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American public schools are getting worse. Declining results are clear in the government’s own “Nation’s Report Card” on the state of public education. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) likewise shows that students got lower scores in mathematics across almost the entire country in 2021 compared to 2019. Blacks and Hispanics fell even farther behind than whites, and reading scores in most jurisdictions also fell.
The basic skills of America’s workforce may also be declining. “According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,” wrote Marc Tucker of the National Center on Education and the Economy, “the millennials in our workforce tied for last on tests for mathematics and problem solving among the millennials in the workforces of all the industrial countries tested.”
Violence in schools is increasing. There were more than four times as many school shootings in 2020–2021 than there were in 2000–2001. The National Educational Association (NEA), the country’s largest teacher’s union, held a summit on the problem earlier this month. Just last year, it wanted an end to the “criminalization and policing of students,” instead favoring “restorative justice, culturally competent professional development, family and community engagement, and the elimination of inequities in student discipline and the policing of students on campus.” Thus, more security won’t be an option unless the NEA reverses its position.
The decline in American schools is driven in part by the federal government. The Obama administration wrote a “Dear Colleague” letter in 2014, which warned schools that the Department of Justice might investigate if there were “substantial racial disparities” in school discipline. Schools lowered suspension rates and violence increased. The reality is that blacks and Hispanics cause more violence in schools, and so are punished more often. If schools are prevented from punishing them, there will simply be more violence.
It is common to find videos of mass brawls in schools on social media, with teachers barely able to maintain control.
The violence in our schools is getting out of hand. Kid possibly paralyzed from this high school brawl. pic.twitter.com/tmnUNFxTv3
— 𝖀𝖓𝖈𝖑𝖊 𝕾𝖆𝖒’𝖘 𝕸𝖎𝖘𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖉 𝕮𝖑𝖚𝖇 (@UncleSamsTribe) January 19, 2023
A little more than a week later, this brawl in a hallway at Tosa West High School left a girl battered. pic.twitter.com/mhmMDEOkdY
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) January 23, 2023
💢EXCLUSIVE VIDEO💢
Video obtained by the LB617 Team shows a brawl at what we are being told is @BostonLatinAcad earlier today. BPD confirmed they responded to a stabbing at 10:15am this morning at the school. We are working to get further information and will keep you updated. pic.twitter.com/5zIzIVqN8p
— Live Boston (@LiveBoston617) January 23, 2023
The AP reports that some school systems are already giving up on “restorative justice” and returning to traditional discipline, although it may be too late for some frustrated parents. Many have abandoned schools entirely, instead turning to homeschooling. Most parents who homeschool said they made the choice because of “a concern about the environment of other schools, such as safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure.” Blacks are increasingly homeschooling as well, but a motive for some white parents to do so may be the teaching of Critical Race Theory and anti-white attitudes among staff. For example, Jackson Board of Education school board member Kesha Hamilton recently tweeted: “Whiteness is so evil.”
MSNBC evidently doesn’t like this trend:
It may seem harmless, but the insidious racism of the American religious right's obsession with homeschooling speaks volumes, writes @AntheaButler. https://t.co/cETwck5n27
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 13, 2022
Yet it wasn’t long ago that even Democrats were trying to bring back traditional discipline. President Bill Clinton touted school uniforms in two separate State of the Union addresses, claiming that they would make schoolrooms more “orderly” and “disciplined,” and teach young people “to evaluate themselves by what they are on the inside instead of what they’re wearing on the outside.” This was one of his classic “triangulations” against the Right that allowed him to remain popular during his administration’s later years, despite his impeachment.
Now, the federal government is warning against school uniforms. “Sexist, racist and classist: Why the feds are getting involved in school dress codes,” reads a report from USA Today. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) likewise issued its own report, stating that the Department of Education should “provide information on equity and safety in school dress codes.”
The authors worried that “dress codes disproportionately focus on girls’ clothing and bodies and that exclusionary discipline — the practice of removing students from the classroom — for dress code violations may disproportionately harm Black and Hispanic students, among other students.” Likewise, “rules that are open to interpretation may also be disproportionately applied to vulnerable student groups including LGBTQI+ students, Black students, and students with disabilities.” There was a special focus on blacks’ hair, because “the elasticity and texture of Black hair can make it more susceptible to breaking.”
In the conclusion, the GAO says:
[S]ome dress codes may create a less equitable and safe environment for some students, especially girls, Black students, and LGBTQI+ students. Specifically, common aspects of dress code policies — such as taking measurements of students’ bodies and clothing — may make school less safe for girls, in particular.
The GAO report notes that uniforms are more often required in majority non-white schools. This could be because that is where they are most needed. If blacks and Hispanics are punished more often for breaking the rules, that isn’t necessarily evidence of discrimination. The point of a uniform is to maintain a universal standard, applicable to everyone.
According to today’s educational authorities, however, even rules that don’t take race into account can still be “racist” if they affect groups differently. It’s therefore not surprising that the federal government is turning against uniforms. Scrapping them won’t stop violence, reduce racial gaps in performance, or bring back parents who have turned to homeschooling.
Thus, it is a relatively minor issue — but like Bill Clinton’s initiative in 1996, it is telling. During his administration, the Democrats needed at least to pretend to care about school discipline, crime, and basic standards. Today, nothing must get in the way of the hunt for “equity.” If schools can’t even enforce dress codes, there’s not much hope that they’ll be able to raise academic standards.
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I remember liberals pushing uniforms for public school students here in NYC back in the 90s because of all the ghetto kids being robbed and assaulted for their designer clothes and sneakers.
Conversely, merchants were opposed to school uniforms because it made it harder for them to identify teenage muggers and shoplifters during their afterschool chimpouts.
I always thought the push for school uniforms was deceptive. Schools that have uniforms, such as prep schools or parochial schools, typically have higher standards and better discipline. So it’s more a symptom than a cause of better schools. Parents might want to pick such a school for that reason, but changing only that one thing won’t save a failing school.
Privatise Education!
Plus: eliminate all the requirements that force parents to educate their children.
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Regarding “Are school uniforms a good or bad idea?”, I don’t know. Not such an important issue for me to invest time into researching it.
Just because the US has – for now – homeschooling option, unlike, say, Germany, doesn’t mean the State can’t turn homeschoolers’ lives into Hell… by, for instance, ‘tweaking’ the current Law to compel parents to educamate their children into ‘classics’ like Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” and Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”, etc.
I came across this elsewhere on the internet.
It could be used, I suppose, to create say ropes.
But not Black hair, presumably. Whew! Thank goodness for that, given the way white supremacists commonly use them. It would be the ultimate insult.
Race-ism is so cool!
School uniforms!!
>Are School Uniforms Racist and Homophobic?
It’s boomeresque to use a rhetorical question as the title of an article, one designed to ‘own the libs’ by highlighting how stupid the claim implied by the question is — that’s something e.g. Pat Buchanan would do.
As a kid in Catholic school, the boys had to wear slacks (not jeans), a shirt with a collar (not a t-shirt), and shoes you had to polish (not athletic shoes) — girls had a uniform consisting of either a dark pair of slacks or a dark-colored plaid skirt, combined with a white blouse — to my knowledge, no one was harmed by this practice — but then 99% of the kids were white.
>Blacks are increasingly homeschooling as well, …
Given that almost 75% of black kids are born out of wedlock, the fraction of the black population where this is even remotely possible is probably very small — the family highlighted in The New Yorker article is a single (fat) black mother with two kids (the teenage daughter is also obese) — the whole piece reeks of black underclass dysfunction; it’s not surprising that a reporter can find a few Blacks who want to escape their own kind.
And unfortunately there are now other problems with public school that will contribute to more Whites deciding to homeschool.
But thanks for another example of why ‘diversity’ is fucked and has ruined the country.
You see, race-ism is awesome!! I agree withthe ‘woke’. race-ism is all those things.
I happen to be friends with a black South African lady school teacher. She once demanded I explain to her why we DON’T make American public school children wear uniforms. She thought the answers I gave her were preposterous.
School uniforms would be great for poor families. It would cut down on the budget for school clothing. Kids would still compare accessories (shoes, jewelry), but there would be one standard that needs to be met. You’d also cut out a lot of the usual wardrobe issues: bare midriff, leggings, super low cut blouses, pajamas, etc. Hard to believe anyone would be against it, honestly.
It won’t fix education, but it’s a good place to start. You have to teach students there are standards of behavior and this is an easy way to ease into that.
Is it racist to arrange the Titanic’s deck chairs in a straight lines?
Don’t send your kids to school.
Especially not if you want them to have an education.
Yeah, most children these days have little parenting and it’s all left up to the schools and teachers, which is frightening. They have zero concept of appropriate behavior thanks to being brought up by infantile teachers and moronic YouTubers/TikTokers. Teachers were relatively passive in the late 90s and early 2000’s when I attended public school in Montana. Now these schools seem like zoos and most kids hate it. My nieces and nephew complain about it a fair bit. As a former educator (ESL teacher) I can say that smaller classrooms are needed. Like a max of 14-15 students would be sufficient. Public school is basically a waste of time. I learned more from life, university and personal studies. I’m a naturally curious person and like learning. Many don’t. Just my 2¢.
BAck when I was in the news biz, I was told that a question mark in a headline meant that you wouldn’t find the answer even if you read the whole article.
The real issue isn’t ‘white privilege’ but Privileged Whites.
Privileged Whites invoke ‘white privilege’ to virtue-signal to protect and further their own privilege while dumping all the burden on UNPRIVILEGED whites without wealth & connections, aka the ‘deplorables’.
It’s about time good, decent, and patriotic whites began to talk about PRIVILGED WHITES, a bunch of race traitors who got theirs and plan on getting lots more by blaming OTHER whites, especially the unprivileged ones struggling to survive, for ‘white privilege’. Look at the Clintons, Bushes, Romneys, Pelosis, and Bidens. They got so rich and hog so much privilege but white-wash their privilege by bleating about ‘white privilege’ that is usually blamed on whites without privilege.
It’s about time for white patriots to wake up. White conzos, for a long long time, sided with and supported privileged/rich whites on the notion that wealthy whites stand for conservatism. No, they just stand for wealth and privilege, and in a world where Jews control the gods, Privileged Whites will worship the new gods to keep their own wealth and connections.
Maybe a more effective way “to teach students there are standards of behavior,” maybe in-fact the only Way, is to make sure these “standards” are conscientiously and consistently exemplified by everybody presuming and presumed to share in the societal responsibility to “teach students” anything at-all. That would of-course include parents and .edu professionals, but also every level of “authority,” every kind of supposed-to-be “role model” (such as athletes and celebrities), business people, “faith” leaders, every producer of “entertainment” of every sort, and so-on through the listing of every socially relevant activity imaginable.
The Natural Fact is, of-course, that all these things are already constantly teaching young people not only that there are standards, but more-tellingly, just exactly what they are. The “Do as I say, not as I do!” cop-out is one of the very first things young people smell-out for the hypocritical bullshit it has always been. Today, as ever, young people are simply reflecting-back the “standards” they are actually being taught by-example. Anybody unhappy with what they’re seeing in that regard, and looking around for somebody “else” to “hold accountable,” better be damned sure their own record in that respect is….well, exemplary.
Meantime, there is absolutely no “easy way to ease into that,” anyhow. It is the eternally futile search for one that has led directly to the monumental mess that this article delves into one tiny bit of here.
In all likelihood, though, the deeply ingrained habit of seeking “panaceas” and “magic bullets” has not yet run its destructive course among both the muddled masses and their wannabe “managing directors.” So look for one hell of a lot more such institutionalized nonsense, and a much bigger mess, before there’ll be any less of either.
My mother, a child of the Great Depression, was very much in favor of school uniforms. You could still tell who was poor and who wasn’t, but not at a hundred yards.
-Discard
‘ Are school uniforms racist or homophobic’
Would say homo and over focus on clothes, uniforms are over focus, same way supposed skools are a femy obedience con. Supposed uniforms limit choice, but direct their way, when should be limited regardless, pants or jeans and t shirt, long or short sleeve with color choice, no black. Shirt color and sleeve choice enough personal identity. So not uniform and not over-focus clothes. There is enough natural difference between genders different clothes aren’t necessary. Children have to be more masculine now, same as adults. If someone argues the cons are trying to erase gender, agreed, and won’t be stopped by wearing ‘dresses, only by making action including physical action to stop tyrany. To save genders requires masculine thinking, including about children.
Females wearing dresses dumbs reality, which first focus in life is to make sure no one is trying to murder us, and fight for power so have defense and earth. The breeders should close skools or they continue cranking out ingorant tools, and otherwise make action against the threats on their future and spawn.
Skools were concocted by the cons to distract from reality, as they train their own to be lying destroyers, smiley cons in bogus bizness suits or dresses. They continued pushing supposed female identity as wearing dresses though were wearing pants thousands of years. Almost no facts on web, mostly bs claiming only last hundred or two years nonsense. . http://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-ago
Most of web are cons who twist or omit facts of our real record to keep others over-feminized, males and females both.
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‘ Are school uniforms racist or homophobic’
Would say homo and over focus on clothes, uniforms are over focus, same way supposed skools are a femy obedience con. Supposed uniforms limit choice, but direct their way, when should be limited regardless, pants or jeans and t shirt, long or short sleeve with color choice, no black. Shirt color and sleeve choice enough personal identity. So not uniform and not over-focus clothes. There is enough natural difference between genders different clothes aren’t necessary. Children have to be more masculine now, same as adults. If someone argues the cons are trying to erase gender, agreed, and won’t be stopped by wearing ‘dresses, only by making action including physical action to stop tyrany. To save genders requires masculine thinking, including about children.
Females wearing dresses dumbs reality, which first focus in life is to make effort against tyrants so have a future. The breeders should close skools or they continue cranking out ingorant tools, and otherwise focus against threats on their future and spawn.
The cons influence skools and fake media, including clothes, same time train their spawn to steer others, stealth smiley cons in bogus bizness suits or dresses. They continued pushing supposed female identity as wearing dresses though were wearing pants thousands of years. Almost no facts on web, mostly bs claiming only last hundred or two years nonsense.
http://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-ago
Same cons behind skools and all else, keep others over-feminized, males and females both. Clothes should be limited, regardless.
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A feminist I met was expressing her rage that a nearby lingerie-and-bedroom-toy store, was selling schoolgirl uniform outfits for use by adults in play … In the feminist’s view this was catering to male paedo etc tendencies, and all young-girlish accessories, hairstyles etc in adult women should be denounced
From another woman I heard her wish to be ‘like a Japanese schoolgirl’ … what does one say?
Maybe given how ‘school uniforms’ have become so standard in p-rn, which is itself now so widely viewed, it’s really time to rubbish the whole idea
Wait — wasn’t uniform a homo kink for awhile?
The ancient movie CRUISING with Al Pacino had all the guys at the gay bars in leather and caps that made them look like motorcycle cops used to look way back… about when the movie was made.
I mean girls look okay in uniform too but the point is to focus the mind. To keep in front of the child the fact that These Are Your Work Clothes, and your work is learning. Right?
Back when boys went to a class with a teacher named Mr Chips it might have done some good.