(06-14-2017, 08:37 AM)FBT Wrote:

(06-14-2017, 07:10 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: If  you take unmotivated kids with unmotivated parents and give them school choice, or even a private school, they will still fail, because they are UNMOTIVATED.    

The problem isn't the schools, it's the CULTURE of these kids.   They have no desire to learn.   If they did, they would learn, no matter what school they were in.

I mentioned the same thing earlier in this thread.  This culture you're referencing is a generational thing, and this apathy can and does spread to some of the teachers and administrators. They have given up on trying to reach these kids.  It's a cancer.

So we send these kids to private school, and how long does it take for those teachers and administrators to give up on these kids?  

The problem of failure that stretches from one generation to the next and to the next has no simple solution, but at some point, it has to be driven home to the people who continuously fail that there are consequences for failure.  The opportunity is there if the motivation is there.   And failure to seize that opportunity must have consequences.

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