The Cookout

The Honorable said:

If it helps your kid get in line then I am all for it.

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RCNAL said:

My pops threatened to take a day off from work and go to every one of my brother's classes. And my pops don't bluff.

First, 80 percent of us are raised by single moms who don't have the time to do it. God bless 'em they do the best they can but many of our parents: 1. work long ass hours 2. give too much power to the school to know what they are doing and taking care of their kids education. 3. Or don't care to some extent. These are the more ratchet parent.

I support this guy though. Rare actually. And as noted above, it puts the school on notice as well. Anyone thinking of tripping on his son knows he got a pops that has no problem coming up there and handling business.

A possible solution? It will never, ever happen, but I had this discussion once. We need more black male teachers. The Department of Education, if it was really serious about black kids education would subsidize the hiring of black male teachers. More money given to those willing to teach k-6. Get them early. Black kids grow up these days with literally no decent black male authority figures. They rarely have a father in the home or a father who co-parents and is involved in their kids lives. They rarely have black male teachers. The youngest generation attends church the least of any previous generation so no black male pastors or deacons (who are stretched thin anyway). They rarely have black male managers in jobs.

Another solution is that some of these black millionaires who give to HBCUs set up a scholarship for black males majoring in Education and full rides for those majoring in Elementary Education. And set up scholarships at PWIs.

White folks will trip on this and sadly....black women will. Some at least. They won't see the overall benefit of it. This is NOT saying black women aren't fantastic teachers. A few were some of my best teachers ever, but we need black men. We need responsible, thorough black men. Our community is sorely lacking them.

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