When the schools were integrated, standards for advancement and graduation had to gradually be abandoned, otherwise blacks wouldn't advance and graduate, and that would be racist. Can't have that. Parents that actually want their kids to have an education nowadays had best motivate them such as to make it into Advanced Placement classes. Those are about the only classes where actual learning takes place ... at least at about the level the schools used to uphold prior to integration.
Teachers of non AP classes spend 50% or more of their time trying to get the blacks to sit down and shut up.
This in rural midwest town.
AP classes gets em away from some of the crap.
But liberal teachers and the stoopidity in the halls/lunch room..........it has a negative effect.
Was bad when my kids in school, only gotten worse.
Yet with all the gov programs and other, the same problem exists a decade later.
Young black males not graduating.
Now the schools are bringing in exchange students, some International baccalaureate crap.
Those kids take AP and have a lounge where they don't have to be around the blacks.
Amazing how they get "protected" from the joys of diversity.
