The low black educational achievement in Seattle Public schools is easily explained. It is not a race issue, it's a housing issue.
What are the demographics for the level of education in Seattle?
The vast majority of employers look for the highest qualified, most dependable employee available regardless of race, color or religion. How is that racist?
Do you think this might have something to do with the incomes of blacks in Seattle?
Seattle schools have biggest white-black achievement gap in state
Originally published May 9, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated May 9, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Among the 200 biggest school districts in the U.S., Seattle has the fifth-biggest gap in achievement between black and white students. Seattle’s white-black gap is also the biggest in Washington.
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Seattle Times staff columnist
White kids in Seattle’s public schools are doing great.
They’re performing about two grade levels above the national average on standardized exams. That finding comes from a sweeping new Stanford studyof 2009-2012 test scores from third- through eighth-grade students around the country.
But for black kids in Seattle, the data from that study paint a very different picture. They test one and a half grade levels below the U.S. average. Compared with their white peers in the city, black students lag by three and a half grade levels.
Seattle schools have biggest white-black achievement gap in state
The low black educational achievement in Seattle Public schools is easily explained. It is not a race issue, it's a housing issue.
What are the demographics for the level of education in Seattle?
The vast majority of employers look for the highest qualified, most dependable employee available regardless of race, color or religion. How is that racist?
Do you think this might have something to do with the incomes of blacks in Seattle?
Seattle schools have biggest white-black achievement gap in state
Originally published May 9, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated May 9, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Among the 200 biggest school districts in the U.S., Seattle has the fifth-biggest gap in achievement between black and white students. Seattle’s white-black gap is also the biggest in Washington.
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy
Seattle Times staff columnist
White kids in Seattle’s public schools are doing great.
They’re performing about two grade levels above the national average on standardized exams. That finding comes from a sweeping new Stanford studyof 2009-2012 test scores from third- through eighth-grade students around the country.
But for black kids in Seattle, the data from that study paint a very different picture. They test one and a half grade levels below the U.S. average. Compared with their white peers in the city, black students lag by three and a half grade levels.
Seattle schools have biggest white-black achievement gap in state
Seattle is the fastest growing city of this decade of all major cities. People of all races are moving to Seattle. This has caused a huge increase in housing costs. As a result, lower income families can not afford housing in Seattle. When they move to Seattle, they stay with friends or in low priced motels while they look for housing in surrounding cities and towns.
The majority of black families that live in Seattle, live in South Seattle in low income subsided housing where crime rates are high and social problems including education, abound. Middle class black families live outside the city. So when you look at Seattle Schools, you see upper and middle income white students and low income black students. Middle class black families in Seattle are almost non-existent This of course occurs in other large cities but not to the extend that it does in Seattle. For example:
The average Seattle home is a 3 bedroom older home and sells for $753,000. The average 2 bedroom apt rents for $2400/mo. The problem is made even worst by the fact that low cost housing hardly even exist in the city. Comparing to other cities you listed in the Study, Seattle housing costs are over 70% higher than Atlanta and over twice as high as Charleston.
Do you know that whites have killed more whites than Black supremacists, 911, and every PD combined?
Racism certainly exist in Seattle as in other cities. It's just a different kind of kind of racism, more passive. In places like Seattle or Portland with relatively few blacks, whites are less likely to feel threaten by blacks as they do in a city that's 60% black and less likely to see aggressive racism. The problem in cities with few blacks is that a black person is looked on as a bit of an oddity and there is no black culture as you might find in Atlanta or New Orleans. A black person that is raised in say a multi-racial family in a multi-racial community would probably like an environment like Seattle and find it lacked racism. However, a person raised in say Atlanta or New Orleans might well feel the very opposite due the lack of a black culture.
What are the demographics for the level of education in Seattle?
The vast majority of employers look for the highest qualified, most dependable employee available regardless of race, color or religion. How is that racist?
Do you think this might have something to do with the incomes of blacks in Seattle?
Seattle schools have biggest white-black achievement gap in state
Originally published May 9, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated May 9, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Among the 200 biggest school districts in the U.S., Seattle has the fifth-biggest gap in achievement between black and white students. Seattle’s white-black gap is also the biggest in Washington.
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy
Seattle Times staff columnist
White kids in Seattle’s public schools are doing great.
They’re performing about two grade levels above the national average on standardized exams. That finding comes from a sweeping new Stanford studyof 2009-2012 test scores from third- through eighth-grade students around the country.
But for black kids in Seattle, the data from that study paint a very different picture. They test one and a half grade levels below the U.S. average. Compared with their white peers in the city, black students lag by three and a half grade levels.
Seattle schools have biggest white-black achievement gap in state
Well, by Liberal arguments there shouldn't be such a wide gap in Seattle between Blacks, and Whites, because that city lacks racism in comparison to most others.
Check the FBI website.
If you look closely at Donald Trump's accomplishments you'll see that they are mostly tweets and outrageous statements. Being a Trump supporter, I'm sure you ignore that as well as the harm he has caused?
Yes, and he accomplished nothing but creating a Caliphate for ISIS, invited Russia into Iraq and Crimea. He led the slowest economic recovery in our history also called Malaise.
Different culture.
Different and relatively undisturbed culture. Right now African immigrants are the highest educationally achieving demographic in the US.
Most Asians that come to US today are high achievers and often have high strong academic backgrounds in technology which makes them strong candidates for top jobs.
