In re "We do a particularly poor job educating poor and minority boys" -- agreed, but it's shameful that progressives never want to talk about how the most culpable segment of that "we" consists of the poor and minority fathers who impregnate but fail to marry the boys' mothers, and fail to provide a stable source of authority and discipline for those boys, to back up the efforts of their teachers.
poor and minority boys
In re "We do a particularly poor job educating poor and minority boys" -- agreed, but it's shameful that progressives never want to talk about how the most culpable segment of that "we" consists of the poor and minority fathers who impregnate but fail to marry the boys' mothers, and fail to provide a stable source of authority and discipline for those boys, to back up the efforts of their teachers.
2004 illegitimacy rates: 69 percent (black), 46 percent (Hispanic)
source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/prelimbirth04_tables.pdf
cf: http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.htm
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_dads_hood.html
http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_1_a1.html