The city of New Orleans is known for their wonderful music, food and culture, but what about the other things. New Orleans racial power has changed tremendously. Whites moved out of the city and into suburbs, because of the horrible school systems and the increased crime rate. The city became almost 70% black. The races began to divide. The whites who are the minority began to fight for a city which they feel is rightfully theirs.
Louisiana is the poorest state in the nation. The public education in Louisiana is the worst in the nation. Louisiana keeps the highest percentage of people in jail then any other. The average Louisiana valedictorian could not pass a national test written at the 10th grade level. Louisiana also has the poorest graduation rate in the industrialized world. The school system is not creating the work space or educating the students for the future. Federal say this is the worst school system in the United States. They say it is corrupted. They are stealing from the kids not an organization.
The school board and the city's schools are both corrupt. The school system in not stealing from the organization but from the students. Independent school board. The board hold power to hire and fire people as they see them. New Orleans school board set up more collision then concision. The teachers asked students how much money would they give them to pass their course to graduate. Failure rate of Leap test was more than 60%. The students just couldn't pass it. By: Bria Craige
This is a good post. I think one of the things that we saw happening in the video, but that the authors didn't really go into, was the class divide among blacks in New Orleans (and everywhere else). Remember the term "intersectionality"? We experience and come to understand and see the world based on the intersections of our race and class and gender. The combination of these statuses structure our life experiences, including what and who we come in contact with. It's the same reason why Bill Cosby, Juan Williams and Orlando Patterson think what they think about African American students in urban schools. These guys enjoy a different class standing, and have for a long time (some might have been born into it). To them, it might look like students just don't care. These guys are too disconnected from the lower economic classes to know any better.
ReplyDeleteCriminologists will tell you that there's a connection between lack of education and crime/incarceration. It's not a definite at all, but somethings there.
Toward the end you just start reciting your notes. Put them into a paragraph. Pretend you're talking to a friend and write what you'd say.