`Whites to Blame for Poor Black Academic Performance’
In yet another broadside against White British society, the failure of black schoolchildren to perform academically is the fault of “institutional racism” rather than their own doing, says a report on education just issued by well known government sponsored “academic” Dr Steve Strand, from Warwick University.
Strand’s “blame whites” approach for explaining black academic failure is strongly in contrast to an earlier report he authored, in which he blamed low academic scores by white boys from disadvantaged communities on “whites with low aspirations.”
According to Strand — who has been sponsored by the government to undertake his “research” — black Caribbean pupils “are being subjected to institutional racism in English schools which can dramatically undermine their chances of academic success.”
According to this crackpot theory, “teachers are routinely under-estimating the abilities of some black pupils” — in other words, teachers, whose governing body, the National Union of Teachers, is notorious as one of the most leftist extremist organisations in the British workplace — are all somehow conspiring racists who deliberately seek to downplay black achievers!
The madness continues with Strand’s report claiming that “assumptions about behavioural problems are overshadowing (black) academic talents.” So, white teachers are not only deliberately downplaying black achievers, they are also guilty of making “assumptions” about behavioural problems.
According to official figures, black and mixed white-and-black children are excluded at rates three times greater than that for white children. In 2007 44.9% of black pupils, and 47.3% of pupils of mixed white and black heritage, achieved 5 or more A*-C grades, compared to 57.3% nationally, and in 2005 there were twice as many black men in prison in the UK than in universities.
These facts are inconvenient — yet Strand and other anti-white fanatics are determined to always try and explain them in terms of “white racism” rather than dealing with the reality that the cause of the problem may lay within the affected community itself.
Strand — and by implication, the government’s — anti-white mania is revealed when his March 2008 study on why certain groups of white boys perform poorly at school is reviewed. In that study, Strand claimed that “white working-class pupils make worse progress at secondary school than any other group because their parents have the lowest aspirations.”
Note that the white community gets the blame here — because it is perfectly alright and “politically correct” to blame whites for their own problems. Yet, as soon as a non-white community is involved, it is never their problem, but always white people’s fault.
The time has come to end this leftist PC-madness. The BNP rejects the notion that whites are to blame for every problem affecting every non-white community on earth. Each people must learn to be man enough to stand up and accept responsibility for their own destiny, and not seek to blame white Europeans all the time.
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Note to self- I do not and will not feel guilty for being white, I am a Nationalist and not some Liberal idiot who cant see past their own nose to realize that everybody is in control of their own destiny.
STOP BLAMING WHITEY FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FAILURES
In academia all whites are racist and only whites are racist. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920338/posts
Thanks for this story Newsteam, it is an absolute classic.
Here’s Steve’s: “RESEARCH PROFILE”
“Educational assessment and testing; The use of data to support teaching & learning; equity issues in relation to pupil progress; school effectiveness and school improvement.”
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wie/staff/teaching-research/steve_strand/
This of course is just the most ridiculous, tax-eating, gobbledygook imaginable.
When are desperately stressed teachers in the enriched front-line going to tell poseurs like this where to get off?
In the immortal words of President Harry S. Truman: “I wonder how many times you have to be hit over the head before you find out who’s hitting you?”
“Strand claimed that “white working-class pupils make worse progress at secondary school than any other group because their parents have the lowest aspirations.”
Steve’s so sick with self-loathing.
Anyway maybe he would like to put his theories to the test and toddle off to the nearest school with lots of black Caribbeans kids and motivate and inspire with his anti-racist best practice teaching. Show those teachers with guilty of “low expectations” just where they are going wrong! On the other hand maybe he wouldn’t like that at all!
An urgent priority of the forthcoming BNP gov’t must be to terminate the contracts of pointless parasites of this type.
All failures are down to those leftie idiots in government, NOT the indigenous British population! You cannot blame the indigenous population for other ethnic group failures!
FACT!
It’s complete nonsense. Blacks sit the same classes, take the same exams, are subject to the same marking criteria etc, so the only variable (at least within the schools) are the pupils. It is entriely down to their aptitude and attidue how far they progress.
As for white boys, while the failure rates may be due in part to low aspirations (this also would apply to girls from the same backgrounds and I concede to the author it is a legitimate problem in British education) the real problem in schools is that they have become increasingly feminised to the point that boys don’t feel they really belong there. The educational structures have all been geared to girls (they often respond better to coursework assessment rather than a fairer exam based assessment which boys outperform them in) and the studied texts also have a feminist slant. English literature for example should be gender divided so boys can study masculine texts that they can relate to. The media bias for female educational success (i.e. lots of girls screaming and hugging each in celebrations on results day in media footage) needs to be addressed too.
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Third word edited. Please mind the language. Thanks. - Ed
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Consider the intractable dilemma facing the liberal left educationists who continue to promote the comprehensive model of education:
On the one hand, their ideology demands - as an axiomatic truth - that “all pupils are equal”. However, empirical disparities - such as those highlighted in this research - have a nasty habit of obtruding themselves into the worldview suggested by theory.
Therefore, rather than draw the most obvious explanation, they are forced to apportion blame. Individual teachers denounced as “racialists” might justifiably seek legal redress, so what better target for criticism than the anonymity afforded by “the system”?
Is it not ironic, that like the police force before it, nothing less than the entire teaching profession should now find itself in the dock accused of “institutional racism”?
A few months ago, the equality “tsar” Trevor Phillips said that positive action was correct in assisting ethnics-only becoming London cabbies because the school system had “failed black boys”.
Something very twisted and self-interested about Phillips and the Labour left cronies, imo.
This is disturbing. Whites are blamed for everything. Like the Jews in Germany in the 1930s, Whites are being transformed into scapegoats. How soon before the Left calls for Whites to be detained? How soon before the Left calls for Whites to be exterminated? The day is coming, I fear.
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Consider the intractable dilemma facing the liberal left educationists who continue to promote the comprehensive model of education:
On the one hand, their ideology demands - as an axiomatic truth - that “all pupils are equal”. However, empirical disparities - such as those highlighted in this research - have a nasty habit of obtruding themselves into the worldview suggested by theory.
Therefore, rather than draw the most obvious explanation, they are forced to apportion blame. Individual teachers denounced as racialists might justifiably seek legal redress, so what better target for criticism than the anonymity afforded by “the system”?
Is it not ironic, that like the police force before it, nothing less than the entire teaching profession should now find itself in the dock accused of “institutional racism”?
We could go on for another 100 years of liberal policies but the lefties will always make excuses instead of accepting their failed ideas don’t work and haven’t worked.
Another 100 years of knife crime and family breakdown. Another 100 years of anti-social yobs and foreign rapists. Another century of pouring concrete over our greenbelts or even a thousand years of giving away our money to fund African tribal wars.
The Liberal would never admit he was wrong. He will forever make excuses and blame others for the failure of his own backward ideas.
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It wasn’t that long ago that these idiots were telling us that the white lower class boys were the ones that were being left behind! They obviously change their minds to suit the argument!
How can that be ???? do black children get different lessons to white children ????.There was black kids in my class at school we all got set the same work, we all make our own choices at school learn and get on in life or dont learn and miss out,but some dont want to learn and dont want to miss out so they bleat about racism being the cause rather then the fact that they was to busy ,bullying,taxing,and trying to screw all the girls,and punching teachers,THIS did go on at my school ,and low and behold it go,s on at my sons school awell.
Strand appears to have 14 projects on the go at present, according to his website. ‘Publish or perish’ remains the watchword of academics! I was amused to see he was an advisor of some sort to nferNelson, who publish books of tests (including some for the 11+). He’s in an ideal posiiton to know how black kids perform in his tests!
Some readers of this site might want to examine the idea of dumbing-down as a deliberate strategy. Two speakers (both women - possibly they are less attracted by the idea of kids as raw material) are:—
Mona McNee, who is on the BNPtv site:
http://www.bnptv.org.uk/news3.php?go=fullnews&newsid=400
She explains (in splendidly clear primary school delivery, reinforced by gestures) how the ‘look-say’ method came to dominate primary education. In this method, the outlines of words are taught as a unit: imagine teaching IKEA logo as a block! It’s like teaching maths without saying what 1 ,2 ,3 are.]
It seems hardly credible this could have ever happened. There’s a book jointly authored by Mona McNee and Alice Coleman (pubd 2007) sold by Excalibur. For my taste it’s not quite clear enough - there’s no summary, so you have to trawl through it.
[NB if like me you browse with Firefox, you'll need to download a plug-in viewer from Microsoft. I also recommend Firefox's 'download assistant so you can save videos to your own hard disk.]
Charlotte Iserbyt is something like a US equivalent:
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf
is her book on the Deliberate Dumbing Down of American Education. (Pubd 2000. That link is a free download).
It has chapters with titles like ‘Serious seventies’, ‘Noxious nineties’ and includes extracts from US government, and education industry documents, and some from international agencies.
Unfortunately she mixes up controversies on eg sex and social education with ‘dumbing down’. This is a typical video of Iserbyt discussing her life and her book:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=iserbyt&emb=0&aq=f#
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Consider the intractable dilemma facing the liberal left educationists who continue to promote the comprehensive model of education:
On the one hand, their ideology demands - as an axiomatic truth - that “all pupils are equal”. However, empirical disparities - such as those highlighted in this research - have a nasty habit of obtruding themselves into the worldview suggested by theory.
Therefore, rather than draw the most obvious explanation, they are forced to apportion blame. Individual teachers denounced as racialists might justifiably seek legal redress, so what better target for criticism than the anonymity afforded by “the system”?
But is it not ironic, that like the police force before it, nothing less than the entire teaching profession should now find itself in the dock accused of “institutional racism”?
Consider the intractable dilemma facing the liberal left educationists who continue to promote the comprehensive model of education:
On the one hand, their ideology demands - as an axiomatic truth - that “all pupils are equal”. However, empirical disparities - such as those highlighted in this research - have a nasty habit of obtruding themselves into the worldview suggested by theory.
Therefore, rather than draw the most obvious explanation, they are forced to apportion blame. Individual teachers denounced as racialists might justifiably seek legal redress, so what better target for criticism than the anonymity afforded by “the system”?
Is it not ironic, that like the police force before it, nothing less than the entire teaching profession should now find itself in the dock accused of “institutional racism”?
It is odd that when they were taught by a version of the British system in their own countries, it seemed to work ok.
But that was the old style education not the touchy feely type we have now.
We are, in fact, totally and utterly to blame.
The reality is that it is our fault that stories like this are even possible - our people have let lunatics run the asylum for decades. Is it any wonder we’re in the mess we’re in now?
Every last man, woman and youth needs to stand up and say, “ENOUGH!”
Educate yourself as to why things really are as they are, and then fight tooth and nail alongside the BNP to realise the SOLUTIONS we are promoting.
http://www.uktabloid.co.uk/Strider.html
Whilst I am a great believer in opportunities for all and it should be encouraged, it is a known fact amongst all schoolchildren that some are slow, some backward and at times difficult but each and everyone has the same old opportunity, so do not play the race card and blame whitey because everyone has the same opportunity to progress even with language problems, the help and encouragement is there - so grab it if you can .
If we are so biased and openly racist why doesn`t the government of the UK put us all on trial for racism?
Obviously the whites have held back the under developing third world, and in the liberal academia of the USA a recent treatise written by a coloured professor decreed that the only way the world can move forward would be to eliminate the white race.
The lefties have finally run out of ideas and solutions to their “liberal” agenda, and rather than admit that certain ethnic groups are under achieving through their own lack of enterprise, we all must be brought to account.
There are some very sick people in this world, and particularly those that hate and despise their own race and culture.
I have often said this, but again I will repeat it, the world is slowly turning mad.
Just the latest bizarre example of the convenient and cowardly blanket statement that every race is equal in every way and anyone not up to standard (particularly if you are non-indigenous) will be allocated a well-concocted excuse for any shortcoming…
Wonder what excuse could Dr Strand find for all BLACK people who have done so appallingly in the Olympic Games in the swimming events…
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To display my equanimity, how appallingly WHITE people have done in the Olympic Games in the 100 meters sprint…
Give Dr Strand long enough and I will guarantee that he will come up with some ludicrous justification and no matter how long you give him he will find it impossible to admit that there are inherent physical and mental differences between different racial groups,
M Luchag
Ha ha Caroline Ashley is a funny lady! There is a culture of failure among black children but this is only a problem the black communities themselves can tackle. Bill Cosby said a similar thing a few years ago and he cited the Jews as an example of an ethnic community that places great emphasis on education and do very well out of it. He was severely criticised by America’s liberal elite because it’s obviously not something they want to hear but you can’t ignore the richest black man in the country! Companies are desperate to fill their ethnic quotas so given a choice between a black and white candidate of equal ability I guarantee the black will get the job, so the opportunities are there if black children are willing to work hard and grasp them.
While white liberals continue to make excuses for them, black communities will continue to fail academically and suffer high levels of crime and disorder.
It must be very comforting to hear white people take the blame for the situation - but it won’t do the black population any favours in the long run.
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Hi Dean and welcome to the BNP website - Ed
I can remember being told off for saying “Oh Christ” during a lesson in case I ‘offended those from another Religion’ Even though my class was entirely made up of white British Children.
This country is mad, literally mad. Now where have I heard that before?….
I am sure the teachers of these kids entered them for the exams they thought they had the best chance of passing. That isn’t ‘institutional racism’ but good, practical teaching. I suppose that if the kids had been entered for higher-level tests, and subsequently failed, the exam markers would then have faced accusations of racism too. It’s ludicrous.
It’s all completely insane; Welcome anglo48 - Ed
“I suspect there are undisclosed issues to do with “race” and ability and how black Caribbean children learn, which account for the decisions that many teachers make, however much they might justify those decisions on grounds of pupil behaviour or lack of application.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/05/raceineducation.raceinschools
“Professor Gus John is a fellow of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the Institute of Education, University of London and visiting faculty professor of education at the University of Strathclyde”
Cobblers!
ED.. You must make a mention about this latest youtube offering by Gordon Brown. Its an insult to every law abiding British person in Britain. I am furious.
RW - “Strand appears to have 14 projects on the go at present, according to his website.”
No doubt he is an assiduous funds chaser.
Strand’s comments really are outrageous. The teaching profession may be one of the most politically correct but they are generally well-meaning. They don’t deserve to be under severe pressure; from bad behaviour, excessive bureaucracy and overwork - factors often connected with the gov’t’s mad paradise of diversity hammering of square pegs into round holes.
Couple of quotes illustrate the pressure cooker effect:
“An astounding 88% of teachers in the capital have admitted they would leave the profession because of student misbehaviour, according to a new poll carried out by education recruitment specialists” Select Education.
“Double the number of teachers are leaving their positions now than in the late 1990s, the Conservatives have claimed. The Tories have highlighted figures which suggest that between 1995 and 2000 fewer than 50,000 people left the profession under the age of 60. But between 2000 and 2005 that number doubled to nearly 100,000, according to the party’s education spokesman Michael Gove.”
The lives of honest people are clearly being ruined on a very large scale here. What this stooge Strand is doing, and doing very nicely out of, is to pile on even more pressure because teachers doing their level best will now be open to the snide accusation that the reason for the failure of their charges is their own “racism”.
Note snide Strand does not have the courage to actually directly accuse them of racism, he says that it is “institutional”. But allegedly racist “low teacher expectations” must come down to the actual teacher not the institution. Therefore Strand has gratuitously libelled teachers themselves.
This raises the issue of what teachers are actually going to do, individually and collectively, about these caluminies. This isn’t going to go away. The government has no loyalty to them, it doesn’t care how many of them it burns out and destroys - it can always pick up more from an increasingly international market; hence the existence of so many supply agencies.
This is the case for the nation generally, unless people take a stand we will be destroyed.
We are here for those who do want to stand their ground.
Choose wisely, folks
“This is disturbing. Whites are blamed for everything. Like the Jews in Germany in the 1930s, Whites are being transformed into scapegoats. How soon before the Left calls for Whites to be detained? How soon before the Left calls for Whites to be exterminated? The day is coming, I fear.”
WELL…
Now that you mention it, a black “academic” in America has called for precisely that.
I’m pretty sure there are a few amongst the liblabcon faithful that have taken his ideas on board and are working out a sneaky way to implement them without anyone being any the wiser!
What do you expect from a government under this man v=Q0wEEGMQ9lM
They are training for the 2012 Olympic Games.
When might we see it at Wembley?
Being serious Folks! Recruiting this weekend, how about everyone making a convert to the BNP.
Ed! Don’t dare say make it 2
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Make it 3, ianpenrhyndd, …… no, make it a dozen
- Ed
Crackpots like this so-called academic will do exactly what historians do. They will state a point of view which in this case is what Labour wants stated and write the conclusion first and distort the facts to justify it afterwards.
We need to rely on think-tanks such as ‘immigration-watch’ to conduct unbiased research that is not distorted by government attempts to distort the truth. Their motives for this are clearly due to the failure of its policies.