The most
crucial input for a child’s education cannot be provided by schools,
politicians and government. As such, continued calls for more school resources
will produce disappointing results as they have in the past. There are certain minimum
requirements that must be met for any child to do well in school. Someone must
make the youngster do his homework, ensure that he gets eight to nine hours of
sleep, feed him breakfast and make sure that he behaves in school and respects
the teachers. If these minimum requirements are not met, and by the way they
can be met even if a family is poor, all else is for naught.
What the education establishment can do is to prevent youngsters
who are alien and hostile to the educational process from making education
impossible for those who are equipped to learn. That is accomplished by
removing students who pose disciplinary problems, but the Barack Obama
administration is even restricting a school’s power to do that. You might ask,
“Williams, what are we going to do with those expelled students?” I do not
know, but I do know one thing: Black people cannot afford to allow them to
sabotage the education chances of everyone else.
