African-American Boys Receive Less Attention, Lower Grades And Harsher Punishment In School – NewsOne

A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the Washington, D.C. area are suspended or expelled two to five times more often than White children. It’s a national trend that needs to be addressed. (More)

Response: This reminds me of a middle school where a white male principal school got on the school’s intercom and called all of the black males to the auditorium to talk to them because they were at-risk. When I heard about this, it pissed me the hell off. The only problem is I didn’t have a male child in the school because I would have sued the damn system. I had a daughter there at the time and since I did challenge him, damn fool responded to my emails and I messed his behind up but I couldn’t go but so far. He retaliated by trying to use my daughter but his tail was moved to the Central Office. I think I still have the emails today whereby I questioned him what did he tell them? He had invited a black minister to come talk to them but he claimed he forgot about it when I questioned him. But my problem was all of these black males where not doing bad in school and I told him that hell I was an adult black male and I am considered myself at-risk as well. But my question was what kind of message did this send to little black girls, white girls and white males about the black male? All black males are at-risk be they in school or out of school. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

School Issues: How Do We Deal With Parents?

1.  How do we deal with children whose parents that are not real parents?

2.  How do we deal with parents who are not involved with their children education but goes to work, church and mingle with others who are involved in their children’s education?

3.   At what point do the school system step in and do something with the children who are disrupting the class?

4.   I would love to see a survey done to show how many children that are acting out in class whose parents are not real parents.

5.   At what point and time do the community and the church get involve with the children that we know that do not have real parents?

6.  At what point do the retired educators and other retirees help with dealing with school issues?

7.  Do you as an individual deal with issues involving children that you feel need addressing?

Note: The above questions came to mind while listening to FM 92.1 Morning Show with Bob Barnes.

A teacher called in and talked about:

1.  Dropout rates

2.  Age of teacher

3.  Age of parents

4.  Church involvement

5.  Crack cocaine has messed up our communities. Children are now raising themselves.

The teacher said she just don’t know how we can get it back on track.