But they can find $100 designer jeans in the mall and they do have dad's sympathy money to purchase them...so I'd say it's a wash.
LOL! You are not far off.
This is really not funny at all, its a tragedy if you think about it. While I used to think that schools were failing to educate, I have since made a complete reversal of my opinion. The fact is, you cannot teach anything to a kid who doesn't give a flying turd, let alone entire generations of kids who don't give a flying turd, and apathy is the most daunting problem facing our schools and educators, not funding or class sizes.
I went to a pretty decent public school, in terms of academic rank and things like graduation rates, not in terms of funding or amenities. In fact, our school would likely have been condemned by today's definition of a 'disadvantaged' school. We had older books, rickety old desks, a few broken windows, water damaged ceiling tiles, cracks in the walls, an old boiler system that never worked right, so you froze your ass off in the morning hours, then sweated your ass off in the afternoon hours, among other things. However, nobody noticed or cared because our school was predominantly white, and there was no 'white victimhood' lobby to wail about the condition of our school. But that is another discussion altogether...
I distinctly remember several students who academically were just getting by, probably couldn't tell you the name of the then-current US President, but they had an encyclopedic knowledge of utterly useless sports trivia. They could tell you the names, numbers, stats, teams, years, colleges, home towns, awards, everything.
Its all about the priorities of the community, the parents, and the students, funding has little to do with it. Even in the most impoverished school systems, you can find children doing academically well. In the most well funded school systems, you can find children doing horribly.
I have all but stopped criticizing teachers and educators because I've gotten a glimpse of what they have to face day-in and day-out; children who don't give a f-ck about school, only about MTV and shopping malls and who's wearing what designer clothes and socializing between classes.
And it is NOT a teacher's responsibility or obligation to 'motivate' students who otherwise lack it, it is a parent's. Even if it were a teacher's responsibility, they will only be able to reach but a fraction of the student's who are not receiving the motivation from home, because that's where it starts.
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