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

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

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.

Ok. How do we address it?

Is there some giant black people meeting we attend? A hotline to call in to address black issues? Are we going door to door, and telling people to do better? Where is this getting addressed, and how is the message going to be given to the people who need to hear it?

 

[Cobalt Sire]

We've been solely blaming the students for decades and that hasn't gotten us anywhere. Literally doing the white supremacists work for them. It's just so easy to call the kids stupid instead of looking at systemic issues. They can't all be retarded/slow. Retardation is incredibly rare, unless you're a white supremacist and you believe the average black person is dull. .

 

[Thegospel]

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

Good reply. Watch out for the emotional meltdowns from these dudes though

 

[acri1]

I wonder how much of this is kids with undiagnosed learning disabilities vs. kids who already started high school far behind vs. kids who just skip school most of the time

If they're just skipping school 80% of the time then that's a failure on the parents part. If they're being sent to high school unprepared then that's on the school system (middle schools especially).

 

[LordDeathwatch]

To answer the question tho it’s the parents

We both know that personally. School ain't shyt but a giant daycare, nikkas being absent is expected to the point where teachers are surprised if they have a full class. Parents out here still recovering from their own struggles or trying not to catch a bullet. Kids are considered grown by 8 or 9, they riding public transportation, navigating the City and the streets by then no guidance.

I'll never forget that 2 years Moms took us out to NC, schools said we were below grade level but had us on par inside 6 months with intensive schedules. Went back to B-More and they said we were so far ahead of grade level we had to skip 1.

The playing field is not even, mfs is lying to themselves if they think it is.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

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?

Sometimes it’s not even that parents undervalue education. Some truly don’t wanna help their kids flourish. I’ve seen firsthand parents say I had to struggle to get mine with no help and my child needs to do the same

 

[LordDeathwatch]

Sometimes it’s not even that parents undervalue education. Some truly don’t wanna help their kids flourish. I’ve seen firsthand parents say I had to struggle to get mine with no help and my child needs to do the same

Facts.

Not only is it a poisonous, crabs in a bucket, Bootsrap Boy mentality; it's a false narrative. Look at every successful ethnic group in this country and they all have 2 things in common.

1.) Emphasis on education through the family unit.
2.) They use whatever success they gain to pull up another from within.

Why we alone have to be in an eternal kill or be killed hyper competitive state is beyond me. It goes beyond conditioning because some have shaken it off while others hold onto it like it's apart of the culture now.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Facts.

Not only is it a poisonous, crabs in a bucket, Bootsrap Boy mentality; it's a false narrative. Look at every successful ethnic group in this country and they all have 2 things in common.

1.) Emphasis on education through the family unit.
2.) They use whatever success they gain to pull up another from within.

Why we alone have to be in an eternal kill or be killed hyper competitive state is beyond me. It goes beyond conditioning because some have shaken it off while others hold onto it like it's apart of the culture now.

When I used to work at the trade school I saw kids in their late teens/early 20s trying to get into school and take a program. The problem would come when it was time for financial aid and the parents had to get involved. If a potential student was under 24 they had to get their parents to sign off unless they were married or a veteran. I can’t tell you how many times parents didn’t want anything to do with it. They would always say “he’s 18 he’s a grown man now and needs to be on his own. I’ve done my job why do I need to be involved in this? Nobody helped me?” Dudes would literally be crying becuz they were trying to better themselves and get a career instead of running the streets or working dead end jobs

 

[eXodus]

I wonder how much of this is kids with undiagnosed learning disabilities vs. kids who already started high school far behind vs. kids who just skip school most of the time

If they're just skipping school 80% of the time then that's a failure on the parents part. If they're being sent to high school unprepared then that's on the school system (middle schools especially).

For 2018-2019: 41.8% of students were chronically absent (missing 18 days of school or MORE that school year)

And the 20,000 or so high school students had in total 335,000 collective latenesses.
Those lateness numbers are in large part due to the subpar transit system here that kids have to rely on to get to school. There is no uniform yellow bus service provided to middle and high school students so they have to use MTA to commute to school in a choice district where the school they selected might be on the other side of the city.

 

[Jekyll]

First replies deflect away from white supremacy like clockwork.

Thekooni.com

Because white supremacists are not going to educate your children and we don’t need them to in the 21st century. If kids in places that barely have running water can educate themselves then kids in america can.

It starts in the home.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

For 2018-2019: 41.8% of students were chronically absent (missing 18 days of school or MORE that school year)

And the 20,000 or so high school students had in total 335,000 collective latenesses.
Those lateness numbers are in large part due to the subpar transit system here that kids have to rely on to get to school. There is no uniform yellow bus service provided to middle and high school students so they have to use MTA to commute to school in a choice district where the school they selected might be on the other side of the city.

That’s another issue. Idk how they decided the school zones but they dont make sense sometimes. I’m glad I didn’t have to take the MTA and could walk. I went to Lake and lived right across Belair Road from Clifton Park so it was easy. But if I lived a few blocks up on the other side of Erdman my zone woulda been Northern even tho Lake was still in walking distance

 

[eXodus]

That’s another issue. Idk how they decided the school zones but they dont make sense sometimes. I’m glad I didn’t have to take the MTA and could walk. I went to Lake and lived right across Belair Road from Clifton Park so it was easy. But if I lived a few blocks up on the other side of Erdman my zone woulda been Northern even tho Lake was still in walking distance

Wow that’s crazy!

I think School Choice is the best thing for kids because if the school in your neighborhood is poor performing with a bad culture you can go anywhere you want.

but if a kid from Cherry Hill or Brooklyn, that loves science, wants to be an engineer decides to go to Poly.. that commute gonna take 2 hours a lot of days because how poorly buses connect. Commutes that long are fukkin demoralizing

 

[Vinny Lupton]

That accent rots your brain

 

[LordDeathwatch]

Wow that’s crazy!

I think School Choice is the best thing for kids because if the school in your neighborhood is poor performing with a bad culture you can go anywhere you want.

but if a kid from Cherry Hill or Brooklyn, that loves science, wants to be an engineer decides to go to Poly.. that commute gonna take 2 hours a lot of days because how poorly buses connect. Commutes that long are fukkin demoralizing

Let's keep it a buck, if breh is from Cherry Hill, he's got a LOT more to worry about than a commute.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Wow that’s crazy!

I think School Choice is the best thing for kids because if the school in your neighborhood is poor performing with a bad culture you can go anywhere you want.

but if a kid from Cherry Hill or Brooklyn, that loves science, wants to be an engineer decides to go to Poly.. that commute gonna take 2 hours a lot of days because how poorly buses connect. Commutes that long are fukkin demoralizing

Funny you bring that up. I have a lot of family in Cherry Hill. One of my cousins spent two years at Western but my aunt couldn’t help with transportation so she had to rely on the MTA. She would have to get up at like 5am and would get home till 6pm some days. She had enough and transferred to Southern which was still open at the time. And my aunt had the nerve to be mad about it