<p>And I’m sure trailer park white kids dont perform any better in school so race is not a issue</p>
<p>Umm the poor asian kids around here dont perform that well.</p>
<p>^^^^ I understand that. That would affect performance negatively. I know about that. I don’t understand why that would make them stop caring though.</p>
<p>Home life makes a person stop caring</p>
<p>It’s the idea that parents have a strong impression on a child especially for school.</p>
<p>You grow up in an environment like that, it’s unlikely that you would care for school a lot.</p>
<p>I’ve met 5th graders concerned with feeding their families. It’s tough.</p>
<p>^ lol that’s bad. Well, that’s why reason number 3 was bad parenting :)</p>
<p>If black and white people came to America at the same thing( no slavery involved)
If White people didn’t kick Native Americans off there land
If All the races helped build the country with no racism included
If white, black, and native had the exact same opportunities
I assure you that there would be significantly less disparity between test scores</p>
<p>^You know the Jim Crow laws and Blacks being impoverished after the Civil War could have been avoided. If it weren’t for the stupid reconstruction era.</p>
<p>@scales1994 But you hear it more often with other minorities than poor whites. Of course they will have a less likely chance of doing great in school. But like I mentioned before, this is more towards kids who have every opportunity to do well in school and isn’t from an environment below the poverty line.</p>
<p>We’ve been slaves for a little while longer. I’m talking about the days of the three g’s.</p>
<p>There are more factors than that.</p>
<p>^ to answer that, it’s just apathy towards it.</p>
<p>Even for kids not below the poverty line… they still have those dreams of achieving the guys they see on TV.</p>
<p>Lack of positive parental influence also plays a role.</p>
<p>The middle class black kids at my school do just as well as the white kids at my school</p>
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<p>Thank god we’ve been able to avoid that for a minute.</p>
<p>^I know and lets keep it that way. </p>
<p>An experiment needs to be done. Like switch an Asian and White baby to Black and Hispanic family, and give a Black and Hispanic child to a White and Asian family and see how they grow up.</p>
<p>Well… the Asians here tend to be 2nd gen, and they were wealthy in Asia so they had the opportunity to move here. For Hispanics, most of the time they’re leaving a poor country with few resources and the mentality sticks. And for black people, the fact that the man has put them down until 50 years ago (though honestly it’s still going on today) has stuck around the community.</p>
<p>BUT my 2nd gen black friends (from Jamaica and various places in Africa) are geniuses. My best friends both happen to be Jamaican, and one is in a billion APs and the other is in IB. Same with my Ghanaian friend. Another guy I know is in IB as well, and his parents are Nigerian & Black American. </p>
<p>Of course, there are always exceptions.</p>
<p>^^^I think it’s obvious what would happen. since I think we can agree that race is no indicator of aptitude and minorities being underachieving is the product of a cycle of poverty and culture, the white and asian babies would likely do the same in school as those in their environment. The only exception I can see is if these children who didn’t look like their families subscribed to the perceived culture of academic achievement of their race in an effort to be different or highlight their difference.</p>
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I actually have heard of a study like this, and asian and white children did better. However, that does raise the question of pre-natal effects/place of birth on test scores. </p>
<p>If anyone has a link to that study, please share it.</p>
<p>Yes, alot cause im mixed D:</p>
<p>Yeah… I’m called an oreo. it’s my nickname.</p>
<p>I’m also the “whitest” black person people have ever met.</p>
<p>It’s because they feel that they deserve something. Because whites in the past have treated minorities unfairly, they feel that they are entitled to everything without working for it. (This is not all minorities, just the majority.)</p>
<p>So black people believe that kids have a higher percentage of getting out of the ghetto via sports than academics? </p>
<p>How many kids get into college v. How many kids make the NFL</p>
<p>The numbers aren’t really in their favor…</p>