City Student Passes 3 Classes in Four Years, Ranks Near Top Half of Class With 0.13 GPA 

just blame the school XD really???

I feel bad asking this question...in the black community what is the literacy level REALLY like? I know we got statistics out there but what are some real life experiences? I can only imagine how shameful and self conscious it must feel not to be able to help you kid out with the school work.

@@g0stface23 Well it IS Baltimore...

Both the schools and mother's fault@@g0stface23

That's ok, he will be successful in the future, Steve Jobs and bill gates were dropouts too

@CL Wil It's a crisis of the heart, mind, soul and spirit in the not-pale community. The not-pale community is sinking into the abyss as we speak.

@@User2718218 not-pale community? O-k? Pretty sure it's just bad parenting...

@@grievouscontent It's much more than that. How many 14-year-old pale boys do you see on Facebook flashing guns in a menacing manner? How many not-pale 14-year-old boys do you see doing it?

@@User2718218 How many PALE 14-16 year olds are shooting up schools though?

@@notplaying9772 You are shooting yourself in the foot, pun intended. You are talking about a few pale high-profile cases per year, perhaps less than 10. Meanwhile, in the not-pale community, there are between 10 and 30 mass shootings PER WEEK. And many of those are done by young not-pale males. That is the reality that you have to face. Stop playing a deflection game.

You are the welcome exception. The sad reality is that the not-pale community is in complete and total crisis. It's a crisis of the heart, the mind, the soul and the spirit. It's sinking into the abyss as we speak.

There were multiple failures the mother takes the biggest L, then the school, and then the kid, and the kid is the one that's going to end up paying for his neglectful mother, as well as his bad behaviors, as well as a broken system with 3 more years of his life. The school clearly has some sort of issue going on if this kid is ranked 62nd in his class. That means there are 58 kids who are failing even more, that's crazy. If this was the private sector this department would be entirely fired and rebuilt, there are very few places where you can perform that badly and still stay in business. That said, what kind of mother doesn't check on how their kid is doing in school? My mom nearly knocked my head off for getting a C in 9th grade, I don't have children yet, but when I do I can not imagine not wanting to know about their lives. Why have a child if you don't want anything to do with them? Anyway, tragic all around. The young man can get his GED and either enlist in the army or go to community college, he can still have a good life, but he'll suffer for not having a good mother whether just emotionally or in other ways.

@@User2718218 I'm not the exception. I'm the reality. The truth is that many people believe the lies of inequality and oppression so they do not perform to their fullest ability. Every time they turn on the TV they hear CNN and other media outlets telling them how their efforts won't matter because they'll be cheated somehow in the end. As a result of all of this negative brainwashing, you end up with a large group of people who under achieve. Yes, that may have been true at one point, but during my life (I'm 35), I've seen nothing but opportunity for minorities regardless of their situations. The issue bigger than opportunity, is people not taking advantage of their opportunity. Kids in the projects grow up being told that "they ain't sh!t" and that "they never will be sh!t." Whereas, kids in better areas are told to aim for the stars cause they can be anything... It's not rocket science how we loose people to the streets. Yes, I went to bad schools and lived in bad neighborhoods... That made me want to do better to get out. Even while in college, I had some professors speak down to me and tell me I should quit, but that made me work harder to earn an A in their class just so I could have the last laugh... I've been a fighter my whole life. From growing up as an orphan to street fighting and MMA... IDK... Maybe my fighting background gave me more resilience... When you are bloody and bruised, the only person that can save you in the ring is yourself... Life is very similar. So tell me, when you are being punched in the face, do you turtle up and quit? Or do you bite down on your mouthpiece and punch back? Lastly, the biggest falsehood that plague many is the lie that success is linear... Turbulence is real--very few aspects of life are linear. So yea... I grew up in the hood without parents... I've worked crappy jobs like McDonalds... Yet, still I kept it together and became a doctor. Its not impossible. It just takes EFFORT! Alot of it...

"Anything." In english we dont use double negatives

@@greenluxi The school isn't to blame and apparently the kid did nothing, that's on him.

From kindergarten till about seventh grade, my mom made a meal and she watched me do my homework on the table and checked it after I got done eating. There's just no excuse for this, you want to tell me she never had the time to sit with her child once? Starting from grade 1.

The root cause is the abysmal state of the not-pale community. It is sinking into the abyss as we speak.

Correct

@CL Wil Sad part he is almost the middle of the pack in gpa 62/100. Everyone running that school needs to be fired and changes need to be made, including the parents no one is blameless. Anyone living in that district should refuse to pay taxes for that district until the results significantly change. Her son is already a statistic should still be pissed at the school but also herself.

@@om606channel I agree it's his fault but the standards of that school needs overhauled. He wasn't even the worst in his class had 38 below him. When I was in school you had 10 days you could miss without doctors excuses. I don't understand how they aren't expelled missing most of the school days. His mom should be more pissed off at her son.

Unless this ended up being another situation like what happened at Ballou High School a few years back.

@@robertlunderwood Ballou is a prime example of what happens when teachers are pressured by administrators who are pressured by parents, community leaders, politicians, and activists... to graduate failing children because that way everyone in power (which isn't teachers but BOE, Union leaders, city council) gets paid. Non existent parental input but feigned community outrage at schools because kids didn't bother to learn a single thing in 12 years. Extraordinarily sad that people blame everyone but the lazy youth, politicians and fake community leaders that cash checks on the backs of poor people.

@@jackiechilds8047 sadly, you're right. It's just business for most of these people.

@@rickyv7757 it's not 'most of these people'. It is specifically naacp, teachers union, and every single black community leader including pastors. These are the same people that cash checks after telling poor people they deserve more as long as they keep electing rich blacks. Caveat is, blame everyone else, but especially poor whites for rich blacks and black politicians failing to deliver - ever. EVER. IN 50 YEARS

I agree. The larger issue of why half of the school has under a .13 GPA and what factors are playing into the truancy as well as the inability for most of them to pass even a handful of courses needs the attention of the city and the media. The larger issue needs to be at the center of this.

I know better than to take that bet. I would lose. xD

That's a sucker bet.

Much easier to blame than take accountability

In the video,he was behind the mother playing video games. She is upset because he will still have to live with her for 4 more years.She is going to have to pay attention now or be stuck with him forever.

Bingo. You mean to tell me that as a parent you never once thought to question how was school or let me see your report card from school at all? We're supposed to believe that she bares no blame either? Then these idiotic newscasters are trying to give her a break when she doesn't deserve one.

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She works 4 jobs tho imagine the pressure she’s going through

@@angelx143 Three jobs, and I get that she’s overwhelmed. Her nails were done. You have time for nail appointments, or to check Facebook, you have time to check the school portal that tells you grades, absences/tardy’s. School never calls, maybe she didn’t update her phone number with the school.....there were 12 report cards from 9th-11th, didn’t she notice how many how many days he was missing?

​@angelx143 no one made her have three kids she couldn't afford and her poor life choices does not excuse her from her obligation to be an active parent to those she has. Stop getting her nails done and lying on her back for men and start taking care of the kids she has.

@Ryan there are so many ways you can become a single parent. Since you don't know how she became a single parent, this comment you keep leaving under this video doesn't apply.

@Ryan What makes you so sure that that is her story?

@@nakitaheartsu9746 And does that mean that you don't have to pay attention to your kids?? Single parent or not, that's a bullshit excuse

@@grievouscontent huh?

@Dani F I agree about the 1 living wage job. Minimum wage jobs are for high school kids to work their way through proms and homecoming. She should probably go to a trade school and get a real job.

Schools only fail students that put in effort but fail despite their own efforts. This kid was clearly not stupid so he's lazy and surrounded by people who have 0 personal responsibility; as in people who say the school is partially to blame for not teaching him to do homework. GTFO w that garbage before you spread more of the lazy but greedy disease

If the parents aren't involved, at least not until the last second before finding out junior isn't going to graduate, and junior obviously isn't caring enough to even show up, what good can the school do?

@Ryan 😂🤣

@Ryan The not-pale community is a complete and utter disaster in the 21st century and it is sinking into the abyss as we speak.

@Ryan It's the biggest issue facing America and has been for years. But nobody wants to talk about it or they are afraid to talk about it.

@@cgore4 You are asking for too much, maybe just looking at pictures in a book.

His mother failed him too. He missed 227 days. If you grow up in a house where education is not talked about or deemed important a child would see it the same. This started happening in 9th grade he was only 14 years old. I just went to school because I had to. My graduation day was the first time I ever heard the word scholarship. I didn't know it existed or what it was. Nobody set me down and showed me or told me what steps to take to even get to college. I found out as an adult. Because of that I made sure my children knew what to do.

My father is African American and he would have given my soul to the gods and my behind would have been his to discipline. The key issue is the lack of male intervention (uncles, grandfathers ) not the school or strangers because we are no longer a village.

That’s awesome. I’m sorry about your dad, though.

grounded for an F? must be nice. i got the extension chord for bringing home a single C even though the rest were Bs and above

How did you get an F in 5th grade?

@@georgetang6157 I got an F in fifth grade for speaking as I was a super shy kid, but that was one assignment I improved the grade to a C- haha

That lady has the worst excuses for him, she failed her son, not the school. She tries to pass the blame on the school, what an idiot

@Ozymandias Wise Damn near extinct.

She's a single mom.

There is no father

The kid was getting F’s constantly! Damn, when I was a kid growing up and going to school in Baltimore if I brought home a C I was dead meat. 😂😂😂 My parents standards were very high and they wanted to see nothing but A’s and B’s on that report card!

She has no shame.

LMFAO just said the same stuff. Does she think we should feel sorry 4 her

Definitely is shameful

Even students who have little understanding of the material can pull Cs or Ds and pass as long as they show up and make an attempt at doing the work.

@@personnesenki4521 Actually, they are likely to get Bs. I've always said in schools like this and the one that I went to that if a student shows up, shuts his mouth, and puts forth an effort, he'll get a B.

@@robertlunderwood You're likely right... I'd like to think that some teachers would reward the kind of effort it takes to do the work, even if one is at a disadvantage.

@CL Wil That's a higher standard than a lot of urban schools. The standard you are talking about is the normal standard that students are normally held to.

Exactly

So are we gonna ignore the fact that despite having a 0.13gpa he is in the top half of his class. If is the parents responsibility to make sure he does well but the school definitely failed.

@@winniediallo4118 no, it's definitely not the school's fault. The school is there to teach children, not raise them. It's not the school's job to instill morals and values into children. They can't force kids to come to school. They can't force kids to sit there and learn. People need to take responsibility for their own bad choices in life and stop trying to pass the blame.

That’s right! Even if her three jobs prevent her from checking every couple days, she could sit down for an hour or so every weekend and go over all the kids’ grades. The bottom line is that she has the opportunity to shift the blame because the school’s involved, removing that out of the equation, we still have an uninvolved parent and a kid missing over 200 days of school. Kinda spells disaster under any circumstance.

How bad is it for you, to talk bad about those strong independent queens! Who don’t need no man!

Blame the crisis in the heart, the mind, the soul and the spirit in the not-pale community. It is sinking into the abyss as we speak.

The not-pale community is in complete and total crisis. You are seeing a manifestation of it in this case.

It's legitimately disturbing that he's ranking 62 (out of what, 120 students?) with a .13 GPA? That's most students w less than full 1.0 GPA. I mean they're literally not doing their government paid jobs either. That's taxpayers money used to push students to grades they have even earned. The parents have failed them 💯 but it's scary that their numbers look like this and no one has been fired. It all feels like a set up and too many ppl are stepping right into it.

Lol I did summer school once barley went but trust learned my lesson

Maybe if she had married one of the daddies of her 3 kids he'd have a mentor.

Possibly, and the mother was too damn dumb to sense something was wrong when there was no contact at all from the school.

@Book E not necessarily...I was forging all of my paperwork in school but I also wasn't truant so they never noticed. Schools just care about getting the info and seeing a signature.

Or it got thrown away, you can easily just throw a report card out

I BECAME a single parent of 2 AFTER DIVORCE. My ex lived in a different state. My oldest is autistic and the other is gifted & talented. 2 special needs boys is challenging. I was a full time student, had a full time job and was in the Army national guard. I later moved to a better career, working 50-65 hrs/week. Both of my kids were at school everyday. I always knew what was going on, checked for report cards and progess reports. Didn't miss anything, not even programs. Because I wanted more for them, I was never complacent nor did I sit around and let others take responsibility or blame for any of my actions, good or bad. Family and community support systems do helped a lot, especially when they know your goals and dreams.. Both of my young men are doing extremely well. My youngest is a college graduate with an awesome career. We don't know WHY she's a single mother. However, we do know, she didn't do her part. At the end of the day, the responsibility lies with her. Hopefully, she will become more proactive instead reactive with her other 2 children and its not too late for her son. That's just MY OPINION.

@@divatee9705 you deserve about 100 medals! Not trolling. It would be amazing to hear more women speak about their successes of overcoming insane challenges instead lamenting the fairness of the challenges. Tell those boys to take care of mama too!

@@divatee9705 Sadly your experience is the exception that proves the rule.

@Ryan When you say "their" what kind of people is that in reference to? Black women or just women in general, because "their" is exclusive in this context

First of all not all babys are the product of consensual sex where the woman decides to "open her legs", Secondly telling a woman to not have sex is dehumanizing because that is an innate human feature. Next off, you contradicted your self by implying woman shouldn't have sex then you offer contraceptives for when they do is rhetorical. Furthermore, within certain demographics of people it is common for a higher presence of absentee fathers so you can't really blame the mother for the fathers absence except for the fact that she chose wrongly.

I like the Wire analogy you made🤣🤣🤣.

The student wasn’t worried about it either

You had a mother!!

Something bigger is going on when the median GPA is less than 0.5!!!!!!

@@justinchan9657 That just means the overall parenting skills of that district are likely as good as the woman in the interview.

You mean the most educated group of women ?? Them black quansss?? Naa.

Not entirely...how does the school justify passing him forward when he's failed the prerequisite courses??? There's plenty of blame to go around.

When I was in school they also sent interim reports so chances are she missed way more than just 12

That’s not funny but lmaooo

Not funny til they hire that guy to count votes

Usually the teacher assigns homework and tests which they will grade. If they don't take a test or do the homework you get a 0/100.

If your GPA of 0.13 I’ll fail you too💯

That was Bush...

@@AM-er3zq You are correct. Hillary only voted for it. Either way it's not working.

Exactly that was bipartisan policy.

It’s never their faults just like their murdrous kids! They just end up in jail!

Ur WAY earlier then me but said the same thing! She obviously doesn't care.

Biden was talking about smugglers and pirates. 😂😂

@@horacecomegna335 Thanks I really had no idea

That's 62/100 in his class it's not just one student it's the majority of them.

He didn't show up for the majority of the year. Evidently the school barely knew he existed.

That's exactly what I did. I graduated from a crappy high school with a GPA of 3.83 and got into Carnegie Mellon. I took advantage of the opportunities offered.

Dang you’re old 😂

I remember when my grades were written on my report cards in pencil...

0.137 isn't bad enough for you? He got a B in Health 1 for 0.5 credits and got Ds in Fundamentals of Art and English 1 for 1 credit. There's not that much to go after that.

Tell me about it, and they said he was ranked 62 out of 126. I had a 3.0 in high school B+ average and didn't even try with AP classes, I would have been a brainiac if I attended that school.

Yup!!! Since she so busy, she could even do a blanket email, and change the kids’ names as she sends them to their respective teachers...wait, she’d have to know the teachers’ names...I give up.

Exactly. I thought that some of the funding for schools were given based on passing those state tests. If more than half the school was failing three years straight, how is the school still open?

What can the schools do if students don't bother to show up?

Here are the words: The not-pale community is in complete and total crisis.

Assuming they wanna learn.