[laredo44]

I would venture that 75-80% of those kids come from the hood with no clue as to how to behave in a civil fashion.

And yet the education establishment acts as if they can be placed in a classroom setting just like the kids that are ready to learn. That, more than anything else is the reason schools are failing.

[wardaddy]

Yes...but it's not polite to generalize...

[rwfromkansas]

I love Dubya, but No Child Left Behind will make it more difficult to get these bad kids out of the classroom.