"the biggest driver of harm to people with dark skin, one need look no further than the K-12 public school system".

Let’s Talk About the ‘Systemic Racism’ of Public Schooling    

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If you care about this thing called systemic racism then demand K-12 public schools be fixed and fixed right now.

By John Conlin • September 11, 2020

Something called systemic racism has been ubiquitous in the news recently. Now, I don’t really know what “systemic racism” means, but if you want to talk about the biggest driver of harm to people with dark skin, one need look no further than the K-12 public school system.

The schools kids in poor, urban, and largely minority neighborhoods are forced to attend are a national disgrace. It is not uncommon to find schools where more than 90 percent of all students are not proficient in any subject. 

There can only be two explanations. Either these kids are simply too dumb to learn much of anything or they are getting screwed by the education system. 

And since the first explanation is preposterous, the evidence is overwhelming that it is the second. 

Just think of language and speech. Imagine that years ago, the public school system effectively decided “those Irish or Italian immigrants are too stupid to learn to speak and write proper English, so we’ll just accept this and teach them a dumbed-down version.” 

Might that have had an effect on these children once they became adults? Do you think it might have branded them and their children and tied them to the lowest economic rungs in the country? Possibly forever?

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