immigrants who come here to work, by and large, are H1(b) workers who are hired on by Microsoft, Amazon, Expedia, etc. These people, by a large margin, all live in the wealthier Eastern suburbs where the schools are good. The non-immigrants overwhelmingly live in Seattle, where the schools are garbage. I think they need to break these numbers up by district as opposed to doing the whole area like this, because they're missing an important caveat. Not only the kids over here in the Eastern suburbs going to better schools, but they are the children of skilled and successful individuals - which, naturally, will give them a leg up over the "Give me free crap and make the East side pay for it" queens over in Seattle.
If the Republican party done something to yield results like this, there would be howls of 'racism' from Sharpton and Jackson, to rival any gathering of canines. But the education system is run lock stock and barrel by liberal democrats, so it's ok to have a 50 pct. black high school dropout rate.
If the Republican party done something to yield results like this, there would be howls of 'racism' from Sharpton and Jackson, to rival any gathering of canines. But the education system is run lock stock and barrel by liberal democrats, so it's ok to have a 50 pct. black high school dropout rate.
Even in the article the Black American parents are blaming the schools not their own shortcomings. Typical.
Seattle is an interesting dichotomy. We're the most educated city in the entire nation, boast some of the best private schools in the country, and here in the Eastern suburbs, we have some of the finest public schools anywhere in the nation.
The city of Seattle itself, however....the schools there are almost universally atrocious, and do the typical liberal "one size fits most" philosophy that just hamstrings a system. I don't believe they're reading the difference in scores right, or rather the reason behind them.
The immigrants who come here to work, by and large, are H1(b) workers who are hired on by Microsoft, Amazon, Expedia, etc. These people, by a large margin, all live in the wealthier Eastern suburbs where the schools are good. The non-immigrants overwhelmingly live in Seattle, where the schools are garbage. I think they need to break these numbers up by district as opposed to doing the whole area like this, because they're missing an important caveat. Not only the kids over here in the Eastern suburbs going to better schools, but they are the children of skilled and successful individuals - which, naturally, will give them a leg up over the "Give me free crap and make the East side pay for it" queens over in Seattle.
Maybe your state has a website where you can get that breakdown.
I know Texas does and you can see the reports of the district and/or individual schools.
Lumping the numbers though is an easy out. All it takes is one or two really bad schools to bring down the whole district. They seem to be very PC about reporting this IMO.
Yeah I know Africans are better thats why the Continent of Africa is doing so well for its people.
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