Racial Issues in Urban Schools | Leslie Hinkson | TEDxSpringfield

[@LamneYokaMou]

Right. So she is saying that I should send my kids to a bad school for the sake of racial diversity and the social cohesion. No thanks, I just want my kids to get a good education.

[@princejay9661]

Must be nice to have that privilege

[@LamneYokaMou]

@@princejay9661 Get a job you bum and do whats right for your family.

[@davidwestwater1914]

In Africa they have no problems with class discipline or desire to learn. If I opened a school in an old church in rural Africa students would walk five miles to get there the next morning.

[@adammcdowell5787]

No where does she make or notice the distinction of the military schools consisting of 100% employed parents with discipline existing in the home. There are so many factors that this speaker ignores that are way more likely to be a factor that it's almost discrediting to her entire point.

[@mr.commonense8177]

The vast majority of military kids have a father and a mother in the home. She did not mention that fact.

[@craigzilla100]

13:50 - what makes up the difference? Inner city culture in America vs Europe. Has NOTHING to do with race.. it's culture, people.

[@princejay9661]

Brotha, where does the different cultures come from?

[@davidwestwater1914]

I think the fact that all the parents are employed by a highly disciplined organization has alot more to do with it.

[@NorahAlthunayan]

why mr,p cuz

[@realfaux7333]

Promote Family values and Family unity.

[@jamessullivan6224]

Liberals won't do that. They'd rather yell racism.

[@frankzheng5286]

We should put cameras in all classrooms so we can find out what the difference is in real time

[@hilldwler420]

5$ says when she pulls up to a red light and a group of urban youths walk next to her car, she locks the door

[@JoeCnNd]

They auto lock when she takes it out of park more than likely.

[@topgurl9313]

"urban youths"??? I'd do the same if a group of "rural youths" came up to my car in the countryside. That's not about race.

[@jimlahey8210]

@@topgurl9313 lol why? One group is 50 times more likely to victimize you.

[@topgurl9313]

@@jimlahey8210 If you wouldn't take caution whoever comes up to your car, whatever they look like and whatever area you're in, then you're irresponsible and naive. There's potential criminals everywhere.

[@nlkelsey1]

They NEED mothers AND fathers. That’s your unicorn “right”?

[@jamessullivan6224]

I agree Nicole.

[@salemcountywhiterabbit6229]

They have over 50 Countries, they are the largest population of people on the planet yet they can not live with out invading all White Nations.

[@veritasjustice7878]

SalemCounty WhiteRabbit Who’s the largest population of people on the planet?

[@salemcountywhiterabbit6229]

@@veritasjustice7878 Africans, and the turn of the century they are pradicted to be half the world's population. Yet they live with us as a minority and demand spicel rights and privlages afermative action voting rights and free health care

[@JoeCnNd]

I went from a mixed public school to a predominately white school and I went from F's to all A's and a few B's here and there. It was far advanced and school started to interest me when we weren't doing 4th grade work in 7th grade. I caught up pretty quick because the kids didn't act up and fight all the time in class.

[@sophiachin1262]

Its true they are self destructive... I was a 100 thousandere in my 20s to 30s headed to beyond on my own n traveled abroad then once I moved back to the Americas into a project low income place even staying mainly at my real home in an upper middle class to rich neighborhood in another borough... I endured pure delay, stagnation, depression, unfruitfulness, wasted years from the canker worm like in the Bible took place... ENVIRONMENT IS A FACTOR DEAD PLACES N CURSED PLACE DETER GENIOUS!!! Bad soil rarely grows good seed.

[@tippersdad5152]

Stop playing the victim. Every other ethnic group has overcome similar problems, except one.

[@jamessullivan6224]

Yes, I agree.

[@gregorymorris8343]

BLACKS can NOT overcome teachers who are not DEDICATED or not QUALIFIED be teachers

[@Caram3lKYD]

You missed the whole point, your talking about victim, shes talking about community. Your thread is disheartening and shows that unity will not happen certain groups have a misguided view. It's Sad I'm 22 and I have noticed the divide since middle and high school which was from 2008 to high school as no well into my college career. @TipperDad

[@Fres-no]

They blame anything and everything, but chinese and others grab onto the American dream and thrive! Blacks! No! BLAME!

[@bluetickfreddy101]

How do you destroy someone? Give them something Free free free Nothing is free

[@victoriamatthews5108]

. . . presently, The New Fairmont Heights High School that cost around $80 million is 1 of 27 high schools in Maryland. Salaries are 40% Above national average. The total “Minority Enrollment” is 100 percent. The total enrollment is only 665 students, and the total economically disadvantaged (% of total) is 65%.

[@nathanshaffer3749]

Victoria Matthews is this a problem or a solution? A good thing or a bad thing in your opinion?

[@victoriamatthews5108]

By the way, I was a teacher (64 yr. old Caucasian) for 10 years at the old Fairmount Heights High School where the student body was 99% African American. The last two years, I taught AP English. My principal, Nakia Nicholson, an African American declared that I was an Incompetent, and I was fired by the 99% African American School Board of Prince George’s County Maryland.

[@ivangamez9773]

Send disciplined kids to the schools.

[@j53iliff2]

Segregation is more complex than i think she is letting on. 1) increasingly African Americans are self segregating to heal historical trauma and focus on targeted academic development. 2) integrated schools experience higher levels of behavior issues from AA students which causes flight. Thoughts?

[@general_electrics]

Integration never made sense to me. Why not keep the schools separate and make laws to enforce funding them (per pupil) equally?

[@general_electrics]

Nathaniel Bozarth Great points, but what are the implications of your analogy? Why does a malnourished 23 year old have to compete with a professional athlete? There would be an outcry if that game received publicity. Why we allow such unequal conditions to persist in areas such as education is a dark and complicated reality that has a lot to do with race. As it stands, integrated schools have not been successful at solving the problems they were created to solve. In fact, even when schools are integrated, programs like tracking (honors, advanced placement, etc.) can segregate them. White flight gave rise to suburban schools that were essentially all white while inner-city schools became mostly black. Integrated schools are a thin veneer over social problems that continue to boil underneath them. That's why the social problems still exist and are evident when the students fail out or graduate into their respective societies. For some, this means the streets. For others, it's corporate America and tech startups. So integrated schools are, for the most part, a fruitless illusion.

[@salemcountywhiterabbit6229]

Agree, but instead of Federal funded, the local community should fund the schools. This way the areas wear people work fund there school, and the people who do not work fund there school. There is no such thing as equality.

[@judithbarsella7966]

Thank you!! For years I have wondered about that. I finally had to accept the fact that there is just not the will to fund all schools equally. I had to also conclude that the majority community did not want to equip the minority community to be able to compete on a level playing field.

[@JoeCnNd]

Yeah but when you get to the work force you'll be shocked at the extreme differences between the races.

[@theprofiler8531]

Judith Barsella school funding comes from the communities where the students live. Why would I as a school tax payer want my money to go to a community in which I do not live.

[@aaaaaauyt]

integration does not take the test， students do. what do students do differently in integrated schools？

[@sweetmcnasty]

Teachers under the DoD are held to higher standards. Those DoD kids are raised in a structured environment and parents held accountable if their kids act up in school. It's the environment these kids are raised and it spreads into the school. She shoots herself in the foot by mentioning Connecticut's low test scores. Connecticut has implemented what she has suggested and it doesn't work. "Except for Connecticut". That state is the example why you do not go along with what she is trying to sell.

[@Crismans843]

I enjoyed the presentation. It should be noted that the parents of the children in military run schools are already a narrowly defined subgroup of society. Race aside, they met the criteria for military service and in some cases had few other career options.

[@azodnems4799]

Here we go, messing with everyone,anything and everything. Whyyyyy?

[@arthurhurst7286]

you guys are classic

[@keshawnbrown4378]

12 street Thursday

[@NorahAlthunayan]

this iii

[@michaelwojcicki3624]

Ms Hinkson advocates for desegregation, other ed researchers are for it. Might ed scores be related to effort, as promoted in military.

[@wakelon72]

Why not compare why do Asians out perform whites? It is always compare white and blacks. Compare 2 minority groups...why does one excell?

[@aaaaaauyt]

i agree. my coworker，a white man，moved his kid to a new school “that is a good school，half the kids are chinese and indian”

[@aaaaaauyt]

the asian parents i know，when their kids are in K-1，spent at least 1 hour a day making sure the kids read and be read to…. so their kids really behave in school，or they get spanked at home… they dont do well in exam，they get spanked at home…. i am not talking about high tech asians，i am talking about first generation poor asian

[@davidwestwater1914]

You wanted to learn your classmates did not.

[@marvinparadroid]

Soccer mums and indidualists everywhere... i mean you judge a person with a PHD. You all have a degree in "school of life". Isn' t it right?

[@frankzheng5286]

I think the fact that all the parents are employed by a highly disciplined organization has alot more to do with it.