Baltimore: 41% of high school students earn below 1.0 GPA

[Big Boss]

 

[Tom Foolery]

@ 4:12

 

[Tom Foolery]

What makes this even more sad is it not just a Baltimore thing.

 

[Rekkapryde]

It starts in the home, these teachers can’t make miracles happen

the end.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I agree there are parents who are in a bad spot and are doing what they gotta do to put food on the table. As a result it limits their amount of time at home. But this has been the case for a long time in the black community. One thing that hasn’t always been the case tho is undervaluing education and that shyt is mad prevalent these days

That is part of a systemic issue that has stayed in the black community. Which is: what's the point of education if you can't even build or build up your own community? Lead your own community? Have ownership in your community? Flourish from/in your community?

 

[seabreeze80]

This is a cultural problem and until we address it things will get worse. You also have to consider that this past year schools were turned upside down due to covid. Kids in my city were only going to school 2 or 3 days out of the week and before that they had class online.

 

[Dr. Acula]

What can you even say about this shyt. This is like end game level degradation. Revolutionary action is needed to reverse something this bad.

Mandatory military school or some shyt where adult involvement is there 247 to steer kids right. Under a free society like the US this obviously unconstitutional and can't be done.

shyt hurts to just see in words. Literally made this face

 

[JayGatsby]

no excuse

kids can teach themselves if they wanted to even try make an effort

access to a phone with internet 24/7

so many kids learning websites ,hell they even have zoom

cant put it on the teachers

 

[BaggerofTea]

It's a wrap.

Need to drill down why these 41 percent are failing

 

[GPBear]

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

That's embarrassing

Yup..


Won't even read through this thread I'm sure there's plenty excuses in here.

The teachers, the schools, the environment.

If you can't make sure your kids get educated don't have them. It's not anybody else responsibility. Not even society.

If you live in the first world being uneducated is a choice in 2021.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It's not the parent's fault. It's the school district(s) fault for not putting in the effort to make a difference in these kids' lives when they enter that school building for the next eight hours.

100% wrong.

The blame game is a distraction, it won't help those kids. Teachers won't get more empathetic. Parents have to know this is a part of their duty. The idea that you've done your part just by sending them to school don't cut it. Waste of time arguing about who is failing kids. It will always land on the parents. Can't say you raised someone and they grew up uneducated in your household. That's a failure on you not a teacher or school.

Reality.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

If the idea of schools as we know em died today there's still people who would continue to learn and there's people that wouldn't. Take away all the excuses and let's see who really values education then you can get your answer on why people are really failing.

The lies have to end. Mufhukaz don't care about or value learning. Teachers are only instructors and facilitators, they need willing recipients.

 

[HoldThisL]

Most people don't care to learn depending on where they grew up at. I was poor and lived in a bad neighborhood and would frequently miss class for days, and then those days turned to months, and then I dropped out all together. Too much violence going to school and in the school, shytty ass textbooks, limited laptops, security treating us like prisoners, etc. I was depressed. I couldnt go to the library and didnt have enough to buy myself a laptop. In order to get my Diploma, I had to enroll at another HS in a different part of the state.

If that happened to me I can only imagine how kids from Baltimore must be feeling. They living among the worst conditions. The city has been on a collapse, and if you go on Youtube right now nothing but negative shyt pops up when you search too. They need help.

 

[Cobalt Sire]

It's not a matter of whether school is hard or not. We know the kids aren't retarded, unless you're a white supremacist in black skin. So they just aren't motivated to do well. A lot of y'all are going to have kids failing just like the last generation of black parents, because you don't understand the parent's role in the child's success.