Sometimes I wonder: has it always been this bad? I went to mostly private schools so didn’t have to deal with most of it. However, I did spend one year public and it was AWFUL.
One Chinese exchange teacher literally cried every single day because of the disrespect of the joggers.
Another teacher I know would refuse to teach at ALL because the black kids were so loud and disruptive. She couldn’t send them away or punish them at all. So she just refused to teach.
So of course the Asian kids and I were forced to teach ourselves in the corner. That teacher did help us and only us when she wasn’t too busy crying and seething in the corner.
Now you have the ACLU trying to get resource officers out of schools because it hurts black kids. They really don’t realize how absolutely dangerous these kids are and how there is no controls anymore. Plus all the school leaders want “EQUITY” points to look good on paper. That means no punishment for blacks, all the punishments for white kids. Gotta even out the statistics.
It makes me want to scream! We talk about blacks under achieving CONSTANTLY but can’t talk about the real reasons.
Was it always this bad? I’m a zoomer, I genuinely don’t know.
No, it hasn't always been this bad. I can tell you stories from when I was still in school, but those aren't the crux of this issue. The part that will make you rage the hardest is the foreknowledge that a lot of this is not their fault. Not fully. There is, of course, a certain level of culpability to be had as they are, ultimately, the ones causing the issues, but it's why those issues exist in the first place that's the rub.
When I was young, there was always shit districts, but those were outliers, usually the result of insane levels of financial/social mismanagement, and these were not, as we say, the norm. Nowadays, the situations you describe above are common enough to not be all that surprising when they come up. So why is it so bad now?
At the core of it, there's three main issues: The breakdown of the black family (
@Gehenna has a lot of useful insight here, but the short version is that they were sabotaged intentionally), ongoing agitation by progressives that have resulted in a situation where the worst kinds of grifters can thrive, and the increasingly partisan nature of the left making it harder and harder to root out bad actors.
Oldfags on this board can tell you about times when the ALCU defended KKK members' freedom of speech and took a stand because the Bundt were afforded the same civil rights as everyone else. It got ideologically captured sometime around 2010, and it's been nothing more but a strongarm of the left since.
