AT LAUSD THERE IS LITERALLY NO BELIEF THAT THE MINORITY STUDENTS CAN LEARN
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
While it remains politically correct to say Black and Latino students can learn, there's a little problem. Those running this still untouched de facto segregated public education system for their own short-term personal interest and financial profit really don't share this belief. Oh, they'll continue to mouth all the politically correct feel good platitudes about all students being "life long learners" with "100% graduation rates" and "everybody going to college," even though the easily verifiable reality is not only drastically different, but rather diametrically opposed to any realistic possibility of achieving these positive and clearly disingenuous education goals for the overwhelming majority of Black and Latino students.
When it comes to actually implementing known best day to day educational practices, those running the system not only do nothing to pragmatically address students subjective educational needs at these students true and easily verifiable academic levels, they irrationally- while there still would have been a chance to address and positively deal with these students deficits- choose to do nothing.
What is actually the biggest impediment to educating predominantly Black and Latino students to their innate potential is what remains the immutable belief of human egos and their longstanding commitment over more than 400 years to the idea of minority inferiority. And when you add to this the fact that there are a whole lot of entrenched bureaucrats of all races that are doing quite well financially under the present clearly failed public education system, the real difficult in changing this clearly failed system becomes understandable.
If those running the longstanding institutionally clearly racist public education system in the context of an equally institutionally racist society were confronted with a reality of Black and Latino endemic human cleverness and excellence in a nurturing pragmatic educational environment, then for the first time this society would have to deal with what has been the systematic and legally sanctioned destruction of a people- who in reality are just like the rest of us- if given half a chance on a level playing field. Yes, with the same strengthens and weakness of all other components of this flawed human society.
How stubborn is human ego, when it comes to changing long held racist beliefs that continue to make you better by vilifying others? And how easy would it be to finally confront mindless majorities who only do what they do "because we've always done it that way?" In answering this, one need only look at how drastically cheaper equal education for all is than the clearly avoidable costs of incarceration and other forms of social disruption that remain the clear byproducts of an American society that steadfastly has continued to refuse equal quality public education for all.
Being the eternal optimist that is at the core of ever good teacher, let me take a stab at making an argument to finally convince my overt and yet closeted racial segregationists fellow Americans: Would you rather have purposefully uneducated Black and Latino ex-students clogging the juvenile justice system at a cost of $78,000 a year or would you rather have them paying taxes and being productive members of our society?
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