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Education: No Longer a Panacea for Blacks

Judy721 Wrote: Jul 30, 2012 11:09 AM

High School Remedial Classes: Grads who aren't college ready cost millions; Newspaper article today a young white girl entering college (state college at that) will have to attend summer school to learn Math before she will be accepted into college after not testing well. She passed all her FCAT"s tests to get her HS diploma, but teachers are passing students to look good on their teaching scores, not the students achievement which are lacking to make college entry levels. So its not just blacks that are not applying themselves in school. I owned a business we had applications you could barely read the handwriting, some not completed, basic understanding of questions asked -zero.

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pkennedy Wrote: Jan 12, 2013 6:15 PM

Well, as a high school math teacher (or rather someone with a high school math teaching license) I can tell you that the reason so many students are graduating without much math knowledge whatsoever is that the environments at most public high schools are hardly conducive to learning up to Algebra let alone anything higher like Trig, Calculus, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, or Statistics. I get 6th graders who can't even multiply yet, and worse yet, don't seem to care, and neither do their parents or whoever is responsible for them. Set foot in most minority high schools and see that the problem is the minority mentality of anyone who actually cares about math or any of the sciences is "acting white" and that is supposedly a BAD thing.....

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william704 Wrote: Aug 05, 2012 11:36 AM

i have to agree completely . my grandson just graduated HS in june w ent to apply for college and was told with no testing that he needed to take math 101 as a requirment for ANY course. his grade for math was the equivalent of a b+. why was he required to take math 101. it is a general math taught in 10 th grade.

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pkennedy Wrote: Jan 12, 2013 6:17 PM

We don't "pass" them just to make ourselves look good as teachers; in some areas we "pass" them to avoid retaliation by the school board, the parents, and sometimes the kids. We don't want to get shot, stabbed, or raped.

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Education: No Longer a Panacea for Blacks

A recent article in the Washington Post highlighted a particular segment of the nation’s struggling unemployed. That is in itself is not surprising. After all, black unemployment exceeds the unemployment level for handicapped people and many other challenged groups within our nation. The group that the Post profiled was people with Ph.D.s in the sciences. An increasing number of chemists, biologists and other scientists who have invested heavily in their education are finding themselves jobless. Of those who are employed, thousands are doing lower-wage “post-doc” work in laboratories, as opposed to heading up research projects or teaching in universities.

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