UPDATE: It's been 6 years and I'm still teaching at a Detroit Charter, and it's a good school. I actually started my career at the charter shown in this video. Overall, teaching has had some rough spots and I've had A LOT of moments where I questioned my why, but thank God I'm still doing it. Now... idk how many more years I have left. This video still saddens me 8 years later. But I can tell you, I've had the privilege of teaching some very intelligent students
God bless you Ms. Robinson for your dedication. I teach here in South Los Angeles and though I also teach at a decent school, we have a long way to go to turn education around in this country. Apart from the incompetence from many elected officials which are highlighted in this video, there are so many policies school wide and district wide that are intended to help the kids, but are actually hurting them. This is a national crisis that unfortunately our elected officials in our local community, state, and country fail to address with honest reflection and collaborative solutions.
Having lived in Detroit for more than 50 years I can say the Detroit school board has caused Detroit continued poverty more than any one issue. These people should be put in prison for the fraud they have committed on the students of Detroit.
@@monicaperry9020 True. The USA stopped making cars until Donald Trump . As soon as he got someone to start production the unions organised the strikes that put everyone back in with the crabs. Detroit left Detroit because of poor labour issues. Who on earth is going to risk opening a multimillion dollar operation, when the workforce is unlikely to work?
My heart truly goes out to Deanna. She's an intelligent, warm and witty young lady who just needed a chance. I grew up in Detroit and went to DPS schools. Sadly, every school I attended from elementary to high school is permanently closed. I went to Crockett Technical high school from 97' to 01' it was slightly better than other schools in DPS because of the vocational/ technical training, they also didnt tolerate bad grades or behaviorial problems but in comparison to suburban schools there was no comparison. I was determined to leave Detroit from the time I was very young. I remember knowing there was something wrong as a young child. I graduated from college and went on to earn a graduate degree from Central Michgan University. That was from sheer determination. I was not prepared for college and had to study very hard but I made it and I now have an awareness that I desire to give back to others. I was the first person in my family to graduate from college and sadly that was a big deal. In college, my classmates were expected to graduate. There was no other option for them. Like Deanna, I had adversity, my mother died suddenly from a massive heart attack the summer between sophomore and junior year of college. I didnt quit and went back to school the following semester. I'm confident Deanna will have a great future but she has to stay on the right track and keep persevering in the face of adversity. If she keeps doing that God will send people to help her at every turn (as He did with me). I'm not sure why I wrote all of this but I hope it encourages someone!
For everyone curious about sweet, intelligent, and beautiful Deanna Williams, she’s doing extraordinary. I did some digging, because I was curious about her and wanted to see if I could get an update. She ended up getting her Doctorate Degree in Education from the University of Missouri, and she’s the Director of Multicultural Affairs at Fontboone University in Missouri. I’m so proud of her! She truly used all of her pain, hardships, and adversity - and turned it into purpose. I wish her nothing but peace, happiness, and abundance in life. You can tell that she has such a sweet, genuine, and compassionate soul! 🦋✨
@@keirangreen7004 at the risk of sounding not humble I really think that I'm pretty good at judging when someone is the real thing. didn't take much to recognize this young lady was the real stuff and I'm not one bit surprised that she excelled in thriving in a career where she can be a great utility for her community
I believe more racism than corruption. Public schools that black and Latino children go to are set up k-12 to give children the worst education possible. That evilness and racism comes from the city,state and government. The city, state and government has closed and closing many, many schools that black and Latino children attended. The state and government are building more prisons.I believe there are many teachers that care about the children receiving a good education. Some of the have said the its have them to pass failing students. But the city, state and government don’t give funding for books computers and many other things the children need. It is possible the person(s) that’s I suppose to sed the funds to the schools pocket the money. Some of the teachers buy some supplies with their own money. Also there are too many students in the classrooms. This is a very sad and evil,vicious,corrupt and racism system. It is soooooo unfair to the children.They deserve the best education . George Bush junior said no child let behind. The city,state and government have left behind the black and Latino children.☹️☹️✌🏽
Now, what some parents forget, is that they shouldn't depend on the teachers to teach their children everything and they themselves must get involved with their learning.
That's true, but that's not the point of the documentary. It is about failing schools and teachers who are teaching nothing. Parents shouldn't be expected to teach their children everything. That's why schools exist.
It’s everyone’s fault, the teachers union and their greed, the teachers not caring because they get paid whether the kids learn or not and they are forced to pass the students even if they don’t do the work, the parents and their lack of involvement in their kids lives, and the students for not caring, laziness, interrupting classes and the learning of those kids who care. These kids are going into high school and can’t read or do basic math, it starts in kindergarten and first grade with getting these kids back on the right track. These kids don’t even fear punishment, we had corporal punishment and we are still alive and functioned better than these kids when we were in school. Everyone in my class acted up and was punished with setting out of recess, spankings, etc. and we were a good class after kindergarten because we couldn’t get away with acting up or acting out, and by second grade we were a great class that our teachers loved and loved to teach. What teacher wants to teach a bunch of unruly, rude, crude, socially unacceptable kids? Not me.
@@bryanhempel4764 That is so dumb--it isn't everyone's fault--and to blame teachers and their "greed" is laughable. Most teachers go into the profession knowing the pay will be garbage, the parents usually completely worthless, and that they will get little to no respect from the public (for example--people like you). They do it (MOST of them) because they have a calling. To help the students, but most important--to help the students help themselves. You obviously have no clue--and good teachers don't have classes full of rude, crude, and socially unacceptable students. You know who IS to blame? Your precious "No child left behind" and similar education reforms that rely solely upon testing--standardized testing.only. Guess what? When President Bush signed into effect the "No child left behind" act--his brother and part of his family OWNED the testing company that made the FCAT--the test that was given to EVERY student in Florida 3rd, 8th, and 12th grade. Put the blame where is belongs--GREEDY CORPORATE american billionaires.
I taught in Detroit for nine years at the high school level. I have had some brilliant students who have consistently done well throughout their years and gone on to some of the most prestigious universities in the country. Most of the students who come to me, however, are seven years behind. This is a systemic problem and needs to begin at the preschool level and involve the school and home in a partnership in learning.
I taught there for nearly 20. Burbank, Northwestern, Pershing, Ford, Cass Tech, then after a 6 year layoff, Western International. I can tell you the latter 2 were the best schools I have taught in a far as DPS/DPSCD. However great those schools were, at does not change the fact that there was a great deal of corruption, infighting, systemic misallocation of funds, and a vast amount of overhead. Some of my best memories of teaching were in the city. Add to that many success stories of great students, and great times with great colleagues, many whom I keep in contact with to this day. What drove me away was the commute from Genesee County to southwest Detroit. I did not relish the drive home at all. I also did not enjoy copiers breaking down and getting fixed 1 month later. Currently, I teach in Fenton, MI.
Some of the Board Members were barely able to communicate in English; they should never be placed in such a position. They all should have been subjected to a criminal investigation.
@Tom Smith give the minorities a break...it's not their fault that some of their black ancestral brothers back in Africa sold them into slavery a few years back!
Deanna's mom is amazing. She raised her kids so well with little resources. Her kids are a real credit to her. I was raised in the UK in a low income family of 4 and I totally credit my mum with making sure I learned and read and was cultured like Deanna's mom did. My mum worked in a shoe repairs place in the day and as s bartender at night and even though we didnt have money she always took me to free museums when she could and got me books and did all my projects with me. She put me in for my 11+ test at the end of primary school which my school didn't offer so she had to take me to the next town over to take it at another school. I tested into a good secondary school and traveled on the city bus to it cos we never had a car. She left me £2 out every morning for lunch. As an adult I have so much respect for my mum's dedication to my education. Like Deanna's mom, my mum had me right after graduation. I hope Deanna's mom knows how amazing she is.
Students are crammed in classes with one teacher. There is no Civil Rights Problem in schools . This is one of the most old and used comment. Parents need to help to. One teacher can’t teach everyone that won’t listen. The ones who try will make it. They can become anything they want but parents has to step in to help their kids learn to. I’m from a poor family but I graduated and even went to college. Anyone that want educations can get them if they want bad enough. It starts at home tho. Mom or Dad or both should try and spend some time with their children to make sure they’re understanding what they’re learning. My parents didn’t finish school because they grew up as poor as anyone. They would set down and read. Not so well at first but the more they tried the better it got. It starts at home parents must try to help to 0ne teacher with 40 students can not tech everyone if the student doesn’t care. That’s where Mom and Dad should step in and require that child learns… 🫤😒👏🏼My mom was a waitress my dad parked cars for a living. I had no idea we were poor. You can make it out of poverty if you want.
I’m a product of DPS and Emerson and Holcomb were my neighborhood schools but I attended a private school up to 4th grade and after that I attended a charter school that was a hidden gem 💎 and I transitioned to Cass Technical HS after that! I attended college and grad school in TX. I’m blessed to have had both parents who were serious about our education in DPS! I live out side of Michigan now after graduating from college but I pray Mr. Bob has left a legacy for continuous growth and improvement in the DPS system!
I hope you live a long happy prosperus life.. You have worked hard & earned it.. Hug your parents every chance you get. Good luck & good health to you pretty lady!
Plenty of students want to learn and have to fight teachers to do so. I was one of them. You don't have to be an ethnic minority to get screwed over by public school unions, although I'll admit that it definitely helps.
Calling the schools "failing" implies that all the students come in ready and willing to learn and the teachers and administrators do not provide the education that the students need. In fact, the reason why the students are failing or dropping out is because students are excessively absent and/or tardy, and when they do come to school, students are more concerned with socializing and texting on their phones than learning anything. Students in so-called "failing schools" are disrespectful and have little to no self control, nor do they take responsibility for their actions when their actions lead to failing courses. The bottom line is that the students and parents are ultimately to blame for "failing schools", not the faculty. Think about it....a core group of teachers have taught for 30 years in the district in which I teach now. Thirty years ago our school was considered a top-notch high school - there was a 99% graduation rate. This group of teachers enjoyed many, many years of teaching successful students. Things started to change about 15 years into their time in this high school. Our community lost many major companies and factories, and with that, many jobs were lost. People started moving out of the community and property values began to fall. This caused the demographics to shift, and with it, our school started to experience higher drop-out rates and more discipline issues. Our once stellar high school started to go down hill - we are now labeled "at risk". So, what changed over the past 30 years? The same core teachers remained in the school - and these teachers mentored new teachers as they came into the district. It was the STUDENTS who changed, not the teaching. The teachers noticed that, where 25 years ago parent-teacher conferences were attended by most parents, now they are lucky to see 10 parents out of over 110 students enrolled in their classes. STOP BLAMING THE EDUCATORS! START INSISTING THAT STUDENTS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR EDUCATION - AND PARENTS TAKE PART IN THEIR CHILD"S EDUCATION!
Preach!! I never once in my life believed race was the reason for failure nor the past affecting the now of opportunities that one's ancestors suffered for them to have now. I have always believed its those who sought the opportunity to advance or overcome that made it and will make it and those who don't care and waste time fail disastrously. Character is the reason for success as it is for failure
I am a DPS educator! I am a product of DPS! I roll up my sleeves daily to teach, inspire and motivate my students! I am proud to say, "I get the job done!" The system stands on corruption, injustices and a lot of nepotism. Two years ago, I was written-up for the first time for "snitching." The students were suppose to receive 90 minutes of Math each day, per the district and they were only receiving 45 minutes per day. A week after this information was exposed, I was written-up for arriving at work at 8:18, although 8:30 a.m. was the start time. Of course, this write-up was RESCINDED with the help of the mighty DFT Union, but this goes to show, it is NOT always the teachers! There are a lot of hardworking, effective and productive DPS teachers! Let's look at the whole picture! The teachers are the soldiers on the front line! Stand with the teachers! It's not always the teachers!
Bob Thompson, the one who offered to give two hundred million dollars to build 15 charter schools is not throwing money at the school, if that's what you're talking about. It's been proven that this Detroit charter school is effective and is working. In my arrogant opinion, the system just wants to keep the school-to-prison pipeline going
@@teresawicks-kq3bq That could be true. For I learned through study and observation, in government, there's ALWAYS an underlying season that's founded on money. Those nasty, greedy, self serving devils don't care 'who' looses just as long as 'they' win.
@@jamescoleman446 one thing that needs to happen is the schools teachers union need to have their ass kicked. Secondly discipline has to be put back in school. A little bit of love of country needs put back in schools. And I know it’s not popular but God needs back in schools. Maybe if we had God in schools we wouldn’t have adults in prisons finding God
Unfortunately things have not changed in the past 8 years. This still goes on and it is shameful. I am a teacher and parents have told me that school board members have told them to sit down and be quiet. What they decide directly affects schools, students, families and teachers and they are a bunch of greedy, unprofessional idiots.
I'm 35 years old and was born and raised in Detroit MI. I was not born into a two parent home (my Dad was in and out of prison most of my life) but my mother came from a two parent home and I grew up with them. She was very smart and educated but was inticed by the hood life she did not grow up around. I had a good concept of family despite having a father not in the home. I had my uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents who instilled family values and morals in my life at a young age. This alone made me an outsider growing up in Detroit. I was called white black girl because I spoke clearly and eloquently. I listened to ALL kinds of music, read many non fiction and fiction books for fun. I enjoyed school at first. We stayed on Detroit's west side when it was inhabited by middle class blacks. That in itself made me "boujee". When my mom left the family to live on her own we stayed in bad areas and I went to bad schools. That's when I started to hate school. I was constantly bullied and called names and really didn't fit in. I had to adopt the "hood lifestyle" to make it on Detroit. Later in my life I lived briefly in a suburb of Atlanta in a mostly white school. Let's just say their curriculum was much more engaging than the DPS high school I went to and then I saw how bad DPS students had it and I also saw that the parents didn't give a damn. They were complacent and happy with less than mediocre studies and didn't invest the time or money for their kids education.
It makes you think: why do they even bother having that school if only 11 students pass a basic competency test at the end? Clearly not a lot of work is being done there.
@@jetcampbell9897 That's right - fiscally, morally, socially, and ultimately spiritually, the democrats are destroying the country, sub culture by sub culture, city by city, state by state. They don't care as long as they're in power.
Dear Deanna it's been 11 years I hope you are ok! Cheers from Portugal and congratulations for your effort and never give up and I hope you are ok and your family and friends
The first immigrants to America didn't help their children learn they wanted them to work in sweat shops. But those kids learned, even the children of slaves and sharecroppers. The problem isn't children can't learn its that they aren't learning enough. Why? Because they aren't being taught enough. Kids don't know they're cheated until they enroll in college and have to make up a lot of ground because the black schools never taught the subject matter. Black women who teach have been cheating black children for about 60 years and going. The teachers aren't any damn good! Wake up and smell the coffee!
+C Truth do u work in a school ? I do and to a degree u are wrong. The districts and the public demand statistics that look pretty on paper then quality goes down as well as morale. Let's not forget these parents that don't do their job and want to jump down teachers throat when their lil dumbass , who is on their phone , isn't learning anything
I had to tutor my son because the school dropped phonics in favor of "whole language." What a joke. One book, a few hours of work, and he was reading like a champ.
My daughter has a friend that gets up at 5 am to get up and leave for school. He rides the city bus to get to a better school. Sad that a child has to wake so early to get to school because it's better to go to school outside Detroit. Watching this video was sad. Children are first not last.
Dorothy Lawrence then that child's parent.. yes parent cuz chances r they only have 1.. needs to ensure that better life for her children. . Yes children.. cuz chances r.. she has several.. by several different men
Dorothy Lawrence well.....sometimes you have to sacrifice something to get something....1 hour less of sleeping will probably teach the kids responsibility....and not take anything for granted...
The kids that attend school on my island have to travel from surrounding islands by taking the 3 am water taxi. They leave by 4 pm and are home by 7-9 pm. Because of these long hrs the school only has a 3 and a half day week, giving every child and teacher a 3 and a half day weekend. Surprisingly enough the kids are some of the best educated in Canada via public school. They rate highest in the country. We also live in Canada's most expensive postal code...so there is that
The US as a whole only has an 86% literacy rate. Many blame this on a large immigrant population that cannot read or write English. They are then marked as illiterate.
@A Person believe me I know. I just had to teach a refresher class on grammar to govt employees who prepare documents for U.S. Tax Court. I am the only black person in the office and I volunteered to teach because I was embarrassed at the product being entered in to an official record. So while they can READ, they had poor punctuation, grammar, syntax, spelling etc.
@@newaddress456 I agree, I write poetry but usually only when I'm overwhelmed with emotion, usually disgust at the system or society. I write limericks for fun and for the arts sake, but the poetry I'm compelled to write is usually in response to overflowing outrage. It's good to get it out, whatever form it takes. Better than stuffing it back down inside to fester. Words are the way I process anger. On a small scale I mutter or talk to the air, if it's too much for that then I write. Afterwards I feel more ordered and the anger leaves with the words, whether spoken or written, though I often get an echo of it upon reading what I've written. Sometimes it gives me chills if it was in response to a particularly nasty injustice. The poem I composed after the untimely death of George Floyd is one such. It's so intense I still get shivers reading it. In the spirit of the old Irish folk artists, outrage is a powerful and binding emotion, well suited to allowing the pain to be shared. I don't really write otherwise, without a driving emotion I find it hard. It's either flows out of me 90% complete and then I tweak to my satisfaction, or I struggle and find nothing but triteness in my words, and then abandon it. It brings me no joy or satisfaction when it doesn't flow straight from the brain to the page. Limericks are the exception as they have a clearly defined formula and I enjoy the bawdiness of the format. I also enjoy rap and hip-hop as much for the poetry, as the music itself.
@@Si74l0rd I am going to copy your comment and save it as word document. This is inspirational. I have not done much poetry at all, mostly just prose. I also publish a lot of academic research articles. Coming up with short stories takes more time. The writing is slower but it is all helpful to my mind. God bless you for writing this detailed comment ! I hope you have helped a lot to people with your comment.
@@newaddress456 I'm not sure how helpful it will be to others, I don't have a mind's eye, so I use language where others would probably use art. To me poetry is art, so it suffices as an emotional outlet. Usually humans tie memories to long term storage by association with stored images in long term memory, but I do it instead with a language database. So I've found poetry something I can do with relative ease, as long as I have sufficient motivation, whether that be emotional or just a desire to show off once in a while lol. In terms of prose, I write very long comments on TH-cam videos! But I find writing fiction difficult as I'm super logical and analytical, and not very creative in general. I prefer to read fiction! I've started a few short stories and had a crack at starting a novel, but between procrastination and a lack of ability, I gave up. I think on the whole I prefer writing analyses or non fiction to writing fiction. Once the pandemic is over I quite fancy trying to set words to music in one fashion or another, see whether that works better for my creative process. Best of luck with the writing in the future. It's a difficult field to earn a living, but very worthwhile if you can. Peace :)
GaslitWorld f. Melissa B welcome to afro-merica... Its a straight slide into hell from here.... look at egypt. The middle east..all were once the center of white civilization. UNTIL THEY ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BECOME MULTI CULTURAL... and OVER RUN WITH NON WHITES. FACTS ARE FACTS. NOT ENOUGH WHITES TO KEEP THIS SCAM GOING TOO MUCH LONGER.... THEY ARE THE ONES WHOS WAY OF LIVING AND STANDARDS HAVE GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET THINKING THEY OWE THE REST OF THE WORLD A BETTER LIFE! ITS ALL LIES.
Show me a single Egyptian statue, painting, etc that suggests that Egyptians were white. The ancient Egyptians themselves said they originated from the Land of Punt, which is in the Ethiopia/Somalia region...
I have worked in early childhood where every child had been in daycare since infancy and had nontraditional home lives, such as no dad or mom living with boyfriend etc. And I am now working in a place where every child in my class has a mom and dad stable and married to each other and the child used to be home with mom or dad instead of daycare. The difference between the kids is staggering.
I stayed home with my kids as wife and mom and would volunteer at my kids school and fyi we lived in what’s known as south side yet I had very good neighbors homeowners etc. Several teachers told me they wished they had more kids like mine. I held my kids accountable. It started to disturb me as I would hear this more and more but being in the classrooms I began to see it firsthand and then realized the difference was home life balance for kids and parents. Kids being housed in daycares I mean lousy daycares where they are just employees with no passion for kids and subpar facilities and activities.
The common courses taken in school are Biology/Chemistry/Physics/ American government. English. It is important to take AP courses to better your GPA. As well as a successful career.
It isn't just kids from single parent homes that are poorly behaved or educated. I know of lots of single parent kids that are fantastic. Intelligent, articulate, funny...the single parent thing is a myth. I also know of lots of kids from homes with both parents that are nasty, horrible, uneducated and ignorant. The children take on the characteristics of the parents, and if the married parents are assholes, then their kids will be assholes too. A very good friend of mine has a young child and she's a fantastic single mother. Her child is fantastic too...not yet 5 years old and doing algebra. I'm 43 and I can't do it. The "married parents raise better children" thing is a complete fallacy. Good parents, married, same sex, single, whatever, raise good children. Bad parents don't.
@@alwhyte6533 I agree and disagree with your statement. I see from the viewpoint of the original post and yours, as well, as I am fortunate enough to have raised one daughter within a marriage (now 20) and am currently raising a school aged child (age 9) as a single parent after my divorce. My oldest daughter was super smart. So smart that she skipped the first grade. She went on to enlist in the military (as I did at 18) and is doing amazing. My youngest daughter is equally amazing but not as academically smart because my oldest daughter had her father there to read to her and do math with her and give me much needed brakes on a regular basis. My youngest daughter is very sweet and kind and loving and she gets that from me and academically she has always been a little better than average but as a single parent I don't have (or more candidly don't make) the time to do extra school work with her which I totally regret but have planned to home school her in middle school when I finish my Financial Planning Certifications and go into business for my self. Now both my girls are sweet and loving because they are carbon copies of their mother- plus I'm a go getter which make my youngest aspire to entrepreneurship (she wants to be a business owner like her mom). But I'm also not a typical single mother (or a typical person actually). I make far more than the average single mom, spend far far less than the average person (which enables me to keep my daughter in the best schools and neighborhoods), and I have made her my top priority (no men in the house- not even boyfriends or casual acquaintances only a serious husband if he comes).... I live a pretty sterile life and that's ok. Thing is most single parents can't/won't sterilize their environments to raise their kids. Now please don't think my single motherhood was with out hardship. When I left the military I was chronically homeless with my kids (on and off for 6 years) but I always managed to land on my feet, never take a hand out (except a few days in a local shelter which I donated to after getting back on my feet), finished my second associate's degree and on my way to my bachelor's. Now one parent homes are what the one parent makes it but by and large if there is someone in your household to share the parenting or the financial burdens I think its better all around for the child economically, emotionally and educationally.
so true no check or penny should be spent unless its on the kids and if they need hq just renovate the old building and no one is hired for anything if the cfo of the edu dept dosent approve
Sadly, this is not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. The very same sorts of things are going on in many of our school districts across the nation. Some not as bad while others are just as corrupt.
@@karenpierce6424 So you have an uneducated populous vote in a board who fails at educating the next generation and your answer is "well they voted them in" It seems like you thought your comment out. Perhaps you were a DPS product.
"My teacher told me he would pass me if I just show up and shut up!" SMDH!! Kids can get a better education in some one room school house in some third world country in Africa than in the USA!
I’ll add this, I’m from Detroit. The times have not changed. Like Bill Cosby said” we have to stop blaming the white people for the way our kids act and start taking responsibility for our kids and be parents”.
OMPudding! You're actually gonna quote a sentenced and convicted "sexually violent predator" to support a position of "taking responsibility" (Judge Steven O'Neill)?! Only thing that quote is good for now is in the bowl of his metal prison toilet.
Take it easy. Regardless of how Cosby ended up and what he has been accused of doing, he has done plenty towards improving education in the black community and has been one of the few black activists with the balls to tell it like it is (at the expense of being called an uncle tom)
Strong black families and these staff members can only make a change...where is the ‘village ‘ and to support the beautiful people and, ‘oh wait, common Kardashian’s’ ..
I am ashamed of these non-performers. Put some military veterans in charge to manage this mess!!! I see too much of this non-accountability across America. Who wants these kinds of school board members? Jail them!
@Jeff Vaughn Well, I'm one of them Jeff. I hate to break this to you, but in the case of where I live, we have over 2,000 vets and military - and YES, it's true. Nothing wrong with that though. I'm in my mid-60's now, but have to go ... my 23 year old Asian girl is waiting for me.
@@markzucker3949 that's a dumbass statement. The American military is responsible for prostitution in China? India? Vietnam? Japan? Bangladesh? Where exactly?
I was raised in Detroit & I never went to a DPS school. Its very sad for those who can't afford Private Schooling. I wouldn't send a dog to a DPS SCHOOL! The entire system has been broken for 40 yrs this is nothing new, it's the children who suffer & become a DAMN STATISTIC!
Having been born and educated in Detroit public Schools. I was q Yuck to move away from the city when it was time for my 5 children to go to school. Back in 1975 as my second child was to start school, I was aware that if they were to be educated , we needed to move quickly So, we packed and moved to Florida and they now all have college degrees and good jobs to support their families
Paul Wratt according to our children still living in the area, the schools are still disfunctional. And the children and parents still don’t care about the children.
The only people responsible for this mess in Detroit are those who live there. THEY vandalized the buildings, they looted and rioted and destroyed, they had children too young, and often had too many, and then did not do what they needed to to parent. Add to that a corrupt school board out just to make money, and there you go. This has nothing to do with race or oppression. This is an issue of povery and irresponsibility. It's sad and tragic, but the people who have caused this disgrace ought to get all the blame. I was impressed by Deanna and hope she reaches her dream. At least her mom, when she became pregnant in high school, seems to have done the best she could.
JenesisX & Two French Bulldogs Critical lack of insight here. Detroit's fall is a confluence of suburban flight, globalization, corruption, poor schools and the attendant broken families left behind. Suggesting that people somehow live outside of that is naive and leads to solutions that fundamentally miss the mark.
***** This and other investigative reports like it are simply bringing to light one of the many factors that contribute to the plight of Detroit and cities suffering a similar problem. Just getting the general masses to think beyond the city being broke and crime ridden is no easy feat when images portrayed are continuously simplified to those denominators. It is easier to reduce the problems of any major city to Black (or brown), poor, and violent. Although I agree with you in that this report fell short of identifying the solution to this problem, it is unrealistic to expect a solution to a decades old problem of corruption and inadequacies from any documentary.
Studies show the number 1 factor in school success is parental involvement. I taught at a private school for 35 years where we had 90% attendance at conferences. My friend at an urban public school had 11%. He had 35 kids in his science class, I had 22. I asked how he could give any individual attention, and he said “no problem, after the first day I will only have about 10 show up each day.” That’s on the parents!
yup and thats due to poverty look at whats going on in the homes in the inner city when the kids are in K thru 6 the affect of the ghetto on many not all but many parents is they cant be there for the kids ..theyre just trying to put a roof over the families or a meal or two a day on the table..theyre too exhausted to spend time with the kids !!
Sadly of all these adults, Deanna, the child is by far the most mature. I wish her success at college, I know it will be a challenge for her as she wasn't prepared.
She wasn't anywhere near prepared. She was never even taught how to hold a pencil or not to chew gum during a graduation ceremony when she was the one graduating! Who you gonna blame that on?
@@Tantella1 thats how really dumb people are these days. My keyboard was stuck.....acting up, and there was no other reason. Anyone with a brain can see its the REAL crazy and deranged people making ignorant false assumptions. Pathetic morons. They even announce their imagined bullshit and feel clever because others more nutty than themselves, believe all the crap they dream up. Lol Aside from that, who cares if something is written in all CAPS or in the smallest font in italics..... if its the truth? You could not refute it so you attack the person instead of say anything with actual meaning..That is crazy.
I agree with you, but that's assuming that their parents are literate. They said in this documentary that 50% of Detroiters are functionally illiterate. Can't teach what you don't know.
So this Dan Rather report was from the 2009-2010 school year. I just googled, "how are Detroit schools doing?" I came across a news article from April of this year (2018) which says: "Michigan students were flat on a rigorous national exam, with scores virtually unchanged from the last time the test was given. But the bad news in the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress is out of Detroit, where student performance is the poorest in the nation. Again. The district's new leader pledges that will change." It seems nothing has changed.
@@sherryburrows2252 > It won't change until This was the pinnacle of Obammaramma:14 Jan 2012 What they need is a reform school, run by the military maybe Robert Bobb could get a job as the head Renaissance Man (FMovies) in the Corps of Engineers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers) under President Trump. Attending classes as they build the nation's infrastructures so desperately neglected for the last century. Yes, I know: Renaissance Man (1994) www.rogerebert.com/reviews/renaissance-man-1994 Unconvincing comedy cobbled to gloss over Robert McNamara's idiots, sent to Vietnam to fuck up that unconvincing war. But I think it, like Forrest Gump, was an enjoyable diversion if you ignore the deep-state's action behind it all. This documentary is the mirror that holds the realities. #McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the ... -
She seems to be doing very well, a director of a diversity program at Emporia State as of 2016 and working on her masters I believe...I found this after a little digging www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
The parents are looking to find fault with everyone but themselves. The Board of Education is elected by them, the mayor and other city officials are elected by them. Do they attend PTA meetings? Do they volunteer at the school? Do they help their children with their homework or even make sure it's done? Do they even teach the children manners and respect? Do the parents and children have library cards and use them regularly? Do the parents set an example for the children and encourage them? Look in the mirror, people. If you want a better life for your children, education is key and you are the key to them getting it, not someone else!
@Karen: I'm not sure I agree with that assessment. The documentary clearly shows a lot of parents who care a lot! I went through the Baltimore public school system, and I can personally attest to the fact that there were some really good teachers, but there were also some very, very bad teachers. We all learned a lot from the good teachers, but I don't think we learned too much from the bad teachers.
Lynnette Mooney You and me both. When I heard how smart and articulate she was notwithstanding her environment I couldn’t help but feel compassion for her.
What is a formal academic curriculum? It is buildings, parking spaces, chairs, tables, electronics, students, teachers, books, administrators. The list goes on. So, you have a place to meet. It has AC, food, drinks, a comfortable setting. Some might say it is the ideal place for education, the sharing of ideas, and becoming employable. Now, what we have is a case where young, urban students of public schools in Detroit have all these advantages, and about 70 % leave school before graduation. There are valid explanations for learning differences. I learned this as a teacher of English in south Korea, China, Kuwait, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia for ten years. There are so many aspects of the individual, the environment, personal events, social disorganization, family, the natural abilities, stages of cognitive development, social reinforcement, stress, hardships. Here are some matters to consider for knowing why some people learn to study, write, talk and think while others turn away from formalized education. Are students using drugs? Were they raised in stable families that encouraged education. Did they have books in the house? Did parents tutor students? Were the students genuinely interested in learning? Did they have a sound knowledge of methods for reading, writing, listening, and talking for academic purposes? What did they know about multiplying the power of memory? Did their parents have higher degrees of education? Were their families well off, middle class, lower classification, lower-lower? Did they have positive effective role models as examples of the success that can be achieved through education? How did they see their own futures? Were these kids who could look forward to prosperity and success, or could 4 out of ten young black men expect to end up in prison before the age of 25? How many were suffering mental, emotional and physical abuse at the hands of parents and others? Taken individually, what was the natural intelligence of each? What stressors affected them---poverty, one parent homelife, divorce, domestic violence, dangerous neighborhoods, malnutrition, flu, diseases? And what about that curriculum? Does it really supply all they need for success in school? Do they complete their homework? Are some, by necessity, employed with no time to devote to book work? I attended a meeting with a group of experienced teachers, and some had taught for 20 years. This is one fact I brought away from that meeting. If a person in school does not want to learn, and he is set on not learning, you cannot force him to learn. No matter what anyone may try to tell you to the contrary, you cannot force a person to study and learn.
My wife graduated from college and was looking forward to a long career as a teacher. She took a job just outside of Baltimore with a student body of 85% black and 10% Hispanic and approximately 5 percent white. I told her that she would be better off another 15 miles outside of the city, but she believed that she could handle things and 15 & 16 year olds are no problem. After a few weeks she was pretty upset so I asked about the problem. She told me that most of her students were at best reading at a 3rd grade level. Again I told her not to rock the boat but that's not her style. So she sent letters to the parents explaining the situation. She was called to the principals office and queried about her situation. He explained that he was getting a lot of phone calls from some irate parents and to stop sending letters. She was upset and just wanted to help. So being a crusader she sent letters home apologizing for the 1st. letter and she just wanted to help. Stop rocking the boat. I'm a teacher and I want to teach and help them succeed. She was in front of the principal again but with some happy parents as well. The parents wanted her fired because she's racist and doesn't want their children to graduate. It went back and forth until she quit and no longer teaches. Welcome to the real world. She didn't like being called racist, she has black friends and her best friend and roommate in college is black. She thought she knew black people, wrong. Teachers push students through that can't read or write not because of being over crowded, not because of the equipment and facilities but because if they don't push them through they're attacked, threatened and labeled by the students, parents and the system. As a college professor you learn the unwritten rules of teaching. Minorities especially blacks don't have the same educational opportunities that whites do. So don't be to hard on them because they will pass. Um ok. English essays written by 21 year old 2nd graders. I'm in college, college is cool, my summer was summer. Out friggin standing that's easily an A+ paper. I've asked students what their SAT or ACT scores were. They didn't take them. Huh? Didn't have to take them unless you wanted to but I didn't want to so I bagged. So we'll push minorities through the system, make the quotas, make the parents happy and proud that their son or daughter are college graduates that can barely read and write, never made it to Terig or Calculus so electives were substituted. Instead of Physics how about Music Appreciation? Math is more fun when it's Movie Appreciation. History don't need it. Basketball can be substituted for English. The University doesn't want trouble, they fear being labeled, they're under the gun to make the quota and if you're not going by the unwritten rules you're done.
Yes. I was currently looking to get educated in the path of Healthcare. So many opportunities. I say the best grades are A-B’s. At my school failure is not an option.
Since you wrote this two years ago, it has gotten much worse. You are exactly right. We have to pretend that everyone is capable of graduating college. It's ridiculous. Do you want a doctor who can't read to operate on you?
@@debbiehibben4781 the left believes that by pushing people through they're helping them. They're simply creating an illiterate culture that will be kept ignorant and trapped in the plantations we call cities. It's sad.
@@frederickwhite6416 And if things don't change soon, I fear that it will be too late. I hate Trump's personality, but at least he got the border under control and did other things to help. I just can't believe that the left says things are better! I wish we could get a moderate. You know, I've heard for years that the big city school boards are totally corrupt. I am so happy that I live in a city that is not like that! Those poor kids deserve bettter. No wonder they can't get jobs.
blame the parents. the number one way to sentence a child to a life of poverty, is to have them when you are not educationally, maturationally, or economically responsible
The hard truth. Most children born to financially unreliable and irresponsible parents are going to be damned to a horrible life of poverty. What this country needs more than anything is more severe child protecting services enforced. I know this from experience.
My dad had a private practice as a child psychologist, his biggest client base was DPS students and parents. He would go into the middle schools and high schools to assist and the horror stories he would tell. I grew up in the burbs of Detroit and it is literally night and day with only 20 miles between the city and the burb I grew up in. There are so many layers to such a problem as the one that is the school system in Detroit smh. I would often wonder if I would have turned out different if I had been raised in detroit as opposed to Birmingham, MI.
I'm a black Male lame and I'm not offended one bit. This needs to be addressed. I was hated by Black Street folks because I was lame and hated More by Black Educated folks because I was competition for the token jobs. You can't win.
Steve Alexander. He was in my 4th grade class. Steve was behind and was struggling. The teachers weren't helping him. Every few months a teacher would ridicule him about his grades and we would see tears in his eyes.
When my daughter lived in Wisconsin , she worked for a company that provided desks ,chairs, etc for schools around the Great Lakes region. She was in charge of working up bids for the various schools. She said that Michigan was a nightmare , there were convoluted guidelines and procedures that made it nearly impossible to submit a bid.
My daughter goes to Detroit public schools, they can't even take their books home to study, bc kids don't bring them back n most of their parents do not care. If I won the lottery Detroit public schools will 1st on my list for donations, I have nothing but love for all the teachers that get up n go everyday no matter what to teach our children
CHARLIESON duh and internet smallest packages run 70 dollars a month sometimes introductory price is 40 for first year. Detroit has no work to offer so how can parents afford internet. Narrow mind much?
CHARLIESON ...... which makes said certification actually a fraud. It really only certifies that your body showed up at the school building, not that school did you any good, nor that you may have wanted to actually learn.
joan baczek People can plant gardens and grow much of their own food. Then there is money for the internet. But then most people will just use it for entertainment.... it does take some wanting to get ahead.
This nice black awesome woman Dr. Calloway is a beautiful caring woman who tried her best to help the kids in Detroit and then was slammed against the curb by a corrupt school board and she was 100% right when she said the school board looted for their own gain instead of caring for the kids, which they didn't give a damn about.. The whole school board didn't give a damn about the students, they cared more about their ill-gotten paychecks, they should have all been fired and all charged with embezzlement and then jailed. Much respect to this good woman. The school board destroyed the education system in Detroit, they were all a bunch of thieves and Dr. Calloway knew it and exposed them for what they really were, THIEVES. I know that this video was made in 2012, and I sure hope for these kids that somethings have changed today in 2019??
DarkGracie95 I tried googling it and couldn’t find it. Do you have a source, maybe a link to a news source. It’s really sad that the one decent person in DPS turned out to be even worse than the others.
I'm so glad 20 20 2019 no longer has to have lying ass I too short Maurice Thornton Reverend Murray although Winfrey I believe is still on unfortunately Carla Scott I believe is her name and the one that used to work with Detroit Edison I'm so glad and Miss Summers I'm so glad that all of these lying conniving arrogant rude and get our members have been off and now it's a total new board but it really doesn't matter because they still doing the same exact thing and I say any parent that's got sense you need to take your children into a different school district and maybe a different city even if it's a suburb you don't have this kind of garbage in Troy Sterling Heights Dearborn Eastpointe Clinton Township Oak Park Southfield Romulus River Rouge Westland Livonia you do not have none of this kind of garbage in no other school system but Detroit I've set in many of these meetings and see how disrespectful these people have been when they were in the new center one and they had a parent Resource Center it was just crazy here and how loud Marie Thornton would be falling all out in the middle of the floor like she's drunk or something I'll never forget in a summary hearing either short tell a lady that she didn't care she got reelected or not and when I says if you feel this way why don't you step down and she says oh I'll never step down until I'm voted out I'm so glad to see this white headed lion conniving snake be gone cuz these people were nothing but rip offs🤔🤔🤔🤥🤥🤓🤥🤢🤢🤢🙃😕🤑🤑☹️🤧🤢😲.
At 45:44 I'm sorry but the kid saying she's aware what her mom "gave up" for her...no honey. You didn't ask to be born. Where's her father? You don't owe anything to your parents like that other than move out and support yourself. I hate parents like that.
I disagree with both of your opinions. If and when I CHOOSE to have a kid...not just knock any random person up, I will be prepared and stable before I make that decision. My child doesn't have a responsibility to me. Why? Because the kid didn't ask to be born. We chose to bring them in, not the other way around. Why are parents struggling to raise kids? Sound like these kinds of parents shouldn't have had kids if they were just gonna bring em into a world of struggle. Doesn't sound like a compassionate thing to do to innocent people (kids.)
What you’re seeing is generational curses. I just hate how a lot of these documentaries show black women as if they made these children by themselves. There was nothing wrong with the young ladies comment about her mother. Her mother made the choices she made so therefore she had to put her dreams aside so that her kids could have a chance. The only sad part is that journey doesn’t involve as far as what we are shown, having a father figure. It’s a tragic reality, and very sad to see constantly! I thank God, I grew up with a father figure!
I went to Osborne HS for 1 semester. Of the 6 teachers I had there, 4 did genuinely care for our education and actually taught our class. As for failing students, it all about the choices you make. You can choose to make excuses and blame others, or you can take the hand you were dealt and make the best of it to succeed.. the school board didn't help much either, some were in it for themselves..
lemme axe you summin: say this in a black accent "i am feeling like filling this tub" its not juss duh grammah, its eerything. its cool to be and sound dumb AF
In order to find the solution, we have to be honest about the problem. The core problem is the systematic breakdown of a society. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that FAMILY, is the core of COMMUNITY, and communities make up a society. The education system cannot be blamed for students in such numbers NOT wanting to learn. Not in a society that tells children and their parents they have unbridled freedom. Blaming the education system for failed FAMILY systems is just passing the buck! Many of these kids were doomed the minute they were born into broken families. Here is the truth, if a student doesn't want to learn, kick them out of school. Simple!
It would be a good idea to ship these kids across the world for 2yrs in the Peace Corps. So they can get a taste of how much education matters in the game of life. To places like Russia , Darwin, Korea, and Pakistan. They can either adapt or be miserable and have a new perspective on what life is all about.
No. The schools are crap, they don't have the proper resources to learn. Look up the video of the inside of detroit school spain elementary. Maybe you will learn something before you speak
Landfill It would take the lenght of one summer. That is long enough to open these kids eyes. Teach them how to learn on their own, by themselves. These schools are doing them harm, and they end up hopeless.
@Squirrel Master horrible. They have a system and terrible individuals who believe they are less than. There are all black schools that outperform affluent and Asian n white schools. Look up Garfield high on Los Angeles. A permanent underclass has been the goal and kids buy into it. Shameful. Just read the comments of adults. Very telling. God bless America
Reed my posts an stuff it are some things you may be intersted in read an stuff I are a gradate of the pubic skool systems an I are thinks Dan rather dint talks about what everyone. I forget what I were gonna say an stuff OK bye
I hope Deanna is somewhere bringing her positive and gracious soul to a part of the world. She is an example of untold thousands of young people who have been failed by The United States Education System. Myself included. But with people who care like her and her Mother: there still is hope for our Country's future. I hope.
Every person living inside Detroit is living in flight response. Taking what they need to stay above water. May even be the only member of their family with a job! Now, please don't get me wrong, I am not making excuses for them but trying to understand how these people were able to steal from the futures of local children. By temping someone who has a desperate need they have made criminals of everyone involved. Imagine what it is like to own a home in this area....no bank will give a loan, no one wants to buy it, so you can't even move away as many owe the bank more than the current value of the property! Many feel stuck. Loosing a job could put more than just their own children on the sidewalk as generations of families live together Until we have walked in their shoes we don't know the who, what, where, when, why and how...
That sounds too familiar. I'll tell you what's gonna happen. If and when you get a teaching position you'll be filled with good intentions and plans to better the students there. However, the reality combined with the apathy of the students will drain you of your good will. I've seen it before. You are not the first and you won't be the last. A lone teacher is not going to make the difference. They need good parents and a positive learning environment. That's not gonna happen for those kids unless they leave Detroit.
drgonzo212 Leah, unfortunately drgonzo is correct. You can't put a few good people in a broken system & fix the system. I hate to see quality, motivated people get broken down in dysfunctional systems. You will be able to motivate more students in a quality system.
She succeeded very well, “DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY STUDENT PROGRAMS at Emporia State” I found this after a little digging: www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
The young lady who comes from a loving home and has the desire but not the academic support (thanks Dan Rather, all she needed was the basics), is smarter than everyone in the comments section trying to diagnose...her final words summing up the reasons for the failing schools is everything.
When children misbehave in class it's usually because they don't understand or the work is too easy and they're bored. Teachers need to be allowed to plan exciting and innovative lesson plans and the ability to teach the way the children learn.
There is also a large number of children with alcohol and crack baby syndrome...( worldwide these kids are entering high-school ) and their hyperactive drug / alcohol soaked brains are unable to learn properly. These kids make up a very large percentage of inner city kids. Detroit was the crack epicenter- I imagine the % of crack babies is much higher
@@jimmyhawkins5357 that has no factual basis and is just your personal beliefs biasing your ability to logically process information that doesn't conform to your personal views. It's called cognitive dissonance. Having 2 parents, and particular your parents being married before they have children has almost nothing to do with future success. It's far more important factor is the education of your parents and the wealth of your parents. Having both parents you cannot guarantee either of these factors.
@John QPublic1 what do you expect when you have families that even working full-time and multiple jobs can barely afford to pay rent and eat? You heard that lady saying that she only makes about $500 every two weeks. I don't understand how she affords to live on that little amount. I make four times that much and I am not a highly paid individual. The reality is that when there is no good paying jobs, and there's no way to save money to leave this is what you get. You get a bunch of families that can only spend their energy trying to survive and don't have that extra energy to devote to their children. This is the problem with this society that has developed where CEOs make as much as thousands of workers per hour but paying someone $15 an hour as a minimum wage is considered too expensive.
Smartana Jones, I am sorry to say that it has gotten A LOT worse, the budget has fallen to $700 million instead of over $1 billion. The school condition in 90%of the schools has fallen between 30 and 80%, every year since 2009 they have consistently scored the worst results ever recorded on the NAEP test mentioned in the video. I’m sorry to break the bad news, but it needs to be heard. DPS has also become MUCH MUCH more corrupt
It all starts in the home you have to be A INVOLVED PARENT the first teacher is the PARENT!! PARENTS DO YOUR JOB AT HOME, teach them about God, LOVE, respect, honor, teach them to care about themselves and others and where the live, hard work pays off, education is very important. then when you send the children to school they go in knowing the basics. They overcrowd these schools and expect the children to get one on one attention, how? Parents go volunteer at the school go check on you children and see what's going on at that school. I got a job at my children's school to make sure they got what they needed to advance I also taught them at home. DETROIT IS NOT THE ONLY CITY THAT HAS THESE ISSUES SHOW THE OTHER STATES THAT HAVE STRUGGLING CITIES/ SCHOOLS AND CRIME.
When the parents are drop outs, teen mothers, and illiterate, they are not qualified to be parents! They can’t teach their kids anything. Babies having babies. It is a vicious cycle that no one knows how to stop.
@Aimee Webber Aimee: "whose biggest concern is getting and spending her welfare check" Me: don't forget to you talk about what they're spending their welfare check on i.e., rent, electric bill, kids clothes & shoes etc. And I'm pretty sure the money that they do get it's not enough to take care of everything they or their children need. So, add this to their stressors and may be they're all tapped out to help them at home with their school work and maybe they dont have the education to help them. Not all ppl on welfare misuse government funds. And no I've never been on welfare but I have worked with enough of them and I have compassion for them and teach them how to manage what little they have. If you are being a smart alec, walk a mile in their shoes before you make statements like this
I went thru DPS up until my 10th grade year. Most of the schools I attended luckily actually cared about the students. I never let my dad put me in those just run down schools because I actually cared and he cared about my education. When I made it to 10th grade I went to a charter school and it was a good experience they cared about the students and made us college ready😎
She seems to be doing very well, a director of a diversity program at Emporia State as of 2016 and working on her masters I believe...I found this after a little digging www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
@mick deeds She seems to be doing very well, a director of a diversity program at Emporia State as of 2016 and working on her masters I believe...I found this after a little digging www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
Exactly. When adults start off with "The children was ..." instead of "were", we have a serious problem already. This noun-verb plural agreement has been lost for decades. Forget about the proper use of your and you're or their, there, and they're. That may as well be college material.
"They make their money whether we learn or not." In grade school I did hear that a lot! That's the problem with education these days, out of touch bureaucrats have removed responsibility from schools for example the bad apples are placed with the kids who genuinely want to learn and the teachers who want to make a difference are isolated!
I hate to say it (because I'd rather it weren't so) but maybe the whole country just isn't as first-rate as it thinks it is. Maybe it just came out on top in two world wars within a span of 25 years, quickly bought up half the bombed-out world at fire sale prices, and had a good long run for about 20 or 25 years afterward. Now for the past 45 years at least it's just gradually crumbling and nothing's going to stop it. Maybe within ten years, foreigners will be coming in to buy up America at fire sale prices---Chinese, Arabs, maybe Canadians, or even Mexicans and Russians. The bitter irony is that, to get out of a jam like this, it's totally essential for your kids to be solidly educated. But Americans are far from the top. And when they go to university, very many of them just take courses in social unfairness. Meanwhile in other countries they still study real subjects. It actually looks like the US is in for a steep drop in living standards. China has been sending cheap goods over for decades, while their people worked for two dollars an hour. That sacrifice on their part has been cushioning the US all this time. But it won't be that long before they're making $15 or $20 an hour and Americans won't be able to afford their exports. What then? By that time, the Americans who knew how to design products and set up and run factories, now retired or in the late stages of other careers, will be old or long dead. America just shows no sign of improvement. Private health care soaks up trillions as the rest of the world looks on in shock. It only ranks 37th in the world for quality. The financial sector has ballooned to outrageous proportions, doing next to nothing for the country while soaking up trillions as well. It also vomits up a recession once a decade, ruining millions of lives. Silicon Valley soaks up another pile of wealth, providing Americans with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Xbox in return. Then there's a $700 billion defence budget, perhaps less wasteful than those other things, perhaps just as wasteful. Today's children will probably live poor in a China-dominated world when they hit middle age. By that time, all the baby boomers who carefully wrecked the country in the name of individuality, letting big business and the government worry about things, having fun, and 'being cool' will be dead or enjoying the last of the well-funded retirements. Soon after, the elections will stop falling on time. I could probably go on if it weren't so depressing. This is how democracies die: in slow motion, but you can't hit pause. How about some feedback?
The United States is in its current exalted position because of first rate geography (resource rich and isolated) despite a third rate population. Her comeuppance is on the horizon.
That's why we need Conservatives in office. Look at what 8 years of obummer did to our nation, and yet when Trump got in and turned the economy around, the dems resist tooth and nail. The shame is really on the democrats who got into office and enriched themselves (following the example of their exalted leader, killary) instead of taking care of the kids.
@@davidschmidt6013 you are either a troll or are stupid. Check 10 years of market returns and unemployment numbers. You will see it has been steadily improving since President Obama was elected to clean up President Bush's mess. Add to that the most Republican filibusters to block all rehab plans. So which are you troll or stupid?
+E Mack they have the money they were governing themselves. and stop making it a Black thing it is a humanity thing black and brown and white life matter.
So if they have the money for education, spend it properly. As for making it a "race thing", that was done by others. I just call it as I see it. That ecumenical "humanity" this gets old too. I see nothing but Black faces in these lousy, filthy schools.
+E Mack What would you say is the number one priority then? How would you know what the priority of an Entire race is? Who makes these types of general statements?
Tiffany Hall not necessarily. I know a few kids who were raised my single moms who went onto great colleges, got degrees and made something out of themselves. I’m a single mom and my son is going to grow up and make a positive contribution to this society.
Not really. .. a home that has parental involvement period is needed... parental involvement that has an idea on how to set proper examples... a household that has enough money to support those that live there... a household that operates and functions like a proper home instead of a zoo.. a household that holds respect for themselves that wants better for themselves that's willing to put the work in themselves to see that they have better ... and by work I don't mean holding protest for more benefits
Avonee: anecdotal means absolutely nothing. Yes you might know a couple people where it seems to work ok but your chances of success go down tremendously without having a mother and father ag home/getting pregnant out of wedlock and dropping out of school. Follow those 3 and chances are very high youll do well in life
Mr. Bob was the best you can get. The parents was wrong for dumping the the thefts on him, it should have went to the school board members. It was so much damages to the kids, it would take a life time to fix. He should have fired the peoples who was involved. Start with a clean slate.
The worst failure is people, having children (because they didn't use contraception), who are not in a financial position (or any position), to be able to raise children and provide for them, and educate them, and provide a stable home environment of loving and disciplinarian, guiding, parents.
Thats what i thought. Around the 1 hour and 20 min mark when cosby does another meeting with people, he says something along the lines of what "protect the children" Oof
So long as you keep your daughters and sisters away from him, everything would be just fine. If you are still somewhat concerned, keep your mother, aunties, and grandma away from him as well. That should do the job.
@@josephwinkler4863 You’re kidding, right? There is no alternate spelling in the English language. If you don’t know how to spell a word, look it up in the dictionary.
I had a friend that did some electrical repairs on some schools in Detroit, he said the halls would always reek of marijuana and many students tried to sell him coke and meth. There was gunshots one afternoon in the parking lot, and a huge riot broke out in the cafeteria. Needless to say, he didnt return to finish the work..lol. Its too late to change years of social degradation once it gets to a certain point.
For your own safety, get over thinking that “kids” are mostly innocent creatures who occasionally get high and have too much energy. Kids today are capable of anti-person violence and they also carry false pride and entitlement. Try telling a 16-year old not to spit on the sidewalk, or the floor of the bus, and you will be attacked, possibly with a weapon and the help of friends. Should we “discard” that dear, little teenager? After you get stabbed, have a collapsed lung and are spitting up blood, let us know. Maybe you could teach him and his gang about Geography? You wouldn’t last a week.
@E Fox I've said the same thing to people about high school kids in Detroit selling drugs. I've said to people if you were say a 14 or 15 year old kid, and for example you're mom was a single parent barely getting by, you go to bed hungry way too often, you wouldn't sling??? If I was in that situation at that age and the local dealer told me he'd give me say $400 or $500 a week to sell, seeing my mom struggle, maybe the lights get shut off, hell yes I'd do it. It's not like there's many places a kid can even go get a after school job. I swear most people who talk smack about this have never struggled to that extent in their lives.
@@valerieherron8974 easier said than done if you're not in that situation. It's VERY VERY easy for us to sit back and pass judgment on people we don't know or what they're going through. Also, I'll thank you to keep my mother out of your mouth when you don't know a damn thing about me. Good day.
Back in the 50's when I was in school, Detroit had the best schools in the united states. Thanks in part, to the automobile industry who contributed a lot to the education systems. The Auto industry is all but gone and so are the Henry Fords who set the high standards for workers including hospitals. what happened?? so many things. Hundreds of things, but industry leaving was the most serious, next was the welfare state that forced men to leave their families so their wifes and children could get help after the jobs left. so sad. Its easy to blame whitey, but they suffered too. When the auto companies were owned by families and not wall street they had a connection with the city. everything is wall street now, and they don't give a damn. Believe it or not, back in the 50's we had school exchanges where white districts would exchange classes with black districts. It was the being of understanding each other. This was possible because we all had jobs. Forced integration was a big big mistake. It did not help anything. It causes people to hate each other
@Leonardo's Truth... I've typically found that people with "truth" in their online monikers have an aversion to it. Not everything is some grand conspiracy. And you know nothing about me and are just jumping to conclusions. Something very typical of the conspiracy theory nutter. They often jump to insane conclusions on "feelings" and falsely equate such leaps with intelligence and critical thinking. Disregarding the conspiracy theory tripe for a moment, and looking at this with a more rational mindset, what is really going on here? Every institution in this country is under attack by liberals due to racial disparities. From police to education. Any disparity across racial lines is cited as "proof" of institutional racism. High black incarceration rates. Ah ha! Proof that police are RACISTS! High black conviction rates. Ah ha! Proof that judges and the judicial system is chock full of RACISTS. Low performance and low graduation rates of black students. Ah ha! Proof the school system is RACIST! The problem with this is the underlying assumption that ALL peoples of ALL races are EQUAL in ability and temperament. So if you believe that ASSUMPTION, then yes you logically have to conclude all these institutions are racist. Or you can go that extra mile and blame even the CIA... Just what if, WHAT IF, the basic underlying assumption is wrong? What if there are indeed real and MEASURABLE biological differences between peoples of different races that might possible? The truth? Most people cannot handle the truth. Even when presented with evidence and hard data. They will dismiss such evidence because it is so counter to the world view that we were all brought up on. That ALL people are EQUAL. We have entered an era where such scientific evidence is branded as heresy. We must keep pushing the liberal lie that all people are equal and that diversity is a strength. And keep peddling nonsense like the police are inherently racist, the schools are racist, and the CIA is behing it all.
@Denis Shillingford. You're response is typical of a conspiracy theorist nutter (and lacking basic literacy). So not only did the CIA destroy your beloved city, but anyone that points out the scientific evidence that there are measurable biological differences between ethnic groups, you throw out the childish name-calling of racism. People are increasingly seeing right through mental midgets like yourself. Also people like you simply are not grounded in reality and are mentally unstable. No amount of blame whitey is going to change the plight of people like you. Look in the mirror. You are the source of all your problems. And so many like you in that SHITHOLE of a city.
@Denis... You are aware that there are real biological differences between different ethnic groups? Nothing racist about it. It is just nature. It is just facts. It is just biology and genetics. Here is just one example: "Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher." Source: academic.oup.com/jnci/article-abstract/76/1/45/1006122?redirectedFrom=PDF This above scientific paper is about trying to understand why black males have a higher propensity for colon cancer than other races. High testosterone levels have been linked to higher colon cancer rates. This might also explain some of the more violent tendencies in black males and their high level of incarceration between the ages of teens to mid 40s, the same years when males peak in testosterone production. When someone points out basic facts like what I just did, people like you with very violent tendencies go on a tirade and falsely accuse someone like me of being a racist. You're incapable of rational thought and civil discussion. You, like so many, blame others for your failings. Even to the point of invoking ridiculous conspiracy theories like the CIA drugging your city. Put down the crack pipe. Come back to reality and start acting like a member of the human race. But you will predictably come back with some more ghetto gang banging attitude.
For every White racist, their is a self-hating White. For ever White racist, there is a racist Black. You should remember that because you are one of the two.
Mike Swivel I'm the average black woman and my iq is 126. Riddle me this, genius, who created the iq and what for ? Surely, you understand bias. All of you white's without power are living off the white men with power's, self fulfilling prophecy. I took a calc course on college level and it was not the Indian'a, not the Chinese or Korean, not the whites, not me, but these three black men who dominated the course. Everyone was trying to study with them. If you saw them out in the world, your bias would have had you at a disadvantage. If your iq test is so beloved and revered, why is your thinking, reason and rationality so limited? Btw, screw the iq test. It means fuck all!
bob gates I do not see how. A girl wanting her baby, will just not go back to school. Teach children how to learn and making learning interesting would help. Teach a child according to his or her interests and abilities. If they like animals, make such books avaiable. Make learning a positive thing. Of the utmost importance, teach kids to read their Bible, make sure all have one. Society was at a much better place when kids knew the basic 10 commandments. Sex ed is not the solution. Teaching them adult behaviours and such should be the parents prerogative. Schools have taught sex, but no morals to go with that. This is the results we have got now.
J R Abortion is still killing an innocent living being. It is not the solution. Sex ed, without traditional moral standarts, has promoted much of todays problems. So has the movie industry, showing violence and sex as endless entertainment.
This is one of the saddest stories I've heard. Education is the most important things for a successful society. Corruption with people in power leaves the masses hopeless.
Where are the parents? I would not have dare goof off in school, argue, fight, mouth off. I would have been disciplined for my attitude. I never would have talked back to a cop or any adult. My parents monitored my grades.
Parent is working 2 low wage Jobs to put food on table and Shelter. She is doing the best She can considering living in The USA. USA does not want Black Americans, Hispanics, White females to succeed. Dumb down America. Parents are working longer Hours to make a living. Prices of homes are ridiculous. Wages are low. Corporate greed is rampant. The working poor . Jobs are Being located in other countries . And people from Other countries are taking Jobs in America . USA GOVT IS NO LONGER FOR THE CITIZENS OR THEIR CHILDREN of the United States.
NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CHILDREN?????!!!! REALLY? THE CHILDREN NEED TO SHOW UP TO CLASS AND BEHAIVE BY NOT CONSTANTLY ACTING IN VIOLENT BEHAIVIOR! IT IS LEARNMED BEHAVIOR THAT I THE PROBLEM.
something in Paraguay kids need to be taught responsibility when young or it'll be 10x as hard later.. unfortunately instead they're born to a culture where blame is the name of the game.
something in Paraguay yes they were told to show up and shut up I’ll pass you just for being here we get paid whether you learn or not. The kids came and the teachers did not teach let alone teach to different learning styles. Something wrong with you if you watched this documentary and that’s your comment. Obviously don’t pay attention you must have been so hard to teach god bless the teachers who At least got you to the level you’re at lmao
something in Paraguay A child's behaviour is a result of his enviroment. When Bibles where a part of school, and the 10 commandments actually known to every child, when a knowledge of God was part of growing up, in those times there was a whole lot more respect in society. Teens having sex, and also abortions was very rare or even almost unheard of. Take God out of the children's minds, and this is what you have got. Put the Bibles back into schools, let kids read world's greatest ever best seller, The Word of God. That would change lifes like nothing else. Not so much when the first Bible in their life is found in a prison cell. Think about that.
Damn I never knew this. Now I know why my dad moved out of Detroit and brought me to Livonia. Not to avoid the “hood” but to avoid the school district that failed him.
I don't know how old you are but if you are inclined, a job in construction in almost any ex-communist bloc will be endowed with some expert teachers especially carpenters. An apprenticeship with a firm that you know produces top class work is worth putting you heart an soul into; if you know what to look for and can keep out of temptation (drinking is a big problem in the construction industry.)
Russian Troll Yes it does. I was there for both of my children. You could actually say that I was a helicopter mom when it came to school. I was there every day when my son was in kindergarten to 6th grade. Then I was there asking questions from them then on. Both of my children knew that I was always going to be in their lives when it came to school. My daughter and son both graduated with honors. I loved them enough to care.
@@shananalexander9789 Yep that is very good but you don't live in Detroit , neither do I but many times when I see a video about the public schooling system in the USA i'm thinking to myself ; Well if I had lived in the USA I would have been a top rate student :).. But I do agree that the parents play a big role but if the teacher is not motivated it wouldn't help all that much .
March 18, 2019 things are about the same!!!! These kids CAN’T read and write or do basic math problems!!!! 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ Smh!!!! Parents have to do their part with their child’s education. The teachers can’t do it with 30 plus students in a class
You're kidding. In 1979 I was in a classroom with 46 grade 9 kids. We learned. Or else. We had good teachers but the two principals were gen-yoo-wine pieces of work: very capable but didn't cross them. Ken grayley and Paul Nickerson never hesitated to put a fuckup against the wall by the throat and I only ever had to see it the once. They weren't bullies but there was a firm hand. And parents supported them.
@Kelly Buck The school plays a part in the home discipline at home when a parent whoops a child ass for ther behavior at school kid goes to school and tell teacher/counselor my momma /daddy whoop me and the school run call CPS on the parents for abuse now parents wont intervene with risk of going to jail for whooping his ass every ass whooping is not abuse but the system help implant this in the minds of these children if momma/daddy whoop you call the police,hotline or tell your teacher so what you expect!
Thank you to the teachers that stick it out. Most teachers sadly do not. I live in Illinois. The classrooms here are out of control. Fights, vandalism, disrespect to the teachers and other students. Ther are police officers at the school and it still isn't under control. It's getting worse. The school has no control and their hands are tied in so many ways. Expelling students is unheard of because for evey student that is in a seat (as long as they show up) the school gets funding for each "head". If a student has a couple absences the parents get nasty letters threatening $100.00 a day fines, having to do community service (parents and students) etc. My son was jumped and I kept him home 2 days, then there was a threat of a school shooting so I kept him home that day. 3 days within 2 weeks so I received one of those letters. (My son is on the honor roll, football team, and doesn't act up) it's ridiculous. What is there to do? There was a vote coming up for the superintendents "bonus" of $30,000? The parents found out and we were informed that we could attend the meeting. The superintendent didn't get his bonus. He then turned around and sued the school board because he felt parents should not have had a say in his "well deserved" bonus 🙄 How are our children supposed to get any education with all the daily chaos ? It is fact that in one of my son's classes the teacher hands out ditto sheets and at the top the instructions say. "Type the question exactly how it's written into the Google search bar, then write exactly what comes up. Geezuz...🤨
This shows the need for different types of classes. The kids who want to learn and don't cause trouble should not have to endure thugs and violent students. They should be put in different classes. If we are going to insist that all kids attend schools, then put the horrible ones in a behavior class, even if they have to have police there. Put strict discipline rules in effect and enforce them. If the kid refuses, he/she goes to juvy for a while. You can't make them learn, but you sure can make their lives miserable if they don't. Let the kids earn their way back into the calm classroom. The problem is that those kinds of kids have never had anyone make them conform to rules. If they don't learn when they are kids, they never will. At least the kids with potential will have a chance to learn. Of course, you would have parents and bleeding hearts filing suit, but provide those disruptive kids with the same education, just in a more controlled environment.
I totally agree it's only going to get worse these kids have NOT ONE OUNCE Of RESECT for anything and kids who want to learn can't because of the ones who are causing the trouble it's the only way money missing that's ment for schools the greed of BUILDING CONTRACTORS
UPDATE: It's been 6 years and I'm still teaching at a Detroit Charter, and it's a good school. I actually started my career at the charter shown in this video. Overall, teaching has had some rough spots and I've had A LOT of moments where I questioned my why, but thank God I'm still doing it. Now... idk how many more years I have left. This video still saddens me 8 years later. But I can tell you, I've had the privilege of teaching some very intelligent students
God bless you Ms. Robinson for your dedication. I teach here in South Los Angeles and though I also teach at a decent school, we have a long way to go to turn education around in this country. Apart from the incompetence from many elected officials which are highlighted in this video, there are so many policies school wide and district wide that are intended to help the kids, but are actually hurting them. This is a national crisis that unfortunately our elected officials in our local community, state, and country fail to address with honest reflection and collaborative solutions.
Thank you keep up the good work teachers like you are the little beam of hope kids need to succeed.
You are a light in these kids lives. Thank you for your kindness and patience with these kids.
I'm so glad the kids have you!
The world needs more of the commitment you have shown.
Having lived in Detroit for more than 50 years I can say the Detroit school board has caused Detroit continued poverty more than any one issue. These people should be put in prison for the fraud they have committed on the students of Detroit.
Jeffrey Friedman
they are in the prison of their minds
@@monicaperry9020 True. The USA stopped making cars until Donald Trump . As soon as he got someone to start production the unions organised the strikes that put everyone back in with the crabs.
Detroit left Detroit because of poor labour issues. Who on earth is going to risk opening a multimillion dollar operation, when the workforce is unlikely to work?
@@michaelmcneil4168 Exactly. When the people don't want to help themselves, there's really nothing that can be done to remedy the situation!
What the hell is wrong with most of you inbred AI's in this comment section? No one believes the US is this overtly racist.
Exactly the DPS system messes up the city
My heart truly goes out to Deanna. She's an intelligent, warm and witty young lady who just needed a chance. I grew up in Detroit and went to DPS schools. Sadly, every school I attended from elementary to high school is permanently closed.
I went to Crockett Technical high school from 97' to 01' it was slightly better than other schools in DPS because of the vocational/ technical training, they also didnt tolerate bad grades or behaviorial problems but in comparison to suburban schools there was no comparison.
I was determined to leave Detroit from the time I was very young. I remember knowing there was something wrong as a young child.
I graduated from college and went on to earn a graduate degree from Central Michgan University. That was from sheer determination. I was not prepared for college and had to study very hard but I made it and I now have an awareness that I desire to give back to others. I was the first person in my family to graduate from college and sadly that was a big deal. In college, my classmates were expected to graduate. There was no other option for them.
Like Deanna, I had adversity, my mother died suddenly from a massive heart attack the summer between sophomore and junior year of college. I didnt quit and went back to school the following semester. I'm confident Deanna will have a great future but she has to stay on the right track and keep persevering in the face of adversity. If she keeps doing that God will send people to help her at every turn (as He did with me). I'm not sure why I wrote all of this but I hope it encourages someone!
Congrats on your accomplishments Andreea.
I'm so sorry for your mother. And also congratulations on your success.
Andreea J from the bottom of my heart, from a Detroit-er, god bless you ❤️
Andreea J your post was so inspiring!!!
Katrina I meant but Isis too. I hope Deanna keeps out of the crab-bucket
For everyone curious about sweet, intelligent, and beautiful Deanna Williams, she’s doing extraordinary. I did some digging, because I was curious about her and wanted to see if I could get an update. She ended up getting her Doctorate Degree in Education from the University of Missouri, and she’s the Director of Multicultural Affairs at Fontboone University in Missouri. I’m so proud of her! She truly used all of her pain, hardships, and adversity - and turned it into purpose. I wish her nothing but peace, happiness, and abundance in life. You can tell that she has such a sweet, genuine, and compassionate soul! 🦋✨
Awesome
That is awesome. 🇺🇸
That’s awesome! I hope her mother and sister are thriving as well. That’s great news and I was wondering about her.
Outstanding! I'm so happy for that young lady!
@@keirangreen7004 at the risk of sounding not humble I really think that I'm pretty good at judging when someone is the real thing. didn't take much to recognize this young lady was the real stuff and I'm not one bit surprised that she excelled in thriving in a career where she can be a great utility for her community
No matter how much money you give them if the people running the school are corrupt it will never change
And that's the problem! Detroit is corrupt!
I believe more racism than corruption. Public schools that black and Latino children go to are set up k-12 to give children the worst education possible. That evilness and racism comes from the city,state and government. The city, state and government has closed and closing many, many schools that black and Latino children attended. The state and government are building more prisons.I believe there are many teachers that care about the children receiving a good education. Some of the have said the its have them to pass failing students. But the city, state and government don’t give funding for books computers and many other things the children need. It is possible the person(s) that’s I suppose to sed the funds to the schools pocket the money. Some of the teachers buy some supplies with their own money. Also there are too many students in the classrooms. This is a very sad and evil,vicious,corrupt and racism system. It is soooooo unfair to the children.They deserve the best education . George Bush junior said no child let behind. The city,state and government have left behind the black and Latino children.☹️☹️✌🏽
@@yoslipshangin5348 the school board in Detroit is 99.9% black.
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They want more and more......for what??
Now, what some parents forget, is that they shouldn't depend on the teachers to teach their children everything and they themselves must get involved with their learning.
That's true, but that's not the point of the documentary. It is about failing schools and teachers who are teaching nothing. Parents shouldn't be expected to teach their children everything. That's why schools exist.
padussia exactly
@Dung Nguyen Well, I'm seeing parents with college degrees struggling to home school their kids during this pandemic too.
@@brendajameson5093 I'm one of them!
@Dung Nguyen It's not a Democrat or Republican thing. Both parties shoulder the responsibility.
Every one on that school board should be in jail. It was evident they didn't have the kids best interest in their priorities.
That was probably evident prior to the parents and people in the district electing them to office!
Blaming either the school board or the parents would be racist.
It’s everyone’s fault, the teachers union and their greed, the teachers not caring because they get paid whether the kids learn or not and they are forced to pass the students even if they don’t do the work, the parents and their lack of involvement in their kids lives, and the students for not caring, laziness, interrupting classes and the learning of those kids who care. These kids are going into high school and can’t read or do basic math, it starts in kindergarten and first grade with getting these kids back on the right track.
These kids don’t even fear punishment, we had corporal punishment and we are still alive and functioned better than these kids when we were in school. Everyone in my class acted up and was punished with setting out of recess, spankings, etc. and we were a good class after kindergarten because we couldn’t get away with acting up or acting out, and by second grade we were a great class that our teachers loved and loved to teach. What teacher wants to teach a bunch of unruly, rude, crude, socially unacceptable kids? Not me.
@@bryanhempel4764 That is so dumb--it isn't everyone's fault--and to blame teachers and their "greed" is laughable. Most teachers go into the profession knowing the pay will be garbage, the parents usually completely worthless, and that they will get little to no respect from the public (for example--people like you). They do it (MOST of them) because they have a calling. To help the students, but most important--to help the students help themselves. You obviously have no clue--and good teachers don't have classes full of rude, crude, and socially unacceptable students.
You know who IS to blame? Your precious "No child left behind" and similar education reforms that rely solely upon testing--standardized testing.only. Guess what? When President Bush signed into effect the "No child left behind" act--his brother and part of his family OWNED the testing company that made the FCAT--the test that was given to EVERY student in Florida 3rd, 8th, and 12th grade. Put the blame where is belongs--GREEDY CORPORATE american billionaires.
Same could be said about the parents who don't raise their kids properly, you know the ones who are still destroying the communities.
I taught in Detroit for nine years at the high school level. I have had some brilliant students who have consistently done well throughout their years and gone on to some of the most prestigious universities in the country. Most of the students who come to me, however, are seven years behind. This is a systemic problem and needs to begin at the preschool level and involve the school and home in a partnership in learning.
I taught there for nearly 20. Burbank, Northwestern, Pershing, Ford, Cass Tech, then after a 6 year layoff, Western International. I can tell you the latter 2 were the best schools I have taught in a far as DPS/DPSCD.
However great those schools were, at does not change the fact that there was a great deal of corruption, infighting, systemic misallocation of funds, and a vast amount of overhead. Some of my best memories of teaching were in the city. Add to that many success stories of great students, and great times with great colleagues, many whom I keep in contact with to this day.
What drove me away was the commute from Genesee County to southwest Detroit. I did not relish the drive home at all. I also did not enjoy copiers breaking down and getting fixed 1 month later.
Currently, I teach in Fenton, MI.
Some of the Board Members were barely able to communicate in English; they should never be placed in such a position. They all should have been subjected to a criminal investigation.
@Tom Smith give the minorities a break...it's not their fault that some of their black ancestral brothers back in Africa sold them into slavery a few years back!
@@mikesgoodmann9349 you mean how many years
Deanna's mom is amazing. She raised her kids so well with little resources. Her kids are a real credit to her. I was raised in the UK in a low income family of 4 and I totally credit my mum with making sure I learned and read and was cultured like Deanna's mom did. My mum worked in a shoe repairs place in the day and as s bartender at night and even though we didnt have money she always took me to free museums when she could and got me books and did all my projects with me. She put me in for my 11+ test at the end of primary school which my school didn't offer so she had to take me to the next town over to take it at another school. I tested into a good secondary school and traveled on the city bus to it cos we never had a car. She left me £2 out every morning for lunch. As an adult I have so much respect for my mum's dedication to my education. Like Deanna's mom, my mum had me right after graduation. I hope Deanna's mom knows how amazing she is.
Students are crammed in classes with one teacher. There is no Civil Rights Problem in schools . This is one of the most old and used comment. Parents need to help to. One teacher can’t teach everyone that won’t listen. The ones who try will make it. They can become anything they want but parents has to step in to help their kids learn to. I’m from a poor family but I graduated and even went to college. Anyone that want educations can get them if they want bad enough. It starts at home tho. Mom or Dad or both should try and spend some time with their children to make sure they’re understanding what they’re learning. My parents didn’t finish school because they grew up as poor as anyone. They would set down and read. Not so well at first but the more they tried the better it got. It starts at home parents must try to help to 0ne teacher with 40 students can not tech everyone if the student doesn’t care. That’s where Mom and Dad should step in and require that child learns… 🫤😒👏🏼My mom was a waitress my dad parked cars for a living. I had no idea we were poor. You can make it out of poverty if you want.
All members on that crooked school board should have been fired.
and the courts were crooked too!
Gangster mentality at work.
Oh, give them a break! Their ancestors were sold by their fellow tribesmen into slavery and taken from africa against their will!
@@mikesgoodmann9349 I see you have a lot of deep rooted guilt. I hope you gain the proper knowledge one day
@ cbdimprovehealth -- I see you advocate putting a band-aid on a gangrenous torso...
I’m a product of DPS and Emerson and Holcomb were my neighborhood schools but I attended a private school up to 4th grade and after that I attended a charter school that was a hidden gem 💎 and I transitioned to Cass Technical HS after that! I attended college and grad school in TX. I’m blessed to have had both parents who were serious about our education in DPS! I live out side of Michigan now after graduating from college but I pray Mr. Bob has left a legacy for continuous growth and improvement in the DPS system!
I hope you live a long happy prosperus life.. You have worked hard & earned it.. Hug your parents every chance you get. Good luck & good health to you pretty lady!
You were one of those 11 who wanted to learn 💯 respect , I hope we can teach all the youth to have that perspective switch
Plenty of students want to learn and have to fight teachers to do so. I was one of them. You don't have to be an ethnic minority to get screwed over by public school unions, although I'll admit that it definitely helps.
I attended Emerson until 3rd grade and teachers who care really make a big difference in the quality of education❤️
Calling the schools "failing" implies that all the students come in ready and willing to learn and the teachers and administrators do not provide the education that the students need. In fact, the reason why the students are failing or dropping out is because students are excessively absent and/or tardy, and when they do come to school, students are more concerned with socializing and texting on their phones than learning anything. Students in so-called "failing schools" are disrespectful and have little to no self control, nor do they take responsibility for their actions when their actions lead to failing courses.
The bottom line is that the students and parents are ultimately to blame for "failing schools", not the faculty. Think about it....a core group of teachers have taught for 30 years in the district in which I teach now. Thirty years ago our school was considered a top-notch high school - there was a 99% graduation rate. This group of teachers enjoyed many, many years of teaching successful students.
Things started to change about 15 years into their time in this high school. Our community lost many major companies and factories, and with that, many jobs were lost. People started moving out of the community and property values began to fall. This caused the demographics to shift, and with it, our school started to experience higher drop-out rates and more discipline issues. Our once stellar high school started to go down hill - we are now labeled "at risk".
So, what changed over the past 30 years? The same core teachers remained in the school - and these teachers mentored new teachers as they came into the district. It was the STUDENTS who changed, not the teaching. The teachers noticed that, where 25 years ago parent-teacher conferences were attended by most parents, now they are lucky to see 10 parents out of over 110 students enrolled in their classes. STOP BLAMING THE EDUCATORS! START INSISTING THAT STUDENTS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR EDUCATION - AND PARENTS TAKE PART IN THEIR CHILD"S EDUCATION!
Preach!! I never once in my life believed race was the reason for failure nor the past affecting the now of opportunities that one's ancestors suffered for them to have now. I have always believed its those who sought the opportunity to advance or overcome that made it and will make it and those who don't care and waste time fail disastrously.
Character is the reason for success as it is for failure
I am a DPS educator! I am a product of DPS! I roll up my sleeves daily to teach, inspire and motivate my students! I am proud to say, "I get the job done!" The system stands on corruption, injustices and a lot of nepotism. Two years ago, I was written-up for the first time for "snitching." The students were suppose to receive 90 minutes of Math each day, per the district and they were only receiving 45 minutes per day. A week after this information was exposed, I was written-up for arriving at work at 8:18, although 8:30 a.m. was the start time. Of course, this write-up was RESCINDED with the help of the mighty DFT Union, but this goes to show, it is NOT always the teachers! There are a lot of hardworking, effective and productive DPS teachers! Let's look at the whole picture! The teachers are the soldiers on the front line! Stand with the teachers! It's not always the teachers!
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then where are those people that you are a proud member of?? they aren't there teaching those kids algebra.. or spanish.
We Republicans dont blame the teachers. You guys I'm sure are doing your best. Its community culture, the students, government, parents etc etc.
Throwing money at a systemic problem doesn´t solve the problem.
What’s your suggestion?
Bob Thompson, the one who offered to give two hundred million dollars to build 15 charter schools is not throwing money at the school, if that's what you're talking about. It's been proven that this Detroit charter school is effective and is working. In my arrogant opinion, the system just wants to keep the school-to-prison pipeline going
@@teresawicks-kq3bq That could be true. For I learned through study and observation, in government, there's ALWAYS an underlying season that's founded on money. Those nasty, greedy, self serving devils don't care 'who' looses just as long as 'they' win.
Money can’t change culture.
@@jamescoleman446 one thing that needs to happen is the schools teachers union need to have their ass kicked. Secondly discipline has to be put back in school. A little bit of love of country needs put back in schools. And I know it’s not popular but God needs back in schools. Maybe if we had God in schools we wouldn’t have adults in prisons finding God
Unfortunately things have not changed in the past 8 years. This still goes on and it is shameful. I am a teacher and parents have told me that school board members have told them to sit down and be quiet. What they decide directly affects schools, students, families and teachers and they are a bunch of greedy, unprofessional idiots.
I'm 35 years old and was born and raised in Detroit MI. I was not born into a two parent home (my Dad was in and out of prison most of my life) but my mother came from a two parent home and I grew up with them. She was very smart and educated but was inticed by the hood life she did not grow up around. I had a good concept of family despite having a father not in the home. I had my uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents who instilled family values and morals in my life at a young age. This alone made me an outsider growing up in Detroit. I was called white black girl because I spoke clearly and eloquently. I listened to ALL kinds of music, read many non fiction and fiction books for fun. I enjoyed school at first. We stayed on Detroit's west side when it was inhabited by middle class blacks. That in itself made me "boujee". When my mom left the family to live on her own we stayed in bad areas and I went to bad schools. That's when I started to hate school. I was constantly bullied and called names and really didn't fit in. I had to adopt the "hood lifestyle" to make it on Detroit. Later in my life I lived briefly in a suburb of Atlanta in a mostly white school. Let's just say their curriculum was much more engaging than the DPS high school I went to and then I saw how bad DPS students had it and I also saw that the parents didn't give a damn. They were complacent and happy with less than mediocre studies and didn't invest the time or money for their kids education.
It makes you think: why do they even bother having that school if only 11 students pass a basic competency test at the end? Clearly not a lot of work is being done there.
Lots of wasted money.
Stop electing the same board
Only liberal democrats vote in these elections
Who cares? Nobody gives a shit about detroit.
Absolutely!
@@jetcampbell9897 That's right - fiscally, morally, socially, and ultimately spiritually, the democrats are destroying the country, sub culture by sub culture, city by city, state by state. They don't care as long as they're in power.
…and expecting different results!!
Dear Deanna it's been 11 years I hope you are ok! Cheers from Portugal and congratulations for your effort and never give up and I hope you are ok and your family and friends
as a parent it is also your job to help your child learn how to write and read!.they reach high school and don't know how?
The first immigrants to America didn't help their children learn they wanted them to work in sweat shops. But those kids learned, even the children of slaves and sharecroppers. The problem isn't children can't learn its that they aren't learning enough. Why? Because they aren't being taught enough. Kids don't know they're cheated until they enroll in college and have to make up a lot of ground because the black schools never taught the subject matter. Black women who teach have been cheating black children for about 60 years and going. The teachers aren't any damn good! Wake up and smell the coffee!
C Truth AGREED!!
+C Truth do u work in a school ? I do and to a degree u are wrong. The districts and the public demand statistics that look pretty on paper then quality goes down as well as morale. Let's not forget these parents that don't do their job and want to jump down teachers throat when their lil dumbass , who is on their phone , isn't learning anything
I had to tutor my son because the school dropped phonics in favor of "whole language." What a joke. One book, a few hours of work, and he was reading like a champ.
@C Truth I love the smell of coffee☺️
My daughter has a friend that gets up at 5 am to get up and leave for school. He rides the city bus to get to a better school. Sad that a child has to wake so early to get to school because it's better to go to school outside Detroit. Watching this video was sad. Children are first not last.
Dorothy Lawrence then that child's parent.. yes parent cuz chances r they only have 1.. needs to ensure that better life for her children. . Yes children.. cuz chances r.. she has several.. by several different men
Dorothy Lawrence well.....sometimes you have to sacrifice something to get something....1 hour less of sleeping will probably teach the kids responsibility....and not take anything for granted...
This is America we're talking about, money is first.
That was a depressing graduation speech.
The kids that attend school on my island have to travel from surrounding islands by taking the 3 am water taxi. They leave by 4 pm and are home by 7-9 pm.
Because of these long hrs the school only has a 3 and a half day week, giving every child and teacher a 3 and a half day weekend. Surprisingly enough the kids are some of the best educated in Canada via public school. They rate highest in the country.
We also live in Canada's most expensive postal code...so there is that
Nearly 50% adults in the city functionally illiterate?! Wow. That's literacy rate slightly below Nigeria
The US as a whole only has an 86% literacy rate. Many blame this on a large immigrant population that cannot read or write English. They are then marked as illiterate.
Excuse me: Nigeria literacy rate is above that of 70% of US states !
@david anderson why are you referencing Nigeria?
@A Person believe me I know. I just had to teach a refresher class on grammar to govt employees who prepare documents for U.S. Tax Court. I am the only black person in the office and I volunteered to teach because I was embarrassed at the product being entered in to an official record. So while they can READ, they had poor punctuation, grammar, syntax, spelling etc.
@@GGCanLove409 Why do you feel the desperate need to include skin color in your comment? It's not an issue of color but one of culture...
I hope Deanna attains her dream job as a librarian and author. Be nice to get an update on this story.
Deanna is correct. People who write have to in order to get thoughts out of their mind. I do. I have published a lot. 39 min into this.
@@newaddress456 I agree, I write poetry but usually only when I'm overwhelmed with emotion, usually disgust at the system or society. I write limericks for fun and for the arts sake, but the poetry I'm compelled to write is usually in response to overflowing outrage.
It's good to get it out, whatever form it takes. Better than stuffing it back down inside to fester. Words are the way I process anger. On a small scale I mutter or talk to the air, if it's too much for that then I write. Afterwards I feel more ordered and the anger leaves with the words, whether spoken or written, though I often get an echo of it upon reading what I've written. Sometimes it gives me chills if it was in response to a particularly nasty injustice. The poem I composed after the untimely death of George Floyd is one such. It's so intense I still get shivers reading it. In the spirit of the old Irish folk artists, outrage is a powerful and binding emotion, well suited to allowing the pain to be shared.
I don't really write otherwise, without a driving emotion I find it hard. It's either flows out of me 90% complete and then I tweak to my satisfaction, or I struggle and find nothing but triteness in my words, and then abandon it. It brings me no joy or satisfaction when it doesn't flow straight from the brain to the page. Limericks are the exception as they have a clearly defined formula and I enjoy the bawdiness of the format. I also enjoy rap and hip-hop as much for the poetry, as the music itself.
@@Si74l0rd I am going to copy your comment and save it as word document. This is inspirational. I have not done much poetry at all, mostly just prose. I also publish a lot of academic research articles. Coming up with short stories takes more time. The writing is slower but it is all helpful to my mind. God bless you for writing this detailed comment ! I hope you have helped a lot to people with your comment.
@@newaddress456 I'm not sure how helpful it will be to others, I don't have a mind's eye, so I use language where others would probably use art. To me poetry is art, so it suffices as an emotional outlet.
Usually humans tie memories to long term storage by association with stored images in long term memory, but I do it instead with a language database. So I've found poetry something I can do with relative ease, as long as I have sufficient motivation, whether that be emotional or just a desire to show off once in a while lol.
In terms of prose, I write very long comments on TH-cam videos! But I find writing fiction difficult as I'm super logical and analytical, and not very creative in general. I prefer to read fiction! I've started a few short stories and had a crack at starting a novel, but between procrastination and a lack of ability, I gave up. I think on the whole I prefer writing analyses or non fiction to writing fiction. Once the pandemic is over I quite fancy trying to set words to music in one fashion or another, see whether that works better for my creative process.
Best of luck with the writing in the future. It's a difficult field to earn a living, but very worthwhile if you can. Peace :)
At 1: 45: 8. I am undone. No show bus driver. No books issued. No show teachers. No explanation. No accountability.
GaslitWorld f. Melissa B welcome to afro-merica... Its a straight slide into hell from here.... look at egypt. The middle east..all were once the center of white civilization. UNTIL THEY ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BECOME MULTI CULTURAL... and OVER RUN WITH NON WHITES. FACTS ARE FACTS.
NOT ENOUGH WHITES TO KEEP THIS SCAM GOING TOO MUCH LONGER....
THEY ARE THE ONES WHOS WAY OF LIVING AND STANDARDS HAVE GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET THINKING THEY OWE THE REST OF THE WORLD A BETTER LIFE! ITS ALL LIES.
Show me a single Egyptian statue, painting, etc that suggests that Egyptians were white.
The ancient Egyptians themselves said they originated from the Land of Punt, which is in the Ethiopia/Somalia region...
@@sheebakitty378Egypt was originally a black civilization, not white
@@neptunes297 says the Detroit pupil
I have worked in early childhood where every child had been in daycare since infancy and had nontraditional home lives, such as no dad or mom living with boyfriend etc. And I am now working in a place where every child in my class has a mom and dad stable and married to each other and the child used to be home with mom or dad instead of daycare. The difference between the kids is staggering.
I stayed home with my kids as wife and mom and would volunteer at my kids school and fyi we lived in what’s known as south side yet I had very good neighbors homeowners etc. Several teachers told me they wished they had more kids like mine. I held my kids accountable. It started to disturb me as I would hear this more and more but being in the classrooms I began to see it firsthand and then realized the difference was home life balance for kids and parents. Kids being housed in daycares I mean lousy daycares where they are just employees with no passion for kids and subpar facilities and activities.
The common courses taken in school are Biology/Chemistry/Physics/ American government. English. It is important to take AP courses to better your GPA. As well as a successful career.
It isn't just kids from single parent homes that are poorly behaved or educated. I know of lots of single parent kids that are fantastic. Intelligent, articulate, funny...the single parent thing is a myth. I also know of lots of kids from homes with both parents that are nasty, horrible, uneducated and ignorant. The children take on the characteristics of the parents, and if the married parents are assholes, then their kids will be assholes too. A very good friend of mine has a young child and she's a fantastic single mother. Her child is fantastic too...not yet 5 years old and doing algebra. I'm 43 and I can't do it. The "married parents raise better children" thing is a complete fallacy. Good parents, married, same sex, single, whatever, raise good children. Bad parents don't.
@@alwhyte6533 I agree and disagree with your statement. I see from the viewpoint of the original post and yours, as well, as I am fortunate enough to have raised one daughter within a marriage (now 20) and am currently raising a school aged child (age 9) as a single parent after my divorce.
My oldest daughter was super smart. So smart that she skipped the first grade. She went on to enlist in the military (as I did at 18) and is doing amazing.
My youngest daughter is equally amazing but not as academically smart because my oldest daughter had her father there to read to her and do math with her and give me much needed brakes on a regular basis. My youngest daughter is very sweet and kind and loving and she gets that from me and academically she has always been a little better than average but as a single parent I don't have (or more candidly don't make) the time to do extra school work with her which I totally regret but have planned to home school her in middle school when I finish my Financial Planning Certifications and go into business for my self.
Now both my girls are sweet and loving because they are carbon copies of their mother- plus I'm a go getter which make my youngest aspire to entrepreneurship (she wants to be a business owner like her mom).
But I'm also not a typical single mother (or a typical person actually). I make far more than the average single mom, spend far far less than the average person (which enables me to keep my daughter in the best schools and neighborhoods), and I have made her my top priority (no men in the house- not even boyfriends or casual acquaintances only a serious husband if he comes).... I live a pretty sterile life and that's ok. Thing is most single parents can't/won't sterilize their environments to raise their kids.
Now please don't think my single motherhood was with out hardship. When I left the military I was chronically homeless with my kids (on and off for 6 years) but I always managed to land on my feet, never take a hand out (except a few days in a local shelter which I donated to after getting back on my feet), finished my second associate's degree and on my way to my bachelor's.
Now one parent homes are what the one parent makes it but by and large if there is someone in your household to share the parenting or the financial burdens I think its better all around for the child economically, emotionally and educationally.
What are some of the staggering differences? I am curious. Thanks.
These corrupt board members need to be locked up, absolutely disgusting😡
so true no check or penny should be spent unless its on the kids and if they need hq just renovate the old building and no one is hired for anything if the cfo of the edu dept dosent approve
The people elected those "corrupt board members." Maybe they should learn how to vote instead of voting for corrupt people to begin with.
Sadly, this is not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. The very same sorts of things are going on in many of our school districts across the nation. Some not as bad while others are just as corrupt.
Some of them were
@@karenpierce6424 So you have an uneducated populous vote in a board who fails at educating the next generation and your answer is "well they voted them in" It seems like you thought your comment out. Perhaps you were a DPS product.
"My teacher told me he would pass me if I just show up and shut up!" SMDH!! Kids can get a better education in some one room school house in some third world country in Africa than in the USA!
I’ll add this, I’m from Detroit. The times have not changed. Like Bill Cosby said” we have to stop blaming the white people for the way our kids act and start taking responsibility for our kids and be parents”.
OMPudding! You're actually gonna quote a sentenced and convicted "sexually violent predator" to support a position of "taking responsibility" (Judge Steven O'Neill)?! Only thing that quote is good for now is in the bowl of his metal prison toilet.
Take it easy. Regardless of how Cosby ended up and what he has been accused of doing, he has done plenty towards improving education in the black community and has been one of the few black activists with the balls to tell it like it is (at the expense of being called an uncle tom)
sniffdogma So what? Its less true cause a shit person sad? You are deep stupid.
Strong black families and these staff members can only make a change...where is the ‘village ‘ and to support the beautiful people and, ‘oh wait, common Kardashian’s’ ..
that's why these women accussed him of sexual assault from years ago.cosby or no one can say what he said truth or not about not blaiming whitey.
I am ashamed of these non-performers. Put some military veterans in charge to manage this mess!!! I see too much of this non-accountability across America. Who wants these kinds of school board members? Jail them!
@@markzucker3949 That has little to do with the discussion, or the locale.
@Jeff Vaughn Well, I'm one of them Jeff. I hate to break this to you, but in the case of where I live, we have over 2,000 vets and military - and YES, it's true. Nothing wrong with that though. I'm in my mid-60's now, but have to go ... my 23 year old Asian girl is waiting for me.
@@markzucker3949 And some, like mine turned the corner and became great partners in life ..... uhh, so far.
@Jeff Vaughn What link are you requesting? What subject, what comment? I'll get back to you upon your reply.
@@markzucker3949 that's a dumbass statement. The American military is responsible for prostitution in China? India? Vietnam? Japan? Bangladesh? Where exactly?
I was raised in Detroit & I never went to a DPS school. Its very sad for those who can't afford Private Schooling. I wouldn't send a dog to a DPS SCHOOL! The entire system has been broken for 40 yrs this is nothing new, it's the children who suffer & become a DAMN STATISTIC!
Deana and her family is an example of good people born on the wrong side. I hope this young lady goes on to achieve the best life has to offer❤️
Where's the d*mn father/husband? Ask mama....
Having been born and educated in
Detroit
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Yuck to move away from the city when it was time for my 5 children to go to school. Back in 1975 as my second child was to start school, I was aware that if they were to be educated , we needed to move quickly So, we packed and moved to Florida and they now all have college degrees and good jobs to support their families
What about you? Where you up to educated standards when Detroit was considered a blooming city? Or were the schools were still bad?
florida?? isnt that where all the retirees and serial killers live?
What did they study? What would u recommend young teens to study at uni to get a good career and best country to study abroad canada or US
T McK No, schools were very good throughout the 1960s. We moved to the suburbs in the early 70s.
@@aena5995 Study what I'm studying right now, Network Technologies/Cyber Security/IT.. any of those. Also in Florida (for the smartass 1greenMitsi)
I would like to see a follow up to this, its been Ten years now ...
Just google DPS performance....it's worst, same at best !
th-cam.com/video/sgYJ3bqSkN8/w-d-xo.html
Paul Wratt according to our children still living in the area, the schools are still disfunctional. And the children and parents still don’t care about the children.
In Jail, addicted to drugs, or Welfare Mamas (possibly a combination).
You could teach or train a dog better.
It's been proven !
It's worse and it's spreading north into the suburbs. Schools just north over the border have become warzones.
The only people responsible for this mess in Detroit are those who live there. THEY vandalized the buildings, they looted and rioted and destroyed, they had children too young, and often had too many, and then did not do what they needed to to parent. Add to that a corrupt school board out just to make money, and there you go. This has nothing to do with race or oppression. This is an issue of povery and irresponsibility. It's sad and tragic, but the people who have caused this disgrace ought to get all the blame.
I was impressed by Deanna and hope she reaches her dream. At least her mom, when she became pregnant in high school, seems to have done the best she could.
I don't think its all of the people who live there, it's certain people.
It's an awful lot of them, and they've sadly ruined it for everyone.
JenesisX & Two French Bulldogs
Critical lack of insight here. Detroit's fall is a confluence of suburban flight, globalization, corruption, poor schools and the attendant broken families left behind. Suggesting that people somehow live outside of that is naive and leads to solutions that fundamentally miss the mark.
Still does not explain why those who remain continue to destroy their neighborhoodl
***** This and other investigative reports like it are simply bringing to light one of the many factors that contribute to the plight of Detroit and cities suffering a similar problem. Just getting the general masses to think beyond the city being broke and crime ridden is no easy feat when images portrayed are continuously simplified to those denominators. It is easier to reduce the problems of any major city to Black (or brown), poor, and violent. Although I agree with you in that this report fell short of identifying the solution to this problem, it is unrealistic to expect a solution to a decades old problem of corruption and inadequacies from any documentary.
Studies show the number 1 factor in school success is parental involvement. I taught at a private school for 35 years where we had 90% attendance at conferences. My friend at an urban public school had 11%. He had 35 kids in his science class, I had 22. I asked how he could give any individual attention, and he said “no problem, after the first day I will only have about 10 show up each day.” That’s on the parents!
yup and thats due to poverty look at whats going on in the homes in the inner city when the kids are in K thru 6 the affect of the ghetto on many not all but many parents is they cant be there for the kids ..theyre just trying to put a roof over the families or a meal or two a day on the table..theyre too exhausted to spend time with the kids !!
Sadly of all these adults, Deanna, the child is by far the most mature. I wish her success at college, I know it will be a challenge for her as she wasn't prepared.
Sheeba Kitty When people start writing in all caps, we know they are crazy lol 😂
She wasn't anywhere near prepared. She was never even taught how to hold a pencil or not to chew gum during a graduation ceremony when she was the one graduating! Who you gonna blame that on?
@@sheebakitty378 you're SICK!!!
@@Tantella1 thats how really dumb people are these days. My keyboard was stuck.....acting up, and there was no other reason. Anyone with a brain can see its the REAL crazy and deranged people making ignorant false assumptions. Pathetic morons. They even announce their imagined bullshit and feel clever because others more nutty than themselves, believe all the crap they dream up. Lol
Aside from that, who cares if something is written in all CAPS or in the smallest font in italics..... if its the truth?
You could not refute it so you attack the person instead of say anything with actual meaning..That is crazy.
Lol like your name! Wow. Idiots.
Education starts at home! If the parents are not willing to invest their time to teach their children RESPECT and DISCIPLINE, nothing will change.
Again culture. Education is not taught by the parents as important.
@@dcg590 What? It's part of culture not to learn?
I agree with you, but that's assuming that their parents are literate. They said in this documentary that 50% of Detroiters are functionally illiterate. Can't teach what you don't know.
So this Dan Rather report was from the 2009-2010 school year. I just googled, "how are Detroit schools doing?" I came across a news article from April of this year (2018) which says:
"Michigan students were flat on a rigorous national exam, with scores virtually unchanged from the last time the test was given. But the bad news in the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress is out of Detroit, where student performance is the poorest in the nation. Again. The district's new leader pledges that will change."
It seems nothing has changed.
what a national de grace is, is dan rather.
Same demographic and attitude. Nothing will change because the "culcha" won't change. It is always somebody else's fault to them.
Of course nothing changed, it’s Detroit!
It won't change until the board is dissolved and everyone on it sent to the penitentiary where they belong.
@@sherryburrows2252 > It won't change until
This was the pinnacle of Obammaramma:14 Jan 2012
What they need is a reform school, run by the military maybe Robert Bobb could get a job as the head Renaissance Man (FMovies) in the Corps of Engineers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers) under President Trump. Attending classes as they build the nation's infrastructures so desperately neglected for the last century.
Yes, I know:
Renaissance Man (1994)
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/renaissance-man-1994
Unconvincing comedy cobbled to gloss over Robert McNamara's idiots, sent to Vietnam to fuck up that unconvincing war. But I think it, like Forrest Gump, was an enjoyable diversion if you ignore the deep-state's action behind it all.
This documentary is the mirror that holds the realities.
#McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the ... -
Baby!!! Dianna was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT IN HER LAST STATEMENT! It’s everyone’s fault!!!! I wish her the best!
I really wish Deanna the best, shes really intelligent. :)
Yes, a very impressive young lady. Anybody who reads on their own has a chance, hope she makes it out.
I wish I can help these people out I wish I can do something I wish
She seems to be doing very well, a director of a diversity program at Emporia State as of 2016 and working on her masters I believe...I found this after a little digging www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
@@mcoutrier that is such great news! Thank you for the update.
@@mcoutrier, that's great news!! I'm glad to hear that.
The parents are looking to find fault with everyone but themselves. The Board of Education is elected by them, the mayor and other city officials are elected by them. Do they attend PTA meetings? Do they volunteer at the school? Do they help their children with their homework or even make sure it's done? Do they even teach the children manners and respect? Do the parents and children have library cards and use them regularly? Do the parents set an example for the children and encourage them? Look in the mirror, people. If you want a better life for your children, education is key and you are the key to them getting it, not someone else!
Exactly. If you live in a glass house, then don't throw stones.
Its to late the parents try but have to give up. The Dem machine wins they even throw parents out of their meetings using the local police. Its tragic
@Karen: I'm not sure I agree with that assessment. The documentary clearly shows a lot of parents who care a lot! I went through the Baltimore public school system, and I can personally attest to the fact that there were some really good teachers, but there were also some very, very bad teachers. We all learned a lot from the good teachers, but I don't think we learned too much from the bad teachers.
Amen
These days PTA are used mainly as a Potemkin construct, to perpetuate the fiction of stakeholder input.
I hope Deanna made something of herself. she seems so smart and wants a good life :(
Lynnette Mooney You and me both. When I heard how smart and articulate she was notwithstanding her environment I couldn’t help but feel compassion for her.
SAME. I'm so curious what's happened since then.
What is a formal academic curriculum? It is buildings, parking spaces, chairs, tables, electronics, students, teachers, books, administrators. The list goes on. So, you have a place to meet. It has AC, food, drinks, a comfortable setting. Some might say it is the ideal place for education, the sharing of ideas, and becoming employable. Now, what we have is a case where young, urban students of public schools in Detroit have all these advantages, and about 70 % leave school before graduation. There are valid explanations for learning differences. I learned this as a teacher of English in south Korea, China, Kuwait, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia for ten years. There are so many aspects of the individual, the environment, personal events, social disorganization, family, the natural abilities, stages of cognitive development, social reinforcement, stress, hardships. Here are some matters to consider for knowing why some people learn to study, write, talk and think while others turn away from formalized education. Are students using drugs? Were they raised in stable families that encouraged education. Did they have books in the house? Did parents tutor students? Were the students genuinely interested in learning? Did they have a sound knowledge of methods for reading, writing, listening, and talking for academic purposes? What did they know about multiplying the power of memory? Did their parents have higher degrees of education? Were their families well off, middle class, lower classification, lower-lower? Did they have positive effective role models as examples of the success that can be achieved through education? How did they see their own futures? Were these kids who could look forward to prosperity and success, or could 4 out of ten young black men expect to end up in prison before the age of 25? How many were suffering mental, emotional and physical abuse at the hands of parents and others? Taken individually, what was the natural intelligence of each? What stressors affected them---poverty, one parent homelife, divorce, domestic violence, dangerous neighborhoods, malnutrition, flu, diseases? And what about that curriculum? Does it really supply all they need for success in school? Do they complete their homework? Are some, by necessity, employed with no time to devote to book work? I attended a meeting with a group of experienced teachers, and some had taught for 20 years. This is one fact I brought away from that meeting. If a person in school does not want to learn, and he is set on not learning, you cannot force him to learn. No matter what anyone may try to tell you to the contrary, you cannot force a person to study and learn.
My wife graduated from college and was looking forward to a long career as a teacher. She took a job just outside of Baltimore with a student body of 85% black and 10% Hispanic and approximately 5 percent white. I told her that she would be better off another 15 miles outside of the city, but she believed that she could handle things and 15 & 16 year olds are no problem. After a few weeks she was pretty upset so I asked about the problem. She told me that most of her students were at best reading at a 3rd grade level. Again I told her not to rock the boat but that's not her style. So she sent letters to the parents explaining the situation. She was called to the principals office and queried about her situation. He explained that he was getting a lot of phone calls from some irate parents and to stop sending letters. She was upset and just wanted to help. So being a crusader she sent letters home apologizing for the 1st. letter and she just wanted to help. Stop rocking the boat. I'm a teacher and I want to teach and help them succeed. She was in front of the principal again but with some happy parents as well. The parents wanted her fired because she's racist and doesn't want their children to graduate. It went back and forth until she quit and no longer teaches. Welcome to the real world. She didn't like being called racist, she has black friends and her best friend and roommate in college is black. She thought she knew black people, wrong. Teachers push students through that can't read or write not because of being over crowded, not because of the equipment and facilities but because if they don't push them through they're attacked, threatened and labeled by the students, parents and the system. As a college professor you learn the unwritten rules of teaching. Minorities especially blacks don't have the same educational opportunities that whites do. So don't be to hard on them because they will pass. Um ok. English essays written by 21 year old 2nd graders. I'm in college, college is cool, my summer was summer. Out friggin standing that's easily an A+ paper. I've asked students what their SAT or ACT scores were. They didn't take them. Huh? Didn't have to take them unless you wanted to but I didn't want to so I bagged. So we'll push minorities through the system, make the quotas, make the parents happy and proud that their son or daughter are college graduates that can barely read and write, never made it to Terig or Calculus so electives were substituted. Instead of Physics how about Music Appreciation? Math is more fun when it's Movie Appreciation. History don't need it. Basketball can be substituted for English. The University doesn't want trouble, they fear being labeled, they're under the gun to make the quota and if you're not going by the unwritten rules you're done.
Yes. I was currently looking to get educated in the path of Healthcare. So many opportunities. I say the best grades are A-B’s. At my school failure is not an option.
Since you wrote this two years ago, it has gotten much worse. You are exactly right. We have to pretend that everyone is capable of graduating college. It's ridiculous. Do you want a doctor who can't read to operate on you?
@@debbiehibben4781 the left believes that by pushing people through they're helping them. They're simply creating an illiterate culture that will be kept ignorant and trapped in the plantations we call cities. It's sad.
@@frederickwhite6416 And if things don't change soon, I fear that it will be too late. I hate Trump's personality, but at least he got the border under control and did other things to help. I just can't believe that the left says things are better! I wish we could get a moderate. You know, I've heard for years that the big city school boards are totally corrupt. I am so happy that I live in a city that is not like that! Those poor kids deserve bettter. No wonder they can't get jobs.
The Detroit Public School Board is totally useless.
Worse than useless. They are actively harmful.
Somebody needs to tell them because they may believe they are the best thing the school system has for the students.
Try Chicago. Their inner city kids most likely have it worse than Detroit.
@@scoobycarr5558 this is not true
blame the parents. the number one way to sentence a child to a life of poverty, is to have them when you are not educationally, maturationally, or economically responsible
The hard truth. Most children born to financially unreliable and irresponsible parents are going to be damned to a horrible life of poverty. What this country needs more than anything is more severe child protecting services enforced. I know this from experience.
What this country needs is to stop giving those people money for having kids they can't afford.
Then they scream "YOU'RE STAVING KIDS!" argument.
Like Angel Adams, "SOMEBODY gots ta PAY for mah 15 kids!"
WHIGHTEE TAKE BETTER CARE OF HIS PETS BETTER THAN THE N-WORDERS TAKE CARE OF DEM BABIES--- YOU GO MAURY POVICH-- HE KNOW WHAT I BE SAYIN'
Ya!!! have them when you're about 60 yrs. old
I'm from Detroit. It's a total wreck.
My dad had a private practice as a child psychologist, his biggest client base was DPS students and parents. He would go into the middle schools and high schools to assist and the horror stories he would tell. I grew up in the burbs of Detroit and it is literally night and day with only 20 miles between the city and the burb I grew up in. There are so many layers to such a problem as the one that is the school system in Detroit smh. I would often wonder if I would have turned out different if I had been raised in detroit as opposed to Birmingham, MI.
Much thanks to Kwame Kilpatrick for helping destroy Detroit
not really his fault nor even coleman young ,its DC'S
Blacks and democrats--a recipe for destruction.
@@bpc6262 No, not a Federal problem. This is a local problem looking for bailout.
@@dmedlin8118 it could be both. But that doesnt mean Coleman and Kwame weren't also to blame.
Coleman Young stuck the stake in the heart of Detroit
I'm a black Male lame and I'm not offended one bit. This needs to be addressed.
I was hated by Black Street folks because I was lame and hated More by Black Educated folks because I was competition for the token jobs. You can't win.
Steve Alexander. He was in my 4th grade class. Steve was behind and was struggling. The teachers weren't helping him. Every few months a teacher would ridicule him about his grades and we would see tears in his eyes.
Poor kid! Teachers like that should be fired.
So sad!
When my daughter lived in Wisconsin , she worked for a company that provided desks ,chairs, etc for schools around the Great Lakes region. She was in charge of working up bids for the various schools. She said that Michigan was a nightmare , there were convoluted guidelines and procedures that made it nearly impossible to submit a bid.
My daughter goes to Detroit public schools, they can't even take their books home to study, bc kids don't bring them back n most of their parents do not care. If I won the lottery Detroit public schools will 1st on my list for donations, I have nothing but love for all the teachers that get up n go everyday no matter what to teach our children
@@justise5621 please dont donate, get involved and SEE where your money goes💯🖤
Education is on the internet now. You dont need these schools for knowledge. Schools only certifies you but knowledge depends on you.
Lol what
CHARLIESON duh and internet smallest packages run 70 dollars a month sometimes introductory price is 40 for first year. Detroit has no work to offer so how can parents afford internet. Narrow mind much?
CHARLIESON
...... which makes said certification actually a fraud. It really only certifies that your body showed up at the school building, not that school did you any good, nor that you may have wanted to actually learn.
joan baczek
People can plant gardens and grow much of their own food. Then there is money for the internet. But then most people will just use it for entertainment.... it does take some wanting to get ahead.
& before internet, we still had Public Libraries.
This nice black awesome woman Dr. Calloway is a beautiful caring woman who tried her best to help the kids in Detroit and then was slammed against the curb by a corrupt school board and she was 100% right when she said the school board looted for their own gain instead of caring for the kids, which they didn't give a damn about.. The whole school board didn't give a damn about the students, they cared more about their ill-gotten paychecks, they should have all been fired and all charged with embezzlement and then jailed. Much respect to this good woman. The school board destroyed the education system in Detroit, they were all a bunch of thieves and Dr. Calloway knew it and exposed them for what they really were, THIEVES. I know that this video was made in 2012, and I sure hope for these kids that somethings have changed today in 2019??
DarkGracie95 I tried googling it and couldn’t find it. Do you have a source, maybe a link to a news source. It’s really sad that the one decent person in DPS turned out to be even worse than the others.
I'm so glad 20 20 2019 no longer has to have lying ass I too short Maurice Thornton Reverend Murray although Winfrey I believe is still on unfortunately Carla Scott I believe is her name and the one that used to work with Detroit Edison I'm so glad and Miss Summers I'm so glad that all of these lying conniving arrogant rude and get our members have been off and now it's a total new board but it really doesn't matter because they still doing the same exact thing and I say any parent that's got sense you need to take your children into a different school district and maybe a different city even if it's a suburb you don't have this kind of garbage in Troy Sterling Heights Dearborn Eastpointe Clinton Township Oak Park Southfield Romulus River Rouge Westland Livonia you do not have none of this kind of garbage in no other school system but Detroit I've set in many of these meetings and see how disrespectful these people have been when they were in the new center one and they had a parent Resource Center it was just crazy here and how loud Marie Thornton would be falling all out in the middle of the floor like she's drunk or something I'll never forget in a summary hearing either short tell a lady that she didn't care she got reelected or not and when I says if you feel this way why don't you step down and she says oh I'll never step down until I'm voted out I'm so glad to see this white headed lion conniving snake be gone cuz these people were nothing but rip offs🤔🤔🤔🤥🤥🤓🤥🤢🤢🤢🙃😕🤑🤑☹️🤧🤢😲.
@@revlaird6979 Did anybody understand what Rev Laird said?
At 45:44
I'm sorry but the kid saying she's aware what her mom "gave up" for her...no honey. You didn't ask to be born. Where's her father? You don't owe anything to your parents like that other than move out and support yourself. I hate parents like that.
Jermaine Sam She was just giving amish to her mom because she keep going regardless of. Nothing wrong with her comment
I disagree with both of your opinions. If and when I CHOOSE to have a kid...not just knock any random person up, I will be prepared and stable before I make that decision. My child doesn't have a responsibility to me. Why? Because the kid didn't ask to be born. We chose to bring them in, not the other way around. Why are parents struggling to raise kids? Sound like these kinds of parents shouldn't have had kids if they were just gonna bring em into a world of struggle. Doesn't sound like a compassionate thing to do to innocent people (kids.)
Nobody knows who's the father is. No even the mother.
What you’re seeing is generational curses. I just hate how a lot of these documentaries show black women as if they made these children by themselves. There was nothing wrong with the young ladies comment about her mother. Her mother made the choices she made so therefore she had to put her dreams aside so that her kids could have a chance. The only sad part is that journey doesn’t involve as far as what we are shown, having a father figure. It’s a tragic reality, and very sad to see constantly!
I thank God, I grew up with a father figure!
I went to Osborne HS for 1 semester. Of the 6 teachers I had there, 4 did genuinely care for our education and actually taught our class. As for failing students, it all about the choices you make. You can choose to make excuses and blame others, or you can take the hand you were dealt and make the best of it to succeed.. the school board didn't help much either, some were in it for themselves..
I`m hearing poor grammar from these black school authorities. I don`t know what we are to expect from the students.
exactly, black privilege and affirmative action has to stop giving these idiots passes
What's the timestamp?,
lemme axe you summin: say this in a black accent "i am feeling like filling this tub" its not juss duh grammah, its eerything. its cool to be and sound dumb AF
The Same
In order to find the solution, we have to be honest about the problem. The core problem is the systematic breakdown of a society. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that FAMILY, is the core of COMMUNITY, and communities make up a society. The education system cannot be blamed for students in such numbers NOT wanting to learn. Not in a society that tells children and their parents they have unbridled freedom. Blaming the education system for failed FAMILY systems is just passing the buck! Many of these kids were doomed the minute they were born into broken families. Here is the truth, if a student doesn't want to learn, kick them out of school. Simple!
It would be a good idea to ship these kids across the world for 2yrs in the Peace Corps. So they can get a taste of how much education matters in the game of life. To places like Russia , Darwin, Korea, and Pakistan. They can either adapt or be miserable and have a new perspective on what life is all about.
No. The schools are crap, they don't have the proper resources to learn. Look up the video of the inside of detroit school spain elementary. Maybe you will learn something before you speak
None of the candidates today are saying anything about family preservation
J Thomas Stroud
First get rid of all the teachers that don't do much teaching. The kids are not hopeless.
Landfill
It would take the lenght of one summer. That is long enough to open these kids eyes. Teach them how to learn on their own, by themselves. These schools are doing them harm, and they end up hopeless.
Cannot blame the educational system for a culture that had no respect for it. Stop the blame game!!!
doesnt fit your narrative. but education and unskilled labor is a huge issue in the COUNTRY
@@marohan bullshit, black people are a lost cause....almost*
@Squirrel Master horrible. They have a system and terrible individuals who believe they are less than. There are all black schools that outperform affluent and Asian n white schools. Look up Garfield high on Los Angeles. A permanent underclass has been the goal and kids buy into it. Shameful. Just read the comments of adults. Very telling. God bless America
Reed my posts an stuff it are some things you may be intersted in read an stuff I are a gradate of the pubic skool systems an I are thinks Dan rather dint talks about what everyone. I forget what I were gonna say an stuff OK bye
@@marohan I likes too talk on line an stuff I got good grades in my skool an stuff like at wanna chat OK bye
I hope Deanna is somewhere bringing her positive and gracious soul to a part of the world. She is an example of untold thousands of young people who have been failed by The United States Education System. Myself included. But with people who care like her and her Mother: there still is hope for our Country's future. I hope.
Disgrace is a nice word. Those of us that live there know it's been like that for 50 years
Every person living inside Detroit is living in flight response. Taking what they need to stay above water.
May even be the only member of their family with a job!
Now, please don't get me wrong, I am not making excuses for them but trying to understand how these people were able to steal from the futures of local children.
By temping someone who has a desperate need they have made criminals of everyone involved. Imagine what it is like to own a home in this area....no bank will give a loan, no one wants to buy it, so you can't even move away as many owe the bank more than the current value of the property! Many feel stuck. Loosing a job could put more than just their own children on the sidewalk as generations of families live together
Until we have walked in their shoes we don't know the who, what, where, when, why and how...
Nothing like taking accountability. Tough to teach anyone when the kids don't report to school, don't do their homework, or just don't care.
Straight up fraud and mismanagement! Wow! What a disgrace indeed. A system robbing these poor kids of a future. Criminal!
This breaks my heart, this is the reason I'm in college to be an educator
Good for you. I don't know you, but I wish you all the best.
That sounds too familiar. I'll tell you what's gonna happen. If and when you get a teaching position you'll be filled with good intentions and plans to better the students there. However, the reality combined with the apathy of the students will drain you of your good will. I've seen it before. You are not the first and you won't be the last. A lone teacher is not going to make the difference. They need good parents and a positive learning environment. That's not gonna happen for those kids unless they leave Detroit.
drgonzo212 Leah, unfortunately drgonzo is correct. You can't put a few good people in a broken system & fix the system. I hate to see quality, motivated people get broken down in dysfunctional systems. You will be able to motivate more students in a quality system.
Educators have no power. The administrators have it.
Good luck babe, I hear the parents are the real problem.
Deanna's story and dreams, humble dreams, brought tears to my eyes....anyone know her update?
Robert Demon did they really kill her?
She succeeded very well, “DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY STUDENT PROGRAMS at Emporia State” I found this after a little digging: www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
@@mcoutrier awesome, thank you.
I'm so glad she's doing well. Her story was heart wrenching
@@mcoutrier OMG THANK YOU!!! Finally GOOD news❤
If people want better schools and accountability, then change your voting patterns.
vote is an ilusion
The young lady who comes from a loving home and has the desire but not the academic support (thanks Dan Rather, all she needed was the basics), is smarter than everyone in the comments section trying to diagnose...her final words summing up the reasons for the failing schools is everything.
I wish that young lady all the best! I fervently hope she has continued on her upward trajectory!!!
Yeah, no she’s not…
Would love to know where Deanna is today. She seems like an intelligent young lady. I hope she and her family have made it out of those slums
When children misbehave in class it's usually because they don't understand or the work is too easy and they're bored. Teachers need to be allowed to plan exciting and innovative lesson plans and the ability to teach the way the children learn.
It starts at home. Over 75% of these kids are born out of wedlock. A complete parental failure. You can't fix this with money.
There is also a large number of children with alcohol and crack baby syndrome...( worldwide these kids are entering high-school ) and their hyperactive drug / alcohol soaked brains are unable to learn properly. These kids make up a very large percentage of inner city kids. Detroit was the crack epicenter- I imagine the % of crack babies is much higher
@@jimmyhawkins5357 that has no factual basis and is just your personal beliefs biasing your ability to logically process information that doesn't conform to your personal views. It's called cognitive dissonance. Having 2 parents, and particular your parents being married before they have children has almost nothing to do with future success. It's far more important factor is the education of your parents and the wealth of your parents. Having both parents you cannot guarantee either of these factors.
@John QPublic1 what do you expect when you have families that even working full-time and multiple jobs can barely afford to pay rent and eat? You heard that lady saying that she only makes about $500 every two weeks. I don't understand how she affords to live on that little amount. I make four times that much and I am not a highly paid individual. The reality is that when there is no good paying jobs, and there's no way to save money to leave this is what you get. You get a bunch of families that can only spend their energy trying to survive and don't have that extra energy to devote to their children. This is the problem with this society that has developed where CEOs make as much as thousands of workers per hour but paying someone $15 an hour as a minimum wage is considered too expensive.
@@tanjianforever You are not listening. I didn't say having 2 parents. It takes 2 good parents or at least 1 with good morals.
This was published in 2012. Almost 8 years ago. All I want to know is, is it better now? Please say it is so...
Smartana Jones, I am sorry to say that it has gotten A LOT worse, the budget has fallen to $700 million instead of over $1 billion. The school condition in 90%of the schools has fallen between 30 and 80%, every year since 2009 they have consistently scored the worst results ever recorded on the NAEP test mentioned in the video. I’m sorry to break the bad news, but it needs to be heard.
DPS has also become MUCH MUCH more corrupt
No it's not, most schools are closed.
It all starts in the home you have to be A INVOLVED PARENT the first teacher is the PARENT!! PARENTS DO YOUR JOB AT HOME, teach them about God, LOVE, respect, honor, teach them to care about themselves and others and where the live, hard work pays off, education is very important. then when you send the children to school they go in knowing the basics. They overcrowd these schools and expect the children to get one on one attention, how? Parents go volunteer at the school go check on you children and see what's going on at that school. I got a job at my children's school to make sure they got what they needed to advance I also taught them at home. DETROIT IS NOT THE ONLY CITY THAT HAS THESE ISSUES SHOW THE OTHER STATES THAT HAVE STRUGGLING CITIES/ SCHOOLS AND CRIME.
Reds Random videos it’s so true!! It’s the hardest most rewarding Job! And it is all our responsibility as parents
When the parents are drop outs, teen mothers, and illiterate, they are not qualified to be parents! They can’t teach their kids anything. Babies having babies. It is a vicious cycle that no one knows how to stop.
Parents need to show an interest in their childs education just as much as the teachers are expected.
True, but that's not the issue being addressed in this documentary.
@Aimee Webber Wow. You must have come from one of those multiple children, welfare houses since you are clearly lacking a decent education.
@Aimee Webber
Aimee: "whose biggest concern is getting and spending her welfare check"
Me: don't forget to you talk about what they're spending their welfare check on i.e., rent, electric bill, kids clothes & shoes etc. And I'm pretty sure the money that they do get it's not enough to take care of everything they or their children need. So, add this to their stressors and may be they're all tapped out to help them at home with their school work and maybe they dont have the education to help them. Not all ppl on welfare misuse government funds. And no I've never been on welfare but I have worked with enough of them and I have compassion for them and teach them how to manage what little they have. If you are being a smart alec, walk a mile in their shoes before you make statements like this
Amen!!!
Decent education is absolutely important m.
I went thru DPS up until my 10th grade year. Most of the schools I attended luckily actually cared about the students. I never let my dad put me in those just run down schools because I actually cared and he cared about my education. When I made it to 10th grade I went to a charter school and it was a good experience they cared about the students and made us college ready😎
What happened to the school that you were at in 10th grade?
They hated anyone who tried to make change🤷🤷🤷
Tiandra Francis idd! I cannot finish this, too frustrating.😨😰
@Believe on Jesus Christ For Eternal Life what if I don't want eternal life
Exactly you see them begin to bitch!
Exactly once they seen someone starting to check the books they all get defensive. Those boards members were pissed 😤
Deanna inspires me! She is one brilliant young lady. I wonder how she’s doing now?
I think I saw her on that 600 lb surgery show with Dr.Now. She was NOT doing well..
She seems to be doing very well, a director of a diversity program at Emporia State as of 2016 and working on her masters I believe...I found this after a little digging www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
@mick deeds She seems to be doing very well, a director of a diversity program at Emporia State as of 2016 and working on her masters I believe...I found this after a little digging www.emporia.edu/news/director-of-diversity-student-programs-named/
@@mcoutrier Thanks Mel for the update! This is wonderful news!!
These "school board" members don't know the difference between was and were. There lies the problem.
+mynamesjudge I noticed this as well. I also took note of the fact that Rather confused "vetting" with "venting."
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No... nearly all major cities w/ poor non-whites and blacks in poor areas is caused by the "White Flight"...
Exactly. When adults start off with "The children was ..." instead of "were", we have a serious problem already. This noun-verb plural agreement has been lost for decades. Forget about the proper use of your and you're or their, there, and they're. That may as well be college material.
+Kenneth Johnson and the people will not unify
"They make their money whether we learn or not." In grade school I did hear that a lot! That's the problem with education these days, out of touch bureaucrats have removed responsibility from schools for example the bad apples are placed with the kids who genuinely want to learn and the teachers who want to make a difference are isolated!
I hate to say it (because I'd rather it weren't so) but maybe the whole country just isn't as first-rate as it thinks it is. Maybe it just came out on top in two world wars within a span of 25 years, quickly bought up half the bombed-out world at fire sale prices, and had a good long run for about 20 or 25 years afterward.
Now for the past 45 years at least it's just gradually crumbling and nothing's going to stop it. Maybe within ten years, foreigners will be coming in to buy up America at fire sale prices---Chinese, Arabs, maybe Canadians, or even Mexicans and Russians.
The bitter irony is that, to get out of a jam like this, it's totally essential for your kids to be solidly educated. But Americans are far from the top. And when they go to university, very many of them just take courses in social unfairness. Meanwhile in other countries they still study real subjects.
It actually looks like the US is in for a steep drop in living standards. China has been sending cheap goods over for decades, while their people worked for two dollars an hour. That sacrifice on their part has been cushioning the US all this time.
But it won't be that long before they're making $15 or $20 an hour and Americans won't be able to afford their exports. What then? By that time, the Americans who knew how to design products and set up and run factories, now retired or in the late stages of other careers, will be old or long dead.
America just shows no sign of improvement. Private health care soaks up trillions as the rest of the world looks on in shock. It only ranks 37th in the world for quality. The financial sector has ballooned to outrageous proportions, doing next to nothing for the country while soaking up trillions as well. It also vomits up a recession once a decade, ruining millions of lives. Silicon Valley soaks up another pile of wealth, providing Americans with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Xbox in return. Then there's a $700 billion defence budget, perhaps less wasteful than those other things, perhaps just as wasteful.
Today's children will probably live poor in a China-dominated world when they hit middle age. By that time, all the baby boomers who carefully wrecked the country in the name of individuality, letting big business and the government worry about things, having fun, and 'being cool' will be dead or enjoying the last of the well-funded retirements. Soon after, the elections will stop falling on time.
I could probably go on if it weren't so depressing. This is how democracies die: in slow motion, but you can't hit pause.
How about some feedback?
The United States is in its current exalted position because of first rate geography (resource rich and isolated) despite a third rate population. Her comeuppance is on the horizon.
That's why we need Conservatives in office. Look at what 8 years of obummer did to our nation, and yet when Trump got in and turned the economy around, the dems resist tooth and nail. The shame is really on the democrats who got into office and enriched themselves (following the example of their exalted leader, killary) instead of taking care of the kids.
@@davidschmidt6013 you are either a troll or are stupid.
Check 10 years of market returns and unemployment numbers. You will see it has been steadily improving since President Obama was elected to clean up President Bush's mess.
Add to that the most Republican filibusters to block all rehab plans.
So which are you troll or stupid?
Education is not the Number One priority in the Black community. This has been the case for at least 50 years or more.
+E Mack they have the money they were governing themselves. and stop making it a Black thing it is a humanity thing black and brown and white life matter.
So if they have the money for education, spend it properly. As for making it a "race thing", that was done by others. I just call it as I see it. That ecumenical "humanity" this gets old too. I see nothing but Black faces in these lousy, filthy schools.
+DOUGLAS ANDERSON . I didn't t say that white lives didn't matter. Of course all life matters . That's obvious, but that's not the point.
+Mariah Butler. Stop whining please!
+E Mack What would you say is the number one priority then? How would you know what the priority of an Entire race is? Who makes these types of general statements?
Two Parents Households are needed to raise children properly. Mom and Dad MUST work together by starting education at home.
Tiffany Hall not necessarily. I know a few kids who were raised my single moms who went onto great colleges, got degrees and made something out of themselves. I’m a single mom and my son is going to grow up and make a positive contribution to this society.
Not really. .. a home that has parental involvement period is needed... parental involvement that has an idea on how to set proper examples... a household that has enough money to support those that live there... a household that operates and functions like a proper home instead of a zoo.. a household that holds respect for themselves that wants better for themselves that's willing to put the work in themselves to see that they have better ... and by work I don't mean holding protest for more benefits
Tell that to all the dead beat parents who skip out on their child.
Avonee: anecdotal means absolutely nothing. Yes you might know a couple people where it seems to work ok but your chances of success go down tremendously without having a mother and father ag home/getting pregnant out of wedlock and dropping out of school. Follow those 3 and chances are very high youll do well in life
That's nice and all..
Having two parents..But, there are LOTS of children who will with just a mom who graduate HS and go to college..
Mr. Bob was the best you can get. The parents was wrong for dumping the the thefts on him, it should have went to the school board members. It was so much damages to the kids, it would take a life time to fix. He should have fired the peoples who was involved. Start with a clean slate.
The worst failure is people, having children (because they didn't use contraception), who are not in a financial position (or any position), to be able to raise children and provide for them, and educate them, and provide a stable home environment of loving and disciplinarian, guiding, parents.
Yea...but God will always make a way
No, God will always TAKE away.
Craig Sterilizing them? How about just JAILING them, like happens to MEN if they have kids they can't pay for?
Craig don't forget to start with the white ones 1st.
They only ones responsible for this catastrophic mess are the people of Detroit themselves . . . . . they are the only ones to blame for this mess .
@Cliff Chase so personal responsibility has nothing to do with it!!!!!
Man, having Cosby there didn’t age well.
Lol
Thats what i thought. Around the 1 hour and 20 min mark when cosby does another meeting with people, he says something along the lines of what "protect the children"
Oof
Actually, Cosby has always been a strong advocate for promoting education, especially college, for black kids.
So long as you keep your daughters and sisters away from him, everything would be just fine. If you are still somewhat concerned, keep your mother, aunties, and grandma away from him as well. That should do the job.
Teacher at 26:17 spells the word "temperature" incorrectly as "temprature." Awesome.
I remember that a former The DPS President was illiterate.......YES ILLITERATE.....and the city celebrated him as a success.......SMH.
My goodness 🤦🏾♀️
Probably got an education within Detroit as well.
Sickening ❗❗
@@josephwinkler4863 You’re kidding, right? There is no alternate spelling in the English language. If you don’t know how to spell a word, look it up in the dictionary.
I had a friend that did some electrical repairs on some schools in Detroit, he said the halls would always reek of marijuana and many students tried to sell him coke and meth. There was gunshots one afternoon in the parking lot, and a huge riot broke out in the cafeteria. Needless to say, he didnt return to finish the work..lol. Its too late to change years of social degradation once it gets to a certain point.
For your own safety, get over thinking that “kids” are mostly innocent creatures who occasionally get high and have too much energy. Kids today are capable of anti-person violence and they also carry false pride and entitlement. Try telling a 16-year old not to spit on the sidewalk, or the floor of the bus, and you will be attacked, possibly with a weapon and the help of friends.
Should we “discard” that dear, little teenager? After you get stabbed, have a collapsed lung and are spitting up blood, let us know.
Maybe you could teach him and his gang about Geography? You wouldn’t last a week.
@E Fox I've said the same thing to people about high school kids in Detroit selling drugs. I've said to people if you were say a 14 or 15 year old kid, and for example you're mom was a single parent barely getting by, you go to bed hungry way too often, you wouldn't sling??? If I was in that situation at that age and the local dealer told me he'd give me say $400 or $500 a week to sell, seeing my mom struggle, maybe the lights get shut off, hell yes I'd do it. It's not like there's many places a kid can even go get a after school job. I swear most people who talk smack about this have never struggled to that extent in their lives.
Stay clean.
@@PissedUAWElectrician Tell your mom to practice self-control and have faith in God!
@@valerieherron8974 easier said than done if you're not in that situation. It's VERY VERY easy for us to sit back and pass judgment on people we don't know or what they're going through. Also, I'll thank you to keep my mother out of your mouth when you don't know a damn thing about me. Good day.
Back in the 50's when I was in school, Detroit had the best schools in the united states. Thanks in part, to the automobile industry who contributed a lot to the education systems. The Auto industry is all but gone and so are the Henry Fords who set the high standards for workers including hospitals. what happened?? so many things. Hundreds of things, but industry leaving was the most serious, next was the welfare state that forced men to leave their families so their wifes and children could get help after the jobs left. so sad. Its easy to blame whitey, but they suffered too. When the auto companies were owned by families and not wall street they had a connection with the city. everything is wall street now, and they don't give a damn. Believe it or not, back in the 50's we had school exchanges where white districts would exchange classes with black districts. It was the being of understanding each other. This was possible because we all had jobs. Forced integration was a big big mistake. It did not help anything. It causes people to hate each other
@Leonardo's Truth... I've typically found that people with "truth" in their online monikers have an aversion to it. Not everything is some grand conspiracy. And you know nothing about me and are just jumping to conclusions. Something very typical of the conspiracy theory nutter. They often jump to insane conclusions on "feelings" and falsely equate such leaps with intelligence and critical thinking.
Disregarding the conspiracy theory tripe for a moment, and looking at this with a more rational mindset, what is really going on here?
Every institution in this country is under attack by liberals due to racial disparities. From police to education. Any disparity across racial lines is cited as "proof" of institutional racism. High black incarceration rates. Ah ha! Proof that police are RACISTS! High black conviction rates. Ah ha! Proof that judges and the judicial system is chock full of RACISTS. Low performance and low graduation rates of black students. Ah ha! Proof the school system is RACIST!
The problem with this is the underlying assumption that ALL peoples of ALL races are EQUAL in ability and temperament. So if you believe that ASSUMPTION, then yes you logically have to conclude all these institutions are racist. Or you can go that extra mile and blame even the CIA...
Just what if, WHAT IF, the basic underlying assumption is wrong? What if there are indeed real and MEASURABLE biological differences between peoples of different races that might possible?
The truth? Most people cannot handle the truth. Even when presented with evidence and hard data. They will dismiss such evidence because it is so counter to the world view that we were all brought up on. That ALL people are EQUAL.
We have entered an era where such scientific evidence is branded as heresy. We must keep pushing the liberal lie that all people are equal and that diversity is a strength. And keep peddling nonsense like the police are inherently racist, the schools are racist, and the CIA is behing it all.
@Denis Shillingford. You're response is typical of a conspiracy theorist nutter (and lacking basic literacy). So not only did the CIA destroy your beloved city, but anyone that points out the scientific evidence that there are measurable biological differences between ethnic groups, you throw out the childish name-calling of racism. People are increasingly seeing right through mental midgets like yourself. Also people like you simply are not grounded in reality and are mentally unstable. No amount of blame whitey is going to change the plight of people like you. Look in the mirror. You are the source of all your problems. And so many like you in that SHITHOLE of a city.
As long as that infection stays quarantined in Detroit, the rest of the nation should be safe.
@Denis... You are aware that there are real biological differences between different ethnic groups? Nothing racist about it. It is just nature. It is just facts. It is just biology and genetics. Here is just one example:
"Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher."
Source: academic.oup.com/jnci/article-abstract/76/1/45/1006122?redirectedFrom=PDF
This above scientific paper is about trying to understand why black males have a higher propensity for colon cancer than other races. High testosterone levels have been linked to higher colon cancer rates. This might also explain some of the more violent tendencies in black males and their high level of incarceration between the ages of teens to mid 40s, the same years when males peak in testosterone production.
When someone points out basic facts like what I just did, people like you with very violent tendencies go on a tirade and falsely accuse someone like me of being a racist. You're incapable of rational thought and civil discussion. You, like so many, blame others for your failings. Even to the point of invoking ridiculous conspiracy theories like the CIA drugging your city.
Put down the crack pipe. Come back to reality and start acting like a member of the human race. But you will predictably come back with some more ghetto gang banging attitude.
For every White racist, their is a self-hating White. For ever White racist, there is a racist Black. You should remember that because you are one of the two.
Do you have parent-teacher conferences?
Absolutely.
Were they well-attended?
Absolutely not.
That's Detroit's problem in a nutshell.
white hating black people is detroits problem in a nutshell
Paul Schober
😂that's the problem? Open your mind😂 open your damn eyes. You don't have a clue😭
Mike Swivel
I'm the average black woman and my iq is 126.
Riddle me this, genius, who created the iq and what for ? Surely, you understand bias. All of you white's without power are living off the white men with power's, self fulfilling prophecy. I took a calc course on college level and it was not the Indian'a, not the Chinese or Korean, not the whites, not me, but these three black men who dominated the course. Everyone was trying to study with them. If you saw them out in the world, your bias would have had you at a disadvantage.
If your iq test is so beloved and revered, why is your thinking, reason and rationality so limited?
Btw, screw the iq test. It means fuck all!
i got the exact same iq as you congratulations, feels nice being smart.
the one who claims she has an IQ of 126 claims A) the tests are BS (lawlz) and B) that she doesn't understand averages
It’s so sad to see how angry that girl is towards her school, community.
2:43 - 2:45 you see two asian dudes on the left side of the screen. That explains the 11 kids who pass the test needed to graduate.
🤣🤣🤣
I LOVE THAT COMMEN LOL
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Yup!
America can’t even take care of their own,
& crazy libs want to take care of the illegals 1st?????????? they’re immoral!
lol its funny cuz its true
there must have been 9 other Asian's
There was also Black Flight. It was Crime Flight by anybody who could afford it.
Mandatory birth control will prevent all future problems.
@DarkGracie95 😂😂😂😂
@DarkGracie95 in that case buddy, people like yourself becomes the new oppressed. Its a capitalistic country we live in.
stories like this make it really hard to be pro-life...
bob gates
I do not see how. A girl wanting her baby, will just not go back to school. Teach children how to learn and making learning interesting would help. Teach a child according to his or her interests and abilities. If they like animals, make such books avaiable. Make learning a positive thing.
Of the utmost importance, teach kids to read their Bible, make sure all have one. Society was at a much better place when kids knew the basic 10 commandments. Sex ed is not the solution. Teaching them adult behaviours and such should be the parents prerogative. Schools have taught sex, but no morals to go with that. This is the results we have got now.
J R
Abortion is still killing an innocent living being. It is not the solution. Sex ed, without traditional moral standarts, has promoted much of todays problems. So has the movie industry, showing violence and sex as endless entertainment.
This is one of the saddest stories I've heard. Education is the most important things for a successful society. Corruption with people in power leaves the masses hopeless.
Yep by design....
Where are the parents? I would not have dare goof off in school, argue, fight, mouth off. I would have been disciplined for my attitude. I never would have talked back to a cop or any adult. My parents monitored my grades.
It takes a village
Parent is working 2 low wage
Jobs to put food on table and
Shelter. She is doing the best
She can considering living in
The USA. USA does not want
Black Americans, Hispanics,
White females to succeed.
Dumb down America.
Parents are working longer
Hours to make a living.
Prices of homes are ridiculous. Wages are low.
Corporate greed is rampant.
The working poor . Jobs are
Being located in other countries . And people from
Other countries are taking
Jobs in America . USA GOVT
IS NO LONGER FOR THE
CITIZENS OR THEIR CHILDREN of the United States.
The entire school board should have been charged and dismissed, along with those doing the misdeeds.
NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CHILDREN?????!!!! REALLY? THE CHILDREN NEED TO SHOW UP TO CLASS AND BEHAIVE BY NOT CONSTANTLY ACTING IN VIOLENT BEHAIVIOR! IT IS LEARNMED BEHAVIOR THAT I THE PROBLEM.
something in Paraguay kids need to be taught responsibility when young or it'll be 10x as hard later.. unfortunately instead they're born to a culture where blame is the name of the game.
Right. Because not have books, gym facilities, ink, and other learning resources isn't a factor lol.
something in Paraguay yes they were told to show up and shut up I’ll pass you just for being here we get paid whether you learn or not. The kids came and the teachers did not teach let alone teach to different learning styles. Something wrong with you if you watched this documentary and that’s your comment. Obviously don’t pay attention you must have been so hard to teach god bless the teachers who At least got you to the level you’re at lmao
Respect. Where is it?
Children, parents today
Are so disrespect today.
Now we need classes in
Character development.
something in Paraguay
A child's behaviour is a result of his enviroment.
When Bibles where a part of school, and the 10 commandments actually known to every child, when a knowledge of God was part of growing up, in those times there was a whole lot more respect in society. Teens having sex, and also abortions was very rare or even almost unheard of. Take God out of the children's minds, and this is what you have got. Put the Bibles back into schools, let kids read world's greatest ever best seller, The Word of God. That would change lifes like nothing else. Not so much when the first Bible in their life is found in a prison cell. Think about that.
Damn I never knew this. Now I know why my dad moved out of Detroit and brought me to Livonia. Not to avoid the “hood” but to avoid the school district that failed him.
I don't know how old you are but if you are inclined, a job in construction in almost any ex-communist bloc will be endowed with some expert teachers especially carpenters. An apprenticeship with a firm that you know produces top class work is worth putting you heart an soul into; if you know what to look for and can keep out of temptation (drinking is a big problem in the construction industry.)
Everything starts at home people.
Russian Troll Yes it does. I was there for both of my children. You could actually say that I was a helicopter mom when it came to school. I was there every day when my son was in kindergarten to 6th grade. Then I was there asking questions from them then on. Both of my children knew that I was always going to be in their lives when it came to school. My daughter and son both graduated with honors. I loved them enough to care.
@@shananalexander9789 Some of us were working 2 jobs, but I was there every Tuesday!
Absolutely, I work in education and parents have virtually no liability.
@@shananalexander9789 Yep that is very good but you don't live in Detroit , neither do I but many times when I see a video about the public schooling system in the USA i'm thinking to myself ; Well if I had lived in the USA I would have been a top rate student :).. But I do agree that the parents play a big role but if the teacher is not motivated it wouldn't help all that much .
Exactly. Look how those kids act IN the school -- a bunch of punks that don't give a damn about anything, thanks to their lack of parenting.
Diana needs a Kickstarter! This charming nerd girl deserves to be a librarian if thats what she wants to be!
This documentary is very old, so a kickstarter may not be needed If she moved out
March 18, 2019 things are about the same!!!! These kids CAN’T read and write or do basic math problems!!!! 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ Smh!!!! Parents have to do their part with their child’s education. The teachers can’t do it with 30 plus students in a class
You're kidding. In 1979 I was in a classroom with 46 grade 9 kids. We learned. Or else.
We had good teachers but the two principals were gen-yoo-wine pieces of work: very capable but didn't cross them. Ken grayley and Paul Nickerson never hesitated to put a fuckup against the wall by the throat and I only ever had to see it the once. They weren't bullies but there was a firm hand.
And parents supported them.
What are they getting paid for
@Kelly Buck The school plays a part in the home discipline at home when a parent whoops a child ass for ther behavior at school kid goes to school and tell teacher/counselor my momma /daddy whoop me and the school run call CPS on the parents for abuse now parents wont intervene with risk of going to jail for whooping his ass every ass whooping is not abuse but the system help implant this in the minds of these children if momma/daddy whoop you call the police,hotline or tell your teacher so what you expect!
Thank you to the teachers that stick it out. Most teachers sadly do not. I live in Illinois. The classrooms here are out of control. Fights, vandalism, disrespect to the teachers and other students. Ther are police officers at the school and it still isn't under control. It's getting worse. The school has no control and their hands are tied in so many ways. Expelling students is unheard of because for evey student that is in a seat (as long as they show up) the school gets funding for each "head". If a student has a couple absences the parents get nasty letters threatening $100.00 a day fines, having to do community service (parents and students) etc.
My son was jumped and I kept him home 2 days, then there was a threat of a school shooting so I kept him home that day. 3 days within 2 weeks so I received one of those letters. (My son is on the honor roll, football team, and doesn't act up) it's ridiculous. What is there to do?
There was a vote coming up for the superintendents "bonus" of $30,000?
The parents found out and we were informed that we could attend the meeting. The superintendent didn't get his bonus. He then turned around and sued the school board because he felt parents should not have had a say in his "well deserved" bonus 🙄 How are our children supposed to get any education with all the daily chaos ? It is fact that in one of my son's classes the teacher hands out ditto sheets and at the top the instructions say. "Type the question exactly how it's written into the Google search bar, then write exactly what comes up. Geezuz...🤨
This shows the need for different types of classes. The kids who want to learn and don't cause trouble should not have to endure thugs and violent students. They should be put in different classes. If we are going to insist that all kids attend schools, then put the horrible ones in a behavior class, even if they have to have police there. Put strict discipline rules in effect and enforce them. If the kid refuses, he/she goes to juvy for a while. You can't make them learn, but you sure can make their lives miserable if they don't. Let the kids earn their way back into the calm classroom. The problem is that those kinds of kids have never had anyone make them conform to rules. If they don't learn when they are kids, they never will. At least the kids with potential will have a chance to learn. Of course, you would have parents and bleeding hearts filing suit, but provide those disruptive kids with the same education, just in a more controlled environment.
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I totally agree it's only going to get worse these kids have NOT ONE OUNCE Of RESECT for anything and kids who want to learn can't because of the ones who are causing the trouble it's the only way money missing that's ment for schools the greed of BUILDING CONTRACTORS