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Unfortunately, quite a few black and Hispanic kids live in crappy inner-city school districts. That probably has a lot to do with it. Fund schools with state taxes instead of local taxes, and those black and Hispanic kids will have a better chance.
Uh, no. Look at us in New Jersey. The Abbott districts get extra state money and the schools are as bad or worse than ever.
Why are there so few black and hispanic engineers?
I have worked in IT all my career, and have worked with lots of black and hispanic software engineers. Down here in Florida there a LOT of hispanic engineers.
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It starts with inner-city schools. You know, the places that Trump promised he would make better on the campaign trail?
My father was a DC Public School teacher for over 35 years. He taught at Banneker Academic High school, a top 50 "black high school" in the USA. Google it. It has 100% graduation rate, and nearly 100% college acceptance rate.
For 30 years, my father never had enough books for his students, he had me go in with him during the summer to make hundreds and hundreds of xerox copies of text books for his kids.
There was no air conditioning, and this is Washington DC. In September, it would be 90 degrees and 90% humidity in the classrooms.
DC public schools were so poor, that in 1996, school opening in the fall was delayed by nearly 30 days because there were so many fire code violations across the city, the Fire Marshall would not allow them to open.
These are just a few of the issues that kids are dealing with in inner-city schools. Trump said he was going to help blacks in inner-cities. Well as president, he has the chance to. But he's more worried about spending $30B on building a wall (literally). Imagine if Trump dumped the funding for his wall into inner-cities? Thirty billion dollars?! That much money would actually make a difference across the low-income inner-cities.
It starts with inner-city schools. You know, the places that Trump promised he would make better on the campaign trail?
My father was a DC Public School teacher for over 35 years. He taught at Banneker Academic High school, a top 50 "black high school" in the USA. Google it. It has 100% graduation rate, and nearly 100% college acceptance rate.
For 30 years, my father never had enough books for his students, he had me go in with him during the summer to make hundreds and hundreds of xerox copies of text books for his kids.
There was no air conditioning, and this is Washington DC. In September, it would be 90 degrees and 90% humidity in the classrooms.
DC public schools were so poor, that in 1996, school opening in the fall was delayed by nearly 30 days because there were so many fire code violations across the city, the Fire Marshall would not allow them to open.
These are just a few of the issues that kids are dealing with in inner-city schools.
Then where in the hell is all the taxpayer funding for public schools going? Camden, NJ; Washington, DC; etc.; public schools spend $16,000-$23,000 per student per year.
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Then where in the hell is all the taxpayer funding for public schools going? Camden, NJ; Washington, DC; etc.; public schools spend $16,000-$23,000 per student per year.
I can only speak for DC, but Washington is in a tough position as it doesn't receive state funding (obviously). So their budgets are always strapped for cash. The feds help but it doesn't cover all expenses.
Again, if Trump were to take some of that estimated thirty billion from his wall budget and pump it into inner-cities, it would help tremendously.
The same reason countries that are majority black or Hispanic are in poverty. The answer seems obvious. WHy aren't there more jews and asians in the NBA?
Blacks are only capable of being janitors, assuming they aren't lazy asses on welfare in the first place,
And Hispanics only know how to grow drugs and pick crops.
This is what many think, so not surprising at all..
I feel college fees are purposely kept so high and not affordable to everyone, so that only a select few can study . So the rest can do cashier jobs and lawn moving at a low rate.
Too; if we're gonna go there: I'm 100 percent sure Black kids whose parents came from Africa do real well, even better than many ASian kids here in the US.
Asians: word is those of CHinese, Japanese and Korean family do a who lot better than Filipinos, Vietnamese and so on. Same basic "race" here ^^^
Engineering tends to be a consistently well-paid job quite simply because the rigorous academic requirements for the degree means there's likely to never be a glut of engineers to depress wages, like we see in the low-skill labor market.
Having more minorities in well-paid jobs increases their demographic's socioeconomic level, on average, and provides more role models and mentors for minority students wishing to pursue the same career goals.
But we can't even get there until the HUGE racial/ethnic academic achievement gaps in our country's K-12 public school system is addressed and corrected. We already know lack of funding isn't the problem. Schools with substantial minority enrollment that spend the most per pupil frequently have among the worst academic results. The problem lies elsewhere.
What’s wrong with smart Blacks and Mexicans just going into Medicine, business or finance if they want a high paying job? You can also make big money in real estate, why is STEM the holy grail of high income?
The truth is that many talented minorities are from well to do black families who can send them to the best schools and certain fields are prioritized over others. It’s not so much that talent that needs to be coaxed but the inclination to use that talent in a STEM job.
There was a program down south that was developed by an African American woman who had a PhD in molecular biology to develop this inclination in young talented high school students. This program was supposedly responsible for developing more African American doctors than any school in the country.
I met a young African American engineer who went through this program although it was to train scientist and doctors. Talented minorities are in so such high demand that they have a lot of lateral mobility in high paying fields.
Science has long been a field of excellence for African Americans and there is an impressive list of notable African American engineers.
As a Creole of color, Norbert Rillieux had access to education and privileges not available to lower-status free blacks or slaves.
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