re: Teacher breaks down because students can't read or write.

I taught in the inner city schools of (b)aton (r)ouge for 22 years.

During my first week of teaching I caught several students coming to school in the morning drunk. Brought them to the office and the principal did nothing. She sent them on their merry way.

At that time I would say that about 50 % of the children could read.

2 years later I discovered that the students could read the words but they could not tell what a sentence meant.

Each year the administration would implement a new curriculum/strategy to enable the children to be able to read more proficiently. Results were not worth noting. The kids didn't really care. I would routinely ask what their future plans were. Here are some of their replies:

Drive a dump truck
Work at Taco Bell
Work at Popeyes
Be a lunch lady
work at the hospital
sling dope
be a gangsta
be a rapper
play in the NFL or NBA

I don't think many people understand the LEAP scores.
EBR parish routinely scores about an average of 35 in ELA and the administration calls that 'passing'. That's 35 out of a 100. Abysmal .

During the second to last year that I taught our school had 12 teachers that flat out quit during October. The school was quickly becoming 'Fight Club'. I taught one more year and I said enough.

Now I shock people by stating that all public education should be terminated. We are wasting money. Makes all school private/ religious and stop taxing people for public ed. .


Now I work in construction.

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Bless that teacher for trying, but unless something changes with the family structure, it will continue. That means a mother who nurtures and a father that will whip that arse when you get out of line.

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As another poster said, it will never get better.

We had The Great Society, which incentivized fatherless households.
Then, The War on Drugs and the CIA moving crack into the inner cities, ensured black men went to prison.
Then, No Child Left Behind ensured that we would dumb down the education system.

And now we're on our fourth generation of black kids growing up without fathers.

If the above was intentional, it would be sinister.
Or maybe the road to hell was paved with good intentions.
Regardless, it will never get better.

Hire them for airline pilots. Go DEI!!!!

Yeah that's a huge blow as soon as schools stopped mandating cursive just promoted a lack of discipline and patience. So when curriculum softened up that played a part in it, too. I'm starting to think all parties at least played a hand in where we're at.

I'm told that the students would very much like to write a letter of apology to the teacher, but, unfortunately, they cannot write.

I want to care but he sort of said it best at the end...

"Our young black and brown girls and boys."

Black teachers and mothers raised them in blue districts littered with black and brown politicians and school administrators.

They are yours to handle. Its tragic but your community has to step it up.

My thoughts are let a very strict criminal justice system sort out the troublemakers because society shouldn't have to deal with these failures of the black and brown community, preferably young enough to prevent them from spawning more violent offenders and hopefully begin to break the cycle.

He’s probably trying to get the mommas to be more involved in their children’s education.