Black Celebs and Bill Maher Know it’s Hopeless

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[–]MagicMike[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

“ One in three children in America can not read at a basic level of comprehension. 85% of black students lack proficiency in reading skills. We already spent a lot of money on schools. So are you going to keep telling me that more money will fix this because I feel like this is much more connected to the problems of people who can't read. Yes, they're going to have problems with gainful employment and it seems like, you know, a lot of times the solutions that come from the left seem symbolic. They don't seem like we're addressing what really needs to be done which is get kids learning, get them reading, get them to have a job," Maher said.

"It doesn't seem like the money is getting to this problem if 85% of black students lack proficiency in reading skills," he said.

[–]hfxB0oyA 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yep, the responsibility of instilling literacy and learning skills rests on the parents, not the schools. And that needs to start from day 1 of the child's life. But if there's only one parent from the very beginning, that leaves a massive deficit in quality parent-child time since the parent (and let's face it - the mother) is too preoccupied with fulfilling all of the roles that a two-parent family would otherwise be able to share.

[–]Zapped 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Students do better when their parents are more engaged with them. That's why more money thrown at schools doesn't fix problem students. Also, parents support PTA/PTO groups financially more in middle-to-higher income school districts.