The entire school system in America should be overhauled. Every child and teen should be on the exact same reading level no matter where the reside...We're slipping further and further behind other countries and its become a cancer particularly in black community. They suffer the most when everything around them gets neglected and moved out. This country needs good honest teachers for students, however parents can be the exact if they all put a collaborate effort into it.. No solutions are easy however many can be salvageable. I feel like crime within the black community has become so sensationalized that we forget about the real problems facing all of us today...I will go on to say that the black community needs to demand more and better not for tomorrow but for its future and it needs to start right now! They are are literally killing each other left and right. Its sad to see it being acceptable which is a disgrace...
It's not the entire school system. Public schools work well in communities that have a middle class and higher family population, and our public schools are probably this country's single greatest accomplishment.The entire school system in America should be overhauled. Every child and teen should be on the exact same reading level no matter where the reside...We're slipping further and further behind other countries
Where they are failing is places that are overwhelmed with a student population from poor families, in particular multigenerational poor living among other multigenerational poor in neglected neighborhoods. And the reason the problem is expanding is that employment has not recovered from pre-2008 levels, a problem that has disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic minorities that have tended to not be as far along the path of familial wealth creation. These problems also affect poor white and Asian communities, but those represent a smaller share of the Asian and white population than do the poor portion of the Hispanic and Black communities, thus these problems are more visible among Blacks and Hispanics.
If you look at things through a fine grained lens, and acknowledge that poorer communities have different needs (largely as a result of life stresses and/or family history, that their more affluent counterparts do not have to deal with and which bear down on their kids in a negative way) you can make a strong case that children from those settings need to be engaged differently than their wealthier counterparts. Not because they are inherently inferior or stupid, but because when they leave the classroom, the support system their middle class and higher counterparts have at home and in their communities, is largely absent and there is often not the personal attention or money to fill that void.
Start here, and you can address problems like what happened on Delmar head on.
One semi-related note in response to BrickCity...
The solution is ABSOLUTELY NOT to get every child not the exact same level. There are children who are capable of excelling. Our solutions to help bring up children that are struggling should not be such that they limit our most gifted children from succeeding.
Almost as important as helping our worst off children succeed is helping our most gifted children be all that they can.
I should note that the "gifted" and "not well off" are not mutually exclusive. There are plenty of gifted children that fall into the categories we're discussing. My point is just that we shouldn't fall into the trap of trying to get every student to the same point. We should try to get every student to an acceptable point while also encouraging those who can be better to be better.
The solution is ABSOLUTELY NOT to get every child not the exact same level. There are children who are capable of excelling. Our solutions to help bring up children that are struggling should not be such that they limit our most gifted children from succeeding.
Almost as important as helping our worst off children succeed is helping our most gifted children be all that they can.
I should note that the "gifted" and "not well off" are not mutually exclusive. There are plenty of gifted children that fall into the categories we're discussing. My point is just that we shouldn't fall into the trap of trying to get every student to the same point. We should try to get every student to an acceptable point while also encouraging those who can be better to be better.
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No argument from me i'm a listener and understanding every ones view point helps me keep all this information in my little tiny brain 
haven't read through the entire thread, but my hometown got a rude awakening recently... http://www.courier-journal.com/story/ne ... p/6981285/
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It's very interesting how people seem to believe that their towns and cities are immune to any sort of crime/violence.. They always try to point out Detroit and St.Louis as examples but I'm sorry to say any town and city can be dangerous at any given time. We never know when someone going to lose a screw and go loony ..
I seriously think we should look into a program that gives away Xbox or PlayStation's... Let the teens waste their time on that then causing trouble.
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I think we should invest in CCTV monitoring in popular entertainment areas. I know the CWE already has a little bit of that, but we also need it in the Loop and Wash Ave. badly.
BrickCity4470 wrote:The entire school system in America should be overhauled. Every child and teen should be on the exact same reading level no matter where the reside...We're slipping further and further behind other countries and its become a cancer particularly in black community. They suffer the most when everything around them gets neglected and moved out. This country needs good honest teachers for students, however parents can be the exact if they all put a collaborate effort into it.. No solutions are easy however many can be salvageable. I feel like crime within the black community has become so sensationalized that we forget about the real problems facing all of us today...I will go on to say that the black community needs to demand more and better not for tomorrow but for its future and it needs to start right now! They are are literally killing each other left and right. Its sad to see it being acceptable which is a disgrace...
The black community is not killing each other left and right. Drug gangs and people affiliated with the criminal underbelly of most major cities are killing each other left and right, violent crime is also down in most major cities. The media likes to sensationalize black crime, because it confirms white Americas fears about the other side of the track. The truth is most black people are just like most white people and value the same things. Now the culture of poverty is much higher in the black community for obvious reasons, mostly legacy of discrimination, but even then most black Americans and black St. Louisans do not live in poverty or ghettos in 2014. Simply put, there are more Bill Cosbys, George Jeffersons, and even Black Archie Bunkers than the Wire or Boyz n the Hood.