[Jim Noble]

“students in poor-performing schools”

It’s not the schools - it’s the students.

[House Atreides]

“students in poor-performing schools”

It’s not the schools - it’s the students.
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True. In basketball there’s a saying that goes “you can’t teach height”.

And in schools you can’t teach native born IQ.

[VerySadAmerican]

He gives RINOS a good name because he is a rino and wants the word banned.

He gives preachers, and Baptists in general, a bad name. I’m sick and tired of churches getting in bed with the government.

[ExTxMarine]

It’s not the schools - it’s the students.

This is very important to disclose, and yet no one, NOT ONE PERSON, is willing to actually admit this simple truth!

This reminds me of when one of my daughters was about to start Junior High. The school district had been realigned and we were now going to be in one of the "worst schools" in town. There was a new vice principal, a retired Marine, who came to each of the feeder elementary schools and gave a GREAT speech to the students and (more importantly) to the parents. Basically, he stated that he wanted everyone to drive by their future school over the summer and report all the bad things that the school was doing, i.e., drugs, fights, gang affiliation, etc... And what he pointed out is that come the first of the new school year he would bet that there were ZERO reports on that school doing drugs, getting into a fight or being gang affiliated because the school was just a building. And those other items were caused by the students and parents who brought those ills into the school. So, if you don't want to be a part of the "worst school" in town, then don't bring all those things in with you!

Some parents complained in the local paper, that the principal was blaming the problems on the students. But more parents responded in the Op-Ed that actually he was correct - those ills were caused by the students and the parents who allow those things to happen (and those parents who protest about blaming the guilty kids).

That was a new beginning for that school; within four years he was the principal and that school was no longer considered a bad school!