No Child Left Behind: Douglass HS (BMORE) Documentary (HBO NOW)

[DC]

Documentary on Douglass (BMORE) comin on HBO @ 9

[NC State-31 UNC-27]

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****! My HBO has been out for like a week now for no reason. Really wanted to see this

[wwharton]

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Man I saw this late. I think I can catch it on HBO west though. Hadn't even heard of this but it should be interesting. For those on the outside looking in, Douglas is pretty close to The Wire's main area. Again, I don't know anything about this documentary but my guess is it'll be a real life look at some of the things The Wire focused on in the next to last season. I know a lot of teachers and the public school system here is pretty crazy. This should be interesting.

Baltimore getting all kinds of love from HBO. Crazy... maybe it'll help get some changes.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Whaddup Yo? Any of you gotta Fug yo?

[wwharton]

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Whaddup Yo? Any of you gotta Fug yo?

ooook. you must live in dc.

[N51_rob]

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1 parent to the science teacher for back to school night. Wasn't Douglas where Dookie got sent when he got promoted up in season 4, or was it Edison?

[ProfessaPackMan]

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ooook. you must live in dc.

My bad man lol.

No disrespected intended towards you(I'm assuming you're from Bmore)Just had to get that out right quick

[fistofrage]

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That school is in critical condition. Some of those statistics they were throwing around were just sad. Hopefully someone can come up with a solution on how to get these kids an education. Detroit has it share of schools that fit this criteria as well.

[boomhauertjs]

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No matter how much money you throw at the schools, it's not going to matter unless the parents are involved. If a kid's got no support at home, he's got little to no chance to succeed, with very rare exceptions.

[fistofrage]

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No matter how much money you throw at the schools, it's not going to matter unless the parents are involved. If a kid's got no support at home, he's got little to no chance to succeed, with very rare exceptions.

Yep, they mentioned that too. A generation or two ago, nearly every child had 2 parents at home, now it appears that they either have 1 or are living where they can with relatives, etc. And now this cycle is repeating itself. That school has 500 freshmen and 180 Seniors. So less than 40% of the kids even make to senior year. Only 4% can read at their grade level I think I heard. You are right, if the parents don't care, the kids won't either. But given that we know the parents aren't going to become magically involved, how do you get these kids to value a education.

Unfortunately, solving the problem will take years, but they have already been working on the problem for years and it just doesn't get better.

[ezekiel55]

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My roommate teaches on the southside of Chicago and I hear the horror stories of no child left behind from him.

As an example students who are in special education have to be scoring and improving at the same rates the "normal" students are...the whole system is a freakin joke!

[Heelfan71]

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those kids have zero respect for elders. Half of them skip class or the teachers tell them to do something and they refuse too. They are basically digging there own grave. Plus the teachers are told to give retakes on the final exam if a student can't graduate. One kid was 17 and in 9th grade.

All the teachers I saw were pretty good and really trying. Hard to teach someone that doesn't want to be taught though.

[wwharton]

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My bad man lol.

No disrespected intended towards you(I'm assuming you're from Bmore)Just had to get that out right quick

yeah yeah. not at the "no disrespect" comment, that joke is just a little played. whatever floats your boat... bama

[Jackdog]

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those kids have zero respect for elders. Half of them skip class or the teachers tell them to do something and they refuse too. They are basically digging there own grave. Plus the teachers are told to give retakes on the final exam if a student can't graduate. One kid was 17 and in 9th grade.

All the teachers I saw were pretty good and really trying. Hard to teach someone that doesn't want to be taught though.

Sad but very true. Good points.

[fistofrage]

Re: No Child Left Behind: Douglass HS (BMORE) Documentary (HBO NOW)

those kids have zero respect for elders. Half of them skip class or the teachers tell them to do something and they refuse too. They are basically digging there own grave. Plus the teachers are told to give retakes on the final exam if a student can't graduate. One kid was 17 and in 9th grade.

All the teachers I saw were pretty good and really trying. Hard to teach someone that doesn't want to be taught though.

The thing that I don't understand though, is why they don't want to be taught. Granted there would be alot of peer pressure to not academically succeed, but they see their community going to shambles. They should want to succeed for the selfish reason of getting the heck out of there with the ability to have a good career or for philanthropic reasons of doing well to come back to contribute to the community.

The teachers preach this being their ticket to better things. Why don't they get it? I mean some go to school to hang out in the halls. If you are already there, might as well go to class and get a diploma.