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Alan J. Borsuk | On Education

Suburban schools take on minority students' achievement gap

The superintendent of Mequon-Thiensville schools is pushing constructive conversations about the lower achievement overall of minority children in suburban schools. »Read Full Article

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  2. How about a meeting with the parents to close the achievement gap?
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  3. Stop busing.

    Let blacks attend their local community schools as before.

    They will have their specific curriculum, instructors/teachers/aides dedicated to the student's success.

    Do not lower the standards bar any lower then where it presently resides. We can not dumb down America any further.
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  5. The problem is that minorites tend to be raised in homes and cultures that are based in the nonsense spewed by Democrats.

    Minorities keep falling for all this Democrat nonsense, that other people and other peoples money, is key for success as a human being.

    The truth is just the opposite. Real success has nothing to with what some rich white guy pays in taxes or how much money some rich white guy spends on whatever the rich white guys spends it one.

    This is why most White (non-minority) families will continue to raise successful sons and daughters - and why most minority families will continue to raise less successful sons and daughters.

    Democrat foolishness doesn't work. Yet, we just witnessed and election again of a man who keeps on telling his worshippers that "other peoples money" is needed for you to get ahead.


    What is needed is to start working and believing in oneself. To be a decent human being that lives by a code of principles and honors his mother and father with respect - not with the lunacy infesting the minority populations of Milwaukee and every other Democrat infestation in the USA.
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  6. The single biggest and most reliable indicator of student achievement is family income. You can use whatever gimmick you want, give it any clever acronym you can think of, and generate all the data you want, but so long as the income disparity remains, the achievement gap will persist. Schools cannot be expected to shore up where the private sector failed.
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  7. A lot of suburban schools rightfully take pride in their programs and their success. "How cruel is it that we have (minority students) in our buildings and they're not able to access the very things we're bragging about?" Means said.

    So Mr. Means, are teachers keeping students from these programs? Are they somehow refusing to teach them? What a sad, desperate attempt to blame the teachers when the fault would seem to point to the families.
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  8. I am proud to be from Mequon and I am proud to see what Demond Means has done for our schools and our community. I am proud that Mequon is a huge supporter of the Chapter 220 program and I am proud to see Demond Means works so hard to spread the message about what succeeds. He is a wonderful role model and a fine leader. Mequon is lucky to have him.
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