Schools and families

If you had to select one problem that is most responsible for the test score gap between whites and Blacks it would be education. A close second would be lack of fathers in the home. These two problems have been around for many years and have become worse since the 1970's. The question then arises why hasn't something been done about it. The answer is slavery. Anytime anyone wants to talk about schools and home life they are shut down by those who say the root cause is slavery and thus the conversation shifts away from school to what happened all those many years ago and not much can be done about slavery. It all started with a 700-page report that said something surprising: family background, not schools, explained most of the yawning gap between the achievement of America’s white and black students. The number of Black single mom families increased from 25% to 70% since 1970. That is when the government started to replace dads with programs. It has destroyed the Black family. So now they want the teachers to take up the slack and be the family. Teachers thus can't spend as much time on the 3-R's that is needed. Full circle.