re: Biden says the problem in black schools is that parents cannot read or write

My goodness. He is a walking gaffe machine

Replace Biden with Trump and the world is burning right

Rural whites. It's understandable. My extended family lives deep in the Appalachian mountains, in wv. There're no public schools within a hundred miles of their village. There're no cars in the village. I had to use a damn 10 speed bike and 2 days riding through horrible terrain to visit them. It was natural that they can't read or write. There are plenty of villages like that one out there.

I don't understand how this issue is also in the inner cities. Inner cities are normally a few blocks away from public schools.

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Biden says the problem in black schools is that parents cannot read or write

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Does Corn Pop know about this?

Damn, Joe. You don't say that stuff outloud to their faces.

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He might be right to an extent. The fact that the parents don't care or aren't present is the bigger issue, though.

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This. Too many absentee dads.

My wife is a teacher, and she will tell you that what Joe says may not be THE problem, but it is a part of the problem.

The biggest issue is single parent households, or those where grandma is raising the deadbeat child's kids.

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I don't understand how this issue is also in the inner cities. Inner cities are normally a few blocks away from public schools.

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Same as former Washington Redskins player Dexter Manley.

Went to Oklahoma State. Played in the NFL.

Couldn't read a lick. Got pushed right on through the system.

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Here's the deal," he said to the waiter. "I want a mushroom burger with Cheddar cheese instead of Swiss. No, forget it. Let's do the old English burger with lettuce, tomato and onion, which I see there."

See, Dexter Manley was reading the menu. Dexter, who graduated from high school and stayed eligible to play four years at Oklahoma State when he couldn't read, then starred with the Washington Redskins, could handle Houlihans' menu. He made more sense than the waiter, actually.

"I can read my own book," said Dexter, and proceeded to open it to a random passage and read it. It tells how he got the courage to go to the Lab School in Washington for help learning to read because it was too painful not to.

The book is "Educating Dexter," which is the sequel to the locker-room whispers of "Dexter can't read." Dexter recalls how Jeff Bostic, lockering nearby, would hand him a paper to read in front of a crowd to embarrass Dexter.

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Manley finally gets a read on education he missed

Dexter Manley was 30 years ago.

Not able to figure out how to get an ID.