Judging the Moral Character of Black and Hispanic Children
Examining the academic achievement disparities in K-12 education between Black and Hispanic students compared to White and Asian students is not a science, however the study of moral and ethical disparities that exist between the same groups could be groundbreaking and controversial.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Oh My Gosh! Groundbreaking and controversial?!?!
This is just another reason for whites to blame those who don’t look and act like them, while also not taking any responsibility for K-12 difficulties and problems. Who are these “researchers” to create a universal definition for morality and ethics? Sounds a lot like standardized testing. Has this school every looked at culturally appropriate pedagogy? And is there really only one black teacher to defend these students against such accusations? Sounds like there are other places that the school should be spending there time as opposed to discounting and demeaning children (who don’t have it easy anyway).
April 11th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I am shocked and appalled that the School Board even allowed this ‘research’ in the first place. It seems as if they saw a ‘problem’ and wanted to create a bogus study to support their wacked-out thesis. “Moral and ethical reasoning” ….how is what they did either moral OR ethical?
April 12th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Yes, lets lower our standards again, so such things as “accepts responsibility,” “listens to and follows directions,” “respects personal and school property,” “complies with established rules,” and “follows through on assignments” would not even be necessary. Just for the sake of bad parents who do not teach their children basic norms of human culture, but instead have yet another one (or two, or five).
Maybe the rest of them damn good kids also start to write “_there_ time”, or maybe just forget how to write and go straingt to jail.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Paul - feel free to take your white supremacist rhetoric elsewhere…perhaps to the nearest refuse bin.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I am still having difficulty understanding what their standards for morals and ethics were. Who defined morals for this study so that there could be a comparison? What was the basis for even deciding to do such a study? Where is the “moral-ethic gap” defined so that we know that the same criteria used for the Whites/Asians were used for the Blacks/Hispanics? I think that the publishing of this report would be damaging. The report also appears to be flawed however I don’t have all the data to read through to see the actual comparisons. I am even curious as to how many students were surveyed and over what period of time and did they revisit those study groups later to see if there were any trends that developed over time. I guess we all could go on and on on theories without actual report data. *frown*