A lot of school shootings in recent years, are done by males that were neglected by teachers and staff. People are fed up with being disrespected. To many males, and black males, schools are looked at as prisons.
At some HBCUs, just 1 in 3 students is a man [Wash. Post article]
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A lot of school shootings in recent years, are done by males that were neglected by teachers and staff. People are fed up with being disrespected. To many males, and black males, schools are looked at as prisons.
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I think a bigger issue is the black boys that are in the middle are ignored, if you are not elite or a troubled kid you are ignored. The teachers the mentors ignore you.
Culture does play a part, whether it be at home or in the school. At the more successful high schools, a big deal is made not only what college someone would go to but also the kinds of scholarships students got, or a lot of the stuff I mentioned earlier. It was active chatter that would supersede even sports talk.
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No it doesn’t. In fact they push college too much when some kids would benefit from other routes.
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There's a reason why I keep posting this. Consider this is pre-school. Imagine what YEARS of this type of behavior does to a black kid and his view of school or even more, HBCUs.
I went through a lot of shyt from teachers, especially black teachers. Thankfully, God gifted me an ego bigger than the sun so anyone talking down to or insulting me, I immediately saw them as a blithering retard (still do). Not all kids can be as whacked out in the head to pull that off and use that to their advantage.
Exactly, my love for science was def reinforced by moms Duke, but a white teacher really fed into that for me, i had a black teacher in 4th grade, she was hard for no reason, and extra af, i hated her and her class
I know that’s not all but it’s my experience
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Yes, they need to see more brothas in jobs that give them access to different paths, something simple as branch chain operations management instead of business, construction management instead of going into construction, or concrete too
Does this differ from higher education in general? 
My (one of) thoughts about this is that generally there’s more typical male occupations with “good salary” that don’t require a bsc. Such as many physically requiring jobs (by the docks, in the woods, construction, factories etc), law enforcement, trucking and on. Even pilots. Then you have the risk taking nature of men, leading to more male entrepreneurs.
My (one of) thoughts about this is that generally there’s more typical male occupations with “good salary” that don’t require a bsc. Such as many physically requiring jobs (by the docks, in the woods, construction, factories etc), law enforcement, trucking and on. Even pilots. Then you have the risk taking nature of men, leading to more male entrepreneurs.
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Good question and one that no one has really answers yet. The Atlantic had a decent article on this about a year or two ago. Interesting tidbit that applies primarily to black men from that article
Less women are still going to college, it’s just the dramatic decline has been with men. But cost is still the primary barrier to entry
Colleges Have a Guy Problem
A recent viral news story reported that a generation of young men is abandoning college. The pattern has deep roots.www.theatlantic.com
“This male haphazardness might be reproducing itself among younger generations of men who lack stable role models to point the way to college. Single-parent households have grown significantly more common in the past half century, and 80 percent of those are headed by mothers. This is in part because men are more likely to be incarcerated; more than 90 percent of federal inmates, for example, are men. Men are also less likely to be fixtures of boys’ elementary-school experience; about 75 percent of public-school teachers are female. Suggesting that women can’t teach boys would be absurd. But the absence of male teachers might be part of a broader absence of men in low-income areas who can model the path to college for boys who are looking for direction.
This argument might sound pretty touchy-feely. But some empirical research backs it. A 2018 study of social mobility and race led by the Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that income inequality between Black and white Americans was disproportionately driven by bad outcomes for Black boys. The few neighborhoods where Black and white boys grew up to have similar adult outcomes were low-poverty areas that also had high levels of “father presence.” That is, even boys without a father at home saw significantly more upward mobility when their neighborhood had a large number of fathers present. High-poverty areas without fathers present seem to be doubly impoverished, and boys who live in these neighborhoods are less likely to achieve the milestones, such as college attendance, that lead to a middle-class salary or better”
I see a pattern………
And IMO the solution
A person's personality can play a part, as can many other things. However, the overall culture of a household or school can effect one's approach to things.I'm not saying parents don't play a part but culture outside of that is very important too. It's one of the reasons why merely changing one's zip code and thus school district can make a world of difference for a child.