African Americans Should Not Be Allowed In Schools Essay

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Data proves that America does not have enough African American males teaching in today’s schools. As a matter of fact, only 2% of America’s nearly five million teachers are black men (Bryan 1). In our American society, more and more African American females are fiercely taking over both public and private classrooms. Although this might be a great accomplishment, school officials believes that if more black males teach, it would reduce the numbers of minority achievement gaps and dropout rates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 44% of students nationwide are minorities, but nearly 90% of teachers are white. Polls and surveys further read that if there were more African American male teachers, the dropout rate would …show more content…

Not only does the absence of father’s affect the home financially, but also emotionally and socially destruct the family. Although most single mothers do a great job in raising their kids, 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. For children who live only with a mother, a male teacher may be the only positive male role model in their lives. Most black teens attend urbanized schools in the city or in low budgeted areas. In most cases, these schools does not always function at it’s full potential, due to the high number of students. The average high school graduation rate in the nation’s 50 largest cities was 53 percent, compared with 71 percent in the suburbs (Greene 1). Often times, the 53 percent that did not succeed, most likely did not have the masculine discipline needed to enforce the important obligations in …show more content…

It’s a desperate shame, not because women make poor teachers but because, in the view of many, there’s no innate reason why they make better teachers than men. There’s simply no logic to it and it’s a desperate shame for our children too, because they could be missing out on a whole different perspective on the world. However, in the few classrooms of black male teachers, polls and graduation rates show a high number of successes. In greater words, there should be more techniques and programs offering free scholarship money for black men desiring to teach. If money were handed to African American men to become educators, in certainty more men would understand the severity of this issue and accept the money to purse education. As stated above, the problem isn’t just simply having more black males inside of secondary schools; but having them actually teach and interact with our

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