Comments on: Monique W. Morris: Is the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence Poised to Ignore Black Girls?

By: nicholas ogbuehi

nicholas ogbuehi — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:13:20 +0000

you put my thoughts into words

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:45:27 +0000

Truth! My son, brilliant, beautiful, sweet and a all-around nice kid, is 20-years-old and has been working on his GED for 2 years. He scored exceptionally high in all of the subjects covered EXCEPT math. He has taken this test 3 times and has yet to pass. As a single mother, I tried to teach him all that I knew (math not being one of the subjects I knew). He would have graduated with a regular High School Diploma… but teachers and administrators treated him so badly and dummed him down from the 8th grade on (I performed several “suprise” drop-ins to his schools and have witnessed it first hand). It is shameful how badly and poorly African American boys are treated at schools by teachers and administrators. They didn’t treat me like that. These boys need all the help we can give them.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:08:34 +0000

You know… you do some GOOD and someone gets offended. You can not please everyone applaud the effort and keep it moving. Or you run for president, congress etc.. and make the policies.

By: sann

sann — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:55:34 +0000

Legallychisis, we cannot afford to loose ANY of our children. ONE IS TOO MANY! While you provided stats for higher education, you obviously haven’t looked at the stats at the primary and secondary level.

By: legallychisis

legallychisis — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:07:35 +0000

Let the plan be put into action DAMN! Has the author seen the statics of African American women with degrees vs the men. Have you reviewed the latest Schott Report. “Out of all the African Americans with a Master’s degree, 72% of them are women, only 28% are Black males” “Out of all the African Americans with a Bachelor’s degree, 66% are Black women, only 34% are Black males” So you tell me who needs the most help. First everyone was whining and complaining about how Obama has done nothing for “black people”. Now it’s “Is the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence Poised to Ignore Black Girls?” REALLY!!

By: Soul Sista

Soul Sista — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:00:15 +0000

PB Short:

You are so right…the parents want their children to have fun after school, because often times it takes more effort to oversee academic progress, it is fun and easy to say “hold the ball right, kick it this way, run, run, run” However at the end of the day these are not skills required to own and operate a business, read medical charts, represent a client, teach history, etc. You don’t wait until a child is 21 to teach good character, but how do some people think that they will wait until the child is 21 plus to teach them to settle down and obtain job skills.

By: Angry Black Male

Angry Black Male — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:04:23 +0000

You are so right, my sistah! Good for you for making this point; I applaud you. The only consolation to you is that the president’s announcement was useless for little black boys too.

The biggest issue with the Executive Order is that it took our first black president 3 years and 8 months to order the federal government to focus on quality education for black people, and the order did not come with any funding to ensure anything actually happened. The fact of the matter is this was a total political ploy to motivate black people to come out and vote for a guy who hasn’t done much for the community in reality.

By: Karen Adams Anderson

Karen Adams Anderson — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:02:22 +0000

What can we do to help this initiative ? There are many seniors who are concerned.

By: PB Short

PB Short — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:06:01 +0000

Elizabeth, I agree 98% with you…you forgot one aspect and/or element that is the most important…

In order for our race to succedd with the most basic education of a lifetime, all parents, single or double parent households must, and I mean must, make sure that their children do their homework before engaging in any other activity after school…

For the last 30 years, I have heard to many mothers and fathers say “a child should enjoy their life after school, and should be stuck in the house doing homework after being in school all day”…

Well, there’s the problem right there…if you do not do your home work after school, and read the next four chapters of each book before attending class, then you will not know or understand what the teacher is talking about…

Education starts in the home, and I do not mean gossip, partying, dancing, drugs and alcohol…

Education means that the parents enforce that their child come home, do all homework before playing video games, before going outside, before talking or texting on the phone…

Until this happens, little Johnny and little Debbie will always be a dummy…

You must make sure that you child is prepared for the next lesson being taught in school before the next day…

It is not the teachers jobs to sit with your child one-on-one and teach him and her, it is your job…these classrooms has over 30 kids in them…

I challenge all parents to make their child do their homework…that means, if the teacher did not assigned any home work for that or for the weekend, it is your job to make sure your job is doing their homework…by any means necessary…

Now, that is what I call a parent…I do not want to hear that you are a single mother, or a single father, or a poor family…

If you can teach your child how to dance and rap, then surely you can make them do their homework…YEAR-ROUND…until they graduate…because life is much harder and difficult than reading a few books…

I will challenge anyone to this argument…including the Arthur MONIQUE W. MORRIS…

I am a man who CARES about his children (the human (Black) race)…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:48:16 +0000

ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT THE MALES ARE IN REAL TROUBLE SO THAT IS WHY I BELIEVE IT WAS ADDRESSED.

OUR GIRLS NEED TO STAY IN SCHOOL AND STOP BRINGING BABIES INTO THE WORLD WITH JAIL DADDY’S.

WE CAN IMPROVE OUR SITUATION IF WE USE COMMON SENSE.