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It has everything to do with affirmative action. This was supposedly a good school and this kid clearly didn't belong. I wonder why he was there? Why were parents never involved, why didn't the teachers take notice and spend extra time with the kid?
What exactly is the definition of "affirmative action?" What is the intent of affirmative action?
Frankly, Affirmative Action had the right intent but over time, other demographics have taken advantage of it.
Or, maybe most people have the thought that it is okay for certain demographics to take advantage of it but for others, it should not be used? In essence, a zero sum game whereby as long as a "preferred demographic" is benefiting, then everything is okay.
But, if a "non-preferred demographic" receives a job or admittance into a school, then this means that a "preferred demographic" did not get the job or admittance into the school and that the "non-preferred demographic" is not qualified. Right?
This particular situation is not unique.
Many many students are failing in the public school system.
For many, if not most, of these students, the parent(s) may not value education and/or the economic situation is quite dire and/or there may be violence/crime concerns in the neighborhood that create challenges for the students. In these instances, intercession is needed by concerned visionary individuals to break the cycle to at least provide hope and inspiration where there is none.
Different levels of intercession/intervention is needed to provide a safety net for the child before they delve into easy money on the streets, joining a gang and/or committing crimes and creating collateral damage that impacts families external to the child's family.
Baltimore City mayor just said yesterday that the problem is underfunded schools and he is demanding the governor allocate more money to the city for schools.
Democrats don’t understand that the difference between a good school and a bad school isn’t money. Plenty of rich new taxpayer funded schools provide substandard education and plenty of broke schools provide excellent education.
What parents have the money for those fines? And if you jail them who "takes care" of the remaining children? Maybe forced sterilization of both mothers and fathers of some number of children who are effectively abandoned. I don't know.
It is called personal responsibility!
Either pay the fine or spend a few nights in jail.
Implementing costs at the front end so society do not pay increased costs on the back end!
Forced sterilizations for parents who are not good parents?
What is considered a bad parent?
Is a parent who do not value education equivalent to a parent who is racist and teaches their children to be racist? Which of these parents would be subject to forced sterilization?
Baltimore City mayor just said yesterday that the problem is underfunded schools and he is demanding the governor allocate more money to the city for schools. What an idiot! I mentioned in an earlier post that Baltimore City is the 5th highest in the nation in funding per student. Throwing money at the schools has not done anything for them.
Still, the best solution appears to be a multi-faceted approach that includes;
increase in the construction of dispersed affordable housing to break up the "critical mass" of poverty in the inner cities,
universal pre-K, Head Start for ages 4 to 6
re-introduction of vocational curriculum/training in schools for jobs such as plumbing, carpentry, auto mechanics, etc.
Unfortunately, liberals and democrats have sold the "victim" tale in order to keep their constituents perpetually dependent and thus permanent democrats.
They are unwilling to state the real reasons for inner city educational failures:
1. single parent families
2. parents who do not care about education
3. black culture which celebrates violence, but ignores education
4. drugs
Those school districts are flooded with money. However, no amount of money will ever make the students successful, as there is no culture, parental support, and individual effort which is required for success.
One hundred years from now black America will be in the very same spot they are in currently, as they refuse to correctly identify the problem and set about changing things. As long as they play the role of the victim and blame others for their problems, they are doomed to perpetual failure.
Our cities in the US are slowly progressing to third world nations and prisons without walls.
Not correct - Black culture do not celebrate violence nor does it ignore education!
In fact, it is the exact opposite.
Black culture values education quite highly and has the mantra of "we have to be twice as good to receive half as much!"
Note, there is a narrative that is promoted quite a lot that attributes lack of intelligence and laziness to Black people. No doubt, this intensified during Jim Crow as Blacks were newly freed from slavery.
It is a sub-culture!
A sub-culture that exists among multiple racial demographics.
Many within this Black sub-culture has become de-sensitized and hardened as a result of past discrimination, racism, ongoing continued racism, inter-generational poverty and inter-generational bad parenting!
The reason he went from Algebra I to Algebra II can be summed up in four words, "No Child Left Behind". I taught Algebra I in the Las Vegas area and we were literally not allowed to not let the kid move on to the next math level (in our case Geometry). Sometimes if we had enough teaching hours available we would do a remedial Algebra I but it was mostly used to get Seniors their credits so they could graduate. That meant they would have to go through Geometry and Algebra II before they had a chance to retake Algebra I.
On the other hand, the school I taught at has a minimum F policy (before you yell at me, I thought and still believe that this is the dumbest thing ever created for the classroom) where no matter what they actually scored on a quiz or test, they would get a minimum of 50% on it. We also were told to do a completion grade on all homework assignments, so if they tried and even if they got all the answers wrong, they still got full credit. So if they showed up everyday, turned in all of their homework and took all the quizzes and tests they would be guaranteed to pass with a 67.5% D. And I still had classes with more than 75% of them failing, my last week of each quarter was usually me spending the entire day calling kids up to work on assignments so that they could get a passing grade and I still had multiple kids per class with a final grade of less then 10%. I finally had enough and just quit, the stress was simply killing me (literally, my doctor told me that if I didn't stop teaching I would probably die of a heart attack).
Wow, a 67.5% is a D? That would be a failing grade at our schools.
I missed a lot of school when I was a child because I was sick so much. I still tended to be on the honor roll, except for the one grading period where I was denied the ability to make up the work I missed. My mother didn't fight for me. She could have had she cared enough. I fought it as much as I could. I would have been on the honor roll that grading period too had I been allowed to do the work. I did all of the homework assignments, but the tests for those weeks were most of the grade. The teacher refused to let me make up the tests. I was out for several weeks. I almost died.
Some people don't even try or care about getting an education. This kid and his mother are two such people.
Did you miss the equivalent of an entire year of high school in student absences? That doesn’t seem possible anywhere else that I’ve ever heard of.
There is no way a parent would not be taken to court and fined if their student missed that much school here. And despite complaints about it being unfair to poor people I fully support this policy. They can spread the fine out over time to make it more manageable, but there must be some accountability for parents. Otherwise you end up with students missing school too much to even learn.
If they were truly sickly like you said they would be required to have doctor care and possibly do the online curriculum. That was pre-Covid. I’d assume everyone with chronic illness would have to do virtual learning today now that they’re set up for it.
They’re going to take advantage of that virtual learning a lot now. Before our ice storm a couple of weeks ago it was predicted to be a couple of days (ha!) so they announced that the kids would have asynchronous learning Monday and Tuesday.
We were joking at work that Friday that the kids would never get another bad weather day off because of the virtual learning set up now. Boy were we wrong.
The parent is no bueno
The kid is a lazy dummy going to be a hobo
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