Explained: Why Schools of Color Struggle To Teach Literacy To Underserved Minorities

59% of black, college educated aspiring teachers can't pass a 5th grade literacy test.

I'm guessing that many of THEIR teachers could not read and write either.

We know that white supremacy is responsible for this, somehow. And most teachers agree, both the literate and the illiterate ones.

But how do we tackle white supremacy in the UNIVERSITY system, the one holding back Education majors, especially education majors of color?

I have a dream, that my grandchildren will see the day when children of color get truly qualified teachers, teachers so smart they can teach 5th grade English to high school kids and even YOUNGER.

What is the grade-reading level of POCs with Masters degrees and PhDs?

We need to exterminate this white supremacy anywhere and everywhere it festers.

If eradicating semi-literacy in PhD programs means eradicating whiteness altogether, so be it.

We must speak for the voiceless, the ones who can't speak/read/write for themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordODDzVso8

Toxic whiteness, aka structural white supremacy, is also observed in intractable SAT differences depending on the victimhood of the test taker. The devious white ruling class even teaches Asians students extra hard, so that this system of white supremacy is more intractable and deniable.

Perhaps it is time that we, as a society, abolish test taking altogether, or at least replace multiple choice testing with single choice testing:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWGF6qT4SqM/T4VtAOD18aI/AAAAAAAAARU/OxYc1U7Np3U/s1600/sat%2Brace%2Braw%2Bverbal.png

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard-Everson/publication/232925363/figure/tbl1/AS:393459312676868@1470819418149/SAT-Verbal-and-Mathematical-Scores-by-Gender-and-Race-Ethnicity.png

The organization, Teachers For A Literate Society, is organizing a march on Washington in the coming months.

Consider joining the march, which will include reading workshops to help our fellow teachers of the struggle.

And there will be a lecture about how the systemic white supremacy is so aggressive, that even the wealthiest black students perform about the same as the poorest white students. There is no other explanation other than structural, unsustainable whiteness:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/05/b8/aa05b8c17052f4ddcbc238f808eeffad.jpg

Wow, so whites really ARE better at a lot of stuff than other races. Fascinating!

healterseltzer wrote:

We must demand that our most vulnerable students get better, literate teachers, or else the cycle of illiteracy simply repeats itself endlessly. Where are the teacher unions on this issue? Why do they support semi-illiterate teachers in schools?

Who is going to think about the children?

You know schools were segregated by race heavily in the past. Which ones did you think were favored by the establishment and why do you think schools were segregated in the first place?

(hint: because racist people in the past didn't want their kids mixing with the 'other kind' and didn't want blacks to get the same standard of education because they wanted whites to run society)

Has anything been done since to address that shortfall? No.

(spoiler: you've said yourself nothing has been done to break the cycle of illiteracy)

So why do you reject the legacy of racist policies are still apparent today?

What is this thread trying to accomplish? It seems like you just want to dunk on minorities, which is a pretty tough look dude

Sham 69 wrote:

Wow, so whites really ARE better at a lot of stuff than other races. Fascinating!

WRONG, bigot!

It's systemic societal systems of intractable white supremacy.

Unpack your privilege and help deconstruct and eradicate whiteness as an institution of oppression.

ALL humans are born with the EXACT same intelligence. Every anti-racist knows that, except the ones who believe blacks are the smartest race of all.

ALL humans are EXACTLY alike, except in areas where whites are inferior.

Read a book on critical race theory, and stop whitesplaining please.

Charmin wrote:

What is this thread trying to accomplish? It seems like you just want to dunk on minorities, which is a pretty tough look dude

Check your whiteness at the door please. You and your whitey whiteness are hurting the war against racism.

I've read so many CRT books that de-contexualize the Caucasity of so-called history and so called literacy.

You can't even debate with me on an intellectual level.

healterseltzer wrote:

I have a dream, that my grandchildren will see the day when children of color get truly qualified teachers, teachers so smart they can teach 5th grade English to high school kids and even YOUNGER.

Oh please. Everyone knows it's impossible to teach English to kids under 10. Get that nonsense out of here.

Nothing has even been done to break the cycle of illiteracy among college-educated TEACHERS of color.

But I've never heard my fellow liberals stand up for black children, against illiterate black teachers that are holding black students back.

If you're sarcastically trying to suggest that there might be a genetic component to intelligence, I resent your so-called "common sense".

We need to follow the science, and the science says every race is EXACTLY the same in EVERY form of intelligence.

De-contexualize your toxic Caucasity please. And get a dictionary, I bet you can't even spell "systemic oppression in the university system".

It probably sounds like a bunch of dumb excuses to you, eh bigot?

Charmin wrote:

What is this thread trying to accomplish? It seems like you just want to dunk on minorities, which is a pretty tough look dude

That is more than 25% of the threads on here most days. Insecure people who can't have conversations with women or POC saying things about them they would never say to their faces - mostly because they don't actually have healthy relationships with women or POC.

healterseltzer wrote:

Charmin wrote:

What is this thread trying to accomplish? It seems like you just want to dunk on minorities, which is a pretty tough look dude

Check your whiteness at the door please. You and your whitey whiteness are hurting the war against racism.

I've read so many CRT books that de-contexualize the Caucasity of so-called history and so called literacy.

You can't even debate with me on an intellectual level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXTKcIKtn0

You really need to get laid dude, you're a fking embarrassment

vaIjean wrote:

healterseltzer wrote:

I have a dream, that my grandchildren will see the day when children of color get truly qualified teachers, teachers so smart they can teach 5th grade English to high school kids and even YOUNGER.

Oh please. Everyone knows it's impossible to teach English to kids under 10. Get that nonsense out of here.

What about little kids with college degrees in Education? Should they be expected to read at a 5th grade level?

Or is it also impossible to teach kids aged 11-25 how to read?

Sounds like your making excuses for the systemic victimization of middle, high school, and college students of color.

Underserved means underserved. Even after 17 years of education.

Charmin wrote:

healterseltzer wrote:

Check your whiteness at the door please. You and your whitey whiteness are hurting the war against racism.

I've read so many CRT books that de-contexualize the Caucasity of so-called history and so called literacy.

You can't even debate with me on an intellectual level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXTKcIKtn0

You really need to get laid dude, you're a fking embarrassment

You and your fancy words like "embarrassment" diminish and dissociate the destructive dilemma dictating duplicitious destruction of black bodies and especially black minds.

This is a start: Boston Public School Cancel ADVANCED CLASSES over 'Racial Inequities':

But this will not erase the decades of systemic humiliation where black students were oppressed by the oppressive presence of AP classes in Boston public school classrooms down the hall.

Boston Public Schools officials said that a program with advanced learning classes would be cancelled over concerns that the classes served disproportionate racial groups.

The program known as Advanced Work Classes was intended to serve high-performing students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grade. Students are encouraged to study their subjects in a deeper and non-traditional manner.

School officials became concerned when a report showed that the program was disproportionately serving white students, and underserving black and Hispanic students.

The district analysis found that more than 70% of the students in the program were white or Asian, while nearly 80% of the students in the district are Hispanic or black.

"This is just not acceptable," said School Committee member Lorna Rivera in a school meeting in January. "I've never heard these statistics before, and I'm very very disturbed by them."

Rivera cited one finding at one school that showed the program included 60% white fourth graders though a majority of third graders are black or Hispanic.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius told WGBH News on Friday that they would put the program on hiatus over the racial findings.

"There's been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address," Cassellius said. "There's a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education."

Bigots in Boston opposed school bussing in the 1970s, arguing that it would dumb down their schools and end with advanced classes and high standards for magnet schools being abolished altogether.

Those bigots were right, I suppose, but still unconscionably racist:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/us/boston-schools-entrance-exams-admissions.html

Under the new system, the applicant pool will be divided into eight groups based on the socioeconomic conditions of their neighborhoods. The admissions team will consider applicants within each group, admitting the top students in each tier in roughly equal numbers.

“This was really a watershed moment,” said Ruthzee Louijeune, 34, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, who said she was admitted to Boston Latin School only after her father stumbled across a free test preparation course. That path, through a school that “can literally open a door to endless possibilities,” led on to Columbia University, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School.

Ok troll, 'teachers of color' were once black children given a second class education because society treated schools with non-white students "differently"

Like you say, nothing has been done to break that cycle

what do you expect wrote:

Charmin wrote:

What is this thread trying to accomplish? It seems like you just want to dunk on minorities, which is a pretty tough look dude

That is more than 25% of the threads on here most days. Insecure people who can't have conversations with women or POC saying things about them they would never say to their faces - mostly because they don't actually have healthy relationships with women or POC.

Bingo.

Inadequate oddballs who are permanently angry, ranting on LRC because they haven’t got the balls to say any of this is public.

You can feel their pain.