You somehow get people to value education more. Look at who performs on average the best in the US? Asians. What is common with Asian families? They highly value education and don’t tolerate poor performance in education.
That somehow is the tricky part. It seems that there is already a monetary incentive to excel in education. Spending more time on enforcing the connection between education and money might help? Part of the issue is kids often have a poor understanding of money, or how much they will need when they are on their own. A few really successful people (Warren Buffet comes to mind) were out making money at very early ages. They understood what different types of labor earned them.
Their lack of intelligence, education, desire, and work ethic. They also don’t care about anyone but themselves. Sacrificing for their kids is not on the agenda.
The problem is they live off the government and don’t pay bills. The idea that they may one day need to pay for food and shelter does not enter their minds. For the males, if their mothers are no longer providing for them, via the government, then it will be whichever woman, or women, they have kids with. Then there is also prison or an early death as possible outcomes.
You’re right. Schools are put in unwinnable scenarios where they’re judged on something they can’t fix. I have zero solutions, since the two popular options are (1) Increase funding (2) Give up on whole communities. The second option will never get public approval, and the first option will only go so far.
Spending more time on enforcing the connection between education and money might help?
Being Asian, my parents taught me the connection between education and money early on, but isn’t that common sense? The people from the inner city who I met knew how a good degree means more money, but for some reason, they just didn’t care or have a lot of respect for it. I truthfully don’t know why and am way too uneducated on the topic to give an explanation why. For whatever reason, they had more interest in high risk/high reward things like pro sports or drug dealing than a good degree.
It’s intentional. Succeeding is “giving in” to “white culture”.
They have their own slur for it. An Uncle Tom. And yellow. House n*****. Et cetera. If you’re a fuck up you’re a real black person. And this is a community issue, not an America or ISD issue.
Then they blame slavery they never experienced with their hands out instead of just being good students and enjoying what they consider white privilege for themselves.
There is absolutely a subculture, even if a few break free. FUBU, BET, BLM, “don’t appropriate” et cetera. Why play dumb?
“In 1910, when a black Georgia woman tried to put together a petition for segregated schools in Chicago, the ChicagoDefender castigated her as another “southern white folks’ lover” who was bringing Southern customs where they weren’t welcome: “When we are in touch with Mrs. Johnson, we will show her the back door to Chicago and have her beat it back to her dear old southern home, where all the Uncle Toms and Topsys should be.”
“ The problem with Uncle Tom was not that he existed, but that he was coming North and taking some of the best jobs away from more progressive men. Railroad porter positions, in particular, seemed to be increasingly filled by Uncle Tom types who brought a submissive Southern sensibility with them. “Too much South,” concluded the Defender in 1911, adapting the language of white supremacists: “Brand them and send them back to the uncut timber and sage bushes and let them juggle cocoanuts with their brothers.”
The defender was a black publication. So is The Root, discussing the persevering attitude of not “giving in”.
As if the Asians, Jews, new African immigrants, Irish, Italians, etc, didn’t have that baggage. Americans really can’t imagine a world outside of America.