30% of american teens drop out of school. Is this because of ghettos?
491923
I think the reason isn't because of the "ghetto" itself... it's because of the vast majority of children being born to unwed women/girls that happen to live in the ghetto.  I believe that most of the bad things that happen to kids (early and later in life) happen due to not having a man in the house... for support, discipline and guidance as well as being an overall stabilizing force in the home, church and community overall.\n\nGood luck in school... take advantage of your opportunities and leave the baby-makin to someone else till you are married.
385384
it is just a reflection of the communities that hip hop came from.  Most of these guys are from the streets.  And what do is always said? you can take so and so out of the ghetto, but you can never take the ghetto out of so and so.  it is ruff out there.  Police brutality.  Gang violence. drug deals gone bad.
558727
Most kids drop out of high school because they are not motivated to learn. It seems like their future is "not there" for them. And some people have no one to push them to do their best in school.\n\nAnd, to tell you the truth, some kids drop out because their parents don't check on them, just like I did. I just quit going because I did not want to read, actually because I did not want to be a "burden" to anyone. And guess what...I made the biggest mistake a woman can make: I "fell in love" with a loser.\n\nBut there's always hope.
116932
No. I think that the education system in the US is terrible. The schools here don't get students ready for college. When I made the transition from high school to college it was very difficult. I was not ready and I think that the schools need to do more to get high school grads ready for life outside of school.
863087
Well, being a teenager myself, I would say the vast majority of us are ignorant, apathetic idiots.  But there is a number of us that show promise and really do care about their education and what's going on in the world.
1085358
Really? What a low graduation rate?\n\nI grew up in NYC and there are a lot of people graduating from HS. It seems that teachers and parents need to work together to solve this problem. It is truth that we are wasting tax payers money for students if they are not taking advantage of it.
564926
I don't want to sound a bit too rash but a lot of America's youths don't really deserve to live anywhere near that country. Lots of young men and women in third world countries are willing to give up an arm and leg (and study their butts off) to even have a single window of opportunity open to them. I hope these people realize how lucky they are and in doing so, live up to what's exoected of them.
159766
I would think students drop out of school for many different reasons. There's severe family crises, which create difficulties for one to concentrate in school. Some drop out of college due to financial reasons; balancing work and school can be very hard. Some people decide that they need time off to discover themselves first by working, going into the military, or traveling. An accident pregnancy can prevent one from finishing school. Some people just do not care about school, and let themselves fail, which, ultimately leads to dropping out. Though there are also just some that believe school is too much, and that they are not smart enough to continue... I'm sure there are a lot more reasons, but here's just some thoughts?
679049
Your painting the picture too black and white -- causing you to jump to a false conclusion.\n\nWhite people living in all white city have no exposure to the outside world -- and as a result they are incresingly blind deaf and dumb when it comes to understanding the problems of people in the world that aren't like them\n\nIt has nothing to do with wanting white people to live in the ghetto, but rather to have them exposed to the wide range of people and perspectives so that they are more sensitive to them.
116599
If kids aren't held accountable at home, they suffer in school. Unless the home is a structured environment, much like the school, kids begin to associate school with a lack of freedom; they will rebel, lash out and shut down.
1136178
you start with education,everything else follows.but before that can happen all the media sponsored negative role modelsneed to disapear.in their subtle way mass media tells african american children,their path to success is entertainment,or atheletics,both of which are 1 in a million shots.the other stereotype put forward is gangsterism.african american children need to know about people like comer cottrell,he started with nothing and built a cosmetics empire.all the black doctors and lawyers,politician's and clergymen.
251991
nope,they are LAZY and want everything the easy way out.Parents are to blame for that.\nWhen I went to school I had better come home with A's and B's or my *** was grass !\nMy parents wanted the best for me and expected the best !
1032159
I agree with the first poster, I would like to see more of it happen. It might not work out too great short term but I think it would pay off in the long run. Hopefully it would help diversify more communities, and help people learn about differant cultures and point of views. I think it would also be beneficial to the school systems that would in turn take in more money and even things out a little more. Might be a lessor crime rate and less of a gang problem as well. But on the other hand it could also be devastating to the inner city. Forcing them into an even smaller area and having even worse problems. So yea, I don't know really..
829403
I don't think it has to do with minority, i think it has to do with the level of education combined with the level of professionalism. Then again, there are so many people in the society who don't believe that minorities are cotton-making, house cleaners who are nothing. If the stereo types are dropped maybe we couldhave a preident who is a minority. But hey, this is coming from a 14 year old's point of view.
104379
YOU GOT US ALL WONDERING, NOWADAYS, kids are refusing to learn and learning in not to work because there is other ways of getting money, from stealing to selling drugs. This had me wondering, I personally know some kids just finished graduating from university schools and they CAN NOT MAKE SIMPLY CHANGE AS AN CASHIER, UNLESS THEY HAVE A COMPUTER OR AN CACULATOR TODO THAT FOR THEM! Well im 33 year old and have 2 kids in school and now its mandatory for them to have calculators. When I was in there grades WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE, the only thing we were allowed to use  was a piece of paper or our heads to calculate a answer. Now i see this "graduate" university kids acting like this. I KNOW ITS GOING TO BE A VERY SCARY FUTURE. Those kids someday might be our president of our country, or our future doctors.  Tell you the truth I rather off being dead than alive. Even highschool kids are getting to be very scary. If they don't have there names written down on a piece of paper, Im pretty sure they will forget in how to spell it. The best way to resolve this us parents must Demand for higher school achievements or standards. and not let those standards get any lower, then they are set now! and start demanding kids todo more educational things other than letting them play a PS2 system for hours on ends so they can master the game, and it doesn't stops there, have you heard the music they listen, especially to rap, in how they are killing people and being in gangs or doing drugs or talking about sex. these rappers now have have to change there lyrics to get kids into staying in school and promote something to better our kids SO WE CAN ALL HAVE A BETTER FUTURE. IF WE CAN PULL THIS OFF our future will be better and will be more secured than it sits as now.
612240
Yes, but they don't have the same crime rates that ghettos have in the U.S..
423665
i would say highly populated cities, like NYC. i did a survey for a psych course, out of 25,000 kids under the age of 5 in my neighborhood, about 22,0000 needed childhood intervention for speech. of those 22,000 only 16,000 were enrolled (lack of early childhood intervention schools)