Submission statement: the author, a successful journalist who lives in NYC, reflects on the educational struggles of her daughter, having sent her to some underperforming schools. Relevant here because it discusses educational policy in America and the collision of race, wealth, education, and local government.
Collectives in of themselves aren’t always terrible but basing your entire life framework off of being in a certain collective is imo
Quiet-Permit-3740 on
Very much worth reading in full, though I disagree with the authors views on school choice and grouping by ability, the purpose of which is to have classes for a students ability not to segregate. I am quite happy that the daughter now seems to be doing well at a higher performing high school, the sections on the elementary and middle school experience are rough.
Embarrassed-Unit881 on
What’s going to stop this one from getting deleted as well?
Either way I’ll repeat what I said last time
> My husband and I had largely avoided segregated schools like these. He and his siblings attended integrated schools that served the military bases where their family lived. Starting when I was in second grade, my parents enrolled me in a school-integration busing program that allowed a limited number of Black students to leave their segregated neighborhood schools for white ones on the other side of town.
Alright so their parents focused on ensuring their own children had a good education makes sense
> We are both beneficiaries of educational opportunities that were forced into existence by generations of Black parents willing to put their most personal stake — their own children — in the fight for school equality for all Black children.
> So, like the generations of Black parents who came before us, Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage.
This seems contradictory their parents didn’t fight for equality for all black cildren they fought for their own children to have a good education, it’s like they reaped the reward of having parents that cared about the quality of their education and then decided to forego that entirely for their own child.
alpaca242 on
This article strengthened my belief that the SAT or ACT should be required for college admissions. Grades are basically meaningless at a lot of schools nowadays.
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Submission statement: the author, a successful journalist who lives in NYC, reflects on the educational struggles of her daughter, having sent her to some underperforming schools. Relevant here because it discusses educational policy in America and the collision of race, wealth, education, and local government.
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Collectives in of themselves aren’t always terrible but basing your entire life framework off of being in a certain collective is imo
Very much worth reading in full, though I disagree with the authors views on school choice and grouping by ability, the purpose of which is to have classes for a students ability not to segregate. I am quite happy that the daughter now seems to be doing well at a higher performing high school, the sections on the elementary and middle school experience are rough.
What’s going to stop this one from getting deleted as well?
Either way I’ll repeat what I said last time
> My husband and I had largely avoided segregated schools like these. He and his siblings attended integrated schools that served the military bases where their family lived. Starting when I was in second grade, my parents enrolled me in a school-integration busing program that allowed a limited number of Black students to leave their segregated neighborhood schools for white ones on the other side of town.
Alright so their parents focused on ensuring their own children had a good education makes sense
> We are both beneficiaries of educational opportunities that were forced into existence by generations of Black parents willing to put their most personal stake — their own children — in the fight for school equality for all Black children.
> So, like the generations of Black parents who came before us, Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage.
This seems contradictory their parents didn’t fight for equality for all black cildren they fought for their own children to have a good education, it’s like they reaped the reward of having parents that cared about the quality of their education and then decided to forego that entirely for their own child.
This article strengthened my belief that the SAT or ACT should be required for college admissions. Grades are basically meaningless at a lot of schools nowadays.