Second Short Quiz

SUB-TEXT -- WHY OUR POLITICIANS AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE TRYING TO DISTRACT US WITH INCIDENTS OF ALLEGED POLICE BRUTALITY RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON WHAT REALLY AILS OUR INNER CITIES!!!

In addition to our normal Participant Comments including our Short Quizzes and Suggested Answers Thereto, click here for John Karls’ 5/10/2015 posting entitled AMERICA’S APARTHEID “JUSTICE” SYSTEM -- BALTIMORE, AMERICAN INNER-CITIES AND TOM BRADY which occupied the first three sections of the face of this bulletin board until 5/14/2015.
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Second Short Quiz

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1. Does our author, Prof. Diane Ravitch, recognize that the SINGLE-DIGIT graduation rates for our inner-city high schools are a SOCIOLOGY problem rather than an EDUCATION problem -- and that school-privatization proposals (such as vouchers and school choice) make any more sense than closing a police precinct in whose jurisdiction a crime is committed and hiring amateurs in their place?

2. Does Prof. Ravitch really understand the true nature of the SOCIOLOGY problem? What does she cite as examples of the SOCIOLOGY problem?

3. What would be a more accurate picture of the SOCIOLOGY problem?

4. Why were the “I Have A Dream”® Programs of the 1990’s so much more effective than programs that featured only one-on-one mentoring or tutoring? Why did this permit the typical class of Dreamers that received tutoring/mentoring from third grade through high school graduation with a guarantee of college tuition to achieve 60%-65% H.S. graduation/college matriculation rates when the classes immediately preceding and immediately succeeding the Dreamer class suffered the typical SINGLE DIGIT H.S. graduation rates?

5. What enabled later “I Have A Dream”® Programs to increase the 60%-65% success rates into the 90% range?

6. Since it has been known since 2009 when the two definitive studies (one even funded by the Walton and Dell Foundations that had been pushing charter schools) demonstrated that charter schools are NOT more effective than public schools (please see Q&A-8 of the First Short Quiz for details), why did the top 21 national and California politicians and 43 media superstars PREVENT $84 billion of PRIVATE funding to provide IHAD or IHAD-style programs for 10 million American inner-city children? Didn’t the 21 politicians and 43 media superstars know that if any one of them had lifted a single finger, it might have been sufficient to save the 10 million inner-city children from a fate worse than death?

7. Is it any wonder that the politicians and media superstars continue to pretend, like Emperors Wearing No Clothes, that replacing public schools with charter schools for no additional cost, will solve the SOCIOLOGY problem of our inner-city schools?

8. Is there no remedy for such wickedness???

9. Does America have any excuse for its Permanent Under-Caste??? In other words, do the Identical Twin Studies (The Gold Standard for determining what is hereditary vs. what is environmental) show that inner-city children have the same I.Q. as suburban children???

10. Is there any chance that a non-parliamentary form of government such as ours could ever produce a solution???

11. After all, isn’t that why we always see so many American pols demagoguing the class issue in terms of “the 1% vs. the 99%” when, in fact, they have no intention of lifting a finger for the Permanent Under-Caste???

12. In other words, by “the 99%” don’t they really mean The Middle Class??? And their claim to represent the Permanent Under-Caste as well is pure fraud???

13. Or, in other words, aren’t they cynically assuming that in a non-parliamentary form of government such as ours, the Permanent Under-Caste has nowhere to go???

14. So is there any hope for America’s Permanent Under-Caste, or is it doomed???

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