Do you also consider and factor in the following: Children coming from a disfunctional enviroment: No parental involvement, getting educated is acting like whitey, not knowing who your Mother or Father is, out of wedlock births. When you have these situations factored in it is amazing that some barely obtain an education at all. While the Teachers must be accountable, the Parents must play a role too.
Oh, absolutely. Lack of parent involvement is almost analogous to failure in school. I think we have to break the dependency cycle on welfare and other public assistance that encourages welfare mothers to just pop babies out to increase their welfare check and then let them run wild in the street.