Reading gap is nation's worst

This story shows once again, how people do not get it.

"It's upsetting to me," said William Andrekopoulos, superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. "This is the very reason why I've been talking about improving instruction over and over again."

This statements implies that it is the teachers fault that black kids can't read. That also means that, if teachers are the problem, that teachers must teach differently to the white kids than to the black kids. Until you address the REAL problem, NOTHING will EVER change.

Then finally, at the end of the article, someone shows they get it:

Wendell Harris, chairman of the education committee of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, said, "I know we've got to do better in school, there's no question about that."
But, he said, "really, from my standpoint, (it's) families. . . . We can't keep making excuses for parents."

Instead of listening to this guy, and putting massive peer pressure on the criminal behavior of many of the black parents in the inner city regarding the lack of parenting of their children, we will keep blaming teachers and the economy and anything else we can come up with.

A teacher at my school told me THIS MORNING how she was at a New Berlin volleyball game......and the kids were doing their homework in the stands!!!!
What do you see when you go to an MPS sporting event, kids watching their kids in the stands.

Then you get moer vomit of the mouth from two liberals who don't get it:

"If you have quality instruction in the classroom, you're going to reduce the achievement gap," Andrekopoulos said. "We have a lot more work to do, there's no question about that."

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It's not just an achievement gap," she said. "It's an economic gap. It's a gap in health. It's a quality of life gap. All of those things influence student achievement."

Again, whose fault is it? Everyone but the people not doing the job.

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I have to be consistent. I want black leaders to make responsible comments, to actually lead in the right direction. Here is the second good thing Obama has said in the last month. I don't care if he is doing it to look good to white voters, at least he is saying it. Too bad he is not "really black" or his message could help.
Just look at how he sounds compared to Michael McGee Jr.

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We REALLY need to see more black leaders make A LOT more comments like this:

but I'll tell you what -- even as I fight on behalf of more education funding, more equity, I have to also say that , if parents don't turn off the television set when the child comes home from school and make sure they sit down and do their homework and go talk to the teachers and find out how they're doing, and if we don't start instilling a sense in our young children that there is nothing to be ashamed about in educational achievement, I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was something white.

It is only after all inner city leaders take on this attitude for about 20 years before anything will change there...