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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's childhood trauma, chaotic environments for babies and kids, and no moral or ethical training in early childhood. Overstressed single mothers themselves traumatized in childhood unable/unwilling to create calm and safe environments for their kids. Then for school age kids, a culture of "don't act white" and lack of respect for teachers, education and laws among the peer group. [/quote]Exactly.  It's not their fault. Because of slavery  black people can't help but commit crime.[/quote]

Nah something else is going on. Under Williams and Fenty crime was getting so low people started moving back to the city. I don’t exactly remember their policies but someone obviously changed a formula that was working[/quote]

Sometimes it's not specific policies. But rather the confluence of other things that lead to a cultural shift. If you talk to teachers, they all note how weak and unprepared students are at every grade level today. Many will attribute the beginnings of this dramatic drop off to No Child Left Behind, which led to a focus on teaching to the test with an emphasis on focusing on the bottom 5 percent of the class at the expense of everyone else. Additionally, the way we taught reading and writing completely changed. Phonics were no longer taught. Now it was all about patterns. Which means if you don't come from a reading household where parents are teaching kids how to read by using sounds, students are effectively lost and illiterate by 10. And they never catch up. Additionally, similar changes occurred in the way math was taught. No one learns basics like multiplication tables anymore. We abandoned real teaching for vapid, unproven theories pushed by consultants and administrators - not teachers.

The effect of all this is that if a kid doesn't come from a highly educated and supportive household environment, they are dumb as rocks these days. They can't read. They can't write. They can't do basic arithmetic. And by fifth grade, there is no chance of catching up. I genuinely believe that the changes we've made to how we educate kids has led to profound impacts on the intelligence and aptitude of this generation of young people.

Throw in Covid, with its nearly two years of isolation. Many of these kids missed a big part of the socialization process. Add in Black Lives Matter, and the subsequent removal of policing, prosecution, and consequences for crime in DC. Toss in social media, with its toxicity and the destruction of attention spans. And the results speak for themselves.

Kids coming from well-educated households with a lot of books and an emphasis on learning will always find a way. This isn't about kids assigned to Whitman or Langley. But if you don't come from a household like that, and you go to school in DC - poor, unprepared single moms, crime, instability, social pressure to behave in certain ways - there is almost no chance a kid emerges as well-educated and employable. We've made it impossible.

It's a completely lost generation[/quote]

But I thought all the kids were in honors classes at Jackson Reed?[/quote]

Are you maybe thinking of "honors for all"?[/quote]

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