Walter Williams: The Tragedy of Black Education Is New

 One of his last columns as I learned he passed away recently, Walter E. Williams was an economic professor and columnist. He occasionally guest hosted the Rush Limbaugh program, and I've heard a few of his programs over the years

Via The Daily Signal:

Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system. What it found was an utter disgrace.

In 19 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math.

In 13 of Baltimore’s high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math.

In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading.

Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma—a fraudulent high school diploma.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District scored the lowest in the nation compared to 26 other urban districts for reading and mathematics at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels.

A recent video captures some of this miseducation in Milwaukee high schools: In two city high schools, only one student tested proficient in math and none are proficient in English.

Yet, the schools spent a full week learning about “systemic racism” and “Black Lives Matter activism.” By the way, a Nov. 19 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article asks: “How many Black teachers did you have? I’ve only had two.” The article concludes, “For future Black students, that number needs to go up.”

That last paragraph I excerpted, a pattern is developing. Less of learning of fundamentals, more learning of an agenda. The agenda that isn't going to help educate the young people.

Surely parents of school aged children have more to say about this than that. It could be worse children who learn this agenda can take this to Yale University and treat their privileged university as just like the world as they've been taught in K-12.

h/t Instapundit