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That's a very sad state of affairs going on. Put yourself inside the head of the average school age kid today and what are they thinking?: "Even if I went to college (IF I could afford it) there aren't any jobs". "I'll just join the armed forces when I graduate, problem solved."
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
The war on drugs has done more to destroy the black community than any other single cause.
Originally posted by smyleegrl
Originally posted by digital01anarchy
reply to post by smyleegrl
crestline california
Is the cost of living high? Perhaps her salary isn't that much when you consider cost of living.
Originally posted by Tlexlapoca
reply to post by rainprincess64
Yes, I fathom what your saying but that fact is the most of problems DO start from home and related events.
we blame the parents because that is where the Majority of students have inherited their problems from. AND of course there are always exceptions like you say "ITS NOT ALWAYS THE PARENTS FAULT" of course or someone has a sickness and is not getting proper help.
But what this is most focused on is 'Whats the major problem here?' and the major problem is kids are not focusing and most are out of control. Why are they out of control?
When you include race, gang, government ect it all falls into 1 category Abuse. which indicates students abusing other students or teachers and teachers abusing students, parents abusing, police ect..
The increasing diversity of American society has led to more complex issues related to school and ethnic proportion. In the 1994 federal court case Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District, parents of Chinese American schoolchildren alleged that racial quotas under a 1983 consent decree constituted racial discrimination in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. The desegregation plan did not allow any school to enroll more than 50 percent of any ethnic group. Originally intended to aid integration of blacks, the ruling had a negative effect on the admissions of Chinese students, who had become the largest ethnic group in the district.
Originally posted by TheRedneck
Which brings up the question: why are the schools with the most money failing?
Might be wrong, but I suspect the issue is that money injected into a poor school doesn't solve the real issue which is generations of poverty and poor living which may not be able to be solved in a single generation. Increasing minimum wage or doing something whacky like spreading students from disadvantaged backgrounds rather than clumping them together might do more. (Probably still upset folks though!)
Originally posted by Tlexlapoca
reply to post by rainprincess64
oh ok i see what your saying like for example lets say there are 3 problems A B C.
A is the biggest or first problem 1
B is the second 2
C is third 3
So we are all going to focus on trying to solve problem A because its the biggest problem. Meanwhile problem B and C will just get worse. When B becomes greater than A then were all gonna focus on trying to solve B and ignore A. a years later since we ignored problem C then it becomes problem #1 and then were gonna ignore problems A & B and focus on A, then go back to A then back to B and C and so on so on, so basically were just gonna keep going in circles, "like a scheme", instead of just focusing on all 3 problems to end the cycle.
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The article has nothing to do with "improving schools", it is about a select few changing schools. Unless you are saying that having white children move to a school improves it... hopefully that's not the case.
No matter how hard a black person works, they will always have to deal with people paying attention to the stereotypes associated with their skin and not their skills.