re: "Stop blaming black parents for underachieving kids"

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A Want, I am a teacher, and I agree with your thoughts.

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[edited to add - I agree]

I was a teacher for the past 11 years - retired in October.

In all of the frantic meetings on "what can we do to improve students' performance?" I always told them that unless we demanded something from the parents, nothing we did would be effective.

I suggested having Saturday detention for unruly students that the PARENTs were required to attend. Either that or the kid is expelled.

and requiring that the PARENTs submit documentation of that THEY were doing to assist their underperforming students, both in terms of tutorial assistance and learning environment. Either that or the kid fails.

Of course none of this was "possible" - luckily, I didn't give a crap about whether or not the 'let me go' - I was teaching just because I felt like I was "giving back" something to my community. I could walk away at any time - which is what I did when the crappy administrative response to the Common Core came down. I could no longer live with their bullshite 'implementation' plans.

Common Core Standards were golden - I was excited when I first read them (math only) - the CC embodied every tenet I had about math education.

sorry for off topic - the current education problem rests with the parents - PERIOD. Pouring more money into failing schools makes it worse, not better.