Wednesday, 22 April 2009
EDUCATION - "Black kids just can't act right in schools". Can they?
Black Caribbean and white/ black Caribbean mixed heritage pupils are still disproportionately represented in national school exclusion statistics and are three times more likely than white British pupils to be excluded (Ofsted report, 2008). Even with the Government's attempts to address this balance there seems to be little evidence of change over the last ten years. Why is it that black students are more likely to be excluded than any other group? Is it that “Black kids just can’t act right in schools?” Or is it that black Caribbean and white / black Caribbean mixed heritage pupils have more complex needs and need more complex initiatives from the government to deal with these issues once and for all.
What are your views on this topic?
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3 comments:
MeansWellos!
How can we expect state schooling to have a beneficial affect on our youth with such poorly funded programmes such as yours.
Peanuts & monkeys spring to mind. As does blind leading the blind.
This blog heading should read "Adults just cant act right in life" We have allowed ourselves to be governed into a laughable situation & expect our youth to fall in line with this fundamentally flawed education system.
shame on you for ushering your offspring into coroprate intitutional systems that bleeds our natural resources, animals, peoples and environment in favor of £DEBT£
They, unlike most "adults" intutitvivly realise the absurdness of it all. I hope they continue to switch off disrupt others let them burn the schools down even.
About time we showed some defience toward our "masters" because the last time I looked the shackles are still well & truly intact.
Of course im talking to my self, nobody will be commenting, whos really interested in change?
We rather sit back and allow our childrens futures to be shaped by coporate entities that obviously dont hold our best interests at heart.
It's extremely worrying, that a Black Caribbean boy is far more likely to be excluded from school than his white counterpart. I strongly believe this stems from the actual education systems lack of understanding of the diversity of it's classroom. I think the education system is in essence a white person's club and from a very early age young Black Caribbean boys don't feel a part of the 'system'. I trained as a school teacher and as a teacher you are taught to teach your lesson to a range of different abilities but no mention was ever given to the diversity in your classroom and how certain groups may have extra needs. In some senses it may not be beneficial to train teachers in this way as they may have a predetermined expectation that a Black Caribbean boy will under achieve and this may become self fulfilling as they lower their expectations.
However a school should target some form of extra resources at Black Caribbean boys to raise there achievement levels and make them feel a part of the 'system', to once and for all put an end to them under-performing. The fact that it has been allowed to continue in this manner for decades is outrageous. Many of the problems stem from poverty and it's this cycle of poverty that allows the under-achievement to continue. A black boy is excluded. This then lowers his life chances he may never gain job security which will threaten his relationships with future partners. It's no surprise in these circumstances that there is a higher incidence of black boys growing up in single parent households which statistically are shown to affect your education chances. The cycle then continues for the next generation. There's a higher chance that a Black Caribbean boy will begin school in a low income, single parent household with perhaps no male role model and his chances of succeeding are lowered. It would take one big push to get Black Caribbean boys on an equal footing with their white counterparts. If resources were targeted for just one generation we would see black boys come out of school with the same qualifications as their white counterparts. They may then have a fighting chance of gaining a stable rewarding career and give their offspring a better chance to succeed even further.
Its going to take some considerable time and patience. Before we see some changes. The problems stem from the 1970's and it's only now we are seeing some sort of program to address this issue amongst our young people who are in morality conflicts within themselves and towards others.
Yes I agree and to be honest 70% of the issues remarked do stem from within the home. A minority of parents have lost their identity of what a parent should do. I see it all the time, some even give up being a parent and let their child become a grown up before they become adolescences. They then crave attention from outside the home with their peers to fill that lost void within them. Due to the fact they forget what being a child is like. If we don't address these issues I can assure we will see suicides on the increase amongst some of the young people, which I'm afraid we are seeing already. Poverty leads on to self medication be it drugs/alcohol, already studies have shown it stops the brain from developing and learning emotions.
This is a dangerous period and we all need to address it quick with funding to help our young people to achieve their aspirations in life, give them a self responsibility too, helping others who are in problems. If we don't do enough believe me it could come back and haunt us all. After all the young people are our future. Tell me this who is going to look after you when we are old, some bitter young person who don't give a care, just because we couldn't be bothered about them when they were young. Education, prevention programs need more funding in deprived areas. I'm glad my children have the resources today than I had throughout the 70's and 80's.
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