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It has zero to do with teachers and counselors, and everything to do with life at home. Full stop.
Yes. I agree. However, the answer isn't to write off those kids and throw them into the dumpster. There are interventions that have been demonstrated to work.
If kids are being raised by their mother or grandmother and have no structure and don’t care about school they’re not going to learn no matter how much money you dump into education. The per student spending at Harding is 20k!! That’s like some of the highest per student public school spending in the world, the average teacher salary is 70k. We dump insane money into these public schools in impoverished areas. What do we get for it? 10% proficiency in reading, 5% in math. The kids simply don’t give a crap and don’t have a father at home to make them give a crap and that’s the core issue here.
The cost of incarceration is approaching $65K yearly per inmate. I'd much rather pay for more intervention in childhood and less prison in adulthood.
I didn't give a crap either when I was 15. However, I was at Staples in Westport and a lot of adults did. We can't rebuild a family structure, but, we most certainly can do more for at-risk youth in Bridgeport.
You proved my point. 14% graduated and 16% moved on to other universities. That's great. They are all on their way to a productive middle class life in accounting, marketing, tech, etc and someday a nice tidy home off of Main St in Stratford, western Bridgeport, eastern Fairfield, Milford, Shelton, Trumbull, Seymour, West Haven on and on name the place. It's there for the taking, it's practically free. YOU JUST HAVE TO WANT IT! Good for them.
No one NEEDS to live in Compo and Coleytown. Its not a privilege.
This thread has gone off topic. Despite a warning to return to stop the bickering, it appears it hasn’t. Therefore I’m shutting this thread down. Thank you for your posts. JayCT, Moderator
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