And as such should not have been posted as "News".
As you have correctly pointed out, this is not “news”. Nor is it, as others have pointed out, uncommon.
I have a close friend who teaches 5th grade in a “Tier 1” school in Milwaukee. What is described in the email just scrapes the surface as to how bad it really is. These students could not care less about their own future. The rates these dregs are created would astound even a calloused, work hardened individual such as yourself. The only one capable of turning this around at this point is GOD. He is not going to do it unless asked.
I don’t hear too many kids and ‘parents’ asking . . .
At FR, we don’t just repeat what other news outlets (usually hopelessly liberal) say is news.
News validity is driven by 1, the topic, 2, its interest to conservatives, 3, its important to America and its body politic.
This contemporary posted insight to a current problem certainly qualifies as news, certainly more-so than the daily weather problems the networks will broadcast, the traffic accidents and killings the local TV stations will air, the sad sorrows of the Dems the NY Times will focus on.