I rarely write diaries--part lazy, part other people usually write better ones on the topics I want to discuss. I haven't seen my slant on "failing" schools and feel the necessity to get this rant off my chest.
American schools are not failing, or, put another way, historically, only poor schools, and poor students, failed. Brown v. Board of Ed. forced American schools to integrate. In the South this took a long time--and was avoided by the creation of private Christian Academies. In the rest of America, population segregation resulted in schools with financially poor students, and others with the more advantaged. Most often this was also racial, but not always. I am sure that those children with less money spent inside and outside of school always scored lower on tests. Wealthy White America never paid attention to these failures.
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