As a Deaf person, I would say ABSOLUTELY NO! The hearing people have lowered the learning standards for the deaf children for many years. They didn't believe they could learn to function in the real world. I have seen so many deaf people ending up collecting SSI/SSDI or underemployed due to their communication and language skills. If we challenge the deaf children to succeed, they will succeed!
My 7th grade English teacher taught us very well. Everyone, even the "stupid" ones, scored college level and about 8 maxed out the test meaning post-graduate(college) level. That taught me that people can accomplish more than they believe they can.
As a white parent with a black daughter, I would be furious if anyone ever tells her that she can't do as much as her brothers because of her skin. Thank you for speaking out against this nonsense.
@rose petals Hear alot of people yelling systemic this and systemic that. No examples are given except for laws that were changed or abolished over 50 years ago and no mention of affirmative action which was truly systemic racism...
No they won't. The culture of these people guarantees they will continue to fail and will always be behind because their culture assumes all failures are the result of externalities- not personal choices. You can see this in every one of these people. Got a bad grade? Teacher is racist. Got fired? Work was racist. Did not get a promotion? Boss is racist. Come to work late? Being on time us racist. There are no standards. There are no expectations. There is only the constant drumbeat of "you rayciss"
@@rickyrayrosenberg420 No you are incorrect. Some people attribute to external factors but others don't but it is not exclusive to any one group. You hear same blaming of others in all racial groups in those at the bottom of the social scale. So your accusing all members of a group is racist as you are over generalizing to one group only.
@@ELee-zv5ud calling other people "racist" because they are pointing out the strategy being actively employed by a group you have decided are your pets does not negate my point. It reinforces it. Are you really so blind that you leap to support your group culture - even while they are victims of this culture that was largely the result of the work of a 19th century German upper class lazy person and the industrialist off which he mooched? Marx had no respect for your pet group - but the 'oppressor vs oppressed" narrative they parrot is largely a result of his ideology. It not for their benefit though. Communists think the masses need to be manipulated and managed - this ideology keeps them trapped. It keeps them tribal, dependent, and stops them from accepting their own agency. And sure - lots of groups fell for this. The Chinese under Mao, the Cambodians under Pol Pot, the Russians under Lenin - they all fell for the same game. In their case class division substituted for "racism" - but the game is still the same.
In the early years of my education I was diagnosed with Asperger's, and was placed into remedial classes. I struggled to learn to read (and still have spelling and grammar problems). I thought I was incapable of learning to read, hell I thought I was incapable of a lot things. It was not until I was taken out of Special Education that I learned to read and both reading and writing are now some of my favorite pass times. I kept telling myself I could not succeed, I could not learn to read, I could not learn this or that, or make friends. It was only when people started to tell me, "YES YOU CAN!" To drill it into me that I could succeed ,and tossed me in to the deep end, that I finally learned to swim. Turns out I have Genius Level IQ. So as someone who has suffered from the Bigotry of Low expectations, I want to throttle anyone who is pushing this nonsense on kids. They can succeed, the trick is to stop telling them they are weak, and to show them thru adversity that they are strong.
To have low expectations of aspergers is ... just plain stupid. It has it's challenges, especially in a class setting with lots of people, but I (aspie myself) did not want my son put in a special class. He's not slow, kindergarten was just too damn loud and noisy for him so he shut down. My mother tells me that my kindergarten teacher was not sure about me going to school either, all those years ago. But I was a bright student once in school. Just a bit lonely.
I’ve observed similar successes from teaching children in public schools math. Grade school and middle school kids, the frustration was always plain on their faces whenever they struggled to solve a problem. Patronizing acts of encouragement didn’t really work on them, but slowly building up their confidence from successfully solving increasingly difficult problems made our sessions a lot livelier. There were a few who weren’t really interested in learning, and some who made progress and quickly forgot it all by the time we next met, but I always felt hopeful for those who kept trying. A teacher for young and impressionable children should always strive to impress upon them that they have expectations for them. Not every child can appreciate this, but those who can properly respond to that intent should be rewarded with more of the same expectations. Let the children nurture their pride in themselves.
As a retired teacher, my answer is no. But that is what's happening in Chicago Public Schools and the rest of the country. This fall the teachers are being asked to read a book titled " Grading for Equity" by Joe Feldman. According to him, the base F should be a 50%. That means in a grading scale where 60% is passing, you pass by 10%. I was subjected to using this grading scale. What happened was that my "A" students stopped working so hard. You can imagine what the rest did. I was told this was only temporary because of compassion due to Covid. Lies, tell me sweet little lies. The reality is that what the Elites of this world want is a dumb down population that they can control like sheep. Easy to manipulate people who can not think for themselves. There is a reason why we call these people sheeple. By the way, I am a 36-year veteran mathematics teacher out of the CPS, USA.
Yep. It's all about making people to dumb to be able to look after themselves so they have to rely on the Government, so the Government can do whatever they want because everyone relies on them.
Recently it's been hitting me hard. So much of what's happening around us from your story to covid lockdowns killing small businesses while enriching Amazon is all about a class war. The way the working class is talked about. The way the poor are actually treated while being propped up as the cause. Black and brown people, trans, gay, and women and all these people they supposedly care about are only cared about if we have the right ideas. The moment we utter something they consider a provincial idea we are thrown into "the basket of deplorables" with the straight white mostly working class men they despise so much. All of this really seems to stem from absolute disdain the elite, highly educated classes have for everyone they consider to be beneath them.
This is very much true in my own personal experiences. Heck, I’d be shocked if there wasn’t anyone whose class didn’t start slacking off when the teacher’s grading standards slacked off as well.
@@Nyonyozimusic I know someone who is a teacher and she echoes the same issues as this for another bigger city, but has not yet understood the damage it does in the long term. What you said about culture is ABSOLUTELY the problem here. If parents don't push their kids to succeed, like Asian parents do, then they become fallow and weak intellectually.
Me too! Eloquent in her speech on such challenging subjects. I suspect she is able to listen to someone as well as she is delivering her thoughts! Hmmm… is that called communication? She is a wonderful example of this concept. I love her!
So did Ella Fitzgerald. She became the band leader after Chick Webb's death back in 1939, unheard of for a black woman. Ella set a sky high standard for what you do when life gets tough.
It's ridiculous how people claim to want to help others and yet they hold kids at such a low standard that is, in fact, the most racist thing I have ever heard of. We must encourage and allow children to flourish, learn, and forge their OWN paths. No more participation trophies. No more telling them that they will never amount to anything.
Absolutely agree. In America, at least, people are trying to attack merit-based academic acceptance into top upper grade schools instead of addressing the failing academics of the lower grade schools. To me it seems like a bandaid, a quick fix that really is no fix at all. It's more difficult to fix the failing schools, but even with that there are alternatives like offering more school choice. Many times when I hear people speak against school choice they talk about it as if it's going to hurt the poor or working class. That's not true at all. It will help them. The rich and the upper middle class already have school choice. People want to find ways to extend it to those who don't have it.
Michigan has School of choice. My son went to school with students who's parents drove them 40 mins from Detroit to the suburbs. I do not understand anyone who would be against providing that opportunity to those who want it. Detroit school system has had decades of issues of corruption. Parents need to be able to choose
The fact that wealthy families have school choice is what makes the public school system broken for poor families. The way schools are funded in the United States is so fundamentally broken that the children of wealthy get all the resources due to a higher tax base, but the school who need extra support are strapped due to a tax base that rents rather than owns. On top of that, schools will be rewarded or denied money based on standardized test scores, and kids in a 30 student classroom with out of date textbooks and a burnt out teacher will not get the scores kids are more elite schools get.
@@em-wm6tp absolutely. I definitely want to reorganize how we fund public schools as well as offer as much school choice as possible. I don't think we could ever force finances away from wealthy children's education. Private schools make sure of that, nor do I think we could ever force wealthy families into the public school system. I don't actually want that. I don't want anyone forced into any school system because I do not want to be forced to send my son to any specific school. Therefore, I think the only option is to try to provide much of the same benefit wealthy children have to those who are worse off.
@@em-wm6tp School of Choice is allowing people who are not residents of the town/cities to attend that school. It has ZERO to do with being wealthy. When you purchase a house and pay taxes on that house to the city you reside in you take into account the school system if you are going to have children. It is a CHOICE. Where I live you can get extremely cheap houses with very low taxes in areas with low performing and dangerous schools run by corrupt people. Decades of corruption in Detroit is available in a Google search. Your solution of reappropriating city taxes would result in more funds getting wasted by bad people period. Detroit has some great charter schools now. That has proven to be an actual solution to the problem.
@@jenzadork4u That why Canada doesn't have city based taxes for schools. It's done on a provincial basis. Everyone pays school taxes on their property and the education portion is allocated on a provincial (state) level to the various school boards on per capita basis. Schools with more need are also provided with additional funding knowing that hey need more support. I worked in inner city schools that had very low teacher pupil ratios to ensure that the children would get the attention they needed.That's why we do much better on international testing than the US . Very few people send their children to private schools as they know the education is not any better. It's mostly foreign students who go to any private schools as a way around immigration.
As Gen X we were raised in a time of EQUALITY being the goal. The words of MLK shaped our world. Hippies were still around in California and trust that the chill and acceptance was a resonating vibe we all dug as children. Being told by Gen Z that I must see the color of skin instead of the content of character is shocking in it's absolute opposition to my lifetime belief system. I will never value Equity over Equality. All of my brothers and sisters on earth are capable, intelligent and gifted. Skin color has zero to do with who you ARE. Thank you for your voice! Keep sharing and speaking out. God bless your path.
I am Gen X and I too remember that EQUALITY was goal when I was growing up. The words of MLK were taught through out my years of schooling. Now I have to go through DEI training and be told that I have to assume that just because you're a certain skin color that you all share the same life experiences. This is absurd. Everyone is an individual with different life experiences and everyone should be looked at as person.
The result of lowering standards for Black youth is so evident in the STEM fields. In university, I was the ONLY Black person in my biotechnology class. and often one of at most 3 Blacks in my other courses.
STEM fields lead to valuable degrees, high salaries and upward financial mobility....not exactly what the Left wants for Black America. For their own political purposes they want a permanent underclass that resents America and resents free markets and wants to dismantle both - that isn't good for Black people nor is it good for America, but hey if it advance's the Left's goals, that's all they care about.
Growing up, my best friend was black and he was very smart. Other black people said he "Acted white." Because he cared about education. He went on to become a high school teacher.
As a fellow “Oreo” in the “Oreo” community. I can expect being called a “white person” just because of my voice, my interests, and that I hang around multiple other ethnicities
I am 67 years old. I am absolutely surprised that the education system today. I went to a black school until the integrated. They were very hard on us and held us to very high standards. Not only will we talk to speak properly but we had to write properly. My teachers would probably be appalled at seeing my post right now. The punctuations are not correct and I know it would not be up to their standards. Anyway one teacher had a saying it goes like this "Good, better, best; never let it rest. Until you're good is better and your better is best."
Normalise low standards and call it equity? Who got us talked into this? After all, who doesn't want to sleep till midday? Lazy is an easy way ("i e. I'm likely to fail, so I won't even try! Instead I'll work on my excuses!! Come on! We've all been there 😂 Success is striving for the dream ... so I say ... be great! In my belief, with God's help and. not giving up before the first hurdle, strive and dare to dream dreams ..
I heard someone say that equality = equal opportunities Equity = equal misery. Basically we need to work to fix these issues and not politicalize race.
@rose petals as a black woman teen, I can say you are totally wrong. The black community DOESN’t need lower standards. It certainly needs higher ones!!!
When I was a kid, many black athletes were heroes of mine, people who demonstrated what was possible if you worked hard and sought the highest standards. They broke records, showed me what skill and teamwork in the face of difficulty. I feel all life follows this need, to excel, and must be challenged to excel.
@rose petals Interestingly enough, two of the individuals I was thinking of, Michael Jordan and Emmitt Smith, are both well educated and successful businessmen. I will grant that athletes do get leniency in other areas in many cases, but I would also argue that it doesn't change the fact that those same athletes work ridiculously hard to excel in their sports careers. If they didn't hold themselves to those high standards, they wouldn't get onto teams, and we would likely never hear about them.
Thank you! As a former teacher, the idea that standards should be lowered for our students is heartbreaking. The lowering of standards is the poison of racism (and classism) that we actually must fight. The claim that lowering is the antidote to racism is an argument born of evil.
I do NOT! I believe that people have the capacity to rise to higher goals. The first time I heard a colleague say "those poor (minority) kids. They can't....", I about dropped my teeth.
It drives me nuts when people think kids going through hard situations can't learn as well. My mom died just before I entered first grade. The best thing my dad ever did was move us to a new place so people who had kniwn my mom wouldn't pity us. Pity is the death of dreams. As a child, no one told me that losing a parent should affect my abilities in school, so it didn't occur to me to do anything but succeed - because that'swhat my dad and teachers expected of me. If I had been fed the idea that I shouldn't be capable given my circumstances, I wouldn't have pushed myself in school and gone on to college.
This is not new. I dealt with this as a high school science teacher starting in the mid 80’s. It made me physically ill at what was being done my students by lowering expectations to get them scholarships into colleges and then brag at hs graduation how many ‘minority’ students were accepted into colleges…..they never talked about the fact that only a very small percentage actually graduated from those colleges, how a great number of my former students came back to me; half way through their freshman year in tears because they were totally lost. This disservice to our students has been going on for decades. Reading, writing, math and science scores in the sewer but they will know all about social injustice and victim hood……..please, parents, take back control of your child’s education. School choice NOW.
I'm citing your video ("When you have someone who doesn't have the adequate tools and knowledge... they're unable and they're a little setback to operate within our physical reality") in my English paper because my teacher believes in CRT and basically wants us to argue that we should stop teaching standard English in college. She made us read an article from a CRT teaching book and we HAVE to cite it in our essays. I refuse to write in such a way. Thank you for this video.
The right to education is afforded through the God given right of freedom. If a person has no freedom, it isn't because God withheld it, it is because the world is going against God's ways of love. It is a spiritual battle first. I would encourage all to choose the side of good. And leave the worldly ways behind.
As a Turkish immigrant who grew up in The Netherlands I always found it extremely condescending when dutch people, even if it was meant well, would suggest that bars should be lowered for people from a non western background. Furthermore I would like to add another angle to this discussion. I am an econometrician, so this point of view is more to do with the usefulness of metrics. What is important to note is that grading standards for example are very useful as a benchmark to gauge whether a certain group is improving or not and hence public policy can easily be based on this universal metric. For example, if the government sees that a large percentage of a disadvantaged group within a population falls behind this universal standard, it can enact some policy(concerning the improvement of schools in impoverished areas for example) it can again measure the percentage of said disadvantaged population and if this percentage shrinks significantly it can further expand on this policy. When you lower the grading standards such that the same percentage of students from a disadvantaged background are passing their grades as priviledged students, it may risk skewing the perception of the government when assessing the population. The government might see that disadvantaged groups are graduating at the same rate as priviledged groups and will thus be less inclined to enact policies to better the education of the disadvantaged. In conclusion lowering the standards for disadvantaged groups might disincentivize authorities to assess the quality of education and will thus be less inclined to improve bad education in bad neighbourhoods. Thanks for this video. Edit: typos
Back when I was a teaching assistant at a community college there was a black kid who came to class in a wheelchair and an attendant because he had trouble sitting straight. He was barely a teenager but I think he went to college because the classes were spread out and he could rest in between. This was over 20 years ago so I treated him like everyone else. I remember him because I noticed he'd smile when he figured something out. The effort was important to him. I only had him for a semester but I learned a lot more from him than he did from me.
No lowering standards for any child. You're absolutely right. Ban education is awful. Everyone has a brain and a will to learn. Figures was eye opening.
Thomas Sowell book "Black rednecks and white liberals" is great background for this video. It tells the story of how blacks in America inherited a harmfull culture, with origins in the Scottish highlands and how liberals has branded this as "black culture". I have the red racist light going off, whenever anyone suggest that someone needs lower standards because of their race. everyone can learn, everyone can be better!
This is where AAVE originally came from. I see black educators doing TED talks about allowing tests standards lowered to accommodate AAVE so students don't have to code switch. That's not going to help students in the real world unless they're self-employed and only interact with other AAVE speakers imo
When I had an apprentice who had a very hard time with any kind of confrontational communication, including simply saying no, I did not let it rest because she was a tiny girl. I made her articulate her thoughts, explain to me why her solution would be different, fed her back her own reasoning in more directed language, then sent her off to go tell them. She became one of the best new professionals in our field. Not because she had no issue to overcome, but because she did not get to leave it at that. Setting a lower standard for anyone is, to me, causing serious harm to those people.
I am with you 100%. It breaks my heart to see Public School Systems lowering the standards, thinking black children cannot achieve. The "math is racist" concept is contemptible.
Much love from North Africa. Education is paramount, what colonisation took away we will fix, grow and improve! The proof we don't need to lower standards is that we have amazing people that overcame racisme over 200 years ago and achieved great things.
Whenever anyone suggests lowering standards for any reason I want to scream at them. The challenge builds character and drives people to greatness. I've seen kids make a breakthrough when they were struggling. It's a physical thing. It's beautiful!
True strength only comes after pushing through adversity. The tunnel is long and dark, but the light at the end is always there. Never give up reaching for it.
My answer: H*** No! Totally agree with you. So appreciate your frank and passionate analysis on this topic, and the many others I've enjoyed seeing/hearing you talk about. Your videos are a big breath of really fresh air. I'm finding a lot more fresh air these days outside mainstream media, which refuses to have a real conversation about CRT and all the rest. I voted for Obama and NOT for Trump but I've had it with the whole Wokeness, CRT, Marxist etc. theme and am looking for a third way. Thank you for these rays of sunshine!
I remember when I was in grade 6 I had a black teacher and he would always pick on me even when I didn’t raise my hand he would still ask me for the answers. So I sat at the back and wouldn’t you know it one day he moved me to the front of the class. I didn’t understand this till I was in my twenties. Where it not for him pushing me because he saw my potential and as one of the first black students in this school made me the success that I am. I finally saw there was nothing I could not accomplish when there was real racism not this fake nonsense of today. As I have taught my children there is nothing they cannot do find what excites you and work towards it with everything you have and if you fail ask what you learned get up and go again
I love your term as internalized racism. There is so much everyone's internal voice tells they are not capable of. Truly a shame and lost opportunity. You're a fresh look at the crazy narrative out there. Thank you.
I just have to add to this conversation a thought that I heard recently about how everyone is quick to wonder how bad things can get, and not conditioned to wonder how good things can get. We all as a country need to start picturing how good things can get and start planning it. Where the mind goes, energy flows. Bless you Kimi!
I am a Hispanic American. Mexican decent. I don't need anyone to lower standards for me. It is easy to be mediocre. I will put in my own work and accomplish my goals through my own merit.
If there was a scale of how bad different types of racism is, ‘low expectations’ should be near (if not at) the top. Convincing yourself that an entire group of people is psychologically inferior and society needs to be bent to accommodate them is dangerous, and the worst part is you don’t even realize you’re racist because you think you’re helping them.
Your video was very good, and I agree with what you said. When I was in middle school the Seattle School District needed to integrate the student bodies in the schools. Lot of changes and busing had to happen. No more community attendance of the schools. This caused lots of worry and hard feelings. Because it was sudden and without warning. In the long run it was a good to do it. It made the schooling more equal for the different races. I was in class with black, white, and yellow people. All getting the same education together. So dumbing down education by race is raciest. And should be called out.
There are those who believe they are helping people by lowering standards but it has the opposite effect. I've seen myself how natural inquisitiveness in young children is squelched and they are taught how to do things in the "prescribed way". Instead of encouraging critical thinking, they squelch it and teach them what they are to think. Another reason to home school.
Love listening to your eloquent sanity Kimi and I agree. Lowering standards leads to a slippery slope of ever-lowering expectations. Not good for anyone!
The bill that passed a couple of months back up there in Oregon comes to mind. Just awful. You basically don't have to be up to par at all to graduate high school.
I agree, lowering expectations does nothing but lower success. Let’s let those who can meet and exceed do so while providing additional help for those who may need it. As for changing culture, the same shift towards needing to respect learning and education needs to happen in poor white communities too, where being good at school or “too interested” in reading and learning is seen as weird or being ashamed of one’s upbringing and family,
Based on what I've seen, most people today would rather find any excuse imaginable for not succeeding or working hard, instead of raising the bar and keeping it raised. This is "participation trophy" territory where excellence and merit and effort are being totally devalued and going unrewarded in favor of those who don't, because those people keep voting for government policies and practices to allow them to maintain low standards. I'm not interested in being a victim of my socio-economic background, I'm interested in trying to better myself as best I can in spite of it.
I always amazes me that people will say yes to this. They are not shy about saying they support lower standards. They justify it by saying it is needed. That the higher standards aren't fair. They simply MUST support lower standards because having two standards is - fair. Yikes!
I worry there will no longer be great men and women produced like him again due to this culture. It's sad and inexcusable with the amount of opportunities we have today compared to our families in the past. Even those who start off today under the poverty line are well off compared to the past. It's like we intentionally stand behind bars but with no walls around us, we need to escape!
Thank God you are a brave woman willing to speak up for truth and rational in these strange times. I have shared your videos with many people to get them to see that I don't say these things just because I'm white and I want to perpetuate systemic racism. What boggles me is that those people won't listen to me because there are racist but don't see it. I appreciate what you do. You are eloquent and give great examples to support your position.
I often thought in high school it was important to experience some form of excellence. So important. Isn't it great that Nigerian students do so well in the US generally.
Thank you for making this video. Schools just need to educate students and parents shouldn't force the schools to pass their kids. We're all in this TOGETHER. Thanks for reading. Have a nice day 😊!
Author and activist Maajid Nawaz has a term for this called "the racism of low expectations." If you're not familiar already, he has some commentary that's worth listening to!
Ive started and deleted many comments on this video. It ultimately saddens me, and should so any human, that the potential of children is limited. This ideology is selling the entire human race short. Im a scifi nerd and GATTACA sits heavily profound in my mind regarding this subject. Cant never did anything!!!
I am praying for you, Kimi. Thank God for you being bold to speak your conscience on the issues of our time. May God give wind and force to your voice to reach the ears, minds and hearts of those in danger of yielding to the deceptive manipulation of these destabilizing ideologies. Thank you, Kimi.
I’m listening to an astrophysics book by Neil Degrass Tyson. It’s mind expanding. No, please don’t take away anything that will create more geniuses/ gifted people/ well rounded people/ happy people.
Standards being different for different groups makes no sense. Wouldn’t that make people in the lower standards group feel inferior? Wouldn’t that make it more likely for employers to higher only those from the higher standards groups? It’s a very dangerous road.
This is what they call the bigotry of low expectations, right? Standards and how high/low they are is hardly the real issue in schools (I'm not in the US, so don't know how the situation is over there). With the amount of information every student has at his/her fingertips these days schools will need to change. Teaching information isn't all that useful anymore, teaching how to handle and query information is a lot more vital. Critical thinking skills and even some rudimentary data analysis skills are important. Our governments collect so much information and a lot of it is publicly available. Learning how to find, use, interpret and criticize each others interpretations should be a skill thought to everyone in school.
I feel what you're saying and I'm sure most people would agree that simply lowering standards for black folk doesn't exactly help their development in the long run, but I don't think that's what most progressive people are encouraging. The fight seems mostly centered around the need for equity because America's "standards" have been (and in a lot of spaces certainly continue to be) discriminatory towards us as a whole, therefore raising the need of drastic measures to level the playing field.
Children respond positively to expectations, whatever they are. Higher expectations = higher level response. And kids have no idea what level of expectations have been set. Dumbing down standards = dumbing down kids. And accepting dumbed down standards for any kids is anti-kid, for Blacks is anti-Black.
How about higher standards for teachers of black kids? My younger sister has two adult offspring, and they both really struggled with math in the early grades, but when they went on to seventh grade they ended up with a really good math teacher, and now they're both really good at math. If lots and lots of black kids are failing math, it ain't the kids!
I agree with your argument. How to succeed within this physical reality is a central question of human life. I find your videos to be enlightening, and I appreciate hearing from someone who came from South Africa.
You have not been taught true Black history in this country and all the amazing people that have come before you. No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. Change your words and thoughts and change your life. All minds are brilliant in all our glorious ways and should be uplifted and supported for all talents. We need all minds and skills to run the world.
Standards were lowered in the 60s. Affirmative Action laws and policies were basically lowering standards. We can all see where all this has brought the country.
I went to a school where anything in the range of 90-95 out of 100 was considered average. I grew up with these kinds of standards from prep to college, but was held back from achieving any special honors because of my terrible skills in my home language (always got C’s). Always felt bad about that while I was studying. So I can understand these people in wanting to lower standards for reasons of self-esteem, but making an exception for a single race and being proud that the standards are lower for your particular ethnicity? And funneling unqualified people into the workplace? All you’re gonna do is ruin the field and create a bias against your people as being less capable when your people are given the same piece of paper that says they qualify for a job when they don’t match the skills of all those who made it into the field after having studied to higher standards to qualify for it.
Love these videos Kimi, I hang on to every word and watch all of your videos to the end, I watch your videos 2,3,4 times just to soak of the abundance of real talk, keep going my love, Lots of love Marc, Sheffield England 🌈🙏🌸
I don't believe in lower standards, but focusing more on practical application for all students, regardless of race. For example, instead of teaching straight theory all year around in economics, spend a semester learning how to practically manage personal finances and then move on to theory. Instead of strictly complicated math formulas, focus more on formulas that students will use in everyday situations like taxes, measuring, etc.
Hi Kimi, You are a breath of fresh air and an articulate voice of reason. So many need to hear and comprehend what you say. Keep up the good work you are doing.
Most poor kids of ALL colors are single parented which = fewer kids with self confidence and self respect = much higher rates of dropping out, drug use, depression, crime.....suicide. The govt has got to stop forcing poor people to choose between desperately needed financial help and having two parents in the home. It's time to use that financial help to incentivize two parent families instead of break them up. Otherwise the cycle of failure and endless generations of single parented poor kids will continue.
I literally feel like this whole movement is getting the black community to fight their way back into servitude. I cannot see any other outcome for the segregation and ending equality laws. It's so frustrating to watch friends, who will not listen to reason, play, carefree, in this minefield.
The idea they would tell black children they to have lower standards for them to succeed is disgusting and one of the most racist ideas ever.
I can't understand why anyone would advocate that for any child.
Thank you Kimi for talking about this.
I totally agree with you. The standards are the standards. If you don't meet them then you're not good enough. Go get better.
As a Deaf person, I would say ABSOLUTELY NO! The hearing people have lowered the learning standards for the deaf children for many years. They didn't believe they could learn to function in the real world. I have seen so many deaf people ending up collecting SSI/SSDI or underemployed due to their communication and language skills. If we challenge the deaf children to succeed, they will succeed!
My 7th grade English teacher taught us very well. Everyone, even the "stupid" ones, scored college level and about 8 maxed out the test meaning post-graduate(college) level. That taught me that people can accomplish more than they believe they can.
As a white parent with a black daughter, I would be furious if anyone ever tells her that she can't do as much as her brothers because of her skin. Thank you for speaking out against this nonsense.
@rose petals Hear alot of people yelling systemic this and systemic that. No examples are given except for laws that were changed or abolished over 50 years ago and no mention of affirmative action which was truly systemic racism...
I don’t support lowering standards for anyone. Raise expectations and the student will rise to those expectations.
No they won't. The culture of these people guarantees they will continue to fail and will always be behind because their culture assumes all failures are the result of externalities- not personal choices. You can see this in every one of these people.
Got a bad grade? Teacher is racist. Got fired? Work was racist. Did not get a promotion? Boss is racist. Come to work late? Being on time us racist.
There are no standards. There are no expectations. There is only the constant drumbeat of "you rayciss"
@@rickyrayrosenberg420 I will agree and say that I have always said that it’s “Culture” and NOT “Race”.
I would say it’s about raising both expectations and support - even if its just moral support.
@@rickyrayrosenberg420 No you are incorrect. Some people attribute to external factors but others don't but it is not exclusive to any one group. You hear same blaming of others in all racial groups in those at the bottom of the social scale. So your accusing all members of a group is racist as you are over generalizing to one group only.
@@ELee-zv5ud calling other people "racist" because they are pointing out the strategy being actively employed by a group you have decided are your pets does not negate my point. It reinforces it.
Are you really so blind that you leap to support your group culture - even while they are victims of this culture that was largely the result of the work of a 19th century German upper class lazy person and the industrialist off which he mooched? Marx had no respect for your pet group - but the 'oppressor vs oppressed" narrative they parrot is largely a result of his ideology. It not for their benefit though. Communists think the masses need to be manipulated and managed - this ideology keeps them trapped. It keeps them tribal, dependent, and stops them from accepting their own agency.
And sure - lots of groups fell for this. The Chinese under Mao, the Cambodians under Pol Pot, the Russians under Lenin - they all fell for the same game. In their case class division substituted for "racism" - but the game is still the same.
In the early years of my education I was diagnosed with Asperger's, and was placed into remedial classes. I struggled to learn to read (and still have spelling and grammar problems). I thought I was incapable of learning to read, hell I thought I was incapable of a lot things. It was not until I was taken out of Special Education that I learned to read and both reading and writing are now some of my favorite pass times. I kept telling myself I could not succeed, I could not learn to read, I could not learn this or that, or make friends. It was only when people started to tell me, "YES YOU CAN!" To drill it into me that I could succeed ,and tossed me in to the deep end, that I finally learned to swim.
Turns out I have Genius Level IQ.
So as someone who has suffered from the Bigotry of Low expectations, I want to throttle anyone who is pushing this nonsense on kids. They can succeed, the trick is to stop telling them they are weak, and to show them thru adversity that they are strong.
Wow, thank you for sharing! Everyone can overcome.
To have low expectations of aspergers is ... just plain stupid.
It has it's challenges, especially in a class setting with lots of people, but I (aspie myself) did not want my son put in a special class. He's not slow, kindergarten was just too damn loud and noisy for him so he shut down.
My mother tells me that my kindergarten teacher was not sure about me going to school either, all those years ago. But I was a bright student once in school. Just a bit lonely.
I’ve observed similar successes from teaching children in public schools math. Grade school and middle school kids, the frustration was always plain on their faces whenever they struggled to solve a problem. Patronizing acts of encouragement didn’t really work on them, but slowly building up their confidence from successfully solving increasingly difficult problems made our sessions a lot livelier.
There were a few who weren’t really interested in learning, and some who made progress and quickly forgot it all by the time we next met, but I always felt hopeful for those who kept trying. A teacher for young and impressionable children should always strive to impress upon them that they have expectations for them. Not every child can appreciate this, but those who can properly respond to that intent should be rewarded with more of the same expectations. Let the children nurture their pride in themselves.
As a retired teacher, my answer is no. But that is what's happening in Chicago Public Schools and the rest of the country. This fall the teachers are being asked to read a book titled " Grading for Equity" by Joe Feldman. According to him, the base F should be a 50%. That means in a grading scale where 60% is passing, you pass by 10%. I was subjected to using this grading scale. What happened was that my "A" students stopped working so hard. You can imagine what the rest did. I was told this was only temporary because of compassion due to Covid. Lies, tell me sweet little lies. The reality is that what the Elites of this world want is a dumb down population that they can control like sheep. Easy to manipulate people who can not think for themselves. There is a reason why we call these people sheeple. By the way, I am a 36-year veteran mathematics teacher out of the CPS, USA.
Yep. It's all about making people to dumb to be able to look after themselves so they have to rely on the Government, so the Government can do whatever they want because everyone relies on them.
Wow, thanks for sharing
Recently it's been hitting me hard. So much of what's happening around us from your story to covid lockdowns killing small businesses while enriching Amazon is all about a class war. The way the working class is talked about. The way the poor are actually treated while being propped up as the cause. Black and brown people, trans, gay, and women and all these people they supposedly care about are only cared about if we have the right ideas. The moment we utter something they consider a provincial idea we are thrown into "the basket of deplorables" with the straight white mostly working class men they despise so much. All of this really seems to stem from absolute disdain the elite, highly educated classes have for everyone they consider to be beneath them.
This is very much true in my own personal experiences. Heck, I’d be shocked if there wasn’t anyone whose class didn’t start slacking off when the teacher’s grading standards slacked off as well.
@@Nyonyozimusic I know someone who is a teacher and she echoes the same issues as this for another bigger city, but has not yet understood the damage it does in the long term. What you said about culture is ABSOLUTELY the problem here. If parents don't push their kids to succeed, like Asian parents do, then they become fallow and weak intellectually.
I am falling in love with this young woman's mind.
Ikr? For sure. She is beautiful in every way.
Yeah same
Aw
Ha, I'm not the only one then!
Me too! Eloquent in her speech on such challenging subjects. I suspect she is able to listen to someone as well as she is delivering her thoughts! Hmmm… is that called communication? She is a wonderful example of this concept. I love her!
Thomas Sowell, Glen Loury, Larry Elder, the late Walter Williams and many others have set a pretty high standard.
Imagine a room with those 4 discussing politics. Man I'll watch
So did Ella Fitzgerald. She became the band leader after Chick Webb's death back in 1939, unheard of for a black woman. Ella set a sky high standard for what you do when life gets tough.
Just Americans talking America stuff! I grew up surrounded by wise men like that
Thomas Sowell is a goat! Much needed in our society. So glad to see more people on this wave! We will triumph!
“the soft bigotry of low expectations” glenn loury
It's ridiculous how people claim to want to help others and yet they hold kids at such a low standard that is, in fact, the most racist thing I have ever heard of. We must encourage and allow children to flourish, learn, and forge their OWN paths.
No more participation trophies. No more telling them that they will never amount to anything.
YUP!
Absolutely agree. In America, at least, people are trying to attack merit-based academic acceptance into top upper grade schools instead of addressing the failing academics of the lower grade schools. To me it seems like a bandaid, a quick fix that really is no fix at all. It's more difficult to fix the failing schools, but even with that there are alternatives like offering more school choice. Many times when I hear people speak against school choice they talk about it as if it's going to hurt the poor or working class. That's not true at all. It will help them. The rich and the upper middle class already have school choice. People want to find ways to extend it to those who don't have it.
Michigan has School of choice. My son went to school with students who's parents drove them 40 mins from Detroit to the suburbs. I do not understand anyone who would be against providing that opportunity to those who want it. Detroit school system has had decades of issues of corruption. Parents need to be able to choose
The fact that wealthy families have school choice is what makes the public school system broken for poor families. The way schools are funded in the United States is so fundamentally broken that the children of wealthy get all the resources due to a higher tax base, but the school who need extra support are strapped due to a tax base that rents rather than owns. On top of that, schools will be rewarded or denied money based on standardized test scores, and kids in a 30 student classroom with out of date textbooks and a burnt out teacher will not get the scores kids are more elite schools get.
@@em-wm6tp absolutely. I definitely want to reorganize how we fund public schools as well as offer as much school choice as possible. I don't think we could ever force finances away from wealthy children's education. Private schools make sure of that, nor do I think we could ever force wealthy families into the public school system. I don't actually want that. I don't want anyone forced into any school system because I do not want to be forced to send my son to any specific school. Therefore, I think the only option is to try to provide much of the same benefit wealthy children have to those who are worse off.
@@em-wm6tp School of Choice is allowing people who are not residents of the town/cities to attend that school. It has ZERO to do with being wealthy. When you purchase a house and pay taxes on that house to the city you reside in you take into account the school system if you are going to have children. It is a CHOICE. Where I live you can get extremely cheap houses with very low taxes in areas with low performing and dangerous schools run by corrupt people. Decades of corruption in Detroit is available in a Google search. Your solution of reappropriating city taxes would result in more funds getting wasted by bad people period. Detroit has some great charter schools now. That has proven to be an actual solution to the problem.
@@jenzadork4u That why Canada doesn't have city based taxes for schools. It's done on a provincial basis. Everyone pays school taxes on their property and the education portion is allocated on a provincial (state) level to the various school boards on per capita basis. Schools with more need are also provided with additional funding knowing that hey need more support. I worked in inner city schools that had very low teacher pupil ratios to ensure that the children would get the attention they needed.That's why we do much better on international testing than the US . Very few people send their children to private schools as they know the education is not any better. It's mostly foreign students who go to any private schools as a way around immigration.
As Gen X we were raised in a time of EQUALITY being the goal. The words of MLK shaped our world. Hippies were still around in California and trust that the chill and acceptance was a resonating vibe we all dug as children. Being told by Gen Z that I must see the color of skin instead of the content of character is shocking in it's absolute opposition to my lifetime belief system. I will never value Equity over Equality. All of my brothers and sisters on earth are capable, intelligent and gifted. Skin color has zero to do with who you ARE. Thank you for your voice! Keep sharing and speaking out. God bless your path.
I am Gen X and I too remember that EQUALITY was goal when I was growing up. The words of MLK were taught through out my years of schooling. Now I have to go through DEI training and be told that I have to assume that just because you're a certain skin color that you all share the same life experiences. This is absurd. Everyone is an individual with different life experiences and everyone should be looked at as person.
Do not support lowering standards for children.
The result of lowering standards for Black youth is so evident in the STEM fields. In university, I was the ONLY Black person in my biotechnology class. and often one of at most 3 Blacks in my other courses.
STEM fields lead to valuable degrees, high salaries and upward financial mobility....not exactly what the Left wants for Black America. For their own political purposes they want a permanent underclass that resents America and resents free markets and wants to dismantle both - that isn't good for Black people nor is it good for America, but hey if it advance's the Left's goals, that's all they care about.
Growing up, my best friend was black and he was very smart. Other black people said he "Acted white." Because he cared about education.
He went on to become a high school teacher.
May your friend teach many and teach them well.
Not only the children need it. We all do.
As a fellow “Oreo” in the “Oreo” community. I can expect being called a “white person” just because of my voice, my interests, and that I hang around multiple other ethnicities
I am 67 years old. I am absolutely surprised that the education system today. I went to a black school until the integrated. They were very hard on us and held us to very high standards. Not only will we talk to speak properly but we had to write properly. My teachers would probably be appalled at seeing my post right now.
The punctuations are not correct and I know it would not be up to their standards.
Anyway one teacher had a saying it goes like this
"Good, better, best; never let it rest. Until you're good is better and your better is best."
They're trying to normalise lower standards of thought and lower standards of behaviour across the board. It makes people a lot easier to manipulate.
Normalise low standards and call it equity? Who got us talked into this?
After all, who doesn't want to sleep till midday? Lazy is an easy way ("i e. I'm likely to fail, so I won't even try! Instead I'll work on my excuses!!
Come on! We've all been there 😂
Success is striving for the dream ... so I say ... be great! In my belief, with God's help and. not giving up before the first hurdle, strive and dare to dream dreams ..
I heard someone say that equality = equal opportunities
Equity = equal misery.
Basically we need to work to fix these issues and not politicalize race.
@rose petals as a black woman teen, I can say you are totally wrong. The black community DOESN’t need lower standards. It certainly needs higher ones!!!
When I was a kid, many black athletes were heroes of mine, people who demonstrated what was possible if you worked hard and sought the highest standards. They broke records, showed me what skill and teamwork in the face of difficulty. I feel all life follows this need, to excel, and must be challenged to excel.
@rose petals Interestingly enough, two of the individuals I was thinking of, Michael Jordan and Emmitt Smith, are both well educated and successful businessmen.
I will grant that athletes do get leniency in other areas in many cases, but I would also argue that it doesn't change the fact that those same athletes work ridiculously hard to excel in their sports careers. If they didn't hold themselves to those high standards, they wouldn't get onto teams, and we would likely never hear about them.
My parents didn't set low standards for me. So, I will not be setting lower standards for my children either.
I really appreciate your work!
Thank you! As a former teacher, the idea that standards should be lowered for our students is heartbreaking. The lowering of standards is the poison of racism (and classism) that we actually must fight. The claim that lowering is the antidote to racism is an argument born of evil.
I do NOT! I believe that people have the capacity to rise to higher goals. The first time I heard a colleague say "those poor (minority) kids. They can't....", I about dropped my teeth.
In the UK most black & immigrants kids do better then poor while kids at school
It drives me nuts when people think kids going through hard situations can't learn as well. My mom died just before I entered first grade. The best thing my dad ever did was move us to a new place so people who had kniwn my mom wouldn't pity us. Pity is the death of dreams. As a child, no one told me that losing a parent should affect my abilities in school, so it didn't occur to me to do anything but succeed - because that'swhat my dad and teachers expected of me. If I had been fed the idea that I shouldn't be capable given my circumstances, I wouldn't have pushed myself in school and gone on to college.
Look at Baltimore Public Schools. Absolute disaster even with all the money that is being spent on education there.
That Frederick Douglass line is what sums it up for me. I couldn't have said it better myself. Keep up the good work.
She's awesome
All racists begin their journey as Narcissists, and lowered expectations for other groups is part of that narcissism
Good point.
This is not new. I dealt with this as a high school science teacher starting in the mid 80’s. It made me physically ill at what was being done my students by lowering expectations to get them scholarships into colleges and then brag at hs graduation how many ‘minority’ students were accepted into colleges…..they never talked about the fact that only a very small percentage actually graduated from those colleges, how a great number of my former students came back to me; half way through their freshman year in tears because they were totally lost. This disservice to our students has been going on for decades. Reading, writing, math and science scores in the sewer but they will know all about social injustice and victim hood……..please, parents, take back control of your child’s education. School choice NOW.
I support higher standards and making more help available to those that need it!
I'm citing your video ("When you have someone who doesn't have the adequate tools and knowledge... they're unable and they're a little setback to operate within our physical reality") in my English paper because my teacher believes in CRT and basically wants us to argue that we should stop teaching standard English in college. She made us read an article from a CRT teaching book and we HAVE to cite it in our essays. I refuse to write in such a way. Thank you for this video.
I don't subscribe to the notion of positive rights (the right to education), but people have the right not to be defrauded or lied to.
The right to education is afforded through the God given right of freedom. If a person has no freedom, it isn't because God withheld it, it is because the world is going against God's ways of love. It is a spiritual battle first. I would encourage all to choose the side of good. And leave the worldly ways behind.
didnt know u were a vocal artist gonna check more of your work also keep speaking truth, Peole have turn there back on GOD & now worship whats popular
As a Turkish immigrant who grew up in The Netherlands I always found it extremely condescending when dutch people, even if it was meant well, would suggest that bars should be lowered for people from a non western background. Furthermore I would like to add another angle to this discussion. I am an econometrician, so this point of view is more to do with the usefulness of metrics. What is important to note is that grading standards for example are very useful as a benchmark to gauge whether a certain group is improving or not and hence public policy can easily be based on this universal metric. For example, if the government sees that a large percentage of a disadvantaged group within a population falls behind this universal standard, it can enact some policy(concerning the improvement of schools in impoverished areas for example) it can again measure the percentage of said disadvantaged population and if this percentage shrinks significantly it can further expand on this policy. When you lower the grading standards such that the same percentage of students from a disadvantaged background are passing their grades as priviledged students, it may risk skewing the perception of the government when assessing the population. The government might see that disadvantaged groups are graduating at the same rate as priviledged groups and will thus be less inclined to enact policies to better the education of the disadvantaged. In conclusion lowering the standards for disadvantaged groups might disincentivize authorities to assess the quality of education and will thus be less inclined to improve bad education in bad neighbourhoods. Thanks for this video.
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Beautiful messages Kimi. Inspiring.
Back when I was a teaching assistant at a community college there was a black kid who came to class in a wheelchair and an attendant because he had trouble sitting straight. He was barely a teenager but I think he went to college because the classes were spread out and he could rest in between. This was over 20 years ago so I treated him like everyone else.
I remember him because I noticed he'd smile when he figured something out. The effort was important to him. I only had him for a semester but I learned a lot more from him than he did from me.
No lowering standards for any child. You're absolutely right. Ban education is awful. Everyone has a brain and a will to learn. Figures was eye opening.
Thomas Sowell book "Black rednecks and white liberals" is great background for this video.
It tells the story of how blacks in America inherited a harmfull culture, with origins in the Scottish highlands and how liberals has branded this as "black culture".
I have the red racist light going off, whenever anyone suggest that someone needs lower standards because of their race.
everyone can learn, everyone can be better!
This is where AAVE originally came from. I see black educators doing TED talks about allowing tests standards lowered to accommodate AAVE so students don't have to code switch. That's not going to help students in the real world unless they're self-employed and only interact with other AAVE speakers imo
When I had an apprentice who had a very hard time with any kind of confrontational communication, including simply saying no, I did not let it rest because she was a tiny girl.
I made her articulate her thoughts, explain to me why her solution would be different, fed her back her own reasoning in more directed language, then sent her off to go tell them.
She became one of the best new professionals in our field.
Not because she had no issue to overcome, but because she did not get to leave it at that.
Setting a lower standard for anyone is, to me, causing serious harm to those people.
I am with you 100%. It breaks my heart to see Public School Systems lowering the standards, thinking black children cannot achieve. The "math is racist" concept is contemptible.
Kimi you are a perfect example of why standards should not be lowered. You are truly brilliant!!!!
Paused my Netflix when I got this notification.
Much love from North Africa. Education is paramount, what colonisation took away we will fix, grow and improve! The proof we don't need to lower standards is that we have amazing people that overcame racisme over 200 years ago and achieved great things.
I agree with you. And any child that doesn't know the grade level needs to before advancing. All children desire an education.
Whenever anyone suggests lowering standards for any reason I want to scream at them. The challenge builds character and drives people to greatness. I've seen kids make a breakthrough when they were struggling. It's a physical thing. It's beautiful!
True strength only comes after pushing through adversity. The tunnel is long and dark, but the light at the end is always there. Never give up reaching for it.
My answer: H*** No! Totally agree with you. So appreciate your frank and passionate analysis on this topic, and the many others I've enjoyed seeing/hearing you talk about. Your videos are a big breath of really fresh air. I'm finding a lot more fresh air these days outside mainstream media, which refuses to have a real conversation about CRT and all the rest. I voted for Obama and NOT for Trump but I've had it with the whole Wokeness, CRT, Marxist etc. theme and am looking for a third way. Thank you for these rays of sunshine!
Kimi, your message should be heard by every child in school, and they should be reminded at least weekly! Thank you.
Nope, it won't be respected if it's made easier. Im black and my educated mean everything to me!
I remember when I was in grade 6 I had a black teacher and he would always pick on me even when I didn’t raise my hand he would still ask me for the answers. So I sat at the back and wouldn’t you know it one day he moved me to the front of the class. I didn’t understand this till I was in my twenties. Where it not for him pushing me because he saw my potential and as one of the first black students in this school made me the success that I am. I finally saw there was nothing I could not accomplish when there was real racism not this fake nonsense of today. As I have taught my children there is nothing they cannot do find what excites you and work towards it with everything you have and if you fail ask what you learned get up and go again
I love your term as internalized racism. There is so much everyone's internal voice tells they are not capable of. Truly a shame and lost opportunity. You're a fresh look at the crazy narrative out there. Thank you.
Lowering the standards of any group of people benefits nobody. That simply lessens the opportunities for those individuals.
I just have to add to this conversation a thought that I heard recently about how everyone is quick to wonder how bad things can get, and not conditioned to wonder how good things can get. We all as a country need to start picturing how good things can get and start planning it. Where the mind goes, energy flows. Bless you Kimi!
I am a Hispanic American. Mexican decent. I don't need anyone to lower standards for me. It is easy to be mediocre. I will put in my own work and accomplish my goals through my own merit.
If there was a scale of how bad different types of racism is, ‘low expectations’ should be near (if not at) the top. Convincing yourself that an entire group of people is psychologically inferior and society needs to be bent to accommodate them is dangerous, and the worst part is you don’t even realize you’re racist because you think you’re helping them.
This is what should be shared with teachers.
Your video was very good, and I agree with what you said. When I was in middle school the Seattle School District needed to integrate the student bodies in the schools. Lot of changes and busing had to happen. No more community attendance of the schools. This caused lots of worry and hard feelings. Because it was sudden and without warning. In the long run it was a good to do it. It made the schooling more equal for the different races. I was in class with black, white, and yellow people. All getting the same education together. So dumbing down education by race is raciest. And should be called out.
Will said kimi ! Spot on !
There are those who believe they are helping people by lowering standards but it has the opposite effect. I've seen myself how natural inquisitiveness in young children is squelched and they are taught how to do things in the "prescribed way". Instead of encouraging critical thinking, they squelch it and teach them what they are to think. Another reason to home school.
Love listening to your eloquent sanity Kimi and I agree. Lowering standards leads to a slippery slope of ever-lowering expectations. Not good for anyone!
You are one of the voices the nation needs to hear right now. This is very insightful, and frankly has tragic implications…
The bill that passed a couple of months back up there in Oregon comes to mind.
Just awful. You basically don't have to be up to par at all to graduate high school.
I never considered that the concept of having contempt for bookishness could be a form of internalized racism. Interesting point.
I agree, lowering expectations does nothing but lower success. Let’s let those who can meet and exceed do so while providing additional help for those who may need it. As for changing culture, the same shift towards needing to respect learning and education needs to happen in poor white communities too, where being good at school or “too interested” in reading and learning is seen as weird or being ashamed of one’s upbringing and family,
I don't support lowering standards. I support equall opportunity..
It blows my mind how casually woke people can just ply racist low standards towards black people. Amazing!!!!!
Geeeeeze, My Friend!! Please, PLEASE, keep THE FACTS coming 🇺🇸❣️🇺🇸 Thank you!!!!
Based on what I've seen, most people today would rather find any excuse imaginable for not succeeding or working hard, instead of raising the bar and keeping it raised. This is "participation trophy" territory where excellence and merit and effort are being totally devalued and going unrewarded in favor of those who don't, because those people keep voting for government policies and practices to allow them to maintain low standards. I'm not interested in being a victim of my socio-economic background, I'm interested in trying to better myself as best I can in spite of it.
100% Agree!!!
I always amazes me that people will say yes to this. They are not shy about saying they support lower standards. They justify it by saying it is needed. That the higher standards aren't fair. They simply MUST support lower standards because having two standards is - fair. Yikes!
As a Latino I agree with you 100%! We Latinos are in the same position.
I worry there will no longer be great men and women produced like him again due to this culture. It's sad and inexcusable with the amount of opportunities we have today compared to our families in the past. Even those who start off today under the poverty line are well off compared to the past. It's like we intentionally stand behind bars but with no walls around us, we need to escape!
Thank God you are a brave woman willing to speak up for truth and rational in these strange times. I have shared your videos with many people to get them to see that I don't say these things just because I'm white and I want to perpetuate systemic racism. What boggles me is that those people won't listen to me because there are racist but don't see it.
I appreciate what you do. You are eloquent and give great examples to support your position.
I often thought in high school it was important to experience some form of excellence. So important. Isn't it great that Nigerian students do so well in the US generally.
Thank you for exposing the lies. Love your use of “educational rigor”.
Thank you for making this video. Schools just need to educate students and parents shouldn't force the schools to pass their kids. We're all in this TOGETHER. Thanks for reading. Have a nice day 😊!
Author and activist Maajid Nawaz has a term for this called "the racism of low expectations." If you're not familiar already, he has some commentary that's worth listening to!
Adsolutely not. Though in America, from my understanding, the issue is deeper.
You are a very wise young lady. I'm glad I stumbled on your channel.
Ive started and deleted many comments on this video. It ultimately saddens me, and should so any human, that the potential of children is limited. This ideology is selling the entire human race short. Im a scifi nerd and GATTACA sits heavily profound in my mind regarding this subject. Cant never did anything!!!
I am praying for you, Kimi. Thank God for you being bold to speak your conscience on the issues of our time. May God give wind and force to your voice to reach the ears, minds and hearts of those in danger of yielding to the deceptive manipulation of these destabilizing ideologies. Thank you, Kimi.
I’m listening to an astrophysics book by Neil Degrass Tyson. It’s mind expanding. No, please don’t take away anything that will create more geniuses/ gifted people/ well rounded people/ happy people.
Standards being different for different groups makes no sense. Wouldn’t that make people in the lower standards group feel inferior? Wouldn’t that make it more likely for employers to higher only those from the higher standards groups? It’s a very dangerous road.
Well said! Hear, hear!
Love how you used exercise as an analogy on why we push people to be great!
Why I avoid those with lowered standards. Raising standards is considered racist, of course.
The Bigotry of Low Expectations is something that needs to be OPPOSED.
This is what they call the bigotry of low expectations, right?
Standards and how high/low they are is hardly the real issue in schools (I'm not in the US, so don't know how the situation is over there). With the amount of information every student has at his/her fingertips these days schools will need to change. Teaching information isn't all that useful anymore, teaching how to handle and query information is a lot more vital. Critical thinking skills and even some rudimentary data analysis skills are important.
Our governments collect so much information and a lot of it is publicly available. Learning how to find, use, interpret and criticize each others interpretations should be a skill thought to everyone in school.
I feel what you're saying and I'm sure most people would agree that simply lowering standards for black folk doesn't exactly help their development in the long run, but I don't think that's what most progressive people are encouraging. The fight seems mostly centered around the need for equity because America's "standards" have been (and in a lot of spaces certainly continue to be) discriminatory towards us as a whole, therefore raising the need of drastic measures to level the playing field.
God Bless you and keep you Kimi.
Children respond positively to expectations, whatever they are. Higher expectations = higher level response. And kids have no idea what level of expectations have been set. Dumbing down standards = dumbing down kids. And accepting dumbed down standards for any kids is anti-kid, for Blacks is anti-Black.
How about higher standards for teachers of black kids? My younger sister has two adult offspring, and they both really struggled with math in the early grades, but when they went on to seventh grade they ended up with a really good math teacher, and now they're both really good at math. If lots and lots of black kids are failing math, it ain't the kids!
Respect to this woman 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I agree with your argument. How to succeed within this physical reality is a central question of human life. I find your videos to be enlightening, and I appreciate hearing from someone who came from South Africa.
You have not been taught true Black history in this country and all the amazing people that have come before you. No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. Change your words and thoughts and change your life. All minds are brilliant in all our glorious ways and should be uplifted and supported for all talents. We need all minds and skills to run the world.
Trophies for all. No competition.
Standards were lowered in the 60s. Affirmative Action laws and policies were basically lowering standards. We can all see where all this has brought the country.
I went to a school where anything in the range of 90-95 out of 100 was considered average. I grew up with these kinds of standards from prep to college, but was held back from achieving any special honors because of my terrible skills in my home language (always got C’s). Always felt bad about that while I was studying.
So I can understand these people in wanting to lower standards for reasons of self-esteem, but making an exception for a single race and being proud that the standards are lower for your particular ethnicity? And funneling unqualified people into the workplace? All you’re gonna do is ruin the field and create a bias against your people as being less capable when your people are given the same piece of paper that says they qualify for a job when they don’t match the skills of all those who made it into the field after having studied to higher standards to qualify for it.
Love these videos Kimi, I hang on to every word and watch all of your videos to the end, I watch your videos 2,3,4 times just to soak of the abundance of real talk, keep going my love,
Lots of love Marc, Sheffield England 🌈🙏🌸
I don't believe in lower standards, but focusing more on practical application for all students, regardless of race. For example, instead of teaching straight theory all year around in economics, spend a semester learning how to practically manage personal finances and then move on to theory. Instead of strictly complicated math formulas, focus more on formulas that students will use in everyday situations like taxes, measuring, etc.
Thank you for your intelligent take on what should be the obvious!! You’re a fabulous human😇
Hi Kimi,
You are a breath of fresh air and an articulate voice of reason. So many need to hear and comprehend what you say. Keep up the good work you are doing.
Most poor kids of ALL colors are single parented which = fewer kids with self confidence and self respect = much higher rates of dropping out, drug use, depression, crime.....suicide. The govt has got to stop forcing poor people to choose between desperately needed financial help and having two parents in the home. It's time to use that financial help to incentivize two parent families instead of break them up. Otherwise the cycle of failure and endless generations of single parented poor kids will continue.
I literally feel like this whole movement is getting the black community to fight their way back into servitude. I cannot see any other outcome for the segregation and ending equality laws. It's so frustrating to watch friends, who will not listen to reason, play, carefree, in this minefield.