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[quote=Anonymous]I've been looking at and following the Humans of NY pic re that school in Brooklyn (the Bronx) that the photographer went to and raised money for. I seriously don't get why teachers choose to work in such places and then talk about how tough it is. No -- you are not changing the world.

The fact is that most (not all -- there are exceptions) who live in those areas and attend those schools don't believe in education. I don't fault the kids. I fault the parents. Most (again -- not all) dream that their kid will get drafted to the NFL or the NBA and make millions; they stress that over an education that could let a kid at least go to city/community college, get a job that pays 40-50k and allows you out of the projects. No -- they think it's either NFL money or nothing at all. The US just doesn't have the same emphasis on education that a lot of poor countries don't. I'm not even talking about India and China because they'll be discounted as "Asians are all about education." But even a teacher they interviewed at that school who is from Nigeria said -- students in Nigerian villages are so much poorer and get much less -- they don't get free breakfast; they come to school with no shoes; they sit on the floor all day at school -- yet there is a belief that education will help them uplift in some way and that causes them to WANT the education and work hard; maybe not to a $4 million job but to a $30k job which is still better than where their parents are at now.

But here in the US, you have kids living in the projects, coming to school in top of the line sneakers, being given free breakfast and lunch (at least in NYC) and still not having their homework done or talking back to the teacher or whatever and just not wanting to be in school. And then people make excuses about "they're worried about their home life" or "you don't understand -- it's hard to learn when you're hungry." I'm sure African village children are worried about their home lives too and are hungrier, yet they still make an effort. So yeah -- I blame the parents; and moreso I don't see why any adult with a degree sacrifices his/her life to teach in these schools, earn way less than he/she would in wealthier districts, and put up with this garbage bc they really aren't changing anything. Let's be honest more than half the boys they're teaching will end up in jail or as drug dealers, no matter how much the teachers slave away on that algebra lesson.[/quote]

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