African American Public School Kids / Christian Education

Well today was a very pleasant day for me. I had 2 classes of children today. One group was a Special Education group. I was f"forewarned" that they would be rowdy. The back ground to this school, is that the population is one where, Indians, Hispanics, Pakistanis, Muslims etc make up the majority. Blacks are the minority. these are elementary kids too. Today I had grade 4-5
I've been to this school twice already and I weep when I leave. I don't want to leave!
These children are so well mannered. I have to say unfortunately, that the Special Education children in THIS school behaved LIGHT YEARS better than the African American/Black Bebe's kids that I've taught in other schools. And I kid you not. I try and figure out Why? Why are Special Ed Indians and Pakistani 4th and 5th graders children better behaved than Older, 6th grade Mainstream African Americans.

Is it the home environment? Is it the mentality? The upbringing? Special Ed kids, are placed in special Ed b/c of learning and behavioral problems....why are these kids behaving more rationally than the main stream black kids? Why Black people? why? I am so embarrassed, and disappointed.

In my 6th grade Main stream African American class, I saw behavior that included the following:
Throwing Paper
Name Calling
Swearing, Cuss Words
texting
Boys seated on females' laps
Instigating,
hitting,
running,
chair pushing,
and general ruckous, that despite repeated warnings,
timeouts, and reasoning, only steadily grew worse.
hitting people upside the head with books.
Stripping...seriously, the boy was about to be half naked.
Talking back, running out into the hallway.

This sounds like Special Education behavior right? Right? Yea, it does but these are Main Streamers.
Let's take a look at the Special Ed Indian Children:
Talking Out of turn or calling out answers
One kids may have had ADHD, and was very jumpety.
ONE kid threw paper once.
But they listened. They all took their turn to read. They didn't break out in a Chris Brown chorus or run down the halls during class.

But these are EXPECTED behaviors, and what perplexes me is that the SP Indian kids were quiet and completed the entire assignment.
The other main-streamers hadn't completed the first page in almost 2 periods.
A poor reflection on the teacher? Maybe, but not in this case. I suppose kids act out more when their regular teacher is gone. That may be a factor. B
You see being a sub, I've been all over this city and seen the similarities that exist amongst African American children. . And it can't be ignored. There is a common problem amongst African American children in Public Schools.
The standards are different. The expectations are lower.
Did you know that in order to figure out how many new jails to build, and how much funding should go towards it, researchers need only to look to grade 5 reading levels. African Americans make up a large portion of the penitentiary system, and from what I've seen in the PRESENT fifth grade situation, the future isn't looking too bright.

I'll never forget the news report of a toddler that took a desk and used it to trash the entire classroom. Yes, you guessed it, a black four year old in a public preschool, after the teacher gave him a simple assignment that he didn't want to do. The image of the classroom looked like a complete catastrophe. Like, a window was opened and a tornado wrecked the room. The black board was swinging by its hinge, the desks were toppled over, papers scattered everywhere. There was hardly anywhere to step. If this is Main stream, I PRAY I never have to sub in a Special Ed African American setting. NO THANKS!
With the black men behind bars, leaving baby mommas behind to raise kids, no wonder, this imbalance of God's plan creates such a steamy hot mess! The home needs TWO parents. Not one. and 2 parents WORKING TOGETHER, NOT AGAINST EACH OTHER (I've gotta blog about this point sometime soon).

I believe that standards are different in Adventist schools too. Are private Seventh day Adventist Institutions better than their public counterparts? PERSONALLY, I believe back in the day , they may have been, but today, they're not all that. Oakwoad is lovingly referred to as HOKE-Wood. Why? There is a serious promiscuity problem. I'd send my kid to a public college in a heart beat. SDA institutes cry broke all the while. And because they are funded soley by tithes, you better believe there are some serious lacks. If di people dem doan pay de tithe, A wey you a tink sey de pickney dem fi read? Air? transaltion: You don't pay your tithe, the school has no resources to educate.
An issue is that we don't pay tithes like we should, so our schools suffer. Pay your tithe people, Get a calculator if you don't know what TEN PERCENT IS!
Don't forget budget is five percent
Another issue is the fact that Non Adventist parents seeking a good private school environment will send their child to an Adventist school. Then the family's values are exposed to the other children. The perfect example would be my daughter.
She's four. She attends a private SDA preschool. I'd gotten her to do a coloring activity to keep her busy. I turned around and noticed her fingers were marked and when looking more closely, saw she had colored her fingernails with the purple marker.
I asked her what was going on. She said to me,
"Mommy I need colors so I can be pretty"
She's done this same thing with my hair scrunchies and rubber bands, doning them one her little ankle and draping them on her wrist.
"Mommy I am pretty now" She says.
"I have to wear jewelry , all my friends wear jewelry" (Aren't kids the cutest? Little sponges they are).
Her 2 dearest friends at school wear jewelry. The school can't turn a kid away from school because they wear jewelry. SO they are admitted, money accepted, and the arduous task of correction correction correction becomes mine.
(Some Adventist kids wear jewelry, and I've heard of a school turning away a student because they had dreadlocks, but I'll save that for another post)