[Mad Dawgg]

"I might even venture to say most in these urban hell holes, really are dumb as hell."

I would say more likely the problem with most of these kids is they were never taught "how to learn."

I bet no one ever read to them much when they were little. (We read to our daughter every night from the day we brought her home from the hospital till she was in the 3rd grade when she told us she was too old for such baby stuff. She is a constant reader always wanting new books from Amazon!)

If kids aren't taught to love reading books they won't. And if they won't read its hard to keep up in school. We always made a game out of math, riding in cars waiting in line etc. We even did basic math in Spanish (Very broken Spanish but she could add and subtract using Spanish numbers, now she is fairly fluent speaking it.)

We never forced her to learn we made it a natural part of everyday life. And I bet most of these so-called Dumb kids can operate a cell phone and are fluent in "texteese" and I bet they can finish a Xbox game in under a week. and that tells me they are not dumb, they just haven't been taught how to learn in school. Its a failure of the school system AND the parents/family.

[dfwgator]

But mainly because in their “culture”, reading is a “white thing”, and isn’t considered “keepin’ it real.”

[wintertime]

You were the REAL teachers. You were likely doing **everything** my husband and I did with out homeschoolers. The school was merely sending home a very expensive curriculum. YOU and YOUR CHILD did the really hard work IN THE HOME!

Congratulations for being the **real** teachers of your child.

It is called “afterschooling”.