Nation’s Pupils Find Few Black Men to Call Mister

I am a white male teacher, and I have found it exceedingly difficult to connect with black male students on any level. If a black male teacher can improve the test scores and classroom behavior of young black makes, I fully support this effort.

The Liberals must be running out of excuses for Black male non-achievement in schools. They’ve used forced integration, magnet schools, voluntary segregation, smaller classes, reduced academic standards, etc.; all to negligible positive effect. Now they claim that there is a lack of Black males in teaching, and this is preventing Black male students from being as well behaved as Asian females, and have the academic achievements of Asian males. I don’t think so. In fact, I believe this is another lame excuse.

Actually, I had several Black male teachers back in the 1950’s. They got no greater respect from the Black male students, nor did they stimulate them to better grades than other teachers. The simple fact is that with Affirmative Action, Black men who would be good teachers enter more lucrative occupations, i.e. law, medicine, presidency, drug dealing, public relations, etc.

Let me just see if I got those facts straight. 71% of the 30% that do not drop out of high school drop out of college. That leaves 8 out of 100. And now they want them to teach?

If it’s so critical for a black male child to have a black male teachers as a role model, is it critical for a white male child to have a white male teacher as a role model?

On a local black radio talk show, the host interviewed a black female teacher about the low numbers of black teachers (male and female). She gave him a blunt answer he didn’t like.

She said most blacks don’t go into the teaching field because they know how ‘kids’ behave.

I would wager more black teachers would exacerbate the “achievement gap”.

Most white teachers I had were immensely dedicated and concerned about their students, and while I don’t think I ever had a black teacher, if they tend to be anything remotely as surly and lazy as the multitudes of other black government employees, I think their students are in trouble.

Designed to put more minority men at the head of the classroom, the initiative offers scholarships in exchange for teaching in public schools.

And where do they get the money to offer scholarships just for minorities? From Obama’s stash of money?

It continues to come full circle. Segregrated schools offer students, teachers they can relate to, but they already called that evil.

Oh just have those black boys watch T.V. where EVERY black man is a teacher, judge, doctor, lawyer, astonaut, pilot- - all at the same time, an all around pillar of the community who all the White people go to for advice. That should do it.

Typical faulty logic at work. We are to assume that blacks would finish high school in greater numbers if barriers are removed and crutches are supplied. In this article, the magic bullet is replacing existing teachers with black males. There is no attempt in the article to provide more than anecdotal evidence that this would make a difference, and no examination of the cost of recruiting black males as teachers. Instead, we are asked to support an expensive social experiment that is doomed to failure. Apparently, it is much easier to look for a magic bullet than to face the facts about the true cause of black underachievement.

If anyone thinks that today’s black students will show more respect to a black teacher, they’re sadly mistaken. Today’s black yoot shows respect to no one. They’d just as soon cuss out and beat up anyone in authority over them, black or white.

I have had a few African professors in my economics courses. They have been fairly good although their accents sometimes make it difficult to understand. Many of them have expressed the sentiment (in private) that Black Americans have a corrupt culture and don’t understand how good they have it here compared to the hell hole that is Africa. I say we start a study abroad for Black students in Zimbabwe, maybe they will hate whitey a little less. Naaah who am I kidding?

Too many blacks go to third rate state schools or historic black colleges where thorough education is absent and dropout rates are high. Black teachers are seen, correctly, as less qualified, than white teachers. And by whom? Black students who may not study but who can tell a fake in a flash.

“I am a white male teacher, and I have found it exceedingly difficult to connect with black male students”

That’s because we all have to be friends now. You’re not doing your part to be their friend.

Who cares what the excuse is? the latest one anyway. They never call for more black gas station attendants, or for that matter, more female garbage collectors, no matter how skewed these employment fields might be. It’s just a one way ticket where some are more important than others perpetually.

In regard to Anonymous 12:15 AM on October 13-

Sending me to Turkey made me a race realist, when before I was one of those liberal self-hating and unappreciative white women. Your idea is excellent, we should also send more self-hating liberal whites abroad. They don’t listen to anyone, even ones who were converted like me after a real experience.

I would call this practical and valuable hands-on education.

“Black men who would be good teachers enter more lucrative occupations, i.e. law, medicine, presidency, drug dealing, public relations, etc.”

This is the reality the “talented tenth” have other better opportunities due to shortages of educated black men and, of course, affirmative action.

I dont know about the rest of you, but my role model was my father, and the other adult males in my family. And my scout master. Why does the state have to provide role models for young black males. Oh, yeah, I answered my own question…

Good black teachers don’t want to teach a lot of black students:

” However, those black teachers who did leave black schools tended to be the highest qualified black teachers. So the decline in quality was somewhat more pronounced among black teachers than white teachers.”

Who can blame them?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527072819.htm

This actually isn’t a bad idea. Black students will definitely respond best to a Black teacher, especially a Black male who projects some authority and isn’t very meek and wimpy…think Black males who have some experience in the military or in sports.

Most Blacks aren’t overly intelligent and thus couldn’t teach very many higher level courses in very technically complex topics like advanced math, science, and so on, but anyone of average intelligence can teach other easier subjects like history, literature, political science, physical education, agriculture, woodshop, and other similar subjects.

19 Anon: Anyone of average intelligence can Not teach, not math, not history, not woodshop. Perhaps they can stand before a class and regurgitate what they were told when they were in school, but that’s not teaching. One of the attractions of computer-based teaching is that it can easily mimic that “teacher” of average intelligence, providing lists of facts, hours of drill and grading it all instantly. Kids are right to hate that kind of schooling.