This School year, students from Macolm X Shabazz HS assulted their own basketball coach after a game vs Livingston HS. Both are in New Jersey and these Schools are only 12 miles apart. They could not be more different:\
SPOILER ALERT!!! ITS NOT ABOUT FUNDING!!
Article about assult: https://abc7ny.com/newark-malcolm-x-shabazz-high-school-new-jersey-assault/5908704/
This story made me research both schools:
Malcom X HS DATA: 1/10 on Great Schools; (91% black, 8% Hispanic and 1% White); 11 students per teacher; 61% graduation rate; 52% pursue four year college, only 15% return for 2nd year of college; 846 avg SAT, FOLLOW THE MONEY--- Total District Spending: $958 MILLION; $22k per Student, Average Teacher Salary $84,900; Funding SOURCES: 11.5% local, 83% State, 5.4% federal
Livingston HS: 8/10 on Great Schools; (64% white, 26% Asian, 4% Black); 11 students per teacher; 96% graduation rate; 93% pursue four year college, 84% return for 2nd year of college; 1240 avg SAT; FOLLOW THE MONEY--- Total District Spending: $115 million; $19k per Student, Average Teacher Salary $80,100; Funding SOURCES: 85% local, 13% State, 1.4% Federal
Funding source data: https://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/csg/16/csg.pl (old data but all thats available and follows current trends)
Great Schools Data: Malcolm X; https://www.greatschools.org/new-jersey/newark/1321-Malcolm-X-Shabazz-High-School/#Race_ethnicity*College_readiness Livingston: https://www.greatschools.org/new-jersey/livingston/997-Livingston-Sr--High-School/
I spent a year teaching in an inner city school.
And what a complete waste of a year it was. My sympathy is completely dried up, and they're lucky there are still people willing to deal with them. And now that they've declared a war on cops, their "communities" are going to get even worse. And they deserve it.
I had a history teacher in HS (worst school in the capitol city of my state) that refused to even teach but one day per week.
He put the week's worth of work on the chalkboard. It was up to you to read the material for the week. Every Friday there was a quiz. Otherwise, he sat there reading his books.
At first I was like WTF. Then later I thought he was smart. Why waste his own time teaching material that no one wanted to learn? Why not just leave it up to them, and if they wanted to learn they would do the work.
Totally relate. By the end of my year in the hood, I had identified only a single (Asian) student who actually gave a shit about anything. So I directed all my efforts toward that one kid. And he was the single redeeming aspect of the entire experience. I bet that kid is doing great now, and that all the other kids in that class are now either in prison or dead, having left countless victims in their wake.
[speaks in Latin Cartman] "how can I reech deez keedz?"
LOL that was a great episode.
But the truth is that it's easier to teach a pig to tapdance. And there's little chance that the pig will assault the teacher or spend their life in prison, like a big chunk of my former class. Schools in the hood are simply waiting rooms for prisons. A total waste of taxpayer money.