{"id":56070,"date":"2014-07-30T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56070"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:30:25","slug":"washington-post-stop-blaming-black-parents-for-underachieving-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56070","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Stop blaming black parents for underachieving kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black educator Andre M. Perry writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Mayors, teachers unions, and news commentators have boiled down the academic achievement gap between white and black students to one root cause: parents. Even black leaders and barbershop chatter target \u201clazy parents\u201d for academic failure in their communities, dismissing the complex web of obstacles that assault urban students daily. In 2011, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg exemplified this thinking by saying, \u201cUnfortunately, there are some parents who\u2026never had a formal education and they don\u2019t understand the value of an education.\u201d Earlier this year, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman diagnosed that city\u2019s public schools\u2019 chief problem: the lack of \u201cactive, radical involvement of every parent.\u201d And even President Obama rued last week that in some black communities, gaining education is viewed as \u201cacting white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly, there is widespread belief that black parents don\u2019t value education. The default opinion has become \u201cit\u2019s the parents\u201d \u2014 not the governance, the curriculum, the instruction, the policy, nor the lack of resources \u2014 that create problems in urban schools. That\u2019s wrong. Everyday actions continuously contradict the idea that low-income black families don\u2019t care about their children\u2019s schooling, with parents battling against limited resources to access better educations than their circumstances would otherwise afford their children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blacks don’t under-achieve any more than other races. They largely achieve according to their IQs, as do whites, latinos and asians. <\/p>\n

Blacks with IQs north of 120, such as our president, do about as well in life as whites and asians and latinos with IQs north of 120. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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