So does the crime make them have bad grades? Or do their bad grades make them turn to crime and live in poverty? Or perhaps there is something else, someting in common at the root of both issues.
Maybe their Republican mayors could work together with fathers to help their kids in school.
Oh look, I made a funny.
No matter the demographics, the higher the % of free school lunches, the lower the test scores. So eliminate free school lunches and test scores will improve. #FixedIt
No, bad parenting makes them turn to crime. Indulged, entitled lives make them “invincible”, in their own minds.
Start arresting the parent for the behavior of their minor children, and all that might change...a little.
I think the common element here is social breakdown caused by crowding. The "Mouse Utopia" experiments took place in the 1950s through the early 1990s. They demonstrated that mice placed in an ideal mouse habitat, clean and with plenty of food and water, would eventually suffer a complete societal collapse, with extinction of the population following. Since mice, like humans, are social animals, many parallels can be drawn between the mouse behavior in the experiment and the crowded inner cities.
Racism could be blamed in that liberal white Democrat politicians enacted policies to entrap blacks in the inner cities and break up the family structures. These factors combined to accelerate the social breakdown that the mouse and rat experiments suggest is inevitable in perpetually crowded environments.
The Mouse Utopia Experiment (19 minutes).