Reading and Public Schools in Georgia

[BruceDPrice]

I'm an education activist. I'm on 20 sites. I put things where i think or hope that the members will be open to new ideas. In fact, the people on FreeRepublic usually leave very smart comments. See for yourself.

Bruce Deitrick Price
Improve-Education.org

[d-ray657]

I agree that education is an extremely important undertaking. It was sufficiently important to my family that we bought a home in the Shawnee Mission School District in Kansas.

I'm afraid, however, that a plea to Georgia citizens might get a feeble response here. I'm not aware of any regular posters who admit to living there.

Regards,

D-Ray

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by BruceDPrice

I'm an education activist. I'm on 20 sites. I put things where i think or hope that the members will be open to new ideas. In fact, the people on FreeRepublic usually leave very smart comments. See for yourself.

Bruce Deitrick Price
Improve-Education.org

Your site is certainly colorful. I also like your prose. Welcome to Politcal Chat. I read your first article and your bio page and found both interesting. I have read some freeper stuff, but much prefer keeping an on the opponents.

[BruceDPrice]

Keep in mind that FreeRepublic is huge and my articles there go quickly to Google. Search engines in Georgia will pick up the state name, and editors will say, what's this...? That's the plan.

[Dondilion]

All black areas suffer from what is called the "basketball syndrome": an inordinate amount of time and effort spent on sports. Everything else is affected including reading.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

All black areas suffer from what is called the "basketball syndrome": an inordinate amount of time and effort spent on sports. Everything else is affected including reading.

Emphasis on sports does not belong to any racial group. Check out the lily white suburbs in Texas and you're going to find some pretty crazy football boosters.

From studies I've seen, poor scores in primarily minority areas have much more to do with poverty than race (although poverty is more prevalent in minority neighborhoods). I was shocked to find out that half of the kids in the elementary school that my kids attended are from families eligible for low income assistance. This is a mostly white suburban neighborhood in an affluent county. The correlation between poverty and academic achievement shows there too. The reading and math scores were low, particularly for the Shawnee Mission School District.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

From studies I've seen, poor scores in primarily minority areas have much more to do with poverty than race (although poverty is more prevalent in minority neighborhoods). I was shocked to find out that half of the kids in the elementary school that my kids attended are from families eligible for low income assistance. This is a mostly white suburban neighborhood in an affluent county. The correlation between poverty and academic achievement shows there too. The reading and math scores were low, particularly for the Shawnee Mission School District.

Regards,

D-Ray

In New York I noticed poor Chinese, Koreans, Indians from Guyana end up in the top schools. What I noticed also that they have in common is a six day school and shorter summer holiday. Their parents sacrifice and pay for Saturday classes. The other minority kids are practicing basketball 24/7 and are left behind in the scholastic world.
There is an area in Flatbush Brooklyn which produced some fine students whose parents were the poorest on this earth....Haitian refugees!