Posted on 08/22/2022 2:29:01 PM PDT by grundle
My kids attended South High. They did have some caring teachers and expectations were high. The assumption was that you were bound for college, or, second choice, vocational school. (Yes, I know that will rile some here, but it’s how they roll. I don’t feel bad about that because you can also enroll in adult level vocational classes while at South and a free bus will take you over to the vocational school.). The kids are from every background but they nearly all have parents with high expectations for their kids and for the school. Many are immigrants who aspire to the American dream. They are often upper middle class. Parents volunteer and kick in money for sports and extra curriculars. The per pupil spending and teacher salaries are less than LA Unified. The graduation rate is over 90%.
Yes, there are stoners, thots, and slacker kids, sneaking vape in wood shop, for example, I’m told. There are shallow, materialistic kids and gamers. But there are also a lot of “try hards”, and a notable number of religiously observant, and even conservative, students and faculty.
I am aware of only one fight my kids saw in the total of 7 years we had kids there. Guess who: two girls.
We have a pic of our son and his friends. Several skin tones and every major world religion is represented in that picture. It just goes to show what is possible when people aren’t making racism a focal point of life.
For the author, I would say that while it might be nice for him to hear college stories from black teachers, it is far more important that he hear competent instruction. College stories from his white and Asian teachers won’t hurt him any, either.
Go South!!
This is one of the simplest yet most profound statements I have read on Free Republic. Kudos.
Amazing...Black educators in black majority schools are not educating their students...
Blacks will never come to the realization they’ve been played by the Democrats.
There’s too much money involved.
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