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From: ross@rossolson.org
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022
To: opinion{at}startribune.com
Subject: Achievement Gap
Achievement Gap
The achievement gap in public schools needs to be looked at by backing up a few
steps. The majority of students in Minneapolis Public Schools have no father in
the home. This correlates, in those children, with educational failure, violence,
incarceration, poverty and multigenerational single parenting.
Where does it come from? Young couples, feeling attracted, have sex because it’s
what you do. The girl feels bonded to the father of her baby. Not only emotional,
but neuro-anatomical bonding. The boy, because he is usually sexually
experienced, has often lost the ability to bond and feels no attachment to his
child or the young woman with whom he has been intimate.
The young woman is bonded to her baby and wants to believe that the father will
come back. She is in a high risk situation, whether she does her best or not.
Funding and educational tweaking cannot solve this. We need to undo the
60s. What we are seeing is not just sex before marriage, but sex before even
getting acquainted!
Schools need to look critically at their liability for misguided sex education
programs that endorse “safe sex.” See “Hooked” by Joseph McIlhaney, Jr. MD
and Freda McKissic Bush, MD on the permanent anatomical changes in the brains
of those who follow that misguided philosophy.
Ross S. Olson MD
Richfield MN
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