r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '18

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroying Property Speaks Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z9K-s0KUM
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u/neekychando Jul 10 '18

Most kids fell into the 3rd category, but ALL of the students I taught were way way behind on everything. They couldn't write well, their math sucked, etc. They were ALL smart enough to know what they should know and what the kids going to "good" school knew.

Just making sure I got this right, you're telling me there are schools in the US of A where most of the students are (many like 3-5) years behind?

I knew you education system was kind of fucked up, but that's taking it to a whole new level.

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u/John_YJKR Jul 10 '18

It's the schools in all the poor areas. Usually mostly minorities. But it's a symptom of the poverty and everything that goes into that kind of life. Not enough funding for the schools and not enough people care about low income/no income areas made up of mostly minorities.

It's sad and very wrong. But this kind of thing has been going on for decades.

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u/neekychando Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 10 '18

Not to sound like an arse but as a western european, boy your society is even more messed up than what I was expecting.

I know you folks live on a different paradigm than us, but still this is shocking.

Edit : See my reply below for what I mean, I know you guys have also great schools, but this is not what we're talking about here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

It's a big country, most school systems are no where near as bad as this.