My oldest son goes to a public high school in LA (because he has too) while my youngest son goes to a private school
My oldest boy is in the top 5% of his school. He is one of five whites in the whole high school.
My son has more excuses most of the kids there to give up and not do what he needs to do, but despite it being sometimes exhausting for him he keeps his grades up. We constantly check online report card, encourage him when he needs it and discipline him when he out of line. He works hard for his grades, yet I have been at plenty of parents meeting while other parents complain about how the school is failing them and their kids.
These "parents are failing their own children and attempting to make the kids believe it is everyone else's fault.
What type of future these kids are going to have when they get out in the real world.
We don't need to study the kids skin color in relation to their grades, we need to kick their parents in the a$$.
There was a Mother in the office the other day waiting while the cops came to get her kid ( for smoking dope and having sex with an under age girl in the gym locker room ) and she was screaming about how it was the schools fault and that her little Johnny has never don nothen like that.
Sad.
My son and I talk about his education every week and we talk about not using excuses for your actions, and he is a kid who could easily use his excuses
Steve