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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, KultureKritic.com
This week, I was the moderator of the State of Urban Education Plenary Session at the National Urban League Conference. I had the awesome opportunity to interact with an amazing group of panelists: Dr. Julanne Malveaux, former President of Bennett College; Patrice Dobard, Superintendent of the Recovery School District in Louisiana; Esther L. Bush, President of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh; Joe Scantlebury, Sr. Policy Officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Jim Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement in the US Department of Education.
The panelists enlightened the audience and myself with their extensive knowledge of the problems with urban education. I listened, learned and contributed to the conversation, which I hope I can find online at some point in the near future (I’ll provide you with video when I can). I only wish Michael Eric Dyson could have joined us, but duty called for him at MSNBC.
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nana63
September 1, 2012 at 2:00 pm
blessedandblessed; because the right teachers and parents do not “fit into the wrong system”. the “wrong system” must justify its existence by perpetuating failure, so it can “fix it”. everything you said is painfully true. our history is kept hidden because the survival of the United States depended and progressed on the ideas and hard work of African Americans. so, “the system” keeps African-Americans “in their place”, by keeping them struggling for survival, because if they get really educated, things would change.
belovedandblessed
July 31, 2012 at 3:28 pm
I find it hard to believe that people keep wanting to successfully do anything to change the African American public school system without the wisdom of the dedicated African American teachers and those diligent African American parents. Here we go again with everybody but the “right” people trying to change a people in a system progressively being destroyed by the very elitist, emotionally and physically distant mind set of the system that created it. Where are the true talented 10th? We have with sadness and after years of unhealthy emotional and psychological battles, left the public system and are trying to find another way to educate our children. We hope that we can then return back with our own plan. We regrettably, had to leave because we were given accountability test instead of assistance, hidden agendas and hidden student medical histories instead of open discussions and professional development in solutions of psychosis, mental health, and children living in torment, pain, and abuse. So we gave our all everyday with no return on the daily level of stress, (years we could feel leave our body) as we go through each day, week, month, and praise God we survived another year. And everyone says why do we do it? They wouldn’t. We stay as long as we can because it is our blessing to help children. It makes our day when a child that thought they could not “learn it” gets an “A” on an exam, graduate, and yes, gets a four year scholarship and grad school from the Gates Millennium foundation that we “wrote” for them. This while at the same time we can’t get our own children at home into “good” public schools, high schools, or afford college. We struggle, and it is because of this we become super women and men for our students. We are a second mother or father and we take our careers very seriously because we feel we are in charge with the very lives of children not just from 8 to 3 but 24hrs. From students often years after into adulthood. Other teachers would “send” their students to us to be “strengthened out” but we would become their advocate because we knew there was just something missing that if we found, could change a problem student into a major asset to the classroom. This is the work of a teacher. So why are they not convening with us?
Derrick
July 31, 2012 at 9:10 am
We need to TEACH our OWN children…plain & simple as that! How in the h**l can you depend on a government, that enslaved you for 500 years, but expect them to EDUCATE you 500 years later? IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!
This educational system is DUMBING down our children. These caucasoid teachers are molesting, raping and telling our children that, they are WORTHLESS! This is why our children have no PRIDE in themselves, this is why they are KILLING each other, and this is why they HATE each other because this racist school system injects this poison, in our children, of just being slaves, and worthless to society.
We need these churches to open up 7 days a week to teach our children the Truth about their glorious past! WE WERE NOT BORN INTO SLAVERY! We were traders, rulers, gods, goddesses, prince, princesses, leaders and inventors to the world.
THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT, SO OUR CHILDREN CAN HAVE PRIDE IN THEMSELVES. WE NEED TO STOP LETTING THIS RACIST SCHOOL SYSTEM BRAINWASH THEM TO BELIEVE, THEY ARE NOTHING!
Black Ourstory Needs To Be Taught IMMEDIATELY,NOW, ASAP, QUICK FAST AND IN A HURRY!!!!