How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at wealthier schools -- things like musical instruments, new books, healthy school lunches and soccer fields -- and this has a real impact on the potential of students. Kandice Sumner sees the disparity every day in her classroom in Boston. In this inspiring talk, she asks us to face facts -- and change them.
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People get stuck on the racial portion of this Ted Talk and totally skip over the issue of having quality education for more children.
PE /\ KE Whenever someone says anything about race people jump at the chance to dismiss it as whining and not working for what you have. If a child isn't exposed to different educational options of course they are doomed to repeat the generations before them. The overall message was about wanting better education for all children, but people in the comment section didn't care.
Well it is just a weird thing to emphasize since the race when that isn't the issue, the poverty thing is the issue so that is what should be emphasized.
dakota Nobriga Statistics don't lie about the racial demographics of poorer areas. She was speaking from a personal experience which does not diminish the overall message.
Jona M thank you Jona everyone just makes comments saying oh white kids are poor too and have gone to schools with few resources ... smh
News Flash!!! This whole video was about race, if you didn't notice....
Aww. This happened to me. My senior teacher bought me mockingjay from hunger games series. I was so shook. I cried. In the back; she wrote,
“you can travel the world without even leaving your couch”
Sissssss 😭😭😭😭😭
I immediately geared up from this comment
Get that teacher a reward
This is why my mom moved us to a small (probably the cheapest apartment) condo in the expensive side of Seattle because those schools in our zone would get so much funding! And did all her purchasing on the other side of town 😂
She didn’t like living where we did but loved her for that! I went to such a great school thanks to her! Lol
SMart ART That happened to me in NYC only when I got to the school I realized all the people who lived in the area sent their kids to Private Schools or other schools and not the one I went to lmao so funny
She saw the bigger picture albeit a public school is still a public school.
They get the funding then dump the children yes or he black children are very much mistreated and so are the Mexican children too it’s so unfair
You deserve a community that reflects you and has similar resources tho as well
Was the improvement in the new school really linked to more funding or did the environment improve because a majority of the kids were really committed to learning which made it easier for you to learn?
" The problems we have as a country, are the problems we created *as a country.* "
Sis.
Caira Lee: "The problems we have as a country, are the problems we created as a country"
Me: the problems were created by these racist white supremacist who are in power
Right that is some powerful knowledge... unbelievable.. and you would think in 2020 we would have rectified issues by now... wow...
Then stop voting Democrat.
@@derp8575 both are the problem. you too suffer from lack of proper education.
@Herpes-Lip…if you don’t realize both parties are the problem, you are still brainwashed
"School funding should not be decided by property taxes" Amen!
Samuel backus well how else do you suppose we fund schools? You spend more money to live in a nice neighborhood, you pay more in taxes, and you have access to better funded schools.
Samuel backus should be no public schools at all... I can already say everything she will talk about.. Bla Bla Bla same song . More Karl Marx bullshit...
Yeah, everyone should have to pay for their education, that way lazy poor people can be poor forever. It's just slavery with extra steps
Samuel backus
Black communities should work harder to have quality communities that would generate taxes to support their schools.
Rather than having the black school officials steal the federal funding that gets allocated to them.
Rachelle Nixon How do you think minorities and whites were allocayed to those neighborhoods in the first place?
Hello you random person on the internet. Have a nice day! :)
thank you :)
seppobastian hello other random person on the internet! I hope you have a great day too
seppobastian You too other random people on the internet. : )
big boy here. 'fucking'
Thank You!! :) I sure was not expecting this pleasant of a top comment in here but nice supersize.
Unfortunately, the best way to keep people under control is to keep them barely educated, and I don't see any change coming any time soon.
jfsfrnd You mean the poorly educated parents?
Patrick Mac
They hold themselves back.
jfsfrnd
1. Fail to graduate high school.
2. A 70% out of wedlock birth rate.
3. Embracing thug culture.
jfsfrnd
Open your eyes. The facts are every where.
www.city-journal.org/html/what%E2%80%99s-holding-blacks-back-12025.html
jfsfrnd
It was a place for you to start.
I love TED talks from teachers, as they can always articulate their message so well. Kudos to Ms Sumner :)
That Girl With The Coffee My school said to young me that I am a failure and tried to make me wanna become a janitor but I refused and I’m going to own a huge business and fix all this and become the world’s greatest hero
It is funny how the country that hails democracy fails to address the other side of the coin.
becool365- Yep. Ironic how this country hails the institution of and the importance of education and that it absolutely should be available for all!...And then devalues that same claim.
the US is a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy. Rule of Law not Rule of the Masses/Mob.
@@jll5568 That is the biggest problem.
@@josephstevens4032 No that is the greatest strength. The idea that everyone knows enough about everything to vote on it responsibly is retarded.
大豬豬 socialism? What rock have you been under? History proves that Socialism is not the answer. Why would you want the government dictating to us, deciding for us? Screw that!
Don't blame your economic status on your color, it's fucking stupid. She said it herself, because there is no priority in obtaining wealth in her family, they live in a neighborhood that lacks wealth and a school system that lacks wealth. It is not a cause of her skin color. She also said she wasn't supposed to have "Safe Fields to Play in" I wonder whose fault it is that they don't have safe neighborhoods... and I wonder if Police Men help keep streets safe. High Quality education is exclusive to the rich because they can support it due to their economic status... which is not racism. I wonder if she knows who created slavery and who ended it. Strangers from all over the country cared about the education of those children... and since the majority are white people in america, and other races, how can you blame your educational failures on racism? It has to do with the wealth in the community.
Yeah that's what she said. Your brain just only heard the racism part.
deadfish45films poor argument sorry, if I understand you correctly, your saying only rich people should be allowed to go to good schools because they fund them in the first place, this is a clear oversight of the fact that the only reason rich people can fund the system in the first place is because of the disparity which has been in place since the beginning, it's called the cycle of priveledge, poor people are forced down so that they can't mount any opposition to the establishment, the only answer is to level out the starting positions so that no-one receives a better education due to money or colour
Andrew Blank I was just pointing it out for the people who blame it on racism.
xWalkerz Im talking about college level education really, Everyone deserves a good education in my opinion, but if someone is getting a better education than you, it really shouldn't be their problem.
opportunity =/= outcome
the lack of compassion and empathy under this video is startling.
Gianni Love not really. Whenever race in mentioned on channel, white people get upset and downvote the video
yeah i forget it's youtube sometimes. the dumpster of the collective subconscious.
its not a lack of empathy. its whats shes saying and shes receiving criticism for it. people generally dislike someone with stupid rationalizations.
CountChokcula um, last i checked - disliking anything indicates a lack of empathy and compassion.
Gianni Love where in the definition of empathy requires you to like or dislike something? it involves sharing the feelings of another and most people will not empathize with stupidity.
Education varies so widely from state to state. It's hard to generalize why problems happen the way they do. But teachers whom have actually taught in high poverty schools have valuable opinions that are seldom listened to.
Schools nowadays dont even teach you how to handle your money and stuff. People are taught to be employees, rather than teaching them how to be CEOs or entrepreneurs. Its why there are so many impovrished people. Its hard to make a change when youre too "dumb" (uneducated) to even know where to start.
@Angel S Well good for you but most schools don't do that.
@@cosimoto8700 you live in the age of information
@@stayswervin554 the age of information has been around since the dawn of man. the problem with school that you probably don’t even know is the fact that school wasn’t made to educate to begin with, it was only turned that way because the nice white moms believed their children, white children, had more potential than the minorities so they should be put in better schools. also white people are seen as superior where do the minorities fit in here? to separate the “good” students from “the bad”
it's not hard to generalize AT ALL. and it's "who have" not "whom have"
A passionate speaker lays bare a topic long glossed-over.
I had forgotten until this video about the time I bought a dozen books for kids who were economically left out from a book fair. Later I was told they even took their books out to recess to read 'their own book'. Years later it destroys me to remember it.
This video will be a periodic mandatory viewing for me, now a Parent-Teacher org. president. Where will you and your kid be years later?
I remember at my zone school we had subs everyday for over a year . We didn’t learn anything at all and all started middle school clueless with the academics .
As a black person I get her message; however, teachers can't teach people who don't want to learn. the black community tends to stigmatize those who want to learn and make something of themselves. Because I believed on speaking and writing standard English growing up my peers said that I was trying to "act white" and trying to be better than them. systemized racism exists but the person who wants to learn will no matter what. My life turned out so different from others in my class and we all had the same classes and teachers. I don't blame the system anymore I just show my nephews how they can beat it and come out on top
Sadly true, yes. The system created to keep the slaves weak hundreds of years ago has yet to be abolished completely.
jricri anne You my friend are just teaching them the crabs in the bucket mantality. We have a faulty system that needs to be fix you ignoring it is a lot worst than the people complaining about it. Get yours and go won't work anymore. If we take pride being who we are and what we do without acknowledging the facts only keep poor people down. This isn't about race its about funding. Poor people won't get funding because of thought the are not deserving of it. Their are children right now in sweat shops that my never make anything out of their life and that shouldn't have to do that. But if thats the only way for them to survive should we as people be okay with that.... No... Things need to change and it won't happen if we don't acknowledge the fact and try and change them.
No. Our education system was designed to crank out people with just enough education to work in turn of the century factories but not enough to understand that they were being played. It had nothing to do with slavery or race. When the current education system was created, it was created by people who did not even consider black people as a component of it.
Wow all these responses to jricri anne are sad.
I am a young Australian man of 21. I went to good and bad schools throughout my schooling career. I did poorly in all of them because I wasn't interested in learning. having dropped out before completing year 12, I realized that actually I was now responsible for myself. I got a job and worked hard and I do so to this day. I am proud of what I have achieved despite the fact that I threw away a lot of the privilege that my early life gave me.
Privilege, and even good schooling, doesn't determine outcomes. Work ethic and the realization that you have responsibilities does. If you start feeding everyone lies like, "Oh well don't feel the need to work hard because the system is busted anyways" then you are looking at a whole generation of people who are not going to be interested in learning. It doesn't matter how "good" or "bad" the teachers are. Nothing. Will. Work. I am part of this generation.
The point is that I did poorly in both the good schools and the bad ones. It didn't matter. I wasn't interested in learning and no amount of coaxing would have changed that.
Rishivar Mukherjee Well, I guess part of my point is that you can do well in life despite not having done anything in school. Not because that is something I want to encourage, more because that is the nature of our enormously rich and free western societies. Nobody is holding you back but yourself. The schooling system, while important, is not everything and should not be thought of as such. This mindset is equally unhelpful for different reasons.
Y'all don't like what she's saying because you know it's true.
Regan Allen its not 100% true. Thats what we dont like.
Riszman Raimy everything is black and white, there is no grey area
A Dead Fish
I'm sorry, that's not true. I can guarantee there have been things you liked part of but disliked other parts of.
I mean from experience I've lived in different parts a predominantly black school and a predominantly white school.. and everything she was saying is completely true.
Eyball440 if a UA-cam video isn't 100% true I don't mass dislike the video and throw a tantrum in the comment section.
I went from an Urban area high school where we had a small library with only 6 computers that were way out of date, and old wooden chairs. We had old broken desks in classrooms, old books with the bindings falling apart, and chalkboards.
Then I moved to the suburbs my Junior year and their library was as big as a gymnasium, with 30 brand new computers, comfortable seats that reclined, and couches to study on. Our classrooms had tables as desks that were wide enough to fit 3 books, whiteboards, a computer in every classroom, books that were brand new and still in the plastic. It really made you realize how behind an urban area school can be. I was grateful for the opportunities and resources I had, and I went from failing most of my classes Sophomore year to graduating on time and eventually becoming a teacher.
Jacob Luck My school said to young me that I am a failure and tried to make me wanna become a janitor but I refused and I’m going to own a huge business and fix all this and become the world’s greatest hero
EXACTLY! I had a similar experience and that's why I know judgemental ppl are clueless when they say everyone has the same opportunities in this country. If some are getting taught life skills and others bs then what else would you expect but desperate ppl that don't know how to stay afloat! That system was set up deliberately and then drugs were flooded into desperate neighborhoods. We didn't go get that addiction ourselves. There's a quiet system in place that takes away hope and offers death in different forms to desperate ppl. the same devils that set the system in motion understood that if you teach everyone neccessary skills equally, they'd have no more poverty and poverty related crimes.
Why were you failing if low income schools curriculum is easier?
Yes Team Teacher 💪✅
@@purpp-esque1711 home life, lack of resources keep up bud
This isn't a black vs white issue, this is a poor vs rich scenario. Other than that I agree with the video.
However, unfortunately, race often consciously or subconsciously alters someone's first thought of a potential client or employee, and prices and pay rise and fall with the color in their skin. So, all too often, poor vs rich *is* black vs white.
In the cities, where 80% of the people live, poor-black and rich-white are the same thing. This is, of course, a gross simplification of a more nuanced spectrum, but the overlap is large enough in these groups for anything that is imbalanced economically to also therefore be imbalanced racially. That's just how the numbers break down.
I'm aware but it's not like just because their black they get access to less things, it's because there poor. I do agree with you that there is way more poor black proportionally. That being said however, what I'm getting at is that a poor white kid will get a back education just like a rich black kid will get a good one. In this situation there just in the wrong place due to the worlds racist ancestors.
Brendan Williams Racism is not JUST about hating a race. Sometimes it is about turning a blind eye to a problem because it doesn't affect you personally. The end result is still the same.
William Brall With that logic unless I'm mistaken then that means people hate whites more since poor blacks get more aid than poor whites. which obviously isn't the case...
What a passionate teacher.
Pierre Films My school said to young me that I am a failure and tried to make me wanna become a janitor but I refused and I’m going to own a huge business and fix all this and become the world’s greatest hero
This made me cry. I grew up in a poor neighborhood in north east LOs Angeles. Let me rephrase that; a poor and DANGEROUS neighborhood. I’m starting to uncover truths about my educational experience discrimination. And it makes me blood boil. My sister was held back a year because she was bilingual she performed at a level all her classmates did but was discriminated against because mostly spoke Spanish, but on paper she excelled. As for me, my teachers insisted to put me into special education courses because I didn’t talk but again, like my sister I excelled on tests they gave me to test my competency. I understood them but didn’t talk (Thats for another conversation as to why I didn’t talk). My mom had to fight the school for me to continue a “normal”education. I have a younger sister now and she’s in the second grade I want to invest more money into her education and for her to become well rounded. But obviously I am a broke college student who is taking more units than what is considered full time 😕.
Me too
It’s so common to see these things. We need more advocates in schools to disrupt these biases.
The thing in even if you aren’t excelling you shouldn’t be relegated to different areas away from other kids. It stunts growth and is marginalizing
The school received additional money because you were a special education student, and your mother could have received a SSI check for you so that she could pay for additional services for you. Did they inform her?
@@Cynthia-fx4wenope! I never actually went to those special education classes so I’m not too sure if they would have given any ssi to my mom.
Less wars, more education, more schools, less jails, and less army.
Just give little bit more to the education to create a better society.
mlazos exactly. why does the U.S put $780 billion into their military to "protect their people" when it is hurting their people indirectly. putting 20% of that budget into healthcare & education and other poor systems will boost the quality of the country by so much
link 1234
because the government dont want citizens, dont want thinkers, they want sheep to rule!
this is the reason.
They spend million of bombs to kill people in places nobody have heard before and no money for education.
I hope your people will wake up soon and demand what they deserve,
Good quality education and health care.
mlazos you are right.
look at finland and Norway
Bullshit.
The Educational system in the US is run by Democrats. They're incompetent with ANY money you give them.
Even other liberals are starting to rebel (40 years too late):
ua-cam.com/video/iNSE_yVFmlM/v-deo.html
her passion is inspiring
Anne Kellogg Yes it is! May God bless her to continue the fight!
Anne Kellogg My school said to young me that I am a failure and tried to make me wanna become a janitor but I refused and I’m going to own a huge business and fix all this and become the world’s greatest hero
Some people missed the point!!! Her parents (College educated) chose to work in public service. Therefore, she lived in a impoverished school district. She said people can help by donating time, money, resources, opportunities or whatever's in their heart... not just Money! Clearly she's speaking from her experience as a student, as well a Teacher!
To me she was preaching hate against white folks , like it's white folks problem that all this started for black folks. If I remember president Monroe gave black folks the option to go back to Africa. They have a city in Africa named after president Monroe.
Rockstar Rhyno and that’s the real problem: lack of responsible parenting! NO it’s not the job of the “village” to raise a child, it’s the job of the parents who conceived the child to raise it! Tired of this lame excuse. Make your own children accountable. Children need rules and boundaries and a parent to guide them!
@@TB-zj4sp That is not at all what she is trying to do or say. I am a white woman and I never got any of what you picked up on, that was not her point at all!!!!!!
@@TB-zj4sp This is such a stupid argument. By your logic, white Americans should return to Europe if they don't like the idea of a more egalitarian society put forward here.
And yes, white folks DID start the problem from slavery to Jim Crow to especially the post-WWII suburbanization movement where African Americans were systematically excluded from owning suburban property, something that directly contributes to the massive socioeconomic disparities we see today. You perpetuate the problem by not recognizing the existence of white privilege.
@@rutvin8763 and you don't think there are black privileged ? My note was that she was emphasizing black and brown children and I never once heard her mention a white child. Not all white children have good educational institutions to learn from , if you do your research and pick a community out that is 97% white that has middle to low income status and hang out in one of the class rooms you will understand what I am saying.
Her parents are college educated but still chose to live in a underprivileged neighborhood ( not sure why ) but that is the way capitalism works. This young lady i know is stating to me anyway that inner city schools are lacking the equipment that the suburban privileged schools have , i am not sure why that is unless people in those privileged areas are donating money to buy the equipment whereas people in poorer community's lack the money because of their education ?
There are 3 reasons that American education sucks and Finland is one of the few nations that went out of their way to fix it. Also, their education system is considered the best in the world.
1. The first thing is that you have to be at the top 10% of your graduating class from college in order to become a teacher.
2. The second thing is that all teachers are paid approximately the same as doctors.
3. And the third and final reason Finland's education is the best is because K-12 never receive homework.
mclovin stephano Finland based their school system on the Swedish school system. Meanwhile, Sweden abandoned its working model and started experimenting with discipline and meritocratic schooling.
All wrong. These are myths. Teachers don't make nearly as much as doctors. They are respected, and they love their jobs though. And we get some homework, but discipline is not needed since children generally don't hate school.
I may be wrong since I do not live in Finland, but I have heard the only homework given is unfinished classwork. I did some more research and will admit that I was wrong about their salary being equivalent to doctors, but it is still quite comparable at around 60-70% of a doctor's salary. Much better than the United States at around 25%.
mclovin stephano hmmm... something to research
EXACTLY..... I thought I was the only one who knew this😂😂
My wife was a math teacher in some of the worst high schools In the Bronx. There were a few things that stood out to me: lack of student attendance, lack of parental guidance, lack of care from the administration. Most of the students missed multiple days a week and when they were present they refused to do the work. When my wife called the parents about their children most of them were angry they were being bothered. The administration didn't want to help, and even told my wife to stop calling parents. My wife ended up quitting and opening her own tutoring business. There are many instances when teachers are terrible, but the students and parents have to put in the effort too. People try to make excuses for everything.
NYC ever herd of the hierarchy of needs? it's hard to care about self actualization when you are concerned with food and shelter. your wife is a teacher she should know this already
So you agree with NYC and disagree with the speaker. Poor people going to better schools wouldn't help them succeed, because the problem is the children don't care about school, they care about food and shelter. I agree with NYC and you. I just want to understand your argument. Don't tell me that you see NYC making negative remarks and don't even understand his argument and go straight into bashing him and making excuses, right? Because what you said completely aligns with what NYC said.
Hmm. The founder of the Donors Choose site she spoke of is a teacher in the Bronx. Interesting how she saw a need to be filled where you seek to blame. She sought to unite with a solution. Still, I think it's awesome your wife chose to tutor. Tutors out here cost an arm and a leg - hundreds per month so sadly it only helps those who can afford it here.
NYC amen
NYC I’m from the “hood” and took my kids out of the “hood” and I can tell you our black community is 5 generations behind white generations, on top of that, all Americans love violence but the black community love for violence and respect is beyond understanding and it’s going to take more than school to change my black communities outlook on life, prayers are needed
in the first place All SCHOOLS , whether in the rich suburban areas or poorer inner cities should all have the same resources.
And when they still don't have the same outcomes because the rich parents are buying extra things for their school? What if equal funding doesn't solve the massive problem of single parent households in poor communities (not to mention the bad attitude towards education)?
+Remy Lebeau are you seriously making an argument against all schools having the same resources. whether the outcome is the same or not all students should have the same opportunity to succeed. if they don't then at least you know it isn't your fault.
I was asking serious questions that remain unanswered.
The following is a few paragraphs selectively copied from a Washington Post article.
"In general, wealthier towns and counties are able to raise more money through taxes to support their schools than poorer localities can. Many states have developed school-finance systems that send extra dollars to poorer areas in an attempt to mitigate those inequities. But the state aid is often not enough to make up the difference.
Federal spending - including through Title I, money meant to bolster programs for poor children - is serving as an equalizer, according to the federal data. When federal dollars are included, just five states are spending less in their poorest districts than in their wealthiest. Nationwide, the average disparity drops from 15 percent to less than 2 percent.
In 23 other states, students in the poorest school districts are getting more state and local tax dollars per pupil than students in the most affluent districts. The differences are biggest in Indiana and Minnesota, which respectively spend 17 percent and 15 percent more in their poorest districts than in the most affluent."
+Remy Lebeau +Remy Lebeau 1. I read your argument but it sounded like you were against equal opportunity that's why I responded the way I did. The issue of single parent households and attitude to education is a social issue that can only be dealt with with social programs. 2. the washing post article excerpt, If that was the case that cities and counties are spending just as much and even more in some cases in the poorer areas then why do you still have situations like the ones stated above in the video, I am sure it is not a one off situation. That shouldn't be the case then.
+c4p0ne
Ha, he's just a socialist complaining about socialist government schools. Cry me a freaking river.
This was beautifully said. Her passion brought tears to my eyes.
why so much negativity in the comments though
Negative people will "always" try to throw shade on your sunshine but nevertheless one MUST continue to shine!
Let the haters hate!
john connolly Wow, that’s a lot of words for “I’m a racist piece of garbage”.
john connolly Nobody’s on “your dime”, your tax pennies mean nothing. But.. even if they were directly going to education for poor black children, why do you have a problem with that? 🤔🤨
See, a smart individual realizes that investing time and resources into children of all backgrounds makes for a diversely skilled, well educated society. A brainwashed fool like yourself can’t even begin to comprehend the butterfly effect that a poor educational system has on society as a whole. Get off the internet and go open a book, you fucking idiot.
@john connolly. Thank you Mr. Connolly for your scurrilous comment. I so like it when when people with your viewpoint leave comments because your comments ultimately reveal poor education and a rare ignorance.
Best piece of advice, get your kids in the best school possible. Education is key to economic growth and choice.
Where are the parents responsible for their children?😊
I'd much rather see education managed at the state level and the revision of the Federal Department of Education to be a forum for sharing ideas so that all 50 states can learn from one another. That way, the power to determine educational policies can be managed at a local level (empower the people to better themselves) and we can learn and borrow from 50 petri dishes instead of being told what the one-size-fits-all answer is from some federal agency hundreds/thousands of miles away.
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, LIMITED, federal government." - A. Hamilton
If I keep telling you you're oppressed one day you might believe it.
I love how she not only focuses on skin color,but backgrounds, and bigger terms, and she acknowledges the big picture. this woman has earned my respect.
Bella Blackmist I would kinda think that focusing on race was a bad thing. I think maybe she should've focused on the fact that the government can't choose where people live. This seems, in my opinion, to be the people who make the decisions fault. Or at least, it's not the governments fault.
Her speech was empowering but I cannot help to say despite any systemic issues or obstacles that are present... we as the black community must decide that education is important to us and not just wealth. We value money but not intelligence. Black communities have a lot of money, but we invest it in the wrong things and not our future “Children”
We love our sons making it to the NBA or NFL but will let them drop out of college to make a million they can’t count but refuse to use their athletic abilities to educate them and so many other examples that we stress talents to be celebrities but not education or strong families
Slave trade? Schools are separate, but equal? What. I know there are specific race only and specific gender only, but I'm so lost. I don't know any teachers where they are like "oh, the kid is black, let's keep him out". And then the black lives matter thing? I seriously am lost. Someone help.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
go outside of your community and see what happens in other cities, in other parts of the country and world.
Yasser Dammak yeah mind as well white privilege in if you're gonna bring in institutional racism.
trevorpinnocky I do every day. I visit schools and are there for weeks at a time. I go to other countries they are having problems with stupid feminist rules and people don't attend or just don't want to learn and quit.
shes saying low income districts are not being funded by the state as much as higher income districts, this affects minorities. she is saying if someone from a low income neighborhood wanted the same school experience as someone from a wealthier neighborhood they wouldn't have the same educational experience. Lower income neighborhoods are constantly loosing funding that goes to wealthy districts. The low income school district is mostly blacks and other minorities, so that why she says that black lives should matter too In the school system .
So: blame the teachers...really?
*72%* of black kids are raised by single parent (compare that to the 24% by 1965) ; and 25% overall in USA...One in four!
What about other countries? *14%*...So: the teachers???
3 Tips to stay away from poverty in USA:
1) Have a Dad and Mom.
2) Finish school.
3) Marry before having children.
Men who didn’t have Fathers won’t make good Fathers...and Black Fathers are an anomaly.
Its a cultural thing...change it!
Enforce Family values then... it all starts with that. It's a Fact.
If people dont want to provide a future for themselves...they are not deserving help.
*Be a responsible citizen*: THAT CAN BE TAUGHT NOW AT SCHOOLS. And the future will be brighter....but as long as we keep trying to _clean the mess of our neighbours_ society will not learn to grow.
_An old dog _*_can_*_ learn new tricks_...How come humans can not learn?...cause its "difficult"?...
You can teach almost any human how to be human...just start when they are kids.
And you can teach most adults to be responsible citizens: just dont treat them as children... like they deserve "free" things instead of "affordable" ones.
Real talk 💯💯💯💯
Great talk! Yes to building the future for all our children! Black, brown, and native lives matter :)
Ashley Yang what no asians lives matter!!??!!
@Janessa Kelly But then again, she did say ALL children. lmao
Dra O They’ve always mattered!!! Stfu.
Why do minorities hate Asians so much? Are yall just jelly of them?
All lives matter, you racist dumbass.
Would a novel idea be having a 2 parent household with good values who care about truancy from school? That’s an antiquated idea. More billion dollar educational stimulus are working.
As a College Degreed Business Professional single parent of two children, I've raised children in both Urban and Suburban public school districts. What she states in this video rings true in our city/region of America. When my oldest son started school in the urban schools, I encouraged him to do his best and he became a top student. When we moved to a predominantly White suburb where the classes weren't filled with kids that looked like him, and his best still put him behind the majority of their kids in his class. We worked hard for him to catch up and eventually he did. We moved away 4 years later to a predominately Black suburb expecting the same level of education but we found that schools in that district were far behind the one we left. Eventually, I choose the public schools differently and we found better performing schools that prepared him for the University he now attends. My younger son has yet to receive a higher quality education as we are currently back in the inner city. We will leave to a better performing suburban school district soon so that her too can be prepared for college. #my2cents
Why did you move around so much?
Wow this has been the best TedTalk video I’ve ever seen, thank you Ms. Sumner for opening the eyes of others, every student deserves a HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION no matter rich or poor, color of their skin or special need.
I can't even finish listening to this. I don't agree with anything she's talking about.
bye felicia
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The achievement gap is a real problem. Unfortunately Kandice is quite ignorant of the facts. Here's one: Across the US whites perform the same whether they are in "white" schools or "black" schools. Tell me again how it's impossible to learn in "black" schools? This is a thin anecdotal argument that ignores data and jumps to conclusions. It's always sad to see a complicated and nuanced issue boiled down to such simplistic terms....(everything is the fault of racism!)
Student do the same in any school, if they are held accountable by their parents, & teachers. They have to go to school with the attitude that they are going to learn. Their parents should support their teachers (which also means that their students should "toe the line" when it comes to misbehaving. I blame parents more than I blame teachers. Learning starts at home, but then, so does attitude. I'm disappointed because kids today have it so much better than their grandparents did, and the drop out rates in school are shocking. Grandparents were poor then too, so what's the difference? We need to re-educate the parents.
Made me cry when you said girl said "this one was so good!"" I really cried. (coming from a privileged "average white guy" from,the Merica....
10:37 “If you neglect a child long enough, you no longer have the right to be surprised when things don’t turn out well.”
I dont know... yeah im white but i dont think the system is against people of color, i grew up in a black and Vietnamese neighborhood. And yeah me and my family are...not middle class, the schools i went to even for the "smarter" kids were filled with kids that really didnt want to put forth the effort to learn, even the other white kids we were all poor and we knew it, the school i went to gave us mac books and a gigantic library and elmos and projectors and all the things we would need to learn easily but everyone destroyed the laptops, wrote all over books tore pages out burned them, the resources where there but the people I graduated with... didnt want to use them so i really dont think this is a race issue, its just that nobody expects anything from someone who starts at the bottom, you kind of have to fight your way to the top, first the children have to break away from the poor mentality and actually want to seek better for themselves, otherwise all the money i. The world being poured into the education system wont help
The race problem arises from the overarching socioeconomic issues that have transcended from scars left from segregation. Black kids are predominantly in worse schools because as Mrs. Sumner mentions: "Wealth was never a goal in my family." A lack of wealth corresponds to a crappier education for all peoples. People of color in particular were and ARE disadvantaged due to the lasting effects of segregation that we all agree is an atrocity. Millions of black kids receive a poor education and will sadly lead lives of poverty. Nobody is denying that. Mrs. Sumner's anger is not misplaced. Segregation is of a different time, but now is the time to finally incorporate oppressed peoples as full-fledged members of our society. This requires the co-operation from man of every creed. When Mrs. Sumner hisses with dissent at the more-privileged white child's typical upbringing, it resurfaces issues that caused segregation in the first place- hatred for a certain race. But revisiting past issues cannot solve them; Mrs. Sumner's anger is misdirected. The past cannot be changed, no more than we can raise again the millions of unfortunate children were born to a poor black family. By demanding retribution, all that anybody can do is apologize and ban the topic in colloquial speech in order to avoid inciting social violence. But of course, apologizing will not save the black child's future. We should stop apologizing and heal. We need to move forward, together, by demanding the government to lift people up from poverty. In today's day and age, money is power. If we can make black neighborhoods richer, we can peacefully solve the issue.
I'm divided on this topic because of how difficult college is, but were taking public school k-12 I think. and although institutional racism Is definitely well and alive, I don't see why parents don't work hard to put their kids in better schools and band together to live in better areas. my parents had to immigrate from India to get the same access and then made sure I went to okay schools (not private but definitely not poor). they didnt even know English and they made it. I'm not an exception, as many other immigrants do this. so wtf? why is it so much worse off for people who already know English and are already here?
Same with my parents who always tell me how unprivileged they were and how they worked super hard to get to America. They also always tell me how great my education since we live in a very well off neighborhood. My mom tells me how her parents always moved for her better education in China, and I do believe I have a very good education, seeing that probably almost half of the people in my school are 2 years above grade level in math, taking algebra and geometry.
Give this girl a triple A+ for the insight she has gained & brought to the forefront and had the gumption to put out there. She should be a principal or school administrator somewhere. She deserves a much deserved raise at least if nothing else. Teachers like her are one in a million!
I'm sorry to criticize your excellent observation, but don't you mean "Give this woman a triple A+"?
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All teachers need paid more
1 minute since the vid is posted and there's already dislikes.. why..
1) Black Person
2) Woman
:D
+Иван Кравец are you kidding? The lady is playing the black card. Not all white people are rich.
Иван Кравец Just no...
My guess would be people dont like racists no matter what their skin color is!
Dot Red 1 minute in, people already knew she was pushing a false narrative? WTF SERIOUSLY.
Parents in poverty are the keepers of their children’s future.
To fix education:
1. Get rid of the politics & corruption surrounding it so people who are part of the system don't play social politics at the expense of children and the people within the system can be held more accountable for the students having poor grades. Make the tests much more difficult with more variety and detail so children don't move on with ignorance.
2. Focus more on physical education, but remove any activities that do not benefit students in strength, flexibility, agility, hand-eye coordin, reflexes, and cooperation with others. Any exercise that challenge and improve the minds of students is especially important. Don't let students be weak and fat. Schools should have a physical therapist, so that students that have physical problems get help.
3. Have school end at ua-cam.com/video/7O7BMa9XGXE/v-deo.htmlm00s PM. This would help adults and should also be economically beneficial. Within that time add more study time.
4. Add two extra grades, 13th & 14th grade, so that more subjects and courses can fit. It makes no sense that people get out of high school so soon in their lives when there is so much that is needed to be learned.
5. Get rid of unnecessary course subjects that don't really help students stay healthy, informed about society and history, and more capable to go to college and have successful careers. Add more subjects and time for Financing, Economics, Business, Psychology, Logic & Reasoning, and Criminology so that students are more capable of surviving on their own and becoming a success, while also informing more about how the world works so they are less likely to become criminals or become victims of scams and other crimes. (It's about time scamming becomes less lucrative for criminals)
6. Make it mandatory for students to pass at least one course of like programming, manufacturing, engineering, etc, so students have more options when they reach adulthood. Also make it so they know how to fix common housing problems themselves so that they don't waste money unless they don't have time to fix things themselves.
Then you have more people informed and capable, and the economy will shift and improve as a result.
Only thing I want to disagree with is the "one course of manufacturing". That's a dying industry, employment-wise. Since 1980, manufacturing employment has decreased 30%, while output and productivity continue to rise and grow. Automation is replacing most of the jobs in that industry, not just NAFTA. We produce more than ever before, while needing less people to do the job. A welder that gets paid $25/hour can be replaced by a robot that costs $8/hour and will cost even less, at $2/hour in the future. And that robot will never ask for a lunch break or benefits. By the time we implement that course and those students graduate, it'll be a waste of time and they'll just have to retrain for another field.
I would also like to add something. Find a way to give these children and young adults some real responsibilities. I know that for myself I only started succeeding after I left school and began providing for myself. I never did like school much.
I am not sure how you would fit this in a curriculum, but I would argue that children and adults know the difference between a manufactured environment and a real one.
Otherwise this I think is quite solid. I am just not entirely sure how you would implement it. It seems a little to good to be true. Of course different political ideologues would shortly take over the system for their own games and the gains of their larger movement. :/ How you stop that? I have no idea.
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I respectively and strongly agree with your response. I worked at the Boys & Girls Club for 5 years which was inside of neighborhood school. Where students stayed until 6 pm, Monday through Friday.
Many of these students wouldn't not have primary success if they didnt have a "wrap-around" program like this one within thier school. This program fed, educated and provide club members with healthy objectives like excerise and healthcare intervention. A program as successful as this needs a community and national support. Now, once we step outside of a supportive network there will always be a nail within a group who refuses to be hammered down, by something that could actually work vs. something that will decrease a child's educational and overall life trajectory.
Thomas Cameron
There is a 13th grade called grade 12b.
The education system in the United States is one of the world's worst
S H A R E D "If your (child, loved one) goes to an affluent school, change your school committee to adopt an impoverished school or an impoverished classroom. Close the divide by engaging in communication and relationships that matter. When resources are shared, they're not divided. They are multiplied." On a micro level, if you're a human being, donate time, money, resources, opportunities, whatever is in your heart.
What is a carpenter with no tools?
What is an actress with no stage?What is a scientist with no laboratory? What is a doctor with no equipment. I'll tell you - they are my kids. Shouldn't they be your kids, too?" Kandice Sumner - Teacher
Lady, you had to be bused to another school because your parents chose a calling, while the rich kids parents chose money. You can’t have your pie and eat it too. My parents made a lot of money, but worked 120 hours a week. They chose wealth. Not saying they made the best decision, but they chose it and suffered consequences too. Maybe those with more lax jobs with less responsibilities and financial risk should be bused to homes of small business owners and neurosurgeons to help the kids have an adult around. Use your freedom to choose wisely, but remember to own your decisions. They’re nobody’s fault but your own.
EDUCATION STARTS AT HOME!!! PERIOD!!!
But is ENDS at SCHOOL! EXCLAMMATION POINT! Most parents do NOT home school so this presentation should not be that hard for your to understand!
parents who are poor and have to work multiple jobs unfortunately often don't have the time to give their kids extra education at home.
@@volz519 THIS IS WHY WE MUST PLAN FOR OUR CHILDREN BEFORE WE HAVE THEM!!! IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WORLD TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN...IT IS OURS!!! IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN EVERYTHING THAT THEY NEED TO KNOW!!!
@@jamesperry2052 Absolutely true that low income aren't future orientated. However, that is just one factor of many that are intimately woven together in perpetuating poverty.
@@yakarotsennin3115 HAVING CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK BREEDS POVERTY!!! THIS IS THE MAIN REASON FOR POVERTY!!!
Sis, where are you??? I'd put my kids back in public school if they could go thru 12th grade with you!!!!
So, basically I just cried this whole tedtalk. Thank you for validating our experiences and for fighting for the disadvantaged child.
@Sudhir Kakar You have to look at the root of those issues as well: racism, mostly, and lack of education is why those things happen in the first place.
I guess i was really blessed. All the things this young lady spoke of, were available to me, for free in an urban/inner city schools. I went on the best field trips, had after school programs and book fairs. We had a freshly cooked lunch, daily. I was gratefully exposed to so much. I still have a love for learning into my fifties which I'm sure will never stop due to really great teachers and staff that mentored me. I was also accepted into a top tier college as were my high school classmates. The decline came under the Reagan administration, where he took a big pair of scissors and cut everything, from CETA schools and inner cities have suffered all the way around ever since. Which is really and truly most unfortunate.
My single mom taught us to read at 3 and 4 and used the public school as a babysitting service while she worked part time. She spent a lot if quality time with us. Why don't today's parents take responsibility. There are no longer quality schools. They are dictated to the common core by the NEA.
Vouchers. Give the parents the opportunity to choose the best school for their children. Chicago union teachers send their own children to private schools at higher rates than any other group.
Sad to see the states of affairs
it's not that schools are segregated, it's that a disproportionate amount of back people are poor.
It creates the same effect.
This is the best Ted Talk I've watched thus far. Thanks for creating this speech and doing what you do. Very eye opening and informative.
Love this. There has got to be a way to stop funding public schools with property taxes.
No, public schools NEED and SHOULD be funded with property taxes.
Ms Candace Sumner... P 💥WERfull presentation! THANK u Ted
The educational system only teaches you to be a better slave. It teaches some to be bosses and some to be worker bees, but it all teaches you how to be a more efficient employee for someone else. How to build wealth is the best kept secret in the world and you sure won't find it in the educational arena......
Throwing money away on pools archery classes will not improve SAT scores. She succeeded because her parents were educators who sent her to an all white school. How on Earth can you look at the data and say this problem is entirely due to a lack of funding and completely ignore the role of culture?
If we want black kids to succeed, we need to take a serious look at how successful kids are raised. They are given structure, chores, and patient help with homework. White people didn't always turn out so well. These are interpersonal skills that the middle class has perfected over the last century. Start by teaching poor parents these skills and quit wasting our time with partisan nonsense.
In Texas, funding equality is not as much of a problem as it was before 1993 thanks to the various statewide school wealth sharing schemes that go by the name “Robin Hood” plans. One of the big issues now is poverty that is concentrated geographically. Unfortunately, tons of apartment complexes were built in Texas in the 1980s. When the economy collapsed those complexes were bought cheap by investors. Instant low-income housing. There was so much of this housing that it affected school enrollment and concentrated poor people in certain areas. That number of people has an impact on school culture.
Honestly, it's not that hard to improve the quality of education in inner city schools. The problem isn't the education. The problem is the community and culture that the children live in. Change the culture or community and you can improve their academic performance. Unfortunately, a lot of the time the negative influence is their own family or friends. Inner city education is a deeper problem than just bad schools.
Not really.
Terrible point, you cannot change someone's culture. I am currently getting ready to graduate with my Master's in Education (MED) in Curriculum Development. Culture refers to someone's religion, race, ethnicity, family and so on. You cannot change someone's ethnicity, race, family members (parents, grandparents). I think you need to re- examine the definition of culture and than relate it back to what you posted. Peace. Brining community awareness of the benefits of education means you must study and relate to a specific culture. You will NEVER be able to change a communities' culture (background). You can however, integrate their culture and relate the importance of education to their culture and how it will improve or benefit their culture.
Ludicrous, culture changes all the time.
I don’t think it’s colorism or racism. It’s really about family backgrounds(education level, socioeconomic status, how much parents value education etc. )
Oh, the solution to all the problems described is fairly straightforward: School Choice. Allow students to choose their school, and let funding follow them.
This is opposed by the Teacher's Union? Well, now we know what the problem _really_ is.
Shankar Sivarajan but everyone would choose the good schools and the other kids will still be left in the bad schools. the rich kids would pay to get into the better schools first
Shankar Sivarajan the solution is to adapt an education system that is similar to Finlands, the country which outshines every other in the world
That is not always the case. For example, in my county you are not allowed to choose the school you want to go to, it is determined by where you reside.
You really don't know what this is like in practice. I've seen it first hand. I go to a wealthy school and we allow a small amount of inner city kids to be bused in. Very few of them care. The rest would rather fight than go to class. A better school doesn't change them. They and their upbringing, parents, and culture are the problem.
America just isn't White enough for Finland's system.
ENOUGHS ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD IT WITH THINGS LIKE THIS! There are so many peopole whp say what kids do, how kids behave, and what we feel is best for us. But those studies are honestly based on things that peopole see a bit of ans base it on that. I am a kid and I highly dissagree with many of the things peopole say about us. Its really insensitive and they dont even ask us! They think they know everything but they really dont. And dont just think that im just saying that "because im a kid". Im saying it because im living it, because its happening to me and many others that we dont have a choice in how we represent ourselves. There is NOTHING anyone can say to deny this. There is NOTHING anyone can say to confirm the latter. We are not given a true voice and it is insensitive in every way. WE WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL. WE DO BETTER IN SCHOOL. SCHOOL. HELPS US. LISTEN TO US AND YOU WILL SEE. THE INSENSITIVITY HAS TO STOP AND IT HAS TO STOP NOW!!!
Stop whining.
How bought putting school funds to better use and stop buying books in the first place. Start subscribing to service that provide you with access to a large library of books. Textbooks are one of the biggest scams in the Enter education industry.
This is a fantastic point that will get overlooked.
@@indiecomics It's a dumbass point. Textbooks are majorly owned by individual companies that don't allow their books to be entered into databases. Meaning you have to pay for digital access to each individual textbook. And digital textbooks cost the exact same, sometimes more than, as print versions. And you have to purchase access for each student for each school year because most only offer limited time frame usage. Which adds to the cost. In the case that you dont have to buy access per student you have to purchase access annually or on multi year contracts, and this doesn't reduce the cost any. Because when all of the books are online then students need access to computers or devices to access it. Which adds to the cost. Because tech becomes obsolete within a few years, is easily broken, and require time to repair, be upgraded or replaced. Another expense.
And databases are not created equally, hence why universities have to contract access to multiple databases. Whereas a highschool textbook that will be accurate for at least 10 years only has to be purchased once, and slight damages don't affect its usability. But dumbasses that don't know anything love to say they have the solution. Schools don't have the money to provide decent meals for children or necessary supplies such as paper and pencils, tell me where we're getting this magic money to afford databases, online textbooks, and 1 computer/tablet for every student and the repair and upkeep needed to maintain the devices?
This made me cry. Quality Education for all.
I've never had something resonate so much with me. As a Romani person I was ostracized by my peers and even a few racist teachers. And as someone with SLI, I struggled againt a system that was designed specifically around people like me being locked away and never allowed the chance to be educated.
I would excell in class and in coursework but fail in exams becaue SLI affects my ability to articulate myself in such a small timeframe.
Luckily I loved education and struggled to University; where exams are now 3+ hours long and most of my degree is assessed by coursework lab's. I'm excelling and predicted 1st's, but god it was a struggle. I can't how many times I cried myself to sleep as a kid CONVINCED I was failing because I was too dumb. Now I know that it's not me, but an outdated archaic system that only benefits the; white, neurotypical and rich.
first of all, you say rich, good luck with that. we don't get paid bonuses because of the color of our skin, we just put the money to other things which will advance us, going into debt if needed, because of course, a degree will get you further (most of the time) than no degree. The real issue isn't with skin color, rich or poor, etc. the real problem is that some blacks don't believe that they can do any of the things they should be doing, so they don't. you seem like one of the uncommon (but not so rare) exceptions that stuck with college, plowed through it, and succeeded. good for you, let me just say that, not an easy thing. but do you think it was easier for your white classmates? you think they got some kind of "white privilege extra credit"? frick no, they did the same thing, plowed through, and got it done. it's not the color of skin, it's the drive to do something.
its not a race issues. its obviously a class issue. the school system is terrible but to place blame in an inconstant claim such was the "white, neurotypical, rich" makes no sense since literally anyone could succeed in this broken system. As an honors black student myself, in a MOSTLY BLACK community that goes to a half white/half black school. i can tell you that the school system is broken but school is easy.
The problem isn't the schools, its the teachers and the curriculum they are forced to teach now because of common core. It is horrible for students. Teachers union should be abolished and be performance based. Parents don't care about their child's progress, they just let the school do everything and don't take action. That is why kids drop out, why we are underfunded because it starts in the home. So shut up and stop blaming race. It has been proven time again that black and Hispanic families don't take as active role in schooling. I was pushed constantly to do better. Other parents don't do that. Public doesn't mean equal, it can't. Unless you want to pay 500 bucks each month to fund the schools more in taxes. So shut up and actually learn something.
William Randall Sir, it is very much the schools. All of the factors you mention add to the problems, but it starts with schools and funding or lack-there-of.
I am a middle schooler. I have been blessed with a very good school. Now that I here about this, I will definitely try to contribute. Before this video, I honestly thought all different colors of kids go to a school that happen to have mostly caucasians. Because before I went to this new school I had gone to a school that happen to have mostly Hispanic children. I was ignorant of the education difference between me and those contemporary. This is definitely an idea that needs to be acted upon.
This isn't a rich vs poor, this is broken family vs not broken family. 95% of the students our city have both parents living in the household. You can dump billions and billions into inner city schools and you will get the EXACT SAME RESULTS!!! The inner cities have stolen millions and millions from the schools. In Detroit millions of state funds were being stolen by the board members to take their families on vacation to Europe, but we'll not talk about that will we. How about 85% of inner city kids coming from broken families? Let's not talk about that. There are poor kids in our city that do amazing and great.. how? They have both parents in the house and children are tough respect.
Education begins at home. What you instill in your kids is what makes them. It's not the system that defines them.
MadMikeX3 but when they grow up most of their home become school in today’s world
I'm white. From 1998-2002, I attended a private school. My white teachers thought I was stupid, I was teased by other students, my grades were low, and I had anxiety (as a result, I didn't eat or sleep well). I was homeschooled in the fall of 2002. I didn't have an easy home life. In my home, there were many unstable days. I experienced some domestic violence, saw my parents fight, endured financial insecurity (sometimes we struggled with food), and dealt with the screaming of my autistic brother. Honestly, there were days when I wanted to kill myself (and I tried when I was 16). Guess what? I'm well-educated. Why? Because I put in some effort. I was highly curious, and I wanted to learn. When I began college (a community college not a university) in 2012, I did better than my public-school classmates. My teachers never complained about my writing skills. My projects were organized well. The other students complained about the work. Unfortunately, my grades occasionally struggle which is why I don't have access to scholarships. I'm an avid reader. I read books such as Machiavelli's The Prince and Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. I'm fascinated with Egyptian mythology, economics, and history. I'm in an online bachelor's program studying Political Science. However, I might have to withdraw because of my financial situation. I lost my income. So while my black peers are at universities, receiving scholarships, and getting state jobs (this is occurring in my Southern community), I'm unemployed and withdrawing from school. This is the narrative I'm experiencing: black=opportunity
rich+white=a lot of opportunity
Poor+white+some Native blood=no opportunity
I keep trying. People tell me, "You seem like a smart young lady". However, they hire someone else (usually a black person or a senior citizen). I don't hate blacks. This is what I experience. You can share your thoughts on the matter. I won't get offended.
I will keep disliking your videos until you get your intellectual integrity back and unblock your comments.
The Problems in Education are not solely based on color of skin. The poor budgeting of time and indoctrination are just the beginning. Since the pandemic, the focus on pronouns and change in one’s gender, and even telling seven year olds, they could be gender fluid are in the classroom. I had a principal tell me not to line the kids up by boys and girls because some of the kids were gender fluid and these kids were second graders. Yes, she really said that. Add to that the focus of objectives based on the test score and you get a lot of your students falling between the cracks, including white kids. In some buildings, they are teaching children not to talk about their culture because they might offend someone. In real life, the celebration of who , people are by culture should be in the public square in public arena and we should be building bridges not practicing a politically correct silence if Scot celebrates Christmas and Gail celebrates Hanukkah. The differences in people can be beautiful and recognized and at least not be the center focus but we don’t need to walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone else. Nepali Somali, Ethiopian African-American, Jewish Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Native American, or Lily white everyone has a place at the table and you don’t take away something from one group to give to another group, for fear that someone may be offended. Otherwise you’re going to have more attention than what is already there talk about who they are then get on with the business of teaching them to think to read to discern and for them to create based on what they have read, and you’ll have more evidence than what some factory made stupid test can do. Having objectives based on these test scores is telling the world education is a T-shirt factory education is an assembly line. Education is one size fits all and it is not it is not the place of the Board of Education to tell any child under the age of 18 you might be this and you might be that why don’t we just take them as they are and teach them and leave the politically driven stuff out of education and stop confusing the kids and start teaching and have administrators be accountable to the public!
Stop taking resources from the arts. Start having consequences for bad behavior and not group therapy talks the so-called restorative practices do not work. Teach self-reliance, and teach the kids on how to build a better economy. The national education association must answer for their contributions and administrators need to get off their high horsepower kick using the principal chair as a steppingstone moreover, do not give a principal job to a teacher who’s on special assignment, a principal who is a teacher in one building, suddenly becomes the principal in that same building, leave the door wide, open to familiarity leading to contempt
It’s happening even now.
This video brings up many valid points, but the problems in education are not solely based on color.
Children are not victims and they don’t need to remain victims if we teach them the possibilities of overcoming huge hurdles whether they’re black brown and yes, native American, and poor white, and other. Just because someone is born in a certain economic class, does it mean they have to remain there and the victimology serves a bitter end not a better one.
Nothing buries a good point like adding racial divide.....
The public school system has problems. But if you have a mostly full cup and a mostly empty cup, you cannot make those both full cups.
As the speaker pointed out, parents at home that cared. A Father, Mother, and Daughter that all pulled having college education. While I agree the public school system can be part of a problem, it is not the whole problem.
Schools don't keep kids in poverty, parents do.
I just simply love this woman... and her message x
You can’t get a quality education just by $ going into the school though. A neighborhood that is poverty stricken that gets the best funded schools is still going to be in trouble if we cannot solve the poverty and problems that come with it in the neighborhood. Similarly, once poverty is solved, students can excel without the largest school budget in the nation.
You deliver excellent content to your audience. It's very interesting material. All of your effort put into creating this video is much appreciated. I'm truly grateful for your help!
I truly feel like the solution to this is school choice. I know many folks disagree on this, but to me it seems unreasonable to trust a corrupt government to fix the problems of the education system, when history has consistently shown us that they won't, nor do they have any incentive to.
I wish there were more teachers like her.
They don't teach kids things they really need to know.
It definitely starts at home. As a parent, it is always my responsibility to educate my children. While I I am grateful to have access to public schooling; it is ultimately my responsibility to make sure that my children are well educated. Our 3 children went to highly rated suburban schools. I remember when my oldest son was in the 10th grade, he had a horribly incompetent geometry teacher; he complained about her every day. My husband and I nipped the complaining in the bud and explained that it was his responsibility to learn the material weather the teacher taught it or not. I begin to relearn geometry from UA-cam videos so that I could help him with his homework. That same child graduated with honors and double biology degree from Harvard university. He then went on to earn a degree from North Western Law school. Both my husband and I are from the ninth Ward in New Orleans. We both graduated from the same horrible school system. We both went to college and had to begin with remedial classes because of the poor education we received. We vowed that would not be the story for our children and it has not been. There are wonderful schools and wonderful teachers, but kids thrive when their parents invest in their education.
My Two cents ... it was better separate too some degree at least we had our own .. everything but no everyone wants to be accepted and public schools don't teach u how too b a boss just a worker .. and sadly those who wanted to learn did get teased but because we didn't have knowledge of self True Self... I'm from public education when it was cool 2 B a Gangster as well as a scholar.. cuz at the end of da day it was about the Dollar.. or the lack there of....Now success is associated with White .. But all my life I didn't want there religion ,God So called beauty, just information and the $$$. Beat the System..... Hard No it's not they Kids cuz either U $$$ or U don't...Telling a room full of white folks bout something systematically put in play is like playing tennis by Your Damn self.. Rip Arthur Ashe🕶✊🏽🙏🏽🥃
I work in educaton. Now, granted, it isn't a black school but I think it is group that has a pretty good claim to oppression. It is on a Native American reservation. It is not about race. Period. It is not about the slave trade. It is about culture. Not the culture of black folk, not the culture of red folks, not the culture of white folks. It is the culture of poverty. Our education system restrains people who are socio-economically depressed and teaches them habits that funnel power and resources upward. Until we stop focusing on race and understand the dynamics we are talking about are all about class, we will continue to chase our tail.
make no mistake, this is a rich vs poor problem, not a racism problem. The only difference is that there are certain groups who have faced poverty for generations and they will obviously be disproportionately displaced. There ARE poor white kids suffering from this EXACT same problem, granted there are less on average. Its a problem that racism caused, its not racism today that propagates it.
The only reason poverty breeds poverty is the mentality it passes from one generation to the next. A black kid raised by parents with no real ambitions will grow up to have no real ambitions (this is not a racist generalization, it is the reality too many kids grow up in) It's for this reason I agree partly with Sumner's message, there are droves of poor, disproportionately minority schools across the country with few resources to educate kids to rise above their circumstances. Part of the solution is money being put into these places but another (and easier) is teaching kids to rise above their upbringing. This will at least encourage them to not end up in juvy and aspire to better rather than disregard what education they do have and potentially get into better secondary education.
MTS Yes! I've heard so many people who come from wealthy, privileged backgrounds complaining about minorities being lazy, not ambitious enough, etc, failing to realize that most don't come from families who encourage them to succeed.
Evan, it's not people from wealth who necessarily succeed, it's people who come from backgrounds where their parents make them accountable,, & encourage them to learn, & also to help them when they fall back. To me, a underprivledged child is one, who does not have the backing of a responsible mature adult.
That's not the only reason/ This video is talking about the other reason, because the kids can't be educated in poverty.
To asume black people lack ambition is the very essence of prejudice and racism.
We are very aware of the necessity to push for better. It doesn’t make the traps of poverty and discrimination any easier.
Thomas Jefferson and other slave owners said their slaves were lazy and lacked ambition. That mindset permeates elitist capitalists to this very day. It's called White Supremacy. Congrats.
Some majority black and brown schools are among the most well funded in America, yet they still "underperform". Kansas City spent $2 billion to create lavish schools for its urban population with every conceivable amenity, but this had no effect on test scores. Learning isn't about money.
My school favoritised the rich kids who's parents were very good donators to the school's funds, charities, clubs, and supplies, but when it came to the children who had a family that couldn't afford the extra money for the school that they would use to chip in, they would absolutely toss the kid aside and not give them the help they need or would allow the others to do things that not all students should do within the school's rules and grounds. Which only makes bullying, order in school rules, and teaching a lot worse within the school system and for the students, even the gifted students as well. That only equals to no growth and real problem solving with the students and the education
Class and elitism
The school system is broken. Not just because of racism and poverty, but also because of why schools were made in the first place. To make factory workers who were obedient. For the race issue, it has to do with poverty, as this video says, but also the fact that an unfair amount of African Americans and other minorities are forced into poverty through the economy. This can cause, most likely, two types of students. Those who fight and pursue with good grades and work there but off, possibly with their friends help, and those who can't get the homework done due to a lack of help at home or lack of materials around them. There are many students who teachers see as a distraction or they're not trying when really they just can't. Schools need to open their eyes and stop caring so much about standardized tests, competition for funding and whitewashing.
As a white person with a best friend who has way better grades than me and is a minority, I do my damn best to help her with the materials she needs. A printer, pencils, a place to sleep at times. Everybody needs to chime in and do their best. If I can help my friends, the school should be able to help them as well.
this video is required for my English Ed courses, and is now more important than ever. Thanks, Ms. Sumner.
We should plant native fruit trees in public parks, unoccupied urban areas, poor neighborhoods and schools to promote healthy eating and provide at least a snack to those in need. It will feed many generations. Think about it. Take action...