Suing the State Over Crappy Education

Nor are Asian students genetically better at homework than Black or Hispanic students. It’s all about parenting. Unfortunately, it’s a vicious cycle where parents who don’t emphasise education beget kids that don’t care about education and so on. High school is so easy. All you have to do is show up and you automatically graduate. However, not showing up to classes is the problem. That’s the responsibility of the student and their parents, not the school, lest they be called heavy-handed in trying to curtail truancy. 

actually I went to a public high school in florida (in miami-dade country), and the school system is not the best one at all. I had to move right to honors and AP classes because the professors in the regular classes were not even motivated to teach. Some would just tell the class to do exercises out of a work book, some others would tell the stories about themselves, and consequently students would leave class. I remember going to a class where the students would make fun of the teacher and the teacher would not do anything about it.I think it’s not only the fault of the parents but also the fault of unmotivated teachers that do not know how to control/handle a class full of teenagers.

I agree with Jssk, I actually went to school in Miami-Dade and it was a terrible school. They lost my records when I transferred and I was never put into the right classes. The teacher was rude to students on a daily basis and there was no measure of learning, progress, or much of anything productive whatsoever. It felt like we were all in a holding cell for the day. Then when I moved back to my home state, I got to attend a High School where teachers were either on drugs or dealing drugs, and where no one cared about my future. I failed Alegebra every year for three years, I never once met with a career counselor, even though I was in a the gifted program and the list goes on. I never graduated, I got my GED. I consider what is going on in Public Schools to be an ongoing crisis. Suing school districts may be the only way to get people to W A K E  U P! – - – It’s time to take education seriously. I don’t want to know what that school must be like today, the one I attended in Miami-Dade so long ago, my guess is that it is a child’s nightmare with gangs and rampant bullying. Then again, it wasn’t much better when I moved back to the Midwest either. So all I can say to the ACLU, is, It’s about time, and Best of Luck. Kids deserve better. As a society we are only hobbling ourselves when we don’t educate our children. Its an ignorant and hard to correct mistake to throw education out the window, but we do it, every single day. And we wonder why there are so many children in juvenile detention, and why so many students graduate with barely useable skills. We are paying for it, and we will continue to pay for it; if we don’t fix it we have only ourselves to blame.

teachers,people who work part time for full time wages.I wish my pay wasn’t based on performance.for example say my mesurements are off 1/4″over 12″ within a 75′ span what does my employer say? your fired any ?

Some nations think they have the answer to everything and go charging around the world making them follow their example, and really they need to get their own house in order, they should treat themselves to a spending spree, buy some new schools and free healthcare, then maybe they can lead by example. Oh and zylden you are an idiot… what are you trying to say, maybe you should go back to school! Teachers work hard, and unless you have been there, keep your lips closed and eyes open.