Black education
“How might one explain the greater civility of Philadelphia and other big city, predominantly black schools during earlier periods compared with today?”
“Many black students are alien and hostel to the education process. They are permitted to make education impossible for other students. Their misbehavior and violence require schools to divert resources away from education and spend them on security, such as hiring school police and purchasing metal detectors, all of which does little for school safety. At a bare minimum, part of the solution to school violence and poor academic performance should be the expulsion of students who engage in assults and disrespectful behavior. You say, “What’s to be done for these students?” Even if we don’t know what to do with them, how compassionate and intelligent is it to permit them to make education impossible for other students?
The fact that black parents, teachers, politicians and civil rights organizations tolerate and make excuses for the despicable and destructive behavior of so many young blacks is a gross betrayal of the memory, struggle, sacrifice, sweat and blood of our ancestors. The sorry and tragic state of black education is not going to be turned around until there’s a change in what’s acceptable and unacceptable behavior by the young people. That change has to come from within the black community.
Source: The sorry, target state of black education BY Walter E. Williams The Enquirer 2/19/12 F3 Walter E. Williams is a (black) professor of economics at George Mason University.
