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The Real Achievement Gap

Time:2009-07-25 21:32Source:web Writer:Ronald Newton
A humorous look at the partners in education actions and responsibilities. Where education is going and why we are being dragged behind it.
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Why Black children don't score exactly like White children on achievement tests in public schools.? Perhaps their focus is on not being exactly like White children? ? I am sure a firestorm of protest will roll in now!? But I don't care.? The so called achievement gap is closing in southern states. ? No so much in northern states. ? In the city where our national capital resides public education is a dismal failure.

Maybe Johnny can read as a result of a serious parent smacking him upside his head or applying a belt to his behind.? The terrorist tactics of punishment serve to provide temporary benefits versus long term image damage.? What part of pay attention do you not understand?

Let us let bk stand for black kid and wk stand for white kid. ? Already the political correct police will be coming to arrest the development of common sense in the treatment of our educational darlings.

What is the answer to these questions?

  • DO bk equal wk?

  • DO bk have same economic status as wk?

  • DO teachers have the same expectations for bk as wk?

  • Is an equal amount of money spent on bk versus wk?

  • DO the parents of bk care like the parents of wk?

Human nature will always win out bubba.? Want a grade improvement on the kid's report card?? Have four parent teacher meetings wearing a suit while using standard English if you are Black! ? Have a power breakfast with your teacher if you are White.? I don't see a need for a federal, state, local busybody to be in charge of my child's education. ? They need to remember that they are not paying for it.

The reason the kid can't read fool is that he doesn't have to and no one cares if he or she does. ? Do you really think a failing public school is going to give vouchers so a kid can get an education?? Schools don't pay for performance! ? That's like welfare departments sterilizing mothers to prevent poverty. ? It doesn't have to work just be something that can be done. ? And yes, they did do that.

Kids fearing their parents is a marvelous aid to educational goals. ? Fear is a wonderful motivator!? Even God preferred to be feared than loved.? If you don't believe in GOD substitute parents.? Can public education be the same in Washington DC as it is in Beverly Hills?? I can hope so but I believe money will win out!

I am not against rap music the sound of my knuckles rapping on my son's skull seem to provide motivation to hit the books and homework in the evenings.

You want to see the achievement gap overcome.? Explain to your intellectually challenged brood the golden rule. ? He who has the gold make the rules.

The mystery of why Billy is asleep in class is solved?? Poor Billy was struggling to raise his parents all by himself.? He has to stay up late at night keeping tabs on them.? It not easy to raise yourself without your parents help.? Billy is doing the best he can. Especially since his parents are back on the job!? We can't have fathers acting like they are in charge of their children that's welfare's job! ? A Black man in charge is an oxymoron.? Everyone knows that dads don't deserve any respect. ? Just look at any TV show.

Why the hierarchy in education loves big multi-syllable words and no accountability ceases to amuse me when I get my tax bill.? Not only can't they teach my kid but they can't tell in any meaningful way what they are going to do about it. ? I would hope by grade five 9 times 8 would have a definable answer not a dissertation on grouping. ? I want my kid not to have to take off his shoes to do math.

Then it dawned on me.? The solution was simple! ? Have a public teacher in every home.? This would reduce child care expenses, latch key kids and ensure that kid s were taught in stable environment a personal curriculum.? This could lead to year round education and vacations without the children. ? It's true that we might have to eat the cost of unused buses and school buildings.? There would be the savings in not having to maintain them.

We need to close the schools for ten years and:

  • Build the plan on what to teach.

  • How to teach.

  • Where to teach.

  • Whom to teach.

  • How to remember what was taught?

In ten years the problem might have disappeared.? Our kids education is too important to leave in the hands of the politicians, the school board, and the NEA.? No child left behind in the clutches of public education sounds like a feasible justifiable act in bringing education into the 21st century.? One teacher has a classroom of 3 and salary of $15,000.? While an elderly teacher with a classroom of thirty kids make $160,000 and has spa Wednesdays courtesy of the parents.? Quality education can't be had on Mickey D wages.

I saw program on TV when babies aged two were reading at home because of dvd instruction.? At age eight a GED might be possible even a college degree at eighteen. Science just may have the answer for us.

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