The four years he spent at Detroit’s Osborn High School were “a big waste of time,” he said, recalling 11th and 12th grade English classes where students were taught from materials labeled for third or fourth graders, and where long-term substitutes showed movies instead of teaching.
Your comment is as dumb as teaching 11th and 12th graders 3rd or 4th grade level material. This isn’t only happening in minority schools it is happening everywhere. Kids are being taught by Union thugs more interested in feather lining their nest then doing their job. See Chicago Teacher’s Union.
We didn't have kindergarten, so my mom taught me numbers and the alphabet BEFORE first grade.
I went to a reservation school, and nobody had any money, but if the family was intact--mine was, thank goodness--most of us not only learned to read and write, but learned to LEARN.
My parents had nothing, were working in their early teens, barely got out of high school, and (my dad in particular) always felt somewhat ashamed of not being better educated.
Hell, he was better educated than I, through hard work and facing up to challenges, and he lived the American dream.
When something wasn't working, he changed it!
His children were encouraged to read and to think at every opportunity, and went on to excel in academics, music, languages, and to a large degree, life.