Baltimore City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

[Wild self]

Mom asking where the mentors at is her saying she needs help.

We have a societal problem, it includes the system, the parenting and the culture.

1. The System - It failed breh, and it appears nearly all the other kids. If this guy is in the top 50%. That means THERE'S A WHOLE SCHOOL FULL OF DUMMIES!!!

2. Parenting- Failed breh too. Realize you must work, but especially when you have kids, there must be a balance. You know what type environment you live in and can't leave your child to raise himself. Find the father and give him a few months in jail for neglect.

3. Culture/Society - Society feeds off such failures. He's either going to work for us in fast food or in prison. I'd wager that in his community academic failure is the norm. Going past being the norm...it's probably a right of passage. That's culture. Failing academically and becoming a dealer, rapper or bum is these kids expectations. That's culture.

As black people we need to get our culture in order to counter predation and neglect by this system.

Seriously. I mean, I worked 3 jobs before, but I still had time to check on one of my godchildren to do their homework, and how they did in school. And I wasn't legally responsible, but I did so anyway. How your biological offspring flunking school, and NOT ONCE DID YOU NOT SPECULATE ON WHAT THEY LEARNED?

The Federal government gotta step in, hire new teachers that pay well, and straight up denounce anti-intellectualism on a regular basis. Expose these rappers on the fraudulent shyt they do, have successful brehs and Brehettes speak in a special assembly while financially giving back, have job training programs like trade work, IT, government, and so on, and get on these parents that neglect school work.

 

[Xyrax]

Mom is a clown. Had this kid in your home all these years and didn't know he was "failing" that badly?

He missed 272 days in one school year, and she says she was aware he failed 22 classes but thought it was "okay" because he went to Spanish 2 and shyt... What the fukk? She absolutely bears a shytload of responsibility here. Who the fukk doesnt go see the teachers and school themselves once aware their kid failed 22 classes. And where the fukk was your child those 272 fukking days he was absent? GTFOH man.. the school system is dogshyt there but the parents have to fukking try man. And this aint it.

 

[newarkhiphop]

has anyone pointed out the fact that he is in the TOP HALF of his class? which means there are kids down way worse than him somehow.

 

[Software]

Sad as hell

Best bet is to probably get your GED at 18 and keep it pushing. From there you can do the military, college, trade school etc

with a 0.13 GPA?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I see people blaming the kid, the mother, the father, the hood, the teachers, the district, and the politicians...


I'm not sure if I caught it, but did anyone blame themselves for not being part of the solution earlier?


The truth is, we can talk shyt about the father who ain't there but are we doing anything to make sure fathers are staying in theirs kids' lives? We can talk shyt about the mother, but are we doing anything to ensure that mothers have their shyt together? We can talk about the kid not doing his part, but are we mentoring young men to make sure they learn how to do their part? We can talk about the school system failing the kid, but are we doing something to contribute to improvement in failing school systems so they stop failing kids?

Politicians ain't gonna fix this. Teacher unions ain't gonna fix this. People who live in the suburbs ain't gonna fix this. Families that are already falling apart ain't gonna magically get their shyt together and fix this. Either those of us who care about that shyt step in, or we just accept that we're okay with the failure.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Mom asking where the mentors at is her saying she needs help.

We have a societal problem, it includes the system, the parenting and the culture.

1. The System - It failed breh, and it appears nearly all the other kids. If this guy is in the top 50%. That means THERE'S A WHOLE SCHOOL FULL OF DUMMIES!!!

2. Parenting- Failed breh too. Realize you must work, but especially when you have kids, there must be a balance. You know what type environment you live in and can't leave your child to raise himself. Find the father and give him a few months in jail for neglect.

3. Culture/Society - Society feeds off such failures. He's either going to work for us in fast food or in prison. I'd wager that in his community academic failure is the norm. Going past being the norm...it's probably a right of passage. That's culture. Failing academically and becoming a dealer, rapper or bum is these kids expectations. That's culture.

As black people we need to get our culture in order to counter predation and neglect by this system.

This. The system, parenting, culture are all at fault. But #1 we gotta realize that a lot of the ones who are to blame ain't gonna change. So are we gonna step up and make change happen or are we just gonna let it burn?

 

[NeilCartwright]

with a 0.13 GPA?

He probably didnt apply himself. And once you get your GED, take an entrance exam, your HS grades dont matter. Its like starting with a clean slate with a college GPA

Yall be so quick to write people off lol you can always turn it around

 

[Wildhundreds]

Too many parents who have zero input in their children's learning. They expect the school to do 100% of the work in 8 hours while dealing with 20 other kids in the same classroom...talking about "whats the point of paying fees if they dont do their job and teach my child".

This is 100% on the mother being an aint shyt negligent bytch. I know this cause my aunt has a 12 year old son has zero hand in his education outside of paying school fees. Wont bother asking or helping with homework. But acted shocked and beat his ass when she finally found out that Lil boy still cant read well and cant write his name at his age back in 2019.




shyt fukks me up everytime i think about it

Same shyt i see here..

It seems like people think money solves all ills..

It hurts when people blame poverty for all of our issues when people with money do the same shyt broke people do..

 

[eXodus]

i don’t mean no harm but cmon yo

“what did my child do all this for??”

the brother didn’t do ANYTHING the past four years and that’s part of the problem. It’s a horrible situation all around but I can’t stand that she is acting like little bro put all this work in when he literally gave ZERO effort. Just no accountability from the schools, parent, students.. it’s overwhelming at times

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

Damn, that might be the lowest GPA score ever does her kid have a learning disability?

Scores like that are often the sign of a learning disability.

 

[eXodus]

He probably didnt apply himself. And once you get your GED, take an entrance exam, your HS grades dont matter. Its like starting with a clean slate with a college GPA

Yall be so quick to write people off lol you can always turn it around

Yea I agree. He can go to CCBC or BCCC and likely change his scenario if he puts in the work. My little bro was kicked out of his zone middle school at BCPS. Then kicked out of the alternative school he was sent to. Then kicked out of a private school that a mentor paid for him to go to lol

he then did homeschool for the last few years of high school. Went to community college, then transferred to a 4 year and graduated with a 3.8 or sum shyt.

shyt I had a 1.8 coming out of HS my damn self. Schools and the community have to do a better job of helping students self-identify with education because if not, our students will continue to not engage or give any effort at all

 

[get these nets]

i don’t mean no harm but cmon yo

“what did my child do all this for??”

the brother didn’t do ANYTHING the past four years and that’s part of the problem. It’s a horrible situation all around but I can’t stand that she is acting like little bro put all this work in when he literally gave ZERO effort. Just no accountability from the schools, parent, students.. it’s overwhelming at times

Full vid on page 12

Local news segment about the story, very long
starts at 1:13 mark

 

[Software]

He probably didnt apply himself. And once you get your GED, take an entrance exam, your HS grades dont matter. Its like starting with a clean slate with a college GPA

Yall be so quick to write people off lol you can always turn it around

I've seen it first hand. People didn't have the habits and studying background formed to do well in college and end up wasting money and dropping out. Not everyone should go to college. Military or trade school would be better for breh.
I'm not writing him off but I'm highly skeptical about a young person doing well in a college environment without even passing enough high school classes to even reach 10th grade. Education doesn't have to always be formal and he could potentially save money going a different route.

All I'm saying

 

[eXodus]

I've seen it first hand. People didn't have the habits and studying background formed to do well in college and end up wasting money and dropping out. Not everyone should go to college. Military or trade school would be better for breh.
I'm not writing him off but I'm highly skeptical about a young person doing well in a college environment without even passing enough high school classes to even reach 10th grade. Education doesn't have to always be formal and he could potentially save money going a different route.

All I'm saying

That’s true too....

a lot of kids (well young adults 18-24) I worked with from BCPSS didn’t have strong study skills, literacy or numeracy skills.. so my previous post is probably overly optimistic

 

[Wild self]

I told coli what HS was like in 2009...bunch of dudes tryna act cool...failing every class n shyt

Like, what do you do in school days if you cut school entirely? No pocket money...like, what happens? Hang with homies all day? Listen to the latest Lil Durk and DaBaby?