Absorbing millions of uneducated or under-educated poor into the US education system has had consequences for the United States. A report in the January, 2007 edition of Education Week, maintains the gaps in reading and math performance between poor, African-American, Hispanic students and their better off white or Asian peers are roughly two grade levels.
The report goes onto say that 33 percent of white Americans ages 25 to 64 have a four-year degree, 18 percent of blacks and 13 percent of Hispanic Americans do. Seven in 10 Asian-Americans ages 25-64 have completed at least some college. Six in 10 non-Hispanic whites have some college. While nearly 7 in 10 Hispanic Americans and half of black Americans have a high school diploma or LESS.
The article maintains: “Such statistics cloud the future…because a growing portion of future U.S. workforce will come from low-income and minority groups that have not been well served by the education system at all levels.” I would add, when you add the cost of educating the children of illegal immigrants, estimated between $8 and 12 billion per year, the cost/benefit appears to be almost zilch.
That means our leadership of both parties support a situation in which funding failure is the other “third rail’ ergo that which must not be touched regardless of how awful it is. Meanwhile, the American taxpayer picks up the tab because the ruling establishment is not administering the laws of the land when they fail to enforce our laws, put a backbone in our visa system, and more importantly do nothing about our borders: The same reasons for failing to maintain the borders applies to failure to educate future citizens of the U.S.
As it is, the system does not educate our own deprived or culturally poor minorities or many groups of immigrants from the Third World. That failure sets us up for a feudal system that is going to blow up in our face at some point.
When an apologist for the current education disaster maintains students should be “well served at all levels” they mean the American education system has to perform miracles on the culture and attitudes held by millions of recent Third World immigrants in addition to our own neglected and static lower classes.
What appears to be ignored by the powers-that-be: The U.S. has growing numbers of individuals who have not graduated from high school and have little interest in education. Furthermore, contrary to what the utopians believe, poverty does not simply involve a lack of money or opportunity.
Real poverty is about attitude and motivation; a failure of will at times, more likely a total lack of understanding on the need to sacrifice short term desires in order to achieve long term benefits. Real poverty may reflect cultural or familial failure to instill respect for learning and its power to overcome obstacles. Unfortunately, some of the difference also involved differences in average IQ levels among some minorities and others like high IQ Asians of a certain rank. Average IQ among certain groups of Asians is higher than that of Caucasians and even most non-Asian minority groups.
Crazy education policies, the perversion of the mission of education, and political correctness has assured even whites and high IQ Asians in US schools are not being well served. So we must ask ourselves: What are the things that count in educating people?
If there is a lack of will, or no family and peer support, if there is little discipline in the home, discipline that demands and encourages short-term sacrifice for long term gains, there is almost nothing the “system” can do to change that attitude.
The system would have to become intrusive to the point of tyranny and the state would take over raising children. The template for just such as system was put forth recently by Hillary Clinton IF she is elected president. That policy would be to hook every newborn child in the U.S. with a child services or healthcare worker to make sure they get what Hillary and her crowd think they need. Here we go with “it takes a village” globaloney crap bringing more state intrusion into ALL our lives.
Thanks to the failure to THINK on the part of those in power, the intrusion will not simply be limited to the poor or disadvantaged but rather to all of us.
Unfortunately, George W. Bush laid the groundwork for action by Hillary. His mental health ‘initiative’ providing mental health tests to all school children includes a provision to FIT them with the ‘right’ drug.
This means every kid in America who is deemed ‘outside the norm” becomes a pharmacological ward of the State. Acting ‘outside the norm’ may mean being “too religious” or “too antiauthoritarian.” On that scale George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have been on Prozac in a heartbeat. If the ‘norm’ is decided by people who in better times would be deemed as mind Gestapo – our children and ourselves remain in a world run by the inmates of the asylum.
Additionally, George W. Bush’s ill-conceived “No Child Left Behind” program did not create utopia nor did it lift the poor or minorities out of their situation. His project leaves everyone behind because it does not differentiate adequately the disparity between one economic or sociological group OR – dare I say it – IQ category: Once again, Bush or Clinton, one-size-fits-all on almost every single public policy that counts while excellence for the greater society goes out the window.
If America goes along with Hillary’s idea on how to bring up kids it would require tremendous dislocation in the education system. Up until this point in the US we don’t send teachers and counselors home with children every night in order to ensure disadvantaged kids receive what they need to succeed in life. If Hillary has her way, we will get ‘home visitors’ to make sure we are raising nice little cogs for the ever growing State. I suspect this won’t do squat for the ‘poor’ but it will drive good involved parents of every color and ethnicity to the brink.
This nation is going to go down at some point because standards of behavior, education, and national identity are out the window. Instead we are forced to enshrine and ‘celebrate’ what is backward, barbaric, debased and banal – dividing us even more than we already are.
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