I curious whether that’s nature or nurture. My mother worked very hard with my brother, my sister and me teaching us to read before we went to kindergarten. My father always worked me on math and algebra. Who does that in a Black, inner city home? What about children of well educated Black couples? Assuming you’re right, there are many jobs that children with lower IQ’s (Black and White) can be trained to do at a Community College. They dont have to go to college.
I also want to tell you Im on the Board of a Catholic K-8 school in a very rough part of Philadelphia. The mission of the order of Nuns is to educate the children of immigrant poor. We have 450-500 students. This year 2% were white, 2 % were Asian, 2% were mixed race, the rest were black and brown. There are 19 different first tongues spoken in the school from 49 different countries. We have a 110 piece orchestra, we have a 40 book club and any kids who read 40 books a year a given a medallion. We gave out 80 medallions last year. We compete in an international math contest and have been number 1 in the nation every year for the past five years. We have a solid stem program and these kids are hungry to learn. I might add that tuition is $4,500 a year. We do not teach English as second language. Also, this year 40% of our students are Muslim. We expect our 8th readers to get about $600,000 in scholarships to attend other private schools next year.
Our tuition is $4,500 per year, but the parents only pay 25%. We raise the money for the rest. As a comparison, the Phiadelphia public school system spends about $15,000 per kid per year. Of course that’s K-12. As I said all of these kids are immigrants and I think they are from two parent families. Our kids come from a very rough neighborhood in Philadelphia so I don't think there is any selection bias. When these kids come in as kindergartners they usually dont speak English. We have a great language arts program. We have 6, 8th graders this year who received a full scholarship to Drexel and each will get an additional$7,500 per year, but they have to maintain their GPA throughout high school. Every one of these is black. By the way, I am not Catholic, but when I toured the school a number of years ago I was just compelled to get involved.
I curious whether that’s nature or nurture. My mother worked very hard with my brother, my sister and me teaching us to read before we went to kindergarten. My father always worked me on math and algebra. Who does that in a Black, inner city home? What about children of well educated Black couples? Assuming you’re right, there are many jobs that children with lower IQ’s (Black and White) can be trained to do at a Community College. They dont have to go to college.
I also want to tell you Im on the Board of a Catholic K-8 school in a very rough part of Philadelphia. The mission of the order of Nuns is to educate the children of immigrant poor. We have 450-500 students. This year 2% were white, 2 % were Asian, 2% were mixed race, the rest were black and brown. There are 19 different first tongues spoken in the school from 49 different countries. We have a 110 piece orchestra, we have a 40 book club and any kids who read 40 books a year a given a medallion. We gave out 80 medallions last year. We compete in an international math contest and have been number 1 in the nation every year for the past five years. We have a solid stem program and these kids are hungry to learn. I might add that tuition is $4,500 a year. We do not teach English as second language. Also, this year 40% of our students are Muslim. We expect our 8th readers to get about $600,000 in scholarships to attend other private schools next year.
Richard,
Our tuition is $4,500 per year, but the parents only pay 25%. We raise the money for the rest. As a comparison, the Phiadelphia public school system spends about $15,000 per kid per year. Of course that’s K-12. As I said all of these kids are immigrants and I think they are from two parent families. Our kids come from a very rough neighborhood in Philadelphia so I don't think there is any selection bias. When these kids come in as kindergartners they usually dont speak English. We have a great language arts program. We have 6, 8th graders this year who received a full scholarship to Drexel and each will get an additional$7,500 per year, but they have to maintain their GPA throughout high school. Every one of these is black. By the way, I am not Catholic, but when I toured the school a number of years ago I was just compelled to get involved.