Very true. Wonder what Townhall's take would be.
Forced integration in the way that it was implemented in this country is THE single reason why our education system is failing in America today.
The single reason? Not by a mile.
Our education system isn't technically failing. That word usage is more chicanery than indicative of the current state. If you're in an affluent area, your education is just fine. You'll score well on test scores. You'll graduate. You'll go to college where you have the freedom to do well and succeed or not, which most people do succeed one way or another.
When you hear that the education system is failing, it means that the education system is failing poor minorities. More so the poor, really. Is it because of integration? No. If you still segregated schools, impoverished black kids in Ensley would still be drop outs, drug dealers, and dimwits all the same. There's no reason to think that integration is keeping the black kid from succeeding. And most affluent areas are still white enough to prevent the impoverished kids from affecting their scores. Just look at Hoover, Mountain Brook, Vestavia, Homewood, Oak Mountain, Pelham, Trussville, and Spain Park for examples.
Not only that, but it was the plan of the left to eventually make every child a compliant government drone all equal. If you do not believe that, then you are the perfect example of what they are trying to create. Have a child that is outside the norm, either above or below, and see how that works out for you. If yu are not on top of it 24/7, they will eventually strive to move each child to a position of equality. Mainstream takes less work.
This is conspiracy rubbish. My wife is a GRC teacher and is paid by the government to cultivate creativity in our young gifted and talented. There are IB, AP, honors, and advanced classes for students to take. And colleges and universities aren't forcing kids to be government drones by any means.
The fact is that for hundreds of years, in Western civilization, in Europe, and in most other areas, a society has had a peasant class. The peasants often did hard labor jobs which in our recent memory included working in factories and working in fields. We're outsourcing many of those factory jobs and also using cheap immigrants to work in the fields. So it's easy to look at the lower class kid or the subpar kid and think we're failing them. We aren't figuring out how to make them poets or musicians or engineers or doctors or writers, and we're blaming the system. It may be easy to think the government is just shoving government drivel down their throats and making them drones, when in reality, they're nothing more than a drone anyway. They need a disciplined occupation that rings a bell when it's time to complete the mindless task and rings a separate bell when it's time to stop. Your higher level kids are being vilified by some, but as for actually being hindered by the system? I don't think so.
But back to the original thought - I never once thought, "If only these black kids were back at their own schools, then maybe we'd be better off." As for granting leniency to black kids on test scores, that's a different story.
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