I think most Americans have simply not looked at the effect of schooling in metropolitan or urban areas. Probably half the population coming out of these schools...are this way. I would not call is ignorance....it’s just that teachers can only carry the class a certain distance....you graduate with a 4th grade reading ability, and probably a sixth-grade speaking ability. If you can add and subtract...that’s it.
For jobs, the best you can hope for is a clerk at a grocery, or a beauty-shop job.
She’s just one of probably five million Americans that is fairly limited by age 18. I don’t think it’s her fault....we made the system like it is...and allowing substandard teachers to walk in and stay for thirty years.
The teachers are not the problem. They could have sterling teachers (and some are) and still have no chance of learning anything. It is more simply that they have no respect for authority (other than arbitrary orders from their disfunctional parents) and no ability to learn. This is instilled in them as children, and once in school they literally pay no attention to any of the teacher, talk amongst themselves and distract others.
It is a rare sight in an inner city school to see a child actually listening to a teacher. And that child will probably end up on the losing end of a few fights.