One of the comments dealt with "inequality in schools" from black to White locations; specifically with computers and what is available to students.
I worked, 2 years, in LA's South Central for LAUSD as a network engineer. I went to literal prisons called high schools, but also elementary and middle schools in the same area. Favorite story was at Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary, where they had a shooting...an 8 year old...on the playground during recess. But I digress.
The problem, 100%, and without exception, was the black community. You saw the problem start to manifest in the lower grades--zero accountability, lack of parent interaction, entitlement attitude. By the time they cycled through high school, it was all thugs, gangs, and crime. I was threatened dozens of times carrying my $15k network equipment/computer, and fuck you if you wanted me to stay after dark. No fucking way was I either on campus or around those neighborhoods. Teachers were afraid to look at the students in the eye while walking the campus.
There was an "initiative" to put "Fiber to the classroom"...so every single class---in every single school---had to have fiber run and about a $2k switch that they could connect desktops up to. Sometimes there was a lesser switch, but good ol' Cisco was the default. When I had a call to go to a classroom, I'd look at where the problem was (a specific classroom, a series of classrooms, or network in general), what the school was (Jordan, Locke, Fremont, Manual Arts, Crenshaw--literally didn't matter) and if one of those places, I'd know I'd see a ripped out fiber line with the network switch stolen. There wasn't even a PC there anymore, either--that was long since gone.
THAT'S the problem. Not "inequality". Those thugs were thieves and criminals, and they're reaping what they've sown. Not that removal of the father from the family hasn't hurt them, it irreparably has. And there were maybe two elementary schools where the administration fought like hell to teach those kids responsibility (Be 15 mins early, if you're on time, you're late), but the other middle schools and high schools took that from them.
One of the comments dealt with "inequality in schools" from black to White locations; specifically with computers and what is available to students.
I worked, 2 years, in LA's South Central for LAUSD as a network engineer. I went to literal prisons called high schools, but also elementary and middle schools in the same area. Favorite story was at Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary, where they had a shooting...an 8 year old...on the playground during recess. But I digress.
The problem, 100%, and without exception, was the black community. You saw the problem start to manifest in the lower grades--zero accountability, lack of parent interaction, entitlement attitude. By the time they cycled through high school, it was all thugs, gangs, and crime. I was threatened dozens of times carrying my $15k network equipment/computer, and fuck you if you wanted me to stay after dark. No fucking way was I either on campus or around those neighborhoods. Teachers were afraid to look at the students in the eye while walking the campus.
There was an "initiative" to put "Fiber to the classroom"...so every single class---in every single school---had to have fiber run and about a $2k switch that they could connect desktops up to. Sometimes there was a lesser switch, but good ol' Cisco was the default. When I had a call to go to a classroom, I'd look at where the problem was (a specific classroom, a series of classrooms, or network in general), what the school was (Jordan, Locke, Fremont, Manual Arts, Crenshaw--literally didn't matter) and if one of those places, I'd know I'd see a ripped out fiber line with the network switch stolen. There wasn't even a PC there anymore, either--that was long since gone.
THAT'S the problem. Not "inequality". Those thugs were thieves and criminals, and they're reaping what they've sown. Not that removal of the father from the family hasn't hurt them, it irreparably has. And there were maybe two elementary schools where the administration fought like hell to teach those kids responsibility (Be 15 mins early, if you're on time, you're late), but the other middle schools and high schools took that from them.