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

[BobbyWojak]

How Sway

I was an unathletic nerd in high school and I still got a B in gym just from going more often than not

I'm really stubborn (walked the mile, slept) plus all my teachers were white and fukking hated me lmao I did eventually stop going but while I was there I literally refused everything and anything like I was on strike. I'm doing well now but school just isn't for some people I guess, love learning but goddamn those teachers fukking sucked.

 

[Lemons]

The “why can’t they make it work in their own country” argument is ridiculous. Most of those countries have been directly destabilized and ruined by American/European colonialism and imperialism so people who want to advance economically physically can’t—there’s no ladder to climb.

That’s why they come to America and blow everyone out of the water. They collectively want a better life. They collectively want higher education. They collectively want to set their family up with a solid foundation. They come to this country with priorities.

Black Americans have numerous hurdles to overcome and have made significant strides toward racial equality but there are pockets of our communities that simply do not COLLECTIVELY prioritize education and building generational wealth.

But here's the thing...why can't those Nigerians and Asians make it pop in their own country? Why do they have to come here to make it pop if they are so culturally superior? This is why you can't compare us to them because if they faced the same barriers as us, they would just go back home. Your kids will not just be able to get an education and succeed...Black Americans have to raise kids that are READY TO DIE to get what's there. There is no pathway built for us to succeed like Nigerians and Asians have. Don't compare our struggle to the struggle or lack there of, of White Supremacies tokens. That's how you reinforce the model minority myth.

 

[Deuterion]

The “why can’t they make it work in their own country” argument is ridiculous. Most of those countries have been directly destabilized and ruined by American/European colonialism and imperialism so people who want to advance economically physically can’t—there’s no ladder to climb.

That’s why they come to America and blow everyone out of the water. They collectively want a better life. They collectively want higher education. They collectively want to set their family up with a solid foundation. They come to this country with priorities.

Black Americans have numerous hurdles to overcome and have made significant strides toward racial equality but there are pockets of our communities that simply do not COLLECTIVELY prioritize education and building generational wealth.

Black Americans were in the same exact situation where they had no ladder to climb and they fought… that’s why the civil rights act was passed.

That is what opened the door for all these non-white immigrants to even enter the country and have that opportunity.

Why didn’t they fight in their own countries like we did in ours? If they are so gifted why couldn’t they unite to overcome the supremacists holding them down?

Once again, they have a lane set up for them which is why white people are not destabliszing them. That’s why when you say Black Lives Matters white people say All Lives Matter but when you say Stop Asian Hate white people are silent.

The immigrants are the buffer class, they are no smarter, no more determined than Black Americans. If we had the government out our way we’d trample over all of them…we are much more resilient than all of them.

 

[Big Boda]

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.

Where are your grandparents from

 

[Secure Da Bag]

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

Tough love gone wrong

 

[Jekyll]

Where are your grandparents from

Detroit on my mama side, Atlanta/Chicago on my daddy side…

 

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

I did my homework 10% of the time, probably showed up to school 70% of the time & when I did show up I was mostly playing basketball & hanging out in the library browsing Boxden instead of going to class.

I graduated with a 2.4.

To have a 0.13 GPA, you must NEVER show up to class & must be an a$$hole to everyone whenever you pop your head in.

Widespread poverty & disenfranchisement is the macro cause, the micro cause is shytty parenting.

 

[JayGatsby]

u also gotta remember some kids just dont want to learn

and when they are in the class ,it effects the whole mood of teaching because u have a few kids acting up all the time

then u got kids on their phone

the kids who want to learn cant do so at a consistent pace because the teacher has to deal with the ones that don't....

 

[Big Boda]

Detroit on my mama side, Atlanta/Chicago on my daddy side…

Then you should know already that the white supremacists are fully responsible for those underperforming schools. They create the deprivation in those black areas. They create the drug and violence problems in those areas. Any issue that the parents and children suffer from can be traced directly to the conditions created by them.

The problem is that once more of us start identifying the white supremacists as a problem that needs a solution we have negros deflecting for them saying its not racism fault when it is.

 

[Jekyll]

Then you should know already that the white supremacists are fully responsible for those underperforming schools. They create the deprivation in those black areas. They create the drug and violence problems in those areas. Any issue that the parents and children suffer from can be traced directly to the conditions created by them.

The problem is that once more of us start identifying the white supremacists as a problem that needs a solution we have negros deflecting for them saying its not racism fault when it is.

Nah the problem is that people only want to focus on one thing and wonder why shyt doesn’t change. Nobody denies the impact of racism. But its not some eternal barrier unless you chose to let it be.

White people, white supremacist or not are not coming to de-escalate violence or educate your kids. If you’re a parent, especially one that has graduated high school then you are responsible for your child’s struggles thru high school as well. Anything they aren’t getting in class should be corrected in the home but what’s happening is that the parents are regressing below HS education levels and are unable to do alot of the work themselves.

There’s far too many free resources out here to learn. You have to put the video games and social media down and focus or our kids will be in an uneducated underclass.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

A lot of that money doesn’t actually reach the students tho. You got people working for the school board making six figures who don’t actually show up for work. I remember some report came out about people on the payroll who weren’t actually employees or some shyt. Or people were getting more than one paycheck or something. I can’t remember the full details

One of Baltimore City Public School's problem is that their School Board is appointed not elected. That causes a lot of corruption. They gotta get rid of that.

 

[saturn7]