Education another venue where Black people have been dysfunctional to ourselves

[richardmurray]

September 13, 2022

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I stated that the Black community was incorrect to itself concerning education. In this very same forum, how often have Black folk complained about a so called lack of education among our own. A demand for this and that in terms of goals in the education system in the USA which black people never controlled or administered in majority. And yes, it matters when someone not black is governing Black people. Said someone is a fellow human but that includes their human dislikes or desires that don't go alongside other humans.

 

Recently I used simple proof that the black community has to stop chiding itself as impotent concerning the issue of voting when white people themselves assessing the whole landscape admit all communities are doing as the black community. 

 

Now the legal system of NYC that pushed charter schools into Harlem, supported by most black elected officials or black churches or the black business owning class, because black kids were touted as abysmal failures, which was and is a lie, has tiptoed and found every path possible to not treat a white tribe of orthodox white jews like the black tribe known as Descended of Enslaved. I heard black women, black elected officials criminalize black children as lazy, as disgruntled, as disrespecting their ancestors, while a horde of white children in the same city are being allowed to have an absent educational record. But what is the issue? it isn't the children. It is the parents. The white jewish parents  gained power and then used power to raise their kids as they want, even going completely against the rules supposedly for all. While the Black parents are unwilling to admit their impotency and enslaved mindset to their children while demanding their children uphold the false idol of financial positive mobility in the united states of america, which the black parents know full well is a lie. Shame on the black parent. Shame on the black community. We all have supported or lived by at one point or another this idea that our future generations have to reach some goal, make the usa some thing. In NYC, while Black kids were being criminalized for not being 100% as individuals or as a collective in an educational assessment that wasn't the true problem of the black kids, white kids were protected and reared by their parents in the same city to be free of concern for the same system. Black parents shut up and gain power. Black business owners, shut up and take over other firms. The Black community in the usa goes on and on all the time about what the youth need to do. No the adults need to do whatever it takes to gain real power and that includes violence, or shut up and let the youth live as they will cause the whites in this country are using their power to make their children's lives as happy as can be while as free from any condemnation even when they can't read. 

 

 

City determines 18 yeshivas not meeting standards
By Jillian Jorgensen New York City
PUBLISHED 3:40 PM ET Jun. 30, 2023

The city has determined that four Orthodox yeshivas are failing to provide an education “substantially equivalent” to what’s offered in public schools — and recommends the state reach the same conclusion for another 14 yeshivas the city says are ultimately under state authority.

The findings are the results of a long-stalled and politically thorny investigation that has stretched on since 2015.

The city found that just seven schools they investigated met standards. That’s in addition to two it found were up to standards in 2019.

What You Need To Know
The city has determined that four Orthodox yeshivas are failing to provide an education “substantially equivalent” to what’s offered in public schools — and recommends the state reach the same conclusion for another 14 yeshivas the city says are ultimately under state authority

The findings are the results of a long-stalled and politically thorny investigation that has stretched on since 2015. The city found that just seven schools they investigated met standards. That’s in addition to two it found were up to standards in 2019

The city says it could not make a final determination in the case of the 14 schools because of an amendment that gives the state education commissioner the power to make final determinations for schools that meet certain requirements

The investigation was spurred by a complaint from a group called Young Advocates for a Fair Education, or YAFFED, headed at the time by a yeshiva graduate who argued his education left him ill-prepared for the world outside of religious studies
The city says it could not make a final determination in the case of the 14 schools because of an amendment introduced in 2018 by state Sen. Simcha Felder, which gives the state education commissioner the power to make final determinations for schools that meet certain requirements, like having a bilingual program. For that reason, the ruling is not final for those 14 schools, and the recommendations will not be made public.

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa had ordered the city Department of Education to complete the inquiry — which, in 2019, the city Department of Investigation ruled had been delayed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration for political purposes — by today.

The investigation was spurred by a complaint from a group called Young Advocates for a Fair Education, or YAFFED, headed at the time by a yeshiva graduate who argued his education left him ill-prepared for the world outside of religious studies. YAFFED and other critics argue many so-called ultra-Orthodox yeshivas provide little to no secular instruction, particularly for boys, and instead focus on religious studies. Representatives of the schools have pushed back strenuously on those claims.

The schools are private, but do receive some state funding and, like all private schools in New York, are required to provide children with an education “substantially equivalent” to what is offered in public schools. The investigation kicked off a debate of what exactly substantially equivalent means, prompting the state to develop rules for determining it. 

The rules, adopted in September, subject non-public schools to review by local school districts — in New York City, the DOE — to determine if they meet criteria like having a competent teacher provide instruction, offering classes in English, math, science and social studies, and that lessons are provided to children with limited English proficiency to help them learn English.

The investigation, and the guidelines from the state, kicked off massive outcry from Orthodox groups, who have characterized them as an attack on religious liberty. 

In an interim report released in 2019, the DOE reported that just two of 28 yeshivas were meeting standards, and that some were not allowing the city access to conduct reviews. 

Critics have long argued the city dragged its feet in the investigation to avoid angering the Orthodox community, which is politically influential in the city. And in 2019, the Department of Investigation determined that the mayor’s office delayed the release of the preliminary report in exchange for support of the extension of mayoral control of city schools.

In a statement provided to NY1 on Friday, the group Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty said the “outcomes of yeshiva education are on display every day across New York: in the successful business and professional careers of tens of hundreds of thousands yeshiva graduates and in the law abiding and loving families they are raising here.”

"PEARLS rejects the attempt to measure the efficacy of yeshiva education by applying a skewed set of technical requirements,” the group said. “Utilizing a government checklist devised and enforced by lawyers may help explain the state of public education. It is designed to obscure rather than illuminate the beauty and success of yeshiva education.”

“Parents choose yeshiva education for their children because of the religious, moral and educational philosophy and approach of those who lead yeshivas,” it added. “They will continue to do so, regardless of how many government lawyers try to insist that yeshiva education is best measured by checklists they devise rather than the lives yeshiva graduates lead."
 

URL

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/06/30/new-york-city-yeshiva-investigation-findings
 

 

 

So besides suggesting falsely that Black children are failing, what do you have to say?