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Originally posted by KSig RC
What culture would that be, kevin? Black culture? Poor culture? Immigrant culture?
How can you properly define a widespread problem using such a narrow definition as 'culture'?
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I'd hate to call it black culture or immigrant culture. That would be painting with a pretty broad brush.
How about the culture that many blacks are raised in verus the culture that many immigrants are raised in?
Of course, again, that's stateing what is insanely obvious. My girlfriend teaches band in an inner-city school. She observes that many of the children there come from families that place an extremely low level of importance upon a good education -- so much so that parents blame the teachers when their kids have behavioral issues in school -- please note that I did not mention race in the sharing of this information, I simply mean to point out that at least in this case, these kids from the inner-city families don't place a very high value on their education. In many cases, these parents simply see the teachers as babysitters that can take care of their kids while they watch afternoon television.
I realize that the above comes nowhere even close to a representative sample, and I failed to address what groups she says do better, however, I think it does address the fact that there is a home culture that exists in this country that prepares children for failure.
I don't know how this is borne out in statistics, but what starang21 is saying seems to be echoing what we already know. Asian kids do better than white kids on these standardized tests, and to continue with that comparison, blacks and hispanics do not fare as well as whites on these tests.
Hopefully, no one here would be brazen enough to suggest that eugenics could play any role here, and if it's not caused by the home culture of these kids, what else could it be?