Even with those attitudes you still need a student body wiling to learn and put forth effort.....they refused to. People just don’t want to accept that there are folks who want things as they are...including being a self-created victim.
You can lead a kid to remedial education but you cannot make them apply themselves.
Excuses come easier than effort for too many. Especially those by proxy. It’s why leftism flourishes at all economic strata.