Comment by maxehmookau
4 days ago
> Public school does come with a guarantee of failure.
I disagree, because it's demonstrably false, but I don't think there's a reasonable point of debate here. I'm sorry you feel that the state has failed so badly here.
https://www.niche.com/k12/cass-technical-high-school-detroit...
One of detroit's best schools. 58% are proficient in reading at their level. 20% (!) Are proficient in math. That is a failing grade. The other schools are not better.
Enrolling a student at a school like this is a bad idea. Perhaps "guaranteed failure" is hyperbolic, but reality is not far enough from that statement for any sort of comfort.
These are badly functioning systems that need a major overhaul.
If the parents cared and were well educated then those numbers would be much better, simply by them helping kids with homework etc. But schools shouldn't require that.
John Ogbo actually studied this and came to a similar conclusion, that much of the racial achievement gap (specifically where he studied in Oakland California) can be closed by parents investing time into their kids education. He was decried as a white supremacist (he's black, by the way).