Education of black children

[MikeWaters]

I was listening to the Diane Reem show this morning on NPR and they had a guy on that was talking about better educating boys.

Started talking about black boys in particular. Interesting statistic he quoted: the average black family in the inner city has 50% the vocabulary of average. So when that kid starts kindergarten he is already at a big disadvantage.

[UtahDan]

here in Virginia in a system that is one of the countries largest and best, though he has been at an administrative level above of and outside of the schools themselves for many years now.

I have heard him talk many times about how other educators (primarily women, primarily left leaning) have spent so much time focusing on getting more girls into upper level math and science classes (where they now outnumber boys) that little or no thought is given to boys.

Boys who are now inferior to girls academically by virtually every concievable objective means. He has often said that when he has raised or attempted to address what can be done to help boys that he is looked at liek he has two heads. Why do boys need help.

Well, one reason is that our increasingly overflowing jails are not filled with women for one thing. There is quite a bit of good literature out there on this subject and it appears that it is beginning to hit the radar screen of the overwhelmingly female and liberal educational establishment. More attention need to be given to this issue, particularly since it is BOYS, and as you say particularly minority boys, who go one to wreak so much havoc on society when they are uneducated.