Excellent reminder that there is way more to this than just greedy youngsters being lazy and goofing off. That is a big part of it, but the environment that inner city students face today is brutal.
I see no way to combat it without being very forceful with a tough-love sort of approach. Just end all handouts straight up, expel any students that are unruly, and enforce military-strict discipline on the rest. The entire inner-city population is on the verge of being hopelessly lost and a light touch is not going to get it done.
They are probably doomed but only a massive and dramatic shift in attitude toward inner-city schools will do anything.
We literally have several generations of welfare/ghetto culture who are fundamentally unable and unwilling to live independent functional lives in todays world.
They lack even the basic desire/ability to show up for a job on a daily basis, much less do anything productive.
I came up the hard way and though I'd try to give something back to society and try to change the world. After a few years of frustration, heartbreak and tears (literally) I figured out that that particular world did not want to be changed, least of all by me. What it did want was the rest of society to fund and support it's dysfunctional lifestyle.
Sad, but true.