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Why do so many ignore the 800 lb elephant in the room?
The core of the problem isn't curriculum, funding, etc. etc.
The core of the problem is the students, and their parents.
A school that has 80% of its students coming from broken homes, where the mom is raising the kids, and the kids come home after school to an empty house, or go to friend's houses or other unsupervised activities until mom gets home at 6:00, where education is not a family priority, where the kids are raised at home by the TV set, is never going to do well in educating its kids.
Arguing about whether or not the schools in those areas should be teaching more art and music or more math and science is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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