"It is not poor teaching or a lack of money that is failing our most vulnerable populations. The real problem is an ethos of rejection that has never been openly admitted by those in authority."
"Why should millions of perfectly normal adolescents, not all of them ghettoized, resist being educated? The reason is that they know deep down that due to the color of their skin, less is expected of them."
"They also take revenge on a fraudulent system that pretends to educate them. The authorities cover up their own incompetence, and when that fails, blame the parents and teachers, or lack of funding, or “poverty,” “racism,” and so on."
What people, and this teacher, forget about our "failing" education system is most children graduate high school, and graduation rates have been going up since the 1960s-1970s. Which contradicts her point, whatever it is.
>What people, and this teacher, forget about our “failing” education system is most children graduate high school, and graduation rates have been going up since the 1960s-1970s. Which contradicts her point, whatever it is.
Your assertion presumes that graduation means the same thing it did 10, 20, 30 years ago.
It does not.
Social promotion is a thing. We graduate many who are functionally illiterate and/or innumerate.
“I think the point is at the end, after 4,500 words:...”
Teacher or not, this lady writes as if she’s designing click-bait for some low-grade internet journalism. I can’t see how she’d motivate a casual student. I was contemplating self-harm after just the excerpt...
It doesn't contradict her point. She mentions in the article that most of the kids in those schools graduate. She also points out that they're getting 12th-grade diplomas even though they have nothing more than a 7th-grade education.