Roy Exum: Educational Agony
Roy Exum
This is the fourth year that Tiffany France has sent her son – let’s call him Joe – to Augusta Fells High School in urban Baltimore, where Joe ranks in the top half of the senior class. He’s No. 52 in a class of 120. So, imagine Tiffany’s horror when she learned that, no, he will not be graduating this spring. Nor in any spring in the foreseeable future. In a scene being played out in public schools all over the nation, just now Tiffany has been told Joe has failed 22 of 25 classes and has a 0.13 grade-point average. Oh, and he has either been tardy or missed 272 school days.
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The otherwise sterling reputation of Baltimore City took a hit last week when the local news reported on the plight of Tiffany France. She is the mother of a 17-year-old son, who was just informed he will have to start high school over again. She thought he was on pace to graduate this spring, but it turns out that he passed just three classes in four years and was carrying a 0.13 grade point average.
Now, failing students are not a new thing. Students passing through the American public school system without learning much of anything is not new either. In the urban jungles of places like Baltimore, the public schools are gladiator academies. They are pre-prison, where young males learn to function as a gang member or learn how to navigate around the gangs. They also keep the kids off the streets during the day.
It is now leftist orthodoxy that any disparities you can measure between groups are evidence of racism and white supremacy, and that equity requires equal outcomes, not equal rights. One reason today s race-mongers say it is no longer legitimate to treat people as individuals can be grasped by comparing these two news stories from earlier this week involving the educational outcomes of two black teen boys, one in Baltimore, and
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