Are You "Killing" Your Child?
Our media is a-buzz with a new "discovery": Children must learn to read before 3rd grade (8 yrs of age). After that age, they must read to learn! Those children who fail to attain "grade level", it appears, will henceforth be "held back"!
When I was a child, I was taught that the slaves in this country taught their children how to read; even though they were illiterate. The did it by stealing a book from the "big house" they heard being used to teach Massa's child. They forced their children to struggle with the book until they "sounded" like the Massa's child. Remember: any slave who was found to be able to read was executed, by law! The slaves risked their lives, and those of their children, to teach them how to read! There was a Senator Bilbo, when I was young, who pushed national policies to keep all persons of color "barefoot and ignorant". Today, Senator Graham and others are "channeling" those old politicians.
In 2004, I worked in Miami with black applicants for college scholarships (funded by a Korean entrepreneur as "insurance" for the tiny Korean community there). I was told that the state of Florida's plans for their prison bed inventory, were based on the number of black males in Florida who failed to read at grade level by 3rd grade. One Haitian applicant (a "Dream" case) "maxxed" the SAT, but because of his immigrant status, no college would admit him. He was deported to Haiti. No politician, black or otherwise, would lift a finger to help.
Fast forward to 2013: It is a national scandal that children (minorities, especially) are failing to meet that reading standard, in large numbers, across this country. Why! Because "educators" (all colors, classes, genders) care more about their jobs than they do about the reading abilities of their students. The greater the "social distance" between the educator and the student, the greater the problem!
If you are reading this blog, check out your mirror! If the image comes back non-white, and you're in the United States -- your child has a huge problem. A slave from the "old days" may just have provided the solution!
Stay Vigilant!
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