Reuters: President Trump consoled the 90-year-old mother of New York City police officer who died in the line of duty last year after she was fatally shot by a mentally-deranged individualWhy are America's prisons filled with so many young black men? Are they inherently bad? Too shiftless to succeed? To stupid to learn? A resounding no on all three counts.
A disproportionate number of young black men pursue a life of crime because they were cheated out of an adequate education by the inexcusably sorry urban schools they had no choice but to attend:
● In 2010-2011, public schools in the nation's capital spent $29,345 per pupil—nearly $600,000 per each classroom of 20 students—yet the District's 8th graders finished dead last in a nationwide proficiency test in math and reading.
● According to a 2015 report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 96 percent of 8th graders in Detroit's public schools tested not proficient in math, and 93 percent tested not proficient in reading.
