REMARKABLE PIECE - AT 8:16 P.M. ET:  I've had some comments recently on the tragic state of the black family.  Now the Washington Post has published a remarkable article by a local teacher on the impact that family - or lack of family - has had on the performance of his students.  Please read this.  It is an antidote to the frauds and phonies in the education establishment and the once-respectable civil rights movement, who endlessly tell us that more cash is the answer:

"Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?"

In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."

Another student angrily challenged me: "You ask the class, just ask how many of us have our fathers living with us." When I did, not one hand went up.

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October 18, 2009