Another side of Andy Borowitz

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34. the issue here

is the schools in the poorest areas have fallen so far behind that they will have to catch up, and that could take years. Some of the poor schools do a "get 'em out the door" policy - that is, if a kid has failed a year twice and is now two years behind his or her age group they just kick them up a grade every year to get them out of the system. To fix this will take a lot of money and a lot of sacrifice by the families, like year round schools and tutoring to catch up. And frankly some communities won't do it. And some families, like ones that are barely scraping by, simply don't have the time to comply. If the kid is staying late at school, and the parent can't come pick them up, then how will the kid get home? Can the child study at home? Or does the child have to come home and help take care of the siblings, - cook, clean, etc., instead of studying?

The big problem is in the lower middle class whites - parents that watch Fox and pass that idea that education is stupid, to their kids. They pass on hate, ignorance, racism, and more so you get a kid that does not rise above, but keeps the cycle going. And the kids have peer pressure to deal with, say, if they get "too smart" or ask too many uncomfortable questions. I have hopes that the internet will reduce that, since now a kid can have peers all over the world, but that won't change the people they come in personal contact with every day. There is way too much intentional ignorance, and too much hate of educated.