Why African boys are outperforming Caribbean kids

And if it's broken homes and like no fathers, well, the girls grow up in the same homes as the boys because they're usually brothers and sisters.

So something's missing, right? Because it's the same mom, the same missing dad, the same postcode, same everything.

So it can't be that simple.

And sometimes I think You know, I get into that habit of blaming fatherless homes and that, but that can't just be the sole thing to blame.

So there has to be more to it than that, because there is something going on in Black Britain right now that is affecting Black British born Caribbean kids at a higher rate than everybody else.

and i've really thought about how to really draw this down because we do see a diversion when it comes to black british africans and black british caribbeans and listen i'm caribbean jamaican to be exact so this one isn't nice for me it probably won't be nice for you some of my own people are not going to like me for what i'm about to say especially when i start talking about marriage single moms and who we date but i'd rather we look at it properly than keep pretending we don't know so let's get into it gcse in 2022 and 2023 almost 70 percent of african kids got at least a grade four or above whereas black caribbean kids sat around 50 percent the national average sits at around 65 percent so what that tells us is african kids don't just beat caribbean kids they beat the national average they went past everybody and there's a measure of the progress kids make between primary and gcse the government call it progress eight it's essentially like a measurement of how children progress between primary school and secondary school and to simplify how it's measured basically African kids score at around plus 0.37 gaining ground while Caribbean kids score minus 0.24 so technically Caribbean kids are losing ground as they move through the system and the education policy and institute found African kids actually overtook the white British average somewhere between 2019 and 2023, while Caribbean kids stayed at the bottom and then even fell further behind during COVID.

So the gap, unfortunately, isn't closing.

It's actually getting wider.

And I'll get into the why of the situation as I go through this video.