But in a country with diverse races, some which may possess greater abilities than others

Could you expand on this some? Are you saying that whites genetically are poorer at sports or asians are better at math by their biology or something?

Like the assumption you just made?

I know of a woman who had her business running with a partner. The partner did the day work, she did the evening work. During the day, she intended to home school her kids with the help of her mother-in-law who was a former teacher.

Unfortunately, the mother-in-law got sick and passed. Meanwhile, the business failed, doing serious damage to the financial situation. Her children are now in public school.

I’ll ask again about single mothers being expected to home school.

The “government” is _us_!

>>Quit supporting public schools!>>

Don’t quit – quitters never win! Get out there and return control to the local voters. Don’t “quit” public schools – take them back!

If you are not reading LaShawn Barber regularly, here is a recent essay that illustrates why you should be. She tackles the shortcomings of the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind education initiative, a plan that is failing, according to

I’ve had my kid in both public and parochial schools, and let me tell you, both kinds are capable of making breathtakingly stupid decisions. There’s nothing magic about church schools or homeschools. Human beings still run them. They still hire humans as teachers and administrators.

Two tv shows I saw over the weekend that are about as far out as you can imagine, and yet still offer some thought on the problem within the culture:
1) Animal Planet, Saturday night. “Killer Elephants” There is a preserve for elephants. I didn’t hear the beginning, but apparently they established it with small herds of female elephants. The young males that had been born in the preserve(young, in this case, is about 20-25 years old!) were apparently going into “must” (a condition of very high sexual impulses) and challenging rhinos – also protected there – and killing them. Apparently, normally the young males challenge other more dominant males, and when they are dominated by them, the “must” period is suppressed. These young bull elephants were all close to the same age and size. They were entering into this period of sexual activity earlier than “normal”. They proposed to control the killing of rhinos by the young bull elephants by bringing in mature bull elephants that would dominate the young bulls and cause them to drop out of “must”. As they closed the show, they didn’t have any answers as to whether they were going to be successful, but one young bull that had been closely observed had apparently joined with one of the mature bulls and had ended his premature “must”.
I think that as unrelated as this may seem, it shows that the absence of fathers in a population can be a contributing factor to delinquency. I know we knew that, but haven’t seen it quite so specifically addressed in the animal kingdom.

2) National Geographic, Sunday night, “High Security Prisons”
The inmates – to a certain extent – run the asylum. These are all violent offenders. They form gangs that are based on race. It is absolutely impossible to be in a group that is not of one race, and personal safety is nil unless you belong to a group. The reporter asked a prisoner about some particular day to day interactions, and the prisoner said he wouldn’t answer. The reporter persisted, asking the same question a different way, and the man said basically “I told you I wouldn’t answer. You just disrespected me by asking again. I wouldn’t do anything to you “this time” because I know you’re ignorant, but if you were in here and did that … ” left unfinished, but not unclear.
These people finish their terms, and return to their “homeys”. I’ve wondered at the “s/he disrespected me” violence/excuse that is so common – maybe this is where it comes from? and the racism. It’s like a poison we are continually pouring back into our society.
I was appalled.

On the other hand, there are at least 4 hip hop/rap stars under 35 years old whose music is not full of violence (but may have explicit sexual lyrics) who are among the richest people under 40 years old. Will Smith who’s known for keeping his lyrics clean, is worth a cool $188 million dollars. Jennifer Lopez is worth $255 million dollars. Jay-Z ( Shawn Carter) is worth $286 million dollars and Sean (Diddy) Combs, who dropped out of college and talked his way into a ground level, gofer type job at a New York record company in order to break into the music business, is worth $315 million dollars.

Many of the hip hop/rap artists that have the dirtiest and most violent lyrics may also be worth tens of millions of dollars, but the majority of their profits go to the white record distributors who have most of the control over what music gets wide distribution.

I have had no problems avoiding and rejecting the world of violent crime and drugs in search of money, but I think I would have a hard time rejecting an opportunity in the hip hop music world even if I was encouraged to use profanity and sex in my lyrics by those in control of distribution.

Sometimes not thinking outside the walls of the box can lead one to make assumptions.

In these three cases the single moms first started home businesses.

Two of them managed to significantly increase their incomes at the same time.

We have to get past “easy” before anything is possible.

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Yes.

“A husband and a wife, loving and respecting each other and their children, leading a household is the best atmosphere for children. But given that is not the case for some, right now, now what? What is a solution from that point?”

Oh, yes. This is why I support public education and I’ll continue to do it if it means I have to hand in my conservative pin. Public education isn’t necessarily about getting your particular child educated. People who care have all kinds of options, from public to private to homeschool. It’s the parents who can’t or won’t take a hand in their kids’ education that absolutely require that we maintain the best public school system we can. Every single American child deserves his or her crack at the American dream, even the illegitimate offspring of the crack-smoking teenager in the projects. I posted about this here.

That is not accurate. In Maryland, there was already testing going on that shows the same thing that the testing required by NCLB shows. It was called the Maryland School Performance Report. It’s now called Maryland Report Card.

No matter what you think of the goals or solutions of NCLB, you must see the collection and reporting of data on the public school systems as a good thing–more than likely the best thing–about the law.

We have been allowing students who have no business graduating or even going up to the next grade level to pass on for decades and decades now. Due to not having to report or even clooect any data, we have been able to hide our fraud from the public. Well, NCLB has outed us big time! We have been passing kids who can’t read or write their own names. And now, we are being shamed for it.

The shame of the data is the real reason so many teachers and the like don’t like NCLB.

*SIGH*

Again, YOU missed what I wrote:
I don’t because of what I hear some young Blacks say about the “conversations” about them.

Let’s say I am reading more into what you, in this case, are writing. What about what those young people are hearing? Why are they hearing the same thing I am? (That’s in general)

For the record, I don’t expect, nor want, the troubles to not be discussed and addressed. But I know I’m not the only person seeing this as how I put it.

To wrap it up: let’s say there is a situation where the parent(s) don’t emphasize school. Now what? How do we get that/those parents to care or how do we get the kids to care if they don’t?