Why not just expand it to more schools instead of getting rid of it.
Yeah this is where i'm at. They did the opposite of what they should've done.
People understand that in order for MJ, Steph, LeBron and KD to be so good required hours of practice and work in the gym.
For some reason, we don't translate this over to academics. It all starts at home. Regardless of race, the kids that get lots of attention and focus from parents at home, do better in school. The kids who always get told to "hush and sit yo azz down"....those kids struggle.
If your kid shows up to kindergarten and first grade not knowing how to read, they're already behind the 8-ball.
Seen too many black kids that will be the first to tell someone "yo breff stank" or walk all the way down the street just to point and stare at someone with a disability BUT, somehow don't apply the same level of curiosity and tenacity to their schoolwork. That is parenting.
Going to college helps you understand this better. You might spend a couple of hours/week in a specific class but spend 10 hours studying for that class in the library. Elementary and secondary school isn't that intense but the idea is the same: most of the heavy lifting is done at home.
Yeah you hit the nail on the head. Especially with the basketball analogy. I feel like a lot of black people really aren't aware of the extent that white and especially asian parents go to for their kid's education. Basically all asian parents are like those crazy obsessed basketball dads. They will drill into their kids heads from day one that if they aren't well educated then they ain't shyt. Even if they can't help their kids with hw, they'll still scrap some money together to pay for tutoring, they'll attend
every PTA meeting, and a lot of times, especially cac parents, will donate money to their local public schools in order to give their kids more resources, like music classes, or assistant teachers etc.. and if they're too poor to do that, they'll uproot their entire family to move into a better school district so they can be surrounded by parents that will.
Honestly a lot black parents need to be more cognizant of how good the school districts are before they move. If you ever wonder how why in Long Island for example, you can have 2 communities right next to each other that are virtually identically, yet the average cost of housing in one is like 5x that of the other. It's because the more expensive one, is in a much better school district.
A lot of people will look at the stats in the OP and will understandable assume the school is at fault (and don't get me wrong a lot of these schools are garbage). But the reality of the situation is, how well a student does in school is almost entirely determined by the parents, income plays a huge role as well but even that takes a back seat to parenting.
a lot of modern kids have fukked up home environments behind closed doors
Yup. I did really well in school, was in G&T and was valedictorian. Honestly I think a lot of that was just due to the fact that I had a stable homelife. both my parents we're together, and we had a house. They never really helped me with my homework or anything like that, but just the fact that I didn't have to worry about things like, going hungry, feeling unsafe, having someone to pick me up when I needed a ride, having access to a home computer (in the early 2000s no less, before even a lot of cacs did), no to mention being disciplined if I ever fukked up. These things may seem small but they definitely do contribute
a lot to a child capacity to do well in school. If I was in the exact same situation but grew up with a single mother who worked 2 jobs and was never around etc... I definitely wouldn't have been able to do anywhere near as well as I did in school.
Thread is specifically about New York.
