Phila. Front Page News Archive Gangs and Kids News Brief: Saving black and Hispanic boys forwarded by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D., Kansas City, MO frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
Above Image representing Black and Hispanic Boys in need of saving. Visual Art by Van Stone, Philadelphia Visual Arts Creator.
Saving black and Hispanic boys should become high priority for school
districts across America. They continually to be underachievers and at
risk to become dropouts and enter the penal system.
Blacks and Hispanics, especially boys in the two largest minority
groups, are in need of special attention when it comes to closing the
achievement gap in education, and to avoid what has come to be a
perpetual cycle of a life of poverty, crime and hopelessness.
As America becomes a nation of minorities, what does such persistent
underachievement portends for the future? No country can afford to have
millions and millions of its citizens relegated to a perpetual
underclass and expect to be economically, socially or politically
strong. It is undermined, and its future compromised at home and on the
world stage. Saving black and Hispanic boys must become a priority.
Is this where America, currently still the strongest democracy,
headed? Few would argue that our position in the world is changing for
any number of reasons, and the weaknesses in our education system when
it comes to minorities being treated equally are among them.
Saving Black and Hispanic Boys
We can no longer “talk the talk” and not “walk the walk” when it
comes to taking real and meaningful, broad and sustained measures to help blacks and Hispanics learn and perform
when it comes to educational achievement at levels required to have a
quality life and be productive citizens in communities across America.
But some communities are taking steps to address the educational
needs of those minority populations that have been continually and
consistently discriminated against when it comes to having access to a
quality education.
Public school leaders in the District of Columbia recently announced
that they will spend $20 million on a program intended to help black
and Hispanic boys succeed. Saving black and Hispanic boys is getting
more attention and needed action.
Public school leaders in the District of Columbia recently announced
that they will spend $20 million on a program intended to help black
and Hispanic boys succeed. Saving black and Hispanic boys is getting
more attention and needed action.
Recent data collected from school districts across America show that
black and Hispanic boys are disciplined and expelled from schools at a
disproportionate rate for the same offenses than white boys. Data from
the criminal justice system also show that more black boys end up in the
prison system for committing the same crimes, whether misdemeanors of
felonies, at a much higher rate than whites. This has been the practice
for years, for generations. What else do we need to do to increase the
efforts of saving black and Hispanic boys?
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