[Alberta's Child]

Baloney. You could take the entire student body of your typical inner-city school and enroll it in a top private academy, and there would little (if any) improvement in the performance of the students.

America’s urban dumps don’t have a problem with bad schools. They have a problem with bad students.

[Jonty30]

Much of it are bad students because they come from bad homes, but they aren’t getting the money to fund their education. The teachers get the money. The staff get the money. The administration gets the money. The students get nothing.

In states, where the parents have more influence, the students get more money.

[Mr Rogers]

“They have a problem with bad students.”

The inner city culture is rotten to the core. They desperately need more cops to protect them yet they won’t cooperate with any cop of any color. They need an education but attack anyone who tries to get one. And they believe they are the Master Race, the Kings and Queens of Africa - who just haven’t been given a fair shot in racist America.

I’m all out of pity and excuses. I’ve spent most of my life hoping to see progress and thought we were making some up thru the 90s. Then came Obama...