LogikAndReazon
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Last Saturday marked the 60-year anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated Americas public schools. Predictably, the hyper-sentimental and aggressively deluded mouthpieces of big government are lamenting that Americas institutions of lesser learning are still unacceptably segregated and that huge discrepancies in test scores persist due to unprovable phantoms such as bigotry. We are lectured that we still have a long way to go and that possibly the only solution is to forcibly desegregate our neighborhoods as well as our schools.
But is it mere coincidence that American education has declined since the landmark decision?
Washington, DCs public-school system allegedly forks out nearly $30,000 per student a yearfor 2010-2011, that was reportedly the highest spending of any major American urban areaand yet over 80% of its students do not even rank as proficient in reading and math, which is the lowest national average.
After 60 years, is it still accurate to call it prejudice?
Might all those horrible disparities in student discipline possibly be linked to behavior rather than prejudice? Might it have anything to do with thuggish teenage imbeciles assaulting elderly teachers?
It seems inarguable that by most known indices, black people do better when theyre around white people. The question most pundits seem afraid to ask: Do whites do better when theyre around black people?
Again and again, we still hear the unscientific mantra that the only difference is skin color. When we are told that African Americans were underrepresented by 48 percent in gifted education, the implication is that this is solely due to white racism rather than a natural dearth of gifted black students.
After 60 years, is it still accurate to call it prejudice? Forget about separate but equalmaybe what many Americans have learned over the past few generations is that even if you force everyone into the same classroom, theyre still going to be different.
The Week That Perished - Taki's Magazine
But is it mere coincidence that American education has declined since the landmark decision?
Washington, DCs public-school system allegedly forks out nearly $30,000 per student a yearfor 2010-2011, that was reportedly the highest spending of any major American urban areaand yet over 80% of its students do not even rank as proficient in reading and math, which is the lowest national average.
After 60 years, is it still accurate to call it prejudice?
Might all those horrible disparities in student discipline possibly be linked to behavior rather than prejudice? Might it have anything to do with thuggish teenage imbeciles assaulting elderly teachers?
It seems inarguable that by most known indices, black people do better when theyre around white people. The question most pundits seem afraid to ask: Do whites do better when theyre around black people?
Again and again, we still hear the unscientific mantra that the only difference is skin color. When we are told that African Americans were underrepresented by 48 percent in gifted education, the implication is that this is solely due to white racism rather than a natural dearth of gifted black students.
After 60 years, is it still accurate to call it prejudice? Forget about separate but equalmaybe what many Americans have learned over the past few generations is that even if you force everyone into the same classroom, theyre still going to be different.
The Week That Perished - Taki's Magazine
