Stop Blaming Black Parents

The school experience for any race can be considered challenging. There are many supporting statistics that state it is more challenging for African Americans to succeed in school. There are also opinions stating the reason for the underachieving African American students is their parents. A lot of skeptics tend to blame black parents when their child doesn’t excel in academics as well as the other races. Dr. Andre Perry defends the black parents and gives examples of how they are active and care about their kids’ education. In his article “Stop Blaming Black Parents for Underachieving Kids”, published in the Washington Post, Dr. Andre Perry defends black parents’ participation in their kids’ education by providing facts and anecdotes discussing what the parents do. Perry believes that “everyday actions continuously contradict the idea that low-income black families don’t care about their children’s schooling, with parents battling against limited resources to access better education than their circumstances would otherwise afford their children” (Perry 2). Dr. Perry researched how hard it is for parents to get their kids enrolled in school in the city of New Orleans. Because New Orleans’ school system consist of charter schools, kids may be placed in schools the parents may not be happy with. If the parents …show more content…
One statement that Perry says is that skeptics have low expectations of the students who come from low income neighborhoods and that travels with them into the classrooms. That idea can make the reader think that the kids are really being deprived of a good education based off of where the child lives. Another statement from Perry to grab the readers’ feelings is identifying the use of deficit