Are black students getting help at home?

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Certainly schools can do better and American children should be better educated (and not progressed to the next grade prematurely).

But, I think failures in those areas affect all children equally. I don't think those current systematic failures by the schools are to blame for black kids scoring lower than their peers in academic testing.

Sure it is.

Black kids need boundaries more than white kids because they are far more likely to come from broken homes. In a normal family fathers, mothers, uncles, everyone has a function in learning the kid to function and in the mess created by government these families rarely exist. Children don't get all the instruction they need at home and they come to school barely fetched. They need instruction and instead they get weak tea and smilie faces from an educational system that most fears hurting anyone's feelings. This is PC is; the fear of hurting feelings. Well guess what. When you have some miscreant who thinks disrupting the class is the height of good humor you're going to have to hurt his feelings. And you're going to have to be willing to escalate the hurt feelings or he's just going to end up in a life of crime and dragging the rest of the class with him. Blacks are just as intelligent as whites and the achievement gap is caused by government and school boards.