Holy **** balls this is amazing/sad

[Deleted member 848]

Somebody in the ghetto has just as many opportunities to leave their area and better themselves.

It's time to quit making excuses for them and demand accountability.

Demand accountability? In what way? And how is that going to help them in the long run?




I suppose whatever we do is better than the status quo, i.e. just chill and do nothing.






PS: One of the main things you seem to be missing, is the MASSIVE difference in family-cohesion, and support structures between life on the farm, and life in the ghetto. Both my parents grew up on the farm, I've been in Europe for 2-3 month stints where we would help my family farm. The support structure that's there is just completely different.


We don't have that many black people, or 'ghettos' in Edmonton, but we have loads of Native reserves interspersed all across the province, and country in general.




It's easy to rag on their ethnicity, call them selfish, inept, lazy, and short-sighted-- but it is much harder to be able to admit that the embarrassing history of Canadian attempts at Native American assimilation (Residential schools, etc.) has played a massive role in having mammoth negative impacts on not only one generation, but every subsequent generation who has had to deal with father figures resorting to various ends to cope with being raped at a young age, being separated from families-- or even have their affected fathers commit suicide, or have them resort to beating his children, resorting to alcoholism and so on. Father leaves, mother is busy trying to make a living-- this is where society should try to step in, and try and help kids not fall through the cracks. What ends up happening is that we don't, and some drug-dealer gang member will do so instead.

 

[Stoked]

If you want true poverty in America go to North and South Dakota to the indian reservations. All this hood poverty is American poverty if that makes sense.

I do not think that kids from the hood have the same level of education and chance to go to college that a suburban kid does. I think that is one of the biggest fialings of our society. That we are failing such a large part of our children. They are our future and deserve better.

 

[Dr. Jones]

From Gyp.

Please tell all the white Utahn idiots who've never truly experienced urban area to STFU in beantown's amazing/sad thread in GD. I'm from NJ as diverse as it gets. My HS was a bottom 10-15% one in the state (a state with Camden, Newark, Elizabeth, Trenton and on and on mind you) with as many blacks as w hites.

I now teach in an urban area, one ranked in the bottom 3% of the state, where 95% of the kids are Hispanic and gang life is prevalent. And lemme tell you, beantown and Thriller are much more spot on than anyone else. The money and teaching that goes on in our school is ridiculously good (this comes from teachers who are parents of kids in other "white districts") and it is not the academic system that's failed them. It's their parents.

If I ever am unbanned maybe I'll go into further detail but it's too long to ask u to do via text.

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[UGLI baby]

From Gyp.

Please tell all the white Utahn idiots who've never truly experienced urban area to STFU in beantown's amazing/sad thread in GD. I'm from NJ as diverse as it gets. My HS was a bottom 10-15% one in the state (a state with Camden, Newark, Elizabeth, Trenton and on and on mind you) with as many blacks as w hites.

I now teach in an urban area, one ranked in the bottom 3% of the state, where 95% of the kids are Hispanic and gang life is prevalent. And lemme tell you, beantown and Thriller are much more spot on than anyone else. The money and teaching that goes on in our school is ridiculously good (this comes from teachers who are parents of kids in other "white districts") and it is not the academic system that's failed them. It's their parents.

If I ever am unbanned maybe I'll go into further detail but it's too long to ask u to do via text.

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No **** Gyp. lol

 

[Dr. Jones]

From Gyp.

Please add in that I do fully agree with everyone else that parental structure or lack thereof as well as hurdles all make the aforementioned life very difficult. And I empathize. I really do.

Also give me Nic's phone number lol.

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[Stoked]

From Gyp.

Please tell all the white Utahn idiots who've never truly experienced urban area to STFU in beantown's amazing/sad thread in GD. I'm from NJ as diverse as it gets. My HS was a bottom 10-15% one in the state (a state with Camden, Newark, Elizabeth, Trenton and on and on mind you) with as many blacks as w hites.

I now teach in an urban area, one ranked in the bottom 3% of the state, where 95% of the kids are Hispanic and gang life is prevalent. And lemme tell you, beantown and Thriller are much more spot on than anyone else. The money and teaching that goes on in our school is ridiculously good (this comes from teachers who are parents of kids in other "white districts") and it is not the academic system that's failed them. It's their parents.

If I ever am unbanned maybe I'll go into further detail but it's too long to ask u to do via text.

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I do not completely agree. The school system fials often as well. Money doe snot equal good education. Mismanagement, poor teachers, political agendas stuffed into cirriculum... I think the school my daugthers go to is abysmal. But it is the only option there.

 

[Dr. Jones]

I do not completely agree. The school system fials often as well. Money doe snot equal good education. Mismanagement, poor teachers, political agendas stuffed into cirriculum... I think the school my daugthers go to is abysmal. But it is the only option there.

 

[fishonjazz]

Lol.
Repped
Sike..... must spread

 

[Deleted member 365]

I do not completely agree. The school system fials often as well. Money doe snot equal good education. Mismanagement, poor teachers, political agendas stuffed into cirriculum... I think the school my daugthers go to is abysmal. But it is the only option there.

There is actually a statistically significant strong relationship in every major survey done between per pupil spending and academic success. There are always a few outliers. Perhaps your daughter's school is one of them? The one from my research was Hawaii. Then again, it's not that surprising when you think about it. Hawaii, due to its situation, will never be tops when it comes to academic achievement.

But that does not deny the statistically significant strong relationship between the 2. I just did a research on this for a poly Sci class. Meaning, PP spending has a tendency to increase academic achievement according to the surveys done in the USA.

 

[LogGrad98]

I do not completely agree. The school system fials often as well. Money does not equal good education. Mismanagement, poor teachers, political agendas stuffed into cirriculum... I think the school my daugthers go to is abysmal. But it is the only option there.

Fixed the doe snot.

This is not an all or nothing kind of situation, for parents and teachers. On the one hand no one can say that all of our schools and teaching and curriculum and whatever is crappy, and on the other no one can say that it is all fantastic either. Same goes for the parents. There are teachers who care and try and put themselves out there to help the kids succeed, and there are teachers who don't give a **** and just pile on the homework and teach exclusively to the testing so they can maintain a decent rating. We have several family members and friends in teaching and administration at various levels and have heard the stories and seen it first hand with our own kids. Some teachers have agendas as well. We had a teacher give an assignment to our 13 year old's class to write a letter to president bush stating that they opposed the war in iraq, demanding that he pull the troops out immediately and detailing why. The why was given to them as well and the paper was a solid chunk of their grade. My daughter didn't know what to do as she didn't agree with the teacher but didn't want to get a bad grade. We went and talked to the teacher and she looked at us like a deer in the headlights, she just couldn't fathom that we didn't agree with her standpoint, it just didn't compute.

Generally speaking our educational system leaves a lot to be desired. But the parents need to shoulder their responsibility as well. If you were grown up enough to bring a kid into this world, you damn well better be grown up enough to make sure that kid gets the tools it needs to survive.

 

[LogGrad98]

Lol.
Repped
Sike..... must spread

Must spread doe snot?

 

[TroutBum]

I do not completely agree. The school system fials often as well. Money doe snot equal good education. Mismanagement, poor teachers, political agendas stuffed into cirriculum... I think the school my daugthers go to is abysmal. But it is the only option there.

So, you're essentially saying that Serp is a ****ty teacher? I can buy that. Of course, how do you screw up girls P.E.?

Must spread doe snot?

Better than spreading his seed.