My theory...education requires three things, like a tripod. Parents that value education, teachers that care, and students that know they need it. If you have more than a generation that has lost this in a culture it will flounder indefinitely.
If the parents, plural, don’t care the odds of the child valuing education will drop substantially. If it becomes the norm in a community it just becomes a reinforced bias to the students that it isn’t important.
Some parents lucky enough to have a child that values education when the parents don’t can be subjected to an active discouragement of higher learning....being told, “do you think you’re better than we are?”. I’ve personally seen this. I can’t imagine growing up in such an environment.
If a teacher sees this type of environment then why should they care? Their efforts will be fruitless and they know it. So I don’t blame the schools or teachers. It is the culture of the parents that must change first. Until that happens nothing will improve.
like i said teachers cannot teach hoodrats that do not want to and refuse to learn the simple basics of what it takes to survive in today's society