Friday, September 17, 2010
Plummeting Graduation Rates for Black Youth
It seems as if today, equal education opportunity for all races is not a priority in this country. It is all in the staistics. Most black youth live in under-privileged neighborhoods, which gets all to nothing when it comes to school funding. And a lack of resources generates an extremely low graduation rate. According to a new study of all the black male students who entered high school in 2003, only 47% graduated in 2008. This number is ridiculous. I believe that the government is deserting education in its totality and the poorer negiborhoods are suffering the most because the depend on the government. An educational reform is needed now. It this situation is not helped then more and more black males will go straight from the school system to the jail system.
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Who would have ever known that schools in the African American community were struggling? If someone were to ask this, I would think that they were being utterly sarcastic. The government has been abandoning such schools, which is further contributing to crime and jail intake numbers. Like Keyera said, educational reform is crucial in those areas that are suffering educational deprivation.
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