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

[87 others]

The kid was late or absent 272 days (a full school year, basically) and the mom is saying that he's a fighter and he's trying? FOH, where was that effort when it counted? The school system in Baltimore is a joke, I'm sure, but so is the Mom's "parenting". Talking about "Where were the mentors?" bytch, where were you?!

 

[BlackJesus]

They told bruh to start high school over during his senior year? That sound like a failure on the school part too

Should pull out and get his GED. Stop wasting his time

 

[87 others]

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.

I love that you broke this down the way you did because most people just stop at point one and go "Well, no use in trying - system is broken" completely neglecting that there are 3 variables, and 2 of them are directly within their control. And really, if you're in control of 2, then you can influence 3 and 1 by taking initiative and changing your environment.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Aren't most Baltimore city officials black? I know the schol superintendent is.

Baltimore City School Board members are almost all entirely black Board Commissioners | Baltimore City Public Schools

What's crazy too is that Baltimore City Public School ranks 3rd in student spending in the entire country. They're well funded - https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimo...city-third-in-u-s-for-per-pupil-spending.html

Failures like this can only happen when the student just don't give a fukk.

 

[Rell Lauren]

Baltimore City School Board members are almost all entirely black Board Commissioners | Baltimore City Public Schools

What's crazy too is that Baltimore City Public School ranks 3rd in student spending in the entire country. They're well funded - https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimo...city-third-in-u-s-for-per-pupil-spending.html

Failures like this can only happen when the student just don't give a fukk.

When a family emphasizes education, the kid will put in the effort.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Interesting that you used Namond's mom, when this story about social promotion mirrors Duke's storyline.

 

[Cynical Thoughts]

im pretty sure the school has tried to reach out to her. As we can see from the article she puts blame on everyone else

What about the other hundreds of failing students? You sure about them too?

you realize its penalties put in place for absences that go past sending a note home or infinite campus.

For some reason you feel the need to defend failing or poor school districts.But hold parents completely responsible.

Just like you feel those parents need to step up why aren’t you holding those schools accountable.

you must be new in education. Because people with any history know how these politics work w/in schools.

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

How the fukk does this happen? From all 3 parties... him, the school and the momma

 

[Cynical Thoughts]

the system is broken in so many areas of life, the issue is will it change in your lifetime or mine?

there's a lot of things we can't control in life but we can mitigate how they impact us. systematic things. the system won't change short term, so the focus has to change to what you can do vs when they will improve things.

teachers have to be held accountable as educators absolutely but do you have time to wait for education reform or is it easier to take control of the situation as a parent? depends on your sense of urgency. Kids go through school fast and most who start failing start having knowledge gaps early that they never recover from. there's a sense of urgency to education that can't be left to chance. your pivotal growing years are the foundation that defines the rest of life. literally can't be relaxed on education as a parent.

Stories like the one about the woman who went to prison for sending her kid to a better school in a different district show what some people go through and how much they care. A parent like her understands what is at stake short term.

I 100% stand behind the statement that nobody that wants knowledge can be stopped. The best learning happens when people quest knowledge from kids with inquisitive minds and beyond. Individuals can't charge society with incentivizing them to learn, the system will never care more about you than you care about yourself. It doesn't care about why people are disillusioned with western education. you will still be held to the same expectations come adult life. what does understanding the nuances do for that reality?

Either you’ve changed the subject or we got lost in translation. The concern is those who don’t know any better.

all kids are forced to go to school. And the duty of that school/teacher is to teach the best way they know how, not pass them with a .013 gpa.

There are things like participatory sets(so) that teachers do before lessons to get the kids interested.

You are under the assumption that if a kid doesn’t like school that it’s completely his fault that he fails. No, the blame is at many people’s feet.

My sons doesn’t like math but guess what he’s gonna learn. By your logic I should just let him fail cause at this moment(as a kid) he doesn’t care.
No way.

 

[Silver Surfer]

I know some Indians that grew up on the Himalayan mountains...come over here and have kids and don't have these issues....

I wonder how they did it

 

[Cynical Thoughts]

even sadder are the good students in that school. most likely, the curriculum was trash and those kids that actually pass are probably not ready for college and are in for a rude awakening with all those remedial courses they have to take in community colleges before actually getting around to the real college level coursework. i've seen that up close.

Boom!

most of these posters don’t even see how actual good students will also be effected by half assed teachers and administrators. They’ll never reach their full potential either. Is that their fault also? Nope.

 

[Bucciarati Joestar]

So the mother doesn't attend parents teacher conference? It was mandatory for parents to attend.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

School is easy no offense

 

[Gold]

if my GPA is .13 don't even give me the .13... just call that shyt a 0 and lets start over

 

[Gold]

School is easy no offense

It is, but i imagine its usually the outside of school of shyt that impacts performance.