That is pretty sad considering that American schools keep lowering the standards to pass stupid kids.
thats because if you lower the standard for kids to pass, you allow more kids to pass, resulting in better statistics for those schools, which translates into more funding. its a vicious cycle of negligence honestly, and nothing is done about it despite the fact that the people of america (a good portion of the population at least) are becoming noticeably stupid with every passing day.
I know this is a good excuse to blame african americans. Any family that grows up with jobless, drug addicted parents will have fucked up kids irregardless of their race.
that's a pretty negative stereotype; id think its not the parents fault that kids are unwilling to get an education, in many cases the parents do all they can to push their children to receive an education, even in 'the hood.'
Inner city public schools for the win! Time to spend even more money and that will solve the problem for sure. Seriously tho, if parents aren't willing to watch over their kids doing their homework and make sure they know the material, there's not much you can expect from the teacher - who can't work miracles. Furthermore, this new common core way of doing things is only gonna make things worse. Time to burn the dept of ed to the ground and leave all the money and curricula to the localities so that they can better fit the needs of the students. One size fits all has been an abysmal failure.
the teachers are also a huge part of the problem; there was a documentary i watched a while back on the education system in harlem, and the biggest contributors were the teachers themselves who honestly didnt give two shits about the students as they were on tenure.
