Better way to teach…
…Black Boys. School is just a social club and they need to be in stricter environment without the distractions
A new report by a statewide task force that paints a grim picture of how African American male students are faring in Maryland’s public schools and universities recommends strengthening mentor programs, encouraging more black men to be teachers and providing more academic support for those who need it.
Two of the more controversial proposals are suggestions to place troubled students at black-majority high schools into single-sex classes and to encourage nonviolent offenders to be mentors to students
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The report cites several statistics to bolster the contention that more needs to be done. Of the 32,000 African American boys in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades eligible to take an Advanced Placement exam in 2005, the report says, only 1,229 did so. The report also notes that in 2004-05, six of every 10 suspensions involved a black student.
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The report acknowledges that placing some students in single-sex classes many seem harmful but argues that many African American boys are already segregated because they are disproportionately placed in special education and non-college preparatory courses [Entire Article]
Other reading: School officials in Kansas City apparently think so little of black children that they tried to pass off verbal abuse in the classroom as part of black “culture” and therefore acceptable behavior (for them). Translation: You just can’t hold them to a higher standard because they are less
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No wonder a black woman can’t find a decent black man! No one is teaching them how to be real men and condoning outrageous behavior by them. Black girls get s**t on very early by these black boys before they even become women and are forced to make something of themselves as a single mothers while the black “men” go on to their “careers” as sorry broke a** habitual impregnators that leave at the first sign of responsibility. I don’t expect much from them either anymore. Sad part of this is that the white teacher was probably some idealist that was trying to help these poor and downtrodden kids and look at the response she got. Now she probably thinks there is no hope for us after she has seen how black kids act like a pack of f**king animals. All this stupid s**t falls on your heads you sorry a** black men for not standing up and being men. I can’t even stand to look a sorry a** nigga in the face anymore
you know sometimes I think they should turn these sorry a** black “men” into eunuchs. it should be revoked for misuse.
yes folks, damn right I am pissed and I can’t stand to see their sorry a** behavior condoned time and time again
Regarding the article on bridging the gap in achievement: Black Males. The following behaviors and attitudes need to be addressed effectively and quickly before real progress can be made. Mentors, Black Teachers, Parents, Role models can all help.
Succeeding in school is acting white.
Rap is the real language and life message of the streets and life.
Limits on behavior: curfews for school nights, i.e. In the house by 6:00P.M.
Fighting is for fools
Having a child is a right of passage.
Barak Obama and similar individuals are not real Blacks because they don’t have the ‘experience.’
Jewlery and clothes are the proof of success.
Don’t snitch.
@ Howard:
You GAVE IT!
Anon…Please stop typing; your ignorance is showing and so trite. Being a black man or boy doesn’t make one a nigga
Dr. Simon - Well stated, however we cannot forget instilling accountability, self-esteem and respect in our youth. Last week there was a very information chat, Helping African-American Boys, regarding this very subject. The transcript can be accessed at http://www.edweek.org/chat/transcript_05_17_2007.html
well, Bint Will they need to stop acting like niggas and like human beings. too many of us have been through it with them and their sh*t
Well anon,
A person can only do what you allow him or her to do to you. If you know ole boy has a history of spreading his seeds and neglecting his duties as a father, why lay down and allow him to screw you? Is the dingaling that good that you’ll overlook everything else? You sound as foolish as the men who say, “She trapped me, into getting her pregnant!” “She gave me AIDS, Herpes….” as well as the women, “He got me pregnant!,” “he gave me a disease.” All black men do not behave like niggas. Having a penis or vagina doesn’t make one a man or woman, just as being over the age 21 doesn’t make one mature.
Leeches prey on weak. lonely and desperate women. Women buy the man shortage hype, so they get what they can, regardless of how many red flags are smacking upside their heads.
I’ve never been through anything with a black man or a nigga, because I don’t have the misfortune of being around niggas. However, I went through hell with my the first muslim man I ever married. He mistreated me because I ALLOWED IT. I made excuses for his behavior, even to the point where I started to blame myself and tell myself I deserved what was happening. When I decided to stop it, it stopped so although I was a victim in that situation, I wasn’t free of blame…feel me?
Yes, black women need to stop enabling black men. Black women need to be more selective of whom they allow between their legs, and even more selective of whom they allow to empregnant them. Black women need to have more self respect and save the coochie for marriage, instead of giving Hakim, Leroy, or Bob the BENEFITS of marriage W/OUT the responsiblities. I know too many decent black men, including black men who only desire black women, sadly they are all Christians to believe black women can’t find a good black man.
Salaam
I wonder how Hispanic American boys do??
Anybody know?