I didn't grow up my whole life in the hood but when going to school I say parents play a huge role in preparing for school also. My parents did homework with me and made sure I understood the subject.
I just saw alot of us goofing off and you were considered acting like a cac if you answered a question in class and if you did your homework.
Of course the more money you have the better education you can get but you can't blame the school system entirely the parents aren't making the effort.
my post wasn't meant to blame to whole school system. but it was to point a very real disparity between access to education, which can't be denied
for example numerous colleges have noticed that a lot of the students coming from economically depressed neighborhoods could not complete the basic intro to writing/english classes or the college algebra classes. these are the same kids that graduated with the top 5-15% of their class back home. clearly these kids were working hard to do well in HS but whatever access to education they received was not enough to build off of to have an easier time in the intro classes.
and not everyone's parents are educated enough to sit down and help their kids with homework either. a lot of people are functioning illiterates or some other issues prevent them from helping their kids.
so colleges then had to start adding lower level classes, that usually do not count towards a degree and are an intro class to the class you need to graduate. and its been an ongoing problem all the way from the community colleges, state universities and private schools. there was aNYT or WSJ article about this a few years ago.
we can't argue that people should do well in certain environments when it is clear they don't get the same access to quality education. i live in a very poor school district. these kids are fighting homelessness, poverty, language barriers (some student's have parents that do not speak any english), domestic abuse, parents are constantly incarcerated and so on. add a budget where the academic resources don't meet the needs and you are basically ensuring that these students will have a hard time building off their K-12 education
the school can't legislate what goes on in their homes but they should actively provide the same types of access to education for the students that want it and will use it compared to the other school districts.
