Last week there was a letter to the editor regarding the NAACP. After reading it, another topic came up and I looked up the Arizona Educational Achievement Ratings by racial/ethnic (Hispanic is not a race, fellow Chicanos... it's an ethnicity) breakdowns. It was shocking to me. I grew up smack-dab in the middle of the South-Central Los Angeles ghetto (L.A.P.D.'s 77th Street precinct), a block away from where the Watts riots started.
Back in the 1950s and up until about 1963, the black kids who I went to school with at Edison Junior High and J.C. Fremont High School students were better educated than they are today. The 2010 Arizona Achievement Ratings show black students in 4th grade below "basic" knowledge scores at 41 percent in math, and 48 percent in reading. By the time black students reach the 8th grade their score in math has gone up one percentage point to 42 percent below basic knowledge, and in reading it has improved only slightly to 42 percent. Hispanic basic knowledge scores are the same or worse.
Can you blame not having the right to vote, not having the right to serve in the military, being denied admittance into higher education because of skin color, being restricted by job quotas or not being allowed to buy a home or rent an apartment? The answer is "no." There is a black U.S. president, first lady and first family in the White House. Blacks sit on the Supreme Court, and were four-star generals. So why are today's young blacks failing in schools?
Leon Ceniceros, Mesa
k33j88 posted at 4:27 am on Fri, Sep 16, 2011.
Young African/Americans are bombarded with the negative strereotype looser mentality at an early age. The liberal media complex enforces the "entitlement mentality ", victim, race card agenda on young impressionable minds. These negative social moral values are re-inforced into every aspect of their lives. Then you have the likes of jesse jackson, al sharpton, and rap artists twisting the concepts of "right vs wrong". What can one possibly expect when this is all they see and hear.
Cerulean posted at 10:16 am on Fri, Sep 16, 2011.
I recently read an article that may address some of the concerns you elicit in your letter. The article suggests,” One of the most reliable predictors of whether a boy will succeed or fail in high school rests on a single question: does he have a man in his life to look up to?” It is not difficult to make a connection between role models and achievement scores on tests.
Boys, in general are falling behind on test scores in all disciplines except sports. “These days, when sixth-grade science teacher Pat Farrell assigns an earth-science lab on measuring crystals, the girls collect their materials--a Bunsen burner, a beaker of phenyl salicylate and a spoon. Then they read the directions and follow the sequence from beginning to end. The first things boys do is ask, "Can we eat this?"”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/01/29/the-trouble-with-boys.html
TeaPartyPatriot posted at 8:51 am on Sat, Sep 17, 2011.
I understand American Blacks score much higher in all areas that their counterparts in Africa. Well done men. Keep up the good work. We're all proud of you.
Is it bigotry to point out what sub groups of our population are doing so poorly in education? In AA they teach that one must first acknowledge that you have a problem before and remedy can be achieved. Are we to ignore these large discrepancies in the name of the great God, PC? Why would any sane man call it bigotry to point out a massive problem within our culture. Blacks Americans are not keeping up educationally with the rest of society, and that is the essence of their problems.
They blame the Tea Party for going to war against Blacks because we want to cut much of the entitlement programs, yet it is their fault that a large portion of their population is on welfare or working government jobs created for no other sound reason than to employ Blacks who would otherwise be unemployable. If you want to fix a problem you must name it and define it. Thank you Leon for doing just that.
venonacables posted at 6:21 am on Mon, Sep 19, 2011.
The Bell Curve, a book written by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, claims that IQ has a hereditary component. The average white person has an IQ of 100. The average Asian person has an IQ of 107. The average black person has an IQ of 85. J. Philippe Rushton wrote a book titled Race, Evolution, and Behavior. In this book, he claimed that there is a statistical correlation between IQ and brain size. The average Asian-American brain has a size of 1,416 cubic centimeters. The average European-American brain has a size of 1,380 cubic centimeters. The average African-American brain has a size of 1,359 cubic centimeters.
NothingButTheTruth posted at 9:35 am on Tue, Sep 20, 2011.
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
Rank↓ Country/Region↓ IQ (2002)[6]↓ IQ (2006)[7]↓
1 Hong Kong 107 108
2 Singapore 103 108
3 North Korea 105* 106*
4 South Korea 106 106
5 Japan 105 105
6 Taiwan 104 105
7 China 100 105
8 Italy 102 102
9 Iceland 98* 101
10 Mongolia 98* 101*
11 Switzerland 101 101
12 Austria 102 100
12 Luxembourg 101* 100*
13 Netherlands 102 100
14 Norway 98 100
15 United Kingdom 100 100
16 Germany 102 99
17 Belgium 100 99
18 Canada 97 99
19 Estonia 97* 99
20 Finland 97 99
21 New Zealand 100 99
22 Poland 99 99
23 Sweden 101 99
24 Andorra N/A 98*
25 Spain 99 98
26 Australia 98 98
27 Czech Republic 97 98
28 Denmark 98 98
29 France 98 98
30 Hungary 99 98
31 Latvia 97* 98*
32 United States 98* 98*
It continues down from here, but I lost heart after seeing where America stands.
Even the N. Koreans are smarter than the average American.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
VofReason posted at 12:32 pm on Tue, Sep 20, 2011.
Maybe it is becuase we don't give enough tax money to education. Just kidding.