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[quote=Anonymous]That's not "contrary to what reformers thought" - no, schools aren't the only thing out there and kids only spend a portion of their time in schools.  But your "solution" seems to be to just give schools a pass and return to the status quo, which obviously wasn't working (the stagnation and widening achievement gap isn't DUE TO reforms, there's no causal relationship there).  Cheating was due to unscrupulous teachers and administrators, not due to reforms - nobody at the top ordered anyone to cheat, and frankly there were many teachers and administrators who should have been fired because they were ineffective.

Certainly schools could and should continue to have a role in letting kids know how important a proper education is, and letting them know about all of the free educational resources that exist.

The cultural issues are so deep that they essentially amount to brainwashing - kids are practically being taught by their peers and their immediate community to reject education and good behavior in a misguided belief that it's definitional to urban AA culture - something that would bring a tear to the eye of Martin Luther King Jr. - I think we've all heard the terms "acting ghetto" and "acting white".  It's a disgrace that the phenomenon even exists that people readily say such things. That needs to end.[/quote]

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