Posted on 06/21/2009 9:37:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1
That is quite a picture you paint — and dark, at that.
What do you think the solution is?
Can’t let these kids get too educated you know, they might not vote for the democrats.
There is nothing you can do to help them. That’s the way they are. Let them leave school at the age of 13 or younger even. They can work in the fields, short order cook, collect trash, clean houses, whatever. There will always be some menial job they can do. It’s not worth spending money on people who do not care. They are not going to succeed, let them go.
I don’t want to hear they will go on welfare and commit crimes. They do that already. Don’t add insult to injury by expecting the taxpayers to pay for their education. You will probably wind up paying taxes to house them in prisons. Fine, either school or prison but not both.
Our school system already feeds them breakfast and lunch; provides free prenatal care and daycare when they have their babies while in high school. Many of our students are pregnant. We provide all our students with books, and in many classrooms we also provide their paper and notebooks to them. Students taunt those who try to be academic and call them “schoolboy.”
I don’t think the solution lies in high school. It is in the grade schools where all the basics must be taught. I don’t understand how a child can attend our elementary and junior high schools and still not know he needs to remember to start a sentence with a capital letter. I would pour all the money into the grade schools and try to help them when they are young and impressionable. They already are too “cool” to be academic by the time they get to high school.
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