White schools vs. Black schools

so, i just transferred from a predominately white school, to a a predominatedly black public high school a little farther away. the differences between them are astounding. the white school ws always clean and nice, the kids were able to take trips abroad during spring break, like italy and paris and most of the kids graduated and went to college. my new school is downright filthy, there seems to be a fight once a week and in my year of being there i have had 1 phone and 2 ipods stolen. the most alarming thing to me has to be that a lot of the kids aren't going to college and that some of the kids aren't even graduating. i know that that happens at a lot of schools but its sad to see it happen so much!!! I think the biggest problem has to be the parents. at the white schools those parents made sure they stayed involved with their children's school. they came to pta meetings and made donations and held fund raisers for the school. in the black school i go to no one really shows up to pta meetings. the parents dont seem to care about the school at all, until the end of the year when their child is not getting a diploma. then all of the sudden they are trying to meet up with the principal and talk to teachers. kids have to want to learn to succeed, but if their parents dont care why should they? if parents saw the state of our school and put of enough energy into making some change, i believe my school would be way better. Even the white schools in our same county are doing better than us!!! what does that say about us?

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Permalink Reply by lyfenlyn on April 26, 2010 at 9:45pm

It's like when kulld churn tease the one kid that gets good grades and cares about his future and says hes trying to be 'white' by doing so. We encourage eachother to fail because in our sick twisted brains were 'fighting the man' by 'rejecting the white man's educational construct' . Its head up ya ass syndrome.

Aminata said:

Well if you have a stand up friend who sets a generally good example, but you relegate those good judgments as just being a peculiarity of that particular friend and refuse to follow suit, I'd say its socially lazy... the idea of seeing becoming or good behavior with an eye of jealous disdain so that one may maintain their pessimism and excuse themselves from personal development.

DJ Random Brotha said:
What is social laziness?
Aminata said:
I relate 100%. While I had big ideas growing up many of my friends (especially non-black) were insistent on downgrading themselves and letting me be the token exception. WTF, right? And it just seemed like most of them related to all the black squalor media and acted as though a guy like me wasn't "normal" when in many cases I was their only personal reference for an African-American person... I call it socially laziness.

And now our own young people are finding impetus to compete in laziness via their own non-black peers, cause its "popular".

lyfenlyn said:
The odd thing for me is I had sort of an opposite experience, but things have changed alot since I was school aged.
When I was younger I lived in an all black community, and the schools there were very demanding, and expected alot of us. We were expected to go to college, and to do as much to prepare as possible. In the years since these schools have closed.

I moved to Washington State cause moms had this idea that I'd get a better education, but she wasn't putting me in a private school or something. I was in public school. We were the only blacks in the neighborhood. All the kids in my neighborhood were white stoners, and before 11th grade were all dropouts.

Go figure MOM!

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Permalink Reply by lyfenlyn on April 26, 2010 at 9:51pm

There is an easy way to do this. Find the most successful (in an academic, fast track sense) people in your school or whatever you are doing (work whathaveyou) and study them. Watch what they do, how they act, who they know, what they read ect. Try and strike up a conversation with them about something simple in the news or something to see if they are cool. If they are, make a habit of striking up little convos with them. If you start adopting the posture of success then you start to think that way. You begin to gravate toward positive influences. Get out of your comfort zone often and experience things you ordinairily wouldn't seek out. Practice being cordial to people at events you attend. Never underestimate the power of being charming. Believe me, it opens doors quicker than a credit card.

DJ Random Brotha said:

How can one make sure that they don't, fall into this social laziness?

Aminata said:
Finding excuses to be undermine political correct attitudes and behavior.

DJ Random Brotha said:
What is social laziness?

Aminata said:
I relate 100%. While I had big ideas growing up many of my friends (especially non-black) were insistent on downgrading themselves and letting me be the token exception. WTF, right? And it just seemed like most of them related to all the black squalor media and acted as though a guy like me wasn't "normal" when in many cases I was their only personal reference for an African-American person... I call it socially laziness.

And now our own young people are finding impetus to compete in laziness via their own non-black peers, cause its "popular".

lyfenlyn said:
The odd thing for me is I had sort of an opposite experience, but things have changed alot since I was school aged.
When I was younger I lived in an all black community, and the schools there were very demanding, and expected alot of us. We were expected to go to college, and to do as much to prepare as possible. In the years since these schools have closed.

I moved to Washington State cause moms had this idea that I'd get a better education, but she wasn't putting me in a private school or something. I was in public school. We were the only blacks in the neighborhood. All the kids in my neighborhood were white stoners, and before 11th grade were all dropouts.

Go figure MOM!