How on earth do you fix this kind of problem? I wanted to type more but I have to logoff now. The article is a good read.
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/projec...s-with-013-gpa
Edit:: Title should say near top 50%, he did not quite make it to the top 50%.
In his four years at Augusta Fells, Franceβs son earned a GPA of 0.13. He only passed three classes, but his transcripts show his class rank is 62 out of 120. This means, nearly half his classmates, 58 of them, have a 0.13 grade point average or lower.
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She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.
βHe's stressed and I am too. I told him I'm probably going to start crying. I don't know what to do for him,β France told Project Baltimore. βWhy would he do three more years in school? He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.β
As we dig deeper into her sonβs records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.
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His transcript is not unusual to me. I've seen many transcripts, many report cards, like this particular student,β said the City Schools administrator..
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03-03-2021, 04:49 PM #2
This is why the govt should hand out free birth control in low income areas like candy. Ded fukin srs
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How do you get children into school?
This obviously wasn't a problem that originated in high school. Do we just start over with the new generations and overhaul kindergarten and up?
Then we have parents complaining that we're leaving their high school students behind. Do we just blame the parent's? But then society has to deal with these failing children turning into adults.Life is easy when you take personal responsibility
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03-03-2021, 05:30 PM #8
Liberal policies have failed urban families, many of which are minorities, thus they have to push this "RACISM!" angle to cover for their failures.
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Got a solution friend?
I do, but it entails public boarding schools...which has a host of its own problems but has to be better than this.
These children live in chaos and lack of structure. Provide their parents with an option to ship the kids off to a safe school at a young age.Life is easy when you take personal responsibility
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03-03-2021, 06:31 PM #10
How young is young?? I saw a good article saying you need to intervene before age 4 or its too late.
Surely you can't be advocating separating children that young from their parents??
And there is nothing the government can do at this point. The government has neither the will or resource to do anything.
They can print money but not teachers that would be wiling to go in and fix those problems.The difference between a winner and a loser is
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So, give the schools that have utterly failed more influence and control. Gotcha.
How about we talk about the problem? When did things start going poorly for these communities? Have you even thought about that? When would you say things started going in the wrong direction, what do you think contributed to this?
I'll answer myself, it correlates perfectly with LBJ's great society and the rise of these entitlement and welfare programs designed to help them out. Instead, they replaced fathers. Black families have greater than 70% of being single-parent. That isn't racism. It's a choice, and bad one, and it's made when families are enticed by Gov't to not stick together.
I do not personally think there are big differences between the races. Take away the enticements to fail and they'll eventually be on the same level as any other group. Put those same enticements in front of any other group and they'd fail too.All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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My entire family is from or still in Baltimore city. I went to school in Baltimore city until my dad got a better job. Since at least the 1950s Baltimore city has been bad from what my parents and grandparents tell me. When I began school in the 1980s it was bad.
In my opinion, Maslows hierarchy of needs is the solution. You need to fix the basics, and safety before you can begin learning.
I'll answer myself, it correlates perfectly with LBJ's great society and the rise of these entitlement and welfare programs designed to help them out. Instead, they replaced fathers. Black families have greater than 70% of being single-parent. That isn't racism. It's a choice, and bad one, and it's made when families are enticed by Gov't to not stick together.
I do not personally think there are big differences between the races. Take away the enticements to fail and they'll eventually be on the same level as any other group. Put those same enticements in front of any other group and they'd fail too.
I mean many of the fathers go to work...just work is drug dealing, drug use or other crime and they end up in jail.
It's just a thread for discussion, so I'm not sure what age. Age 3 or 4 seems about right, or provide indepth daycare for even younger. Then boarding school. The kids need basics and safety to become productive.
Maybe I am advocating for voluntary separation 2 weeks at a time. Again, I'm just throwing ideas out there, I'm not married to any of this. I saw an article that seemed unbelievable and wondered how to fix it.Last edited by metroins; 03-03-2021 at 07:12 PM.
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How much are you (the govt) paying them? How does this fix children in poor areas failing school and becoming failing adults?
That's the thing, why aren't these kids in class? Because they have unstructured home lives. How do you fix it on a macro level?Life is easy when you take personal responsibility
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03-03-2021, 07:22 PM #17
Crab bucket, self perpetuating stuff here. Even if youβre a bright kid, youβll have a lot more trouble succeeding when your parents give you dogchit support, and youβre surrounded by mentally unbalanced fuk up students from broken homes with criminal parents. Kids tend to emulate their peers. This is why parents pay so much more for properties in good school districts.
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Aw man, I didn't know the thread was already created. Here is the original thread:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...93&pagenumber=
I was really having fun with the discussion too.Life is easy when you take personal responsibility
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hmmm yeah I wouldn't want to normalize public boarding schools in any measure. it SOUNDS like it would take care of the issue but we're dealing with a culture that would just blame the boarding schools for all their future problems and they'd probably be right to some degree.
Forcing people out of cities and back into rural areas was about the best thing that could happen but poor urban people didn't leave during covid.
If only there was some way to prevent public boarding schools from spreading outside of urban environments...
But still, these will be desperate kids and I feel they will be susceptible to abuse if placed there out of financial incentive to their families. It can't be done ethically or morally.Boycott foodservice industry crew
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It's pretty evident if you're not a partisan hack. Look at the leadership.
Despite spending the most money on education, our public school systems are failing. Yet, for some reason, people want the government to control even more.
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Baltimore is 62% African American. 75% of African Americans live in a single parent household.
This is what happens when you break up nuclear families. Single mothers are struggling to keep food on the table. Their childrenβs education is not their main focus.
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03-04-2021, 07:46 AM #29
This is correct.
There is a huge difference between black people like in Oklahoma vs. black people in Baltimore. All the ones who come from liberal cities (Chicago, SF, NYC, Baltimore) tend to be pretty scummy people. All the ones who come from Rural South or middle of nowhere (Oklahoma, middle of nowhere Texas, Louisiana) tend to be good people.
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03-04-2021, 07:49 AM #30
While I do agree that there should have been some communication (maybe there was, who knows at this point) about the student failing but still being passed on to further classes, there is no way in my adult life would I ever look at a report card with all F's and ever expect my kid to graduate. I would immediately start asking questions
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