Politics Unfiltered

[Spyder]

(07-26-2017 01:31 PM)Snoop Wrote:  Well man, in all sincerity, my intention was not to dismiss your own personal accord like it meant nothing. It does and quite frankly, it has changed my mind a bit on the issue. On the other hand, saying that your own person experience therefore means what I wrote is bullshit, is actually doing exactly what you accused me of doing. There are a significant number of personal anecdotes that tell the exact opposite of your experience, and my only argument is to be balanced in considering them with equal weight.

Fair enough. People always look for reasons for their successes or failures. If they are explaining a success, they tend to take credit. If it is a failure, they tend to place blame. What I was calling bullshit were the excuses for failure. There are definitive factors that contribute to lower performing students, but they are not from lack of funding or opportunity.

If a student comes from a single parent household where the sole provider is either unable or unwilling to give guidance, then that student will need to find it somewhere else. If there are other students in the class that come from a similar home environment, then they will be influences on each other. If that situation becomes more common than an anomaly, then the problem becomes systemic. Most people can agree up to this point. Where they tend to diverge is where to place the blame. One side blames the institution, where the other blames the community. All roads go back to the same point.

TL;DR...poor parenting is to blame for failing students, not poor schools.