re: "Stop blaming black parents for underachieving kids"

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If children who are consistently "unavailable to learn" were simply kicked out of school, a lot of the problems would be solved.

Parents who do care, work to make sure their kid is available.

Parents who dont....sorry, we will always need ditch diggers.

Plus, the classroom experience improves because now the teacher teaches rather than discipline students all the time. Kids actually get a good education!

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Agree totally.

Reminds me of one of my more 'famous' responses at one of our school planning meetings. Subject was "student attendance." I rose to give my ideas on improving it. I said 'The problem with student attendance is we have too much of it. If we could get rid of about two dozen kids in this school (of about 800-1000) we would be a much better school for the rest of them."

Most agreed, but said that "wasn't possible." Did get a good laugh out of it though.