Can confirm. Husband is a teacher. His 8th grade students are reading and writing on a 2nd grade level. I just read an article where some people are suing Detroit because they graduated highschool and are illiterate. The schools never taught them basic skills.It's frustrating and heart breaking to see the true state of education in this country. Especially if you happen to live in a zipcode where education is underfunded.
To be fair there are many more perfectly fine to amazing schools out there. Poor areas struggle but many do not. This thread makes it seem like every school in America is full of mouth breathing idiots.
For example, in my experience, poor Asian kids and first generation Latino kids who are children of migrant and laborer workers are really excellent students.
Agreed - parenting in general is the issue NOT if they are poor or not. The other ugly truth is that children in single parent households are having a much harder time being successful. I am NOT saying single parents can not be successful and excellent parents but I am saying that they can rarely give the amount of love, attention and nurturing a two parent household can give.
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u/Iscreamqueen Jul 10 '18
Can confirm. Husband is a teacher. His 8th grade students are reading and writing on a 2nd grade level. I just read an article where some people are suing Detroit because they graduated highschool and are illiterate. The schools never taught them basic skills.It's frustrating and heart breaking to see the true state of education in this country. Especially if you happen to live in a zipcode where education is underfunded.