only thing a parent can do for their child or children is stress the importance of acquiring useful information and skills...the 'academic' performance of a student isnt determined by anything other than the ability of the student to comprehend information and the ability of the instructor to explain and interpret information...
for the people that say parenting is the most important thing: tell me how an illiterate or undereducated parent can guarantee a quality education for their offspring if they [the parents] didnt receive a quality education and dont know any of the features of a good education...you caint ask someone to build you a house if they havent even seen one...
in today's education system the most important thing that determines academic performance is level of discipline, intelligence is secondary
what an illiterate parent can do is create a pro academic environment at home and establish discipline, and what the schools can do is reorganize the curriculum to take into account deficits in the home (parents that arent capable of creating a pro academic or disciplined environment) that is why in the black community the public school system has to be destroyed and rebuilt
but fundamentally its a cultural problem its not just parents, its parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends, all that comprises black culture
black people have a culture where being a "real nikka" and high academic performance are considered separate things, until we change black culture where academics becomes part of the identity of being a black person, black students will under perform
Not really seeing any of it in college.
