HISD School Ratings: Yes another inner city broken homes thread

Too much administrative costs in our school systems. I also agree with the rest.

 

So well stated. It's not a determination problem, it's a variety of systemic problems that have long been ignored.

 

Mostly agree, but also think that regardless of economic background its possible to create a home culture that celebrate education, or not. Which is why you see variability in these populations, and every population. Different family units celebrate different things.

But absolutely, those form lower economic backgrounds are less likely to create this culture, in large part because of lack of resources (not just money, but time, etc.), but also because of long-ingrained aspects of the culture.

Again, no answers from me though.

 

Tell me how you would accomplish that.

This isn't about people not desiring education. This is about people having many imminent grave concerns like how are they going to pay for next months rent or the next set of diabetes medication and thus cannot find the time to invest in things that might improve them 10 or 20 years down the line. Young teens become income generators. They become second parents to younger siblings. They have more responsibilities than children born in upper middle class families. Things like universal high quality early childhood education and health care coverage can help solve these systemic issues.

And yes, shitty underfunded institutions in many districts are a problem also.

 

Ahh so they have a roof over their heads and food. Those are the only concerns poor people have. So why are young teens in poor neighborhoods more likely to have to provide supplementary income and child rearing for siblings than children of upper middle class families?

 

Read your own thread.