How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

This hit me hard. You are amazing and I wish there were more like you.

The beginning of the speech sounds wrong on so many levels.

This is 6yrs old. Absolutely nothing has changed except teachers are being pressured to try and get scores up. Teachers are leaving because of this incredible pressure and the kids are dealing with new teachers every year, sometimes every semester and now the teacher shortage is such that people are teaching that basically walked in off the street. Nothing is better. Scores aren't better no matter how much the system bullies the teachers.

The Problems in Education are not solely based on color of skin. The poor budgeting of time and indoctrination are just the beginning. Since the pandemic, the focus on pronouns and change in one’s gender, and even telling seven year olds, they could be gender fluid are in the classroom. I had a principal tell me not to line the kids up by boys and girls because some of the kids were gender fluid and these kids were second graders. Yes, she really said that. Add to that the focus of objectives based on the test score and you get a lot of your students falling between the cracks, including white kids. In some buildings, they are teaching children not to talk about their culture because they might offend someone. In real life, the celebration of who , people are by culture should be in the public square in public arena and we should be building bridges not practicing a politically correct silence if Scot celebrates Christmas and Gail celebrates Hanukkah. The differences in people can be beautiful and recognized and at least not be the center focus but we don’t need to walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone else. Nepali Somali, Ethiopian African-American, Jewish Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Native American, or Lily white everyone has a place at the table and you don’t take away something from one group to give to another group, for fear that someone may be offended. Otherwise you’re going to have more attention than what is already there talk about who they are then get on with the business of teaching them to think to read to discern and for them to create based on what they have read, and you’ll have more evidence than what some factory made stupid test can do. Having objectives based on these test scores is telling the world education is a T-shirt factory education is an assembly line. Education is one size fits all and it is not it is not the place of the Board of Education to tell any child under the age of 18 you might be this and you might be that why don’t we just take them as they are and teach them and leave the politically driven stuff out of education and stop confusing the kids and start teaching and have administrators be accountable to the public!

Stop taking resources from the arts. Start having consequences for bad behavior and not group therapy talks the so-called restorative practices do not work. Teach self-reliance, and teach the kids on how to build a better economy. The national education association must answer for their contributions and administrators need to get off their high horsepower kick using the principal chair as a steppingstone moreover, do not give a principal job to a teacher who’s on special assignment, a principal who is a teacher in one building, suddenly becomes the principal in that same building, leave the door wide, open to familiarity leading to contempt
It’s happening even now.

This video brings up many valid points, but the problems in education are not solely based on color.

Children are not victims and they don’t need to remain victims if we teach them the possibilities of overcoming huge hurdles whether they’re black brown and yes, native American, and poor white, and other. Just because someone is born in a certain economic class, does it mean they have to remain there and the victimology serves a bitter end not a better one.

Thank God I never went to school. Stayed home for it. No exposure to trouble, attitudes.

Thank you, Kandice!!! Simply brilliant!!!

Great job & very informative!

I taught in inner city schools for thirty years. Most of the teachers did their best for the kids. Some students worked hard and used their education to get into college to become successful. Others did nothing and wasted thirteen years of free public education. Like anything else it comes down to the individual.

This is so stupid. Teachers like this are an example of how our schools fail us.

The school system was set up to make us all drone workers; another type of slavery. If you think the solution is to further fund schools instead of flipping the entire paradigm of schooling itself, then you're naive. If you think the problem is just that the schools aren't able to do their job, you're wrong. The job of our school system is to train obedient workers; to respect the authority of the government. To emasculate men/boys, to sit at a desk all day wasting your precious time. To drug those who don't comply... School literally takes 100 hours to teach something that can be taught outside on a swing in 5 minutes. They only want you to be somewhat smart... but not TOO smart.

In today's world, the information is readily available. You don't have to be rich to access it. You merely have to escape the hive mind mentality you're trapped in; the mentality that your kids will be smarter if the schools just have more money.

I would argue that your "white" schooling actually harmed you more than anything, because you have no creative thought. You actually think that the school system is meant to help you. It's only meant to help the masters; to provide them with the workers they need. They only care about you to that extent. They don't by any means want what's best for you.

That is correct. The resources go to schools with higher income.

This had me in tears and I come from England. But I have learnt that these systems are designed to keep black kids down. White Americans you should be ashamed of your self.

Lady, you had to be bused to another school because your parents chose a calling, while the rich kids parents chose money. You can’t have your pie and eat it too. My parents made a lot of money, but worked 120 hours a week. They chose wealth. Not saying they made the best decision, but they chose it and suffered consequences too. Maybe those with more lax jobs with less responsibilities and financial risk should be bused to homes of small business owners and neurosurgeons to help the kids have an adult around. Use your freedom to choose wisely, but remember to own your decisions. They’re nobody’s fault but your own.

Only a Marxist infected Democrat would ever regurgitate such treason.

The schools are not more segregated than they were before! I believe that the schools are more put together than they were before!

Parents in poverty are the keepers of their children’s future.

Where are the parents responsible for their children?😊

I truly feel like the solution to this is school choice. I know many folks disagree on this, but to me it seems unreasonable to trust a corrupt government to fix the problems of the education system, when history has consistently shown us that they won't, nor do they have any incentive to.

This needs more viewing. Extremely well said

You can’t get a quality education just by $ going into the school though. A neighborhood that is poverty stricken that gets the best funded schools is still going to be in trouble if we cannot solve the poverty and problems that come with it in the neighborhood. Similarly, once poverty is solved, students can excel without the largest school budget in the nation.

Im just here for a homework assignment

African Americans have a hard time swallowing that they are complicit in an ongoing racial apartheid-- institutionalized and reinforced by the supreme white Americans gaslighting--- capitalist marketing. Their leaders saw it, MLK Jr., Malcolm X, etc., but they were assassinated.

Exact same with Australia's.

I don't know where to begin with this... complete revisionist trope; such exaggerated historical blasphemy. It is tiring, as a person of color as I am, to constantly hear the failures of the inner-city urban schools as somehow akin to a "lack of resources." As if the woefully inadequate social structure of the prevailing culture has nothing to do with this. It has all to do with it! These inner-city urban school districts receive so much state and federal funds that enough is used to pay off the myopic and baseless powers that be, and the rest trickles down ever so feebly to the poor students. During the early part of the 20th Century and the latter part of the 19th Century, Dunbar High School was one of the most successful, if not the most successful high school in America. An all-black high school in Washington, DC. I can assure you that the elite institutions, their main competitors, received more of those oft-elusive resources than Dunbar could ever dream of. Today, because of the failures of the prevailing culture surrounding Dunbar, Dunbar has become a shell of its former glorious self; that is quite an understatement.

I am white but felt the same growing up. Even white kids who are from families with low incomes experience education that is not that great, unfortunately. The point Im making is that finances play a big role in the quality of education.

Schools aren't to blame.

Blame your parent. A welfare soaking person with no skills, decides to pop out a kid. The results are horrible. But, you're free to breed.

All School Teachers should work 12 months a year. When classes are not in session, Teachers could do Administrative work and perform other tasks, based on their skill-pool attributes. In the long run, this would save School Districts money in that they wouldn't have to hire as many people to perform non-teaching jobs. Physical plant duties could also be done in that manor. Simplistically hat better way to fix the furnace, by a Shop Teacher with help from Industrial Arts Students (if in session). Schools being self-sufficient, will minimal exceptions, is not only good & practical education, but more cost effective & easing the tax burdens on residents of the District. Any to be more cost-effective to a School District, WITHOUT compromising the Educational standards for the students, would be a feather in the cap for the learning process. School Districts, based on their relative student body size, should not have to have an Assistant Principal in EACH school building. They should travel back & forth between the schools, on an as-needed basis. Another and even more practical cost-cutting measure was mentioned at the onset of this writing. The idea of utilizing School Teachers all year long would be a PROFOUND way of Districts getting more-bang-for-the-buck. Hypothetical situation: If a Teacher was employed by a School District for 40 years, they only actually performed 30 years of work. Another much-needed change, for School Districts in general, would be to contour sessions based on the local weather. In other words, in School Districts that ensure harsh winters, have the three-month-off sessions then. It would not only be more practical with respect to not having snow days or putting students & bus drivers at risk, but also taking away the necessity to have so much time off for the Holidays. It would be a win-win situation for all. I'm surprised this has never been implemented in the past?

This is bs. I had kids in public schools who went on to top tear universities. These are people trying to privatize and destroy our schools.

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It’s so sad I myself witnessed this at Eau Claire Middle school in berrien county Michigan they never give black students scholarships but put them on football n basketball quick 😢 They would expell the black students for hitting back even when they got slap first it nevered mattered
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Wow excellent talk. ❤

What a pity her dress does not complement her well.

Make morality testing mandatory. NOW!

Anyone who loves school needs their head examined-!

This woman is a flat out liar and a racist!

I am glad these desegregation programs are a thing of the past. Such stupid and wasteful governmental intrusion into education.

She is absolutely right but, as I look and listen to this video, six years later, nothing has changed or improved.

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Who has controlled public education since the late 1960's? The situation will get worse because public education doesn't teach academics nowadays. They indoctrinate students with leftist ideology that they are even trying to implement in math. Those who have been controlling education since the late 1960's are the ones working to create more disparities, racism and segregation.

I avoid the perpetual victim class folks, lowered standards for blacks due to affirmative action. Sadly, blacks accept lowered standards because they really want to stay at the bottom for some reason. Always blame EVERYTHING on others....

One thing is to have opportunities ,and another is to have the willing drive to discipline your actions ….worlds apart ..ex. Knowledge vs applied knowledge

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I grew up in Philadelphia public schools and moved to the suburbs when I was 15 and I saw first hand the disparities and that was 20 years ago!!!😢

you cant force a person to learn about a subject matter when they clearly have no natural passion nor curiosity For the subject matter in question

You cant expect that person to be able to fake that natural state of interest and curiosity and that desire to learn about a subject matter

You can lead a horse to water but you cant force it to drink.

It all comes down to a personal natural interest and persional passion essentually

The more you try to force the matter the more reason you give that person to dig their feet in like a stubborn mule until eventually they tell you in no uncertain tersm to go ####! Yourself. Foe your troubles

Thats the trouble with the worthless american public education they dont expect that person to demand a choice in the subject matters

(to actually expect something for their troubles and time traded off their personal social life.

From that persons point of view it all comes down to want am.i getting out of the matter andd what do i want in exchange for personal time being traded off my social life and is it worth the trade off from my point of view.

You cant expect that person to be sincere in faking sincereity about a subject matter they absolutely despise and loath to the very depths of their soul

That aint how human nature works

Until you can understabd thst much about a person you dont understand jack ####! About who that person is in their natural nature and identity as a person and as an individual

humans are made to learn and love learning. having access to creative pursuits is crucial to the love of learning. story books, music class, theater, and arts and crafts. this will inspire our kids to love learning all kinds of things and give our future a chance.

Buy stocks from corporations that run private schools. Their plan to sabotage the school system has worked. Right now high school kids with a 3rd grade math level are being integrated with those of a 10th grade level. Why are there high schoolers running around with a 3rd grade math level?? That was the ultimate plan(failure of public schools). Private schools are now open for business for those who can afford it. Those that can’t (poor) will remain with a 3rd grade reading, math etc level

Ban: mandatory school, gov control over education and curriculum, hsd and ged requirements, public school, directly tax funding schools. Let kids learn job skills and work instead

Vietnamese kids who grew up below the poverty line become doctors. Can’t say the same about some other kids.

My kids went to a private non-public high performing school where the majority of kids were white with about 20% Asians. Parents paid tuition. Then I went to work for the public schools and was amazed at the resources in the public school setting that a private school could not afford to have. Public schools I subbed in had an ipad for EVERY pre-K student, smartboards, musical instruments for kids in band, paras for struggling IEP kids, speech & OT, special chairs for kids with ADHD, all kinds of adaptive equipment, and breakfast and snacks not provided by parents etc. I. In my kids' school they had computer carts with computers shared by all the middle school classes, no smartboards, no ST, OT, no breakfast, snacks provided by parents, and they couldn't play in band without purchasing their own instrument. They also had fewer course choices for electives. That was eye opening for me. Unfortunately there is a lot of waste in public schools and a great sense of entitlement that exists when kids receive things like free lunch. Kids don't take care of equipment that they or their parents haven't paid for. Parents complain that the already low standards for kids are too rigorous. I get what she is saying about the property taxes being inequitable and I definitely support school choice. It is really hard to escape poverty and government dependence when people don't get married and have kids anyway and don't graduate from high school. Broken families and the destruction of the nuclear family and family instability mess with kids' achievement to a high degree. There were pretty high standards for behavior at my kids' private school and real consequences for rule breaking. Public schools have been so emasculated by their fear of parents suing that there are few consequences for disruptive behaviors that interfere with everyone's right to learn. In fact, teachers spend so much educational time dealing with disruptive behaviors it's amazing that kids learn anything at all. So it's not just economics but that definitely plays a significant role.

I know her and I've worked with her!!!! She is great on stage as she is in school!

I was shocked to know she was Talking about “American” school!! Saddening :(