Complaints about the quality of education in poor areas.?

Question

What exactly do these people expect. Teachers are afraid. Not much parental guidance, if any at all, drug dealers (hello, if you sell drugs, junkies will move into your neighborhood), gang violence and all this is blamed on a lack of education. WELLLL, if you stop making it a dangerous place, I bet you will have a better chance of getting good educators in your schools. Anyone agree?

Bregweidd-Do you really think that this is a question of money or is it a question of upbringing. If the only role model they have at home is a drug dealing father (IF he is even in the picture) what do you think the child is gonna do. 9 out of 10 children between the ages of 7 and 13 say that their parents have more influence on them than their friends, teachers, or others. What about that?? I mean come on, don't you think that if children are raised with a higher level of self that they will strive to be better?

Curly, I am not upper class by any means. I work 2 jobs to make ends meet for my family. So don't give me that crap. I am a secretary during the day(pays nothing) and a cleaning lady at night. I believe in hard work and I do not believe in having SIX kids and not being able to afford to feed them. I am definately not blaming you for this. I AM BLAMING YOUR MOM!! She was not married, didn't have a job, living off someone else (welfare), can't feed yourself or your kids, but HEY LET"S HAVE A BUNCH MORE KIDS. This is the kind of mentality I cannot stand!! THIS IS SO NOT YOUR FAULT, but I wouldn't be surprised of you or your siblings fall into the same cycle. I am sorry for you all. By the way, I lived in Hunt's Point, The Bronx (ie. ghetto) for several years, I know what I am talking about!!

Answer 1

People no longer are accountable.Its that hillary clinton mentality that you are not responsible its societies burden.

Answer 2

I was a 10 year old kids at the time. What did I do to make the area a "dangerous place"? I got the cr*p kicked out of me a couple of times, crawled home once because I couldnt walk. Did that make it right for me to get a crappier education?

I just watched a marvelous episode of Oprah. I normally dont watch Oprah, but was channel surfing and the idea caught my attention: class in america. According to the ideas on her show, you are towing the upper class party line. Way to conform, the upper class doesn't let you stay if you dont conform. They are remarkably image conscious.

Older wisdom used to say you cant judge a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins. I've walked a mile or two as a very poor kid.

I was the oldest of 6 kids of a single mom living on welfare. We lived on about $300 per month total for food, rent, everything for years. 90% of all of my meals came from free food at the caffeteria. How many times was the only reason your family got thanksgiving or christmas at all the kindness of strangers? Im sure that was my fault too, wasnt it. It must have been my fault that everything I owned including all my clothes could fit in one banana box.

I think you are absolutely uninformed, and towing the party line.
I think you should take a walk on the other side before you feel comfortable speaking about things like this.

Other people are human beings. All human life is valuable. You should know better.

Append: Are you arguing that I should not have been born, and that my life would have been better off, or that society would have been better off if my mother had not had me, or my siblings? :) Thats not how to win friends and influence people.

Here is a challenge: Suggest a solution that, if it had been implemented in my case wouldnt require a billion dollars OR my retro-active abortion. If you are going to criticize, then you should have actionable suggestions for remediative action.

Answer 3

We have the same problems, lack of parents wanting to work w/their kids, the drugs etc. We also have to deal with our kids education dropping down, due to lack of funding? Our state (you will know where it is immediately when I name the Players), has promised 1 football player Pete Manning, somewhere around 8,000,000. dollars a game? The football team wanted a New Stadium. The 8 year old building they were in, doesn't even have a crack in it's wall. Now we have cut out Music, Art, but hey we picked up Skateboarding as the new P.Ed. Our Governor and Mayor are determined to keep our Colts, no matter what the cost.
The kids are the ones suffering on this one.

Answer 4

crime is always high in poor areas because the people don't see much chance of making a good living legally so they make it illegally.

if we spend the money on schools in poor areas that is spent in the rich areas, and try to help people to get out of poverty, the areas will become safer

Answer 5

the quaility of education has fallen in the US.reason1 they don't want the retarted kids to fell left out.DEE DEE DEE.

Answer 6

I agree with that...upbringing is important in the long run.

Answer 7

Yes.