School districts across the country are understaffed or dealing with staffing issues, but Washington, DC, appears to have found a possible solution. Punish black kids.
In the nation’s capital, almost half of the city’s black students ages 12 and over won’t be going back to school this fall. As a result, their already precarious educational situation is primed to suffer even more.
Yet notable civil rights organizations are silent as 40% of the District of Columbia’s black students who are 12 or older are barred from returning to school in person due to the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
So, while the greater DC areas schools are all short-staffed, this is not about staffing. The jabbed have jumped blacks on the identity politics totem pole.
That public education to which they claimed you were entitled has new conditions. The education that is supposed to help make anything possible has been preempted. If you refuse to modify your child’s DNA with a worthless pharmaceutical product, you retain your right to pay for the education but lose your access.
It’s just more of that progressive urban plantation politics.
In many parts of the country, this ex-communication would be neither a punishment nor an incentive to get their experimental jab juice. All across America, parents and guardians have sought alternatives, from charter schools to homeschooling. A school pushing them out is the best reason to go someplace else.
Where kids will get more academics and less progressive indoctrination, maybe even learn something.
But this is Washington, DC. A Democrat-run urban utopia where many in a majority black population could never afford a private or alternative school. DC elites have made it almost impossible to pursue learning outside the government’s education industrial complex. It leaves them with the DC area public schools or no school, and your kid has to be in school unless they are not fully vaccinated against something for which they are not a vector (until after vaccination).
Democrats, right?
The Daily Signal contacted BLM, the NAACP, Rainbow PUSH, and even Ibram X. Kendi for comment. If a mind is a terrible thing to waste, what’s all this then?
No one responded.
I doubt they were surprised by the lack of interest, but someone needs to care. This policy will further degrade already lagging skills thanks to that same school system.
Again, black students were the lowest-scoring ethnic group in fourth-grade reading, with the average score for whites 258, Hispanics 213, and blacks 204. …
The Washington Post reported that only 28% of black students in kindergarten through second grade across the District were hitting literacy benchmarks in fall 2021, compared with 70% of white students.
The depressed numbers for the District’s black students predate the pandemic. A test given in fall 2019 showed that 44% of black students in D.C. public schools were hitting expected literacy benchmarks, the Post reported.
As our own Ian Underwood pointed out a few weeks back, government-run “public education” is the experiment, and it has failed. And now, 40% of DC’s minority kids will fall further behind simply because they haven’t received a pharmaceutical treatment they don’t even need.
None of that is going to change until the people make changes.
Until now, political “change” in almost every Democrat-run city is like swapping out the poop in a dirty diaper. The Federal government is like that too. To address the underlying problem would undermine the system.
Nothing is more important than the machine that keeps the political elite fat and happy or the fat that greases the machine.
The result is a cultural stench that (in the case of public schools) is poisoning generations of kids who have who are being denied an even passable education, doomed to the cycle of dependency the Progressive elites promise to break but only reinforce at every opportunity.
So, it is a staffing issue, after all. The people in charge (that’s you) need not just to demand new management but new caretakers, and, while you’re at it, someone needs to change that damn diaper.
