Mother blames School for her son only passing 3 classes in 4 years.

[phanatic]

You had both parents? In North Philly? Do you think you lived a “normal” NP life?

Not really. I was one of three peers that had both parents in the home. My parents were more strict, and the other parents were more focused on the kids being athletes, and in the hood, being good at ball meant hanging around the drug dealers at the park. I did deal with normal North shit like ducking from drive-by shootings, getting hassled by cops and running from untamed dogs.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Not really. I was one of three peers that had both parents in the home. My parents were more strict, and the other parents were more focused on the kids being athletes, and in the hood, being good at ball meant hanging around the drug dealers at the park. I did deal with normal North shit like ducking from drive-by shootings, getting hassled by cops and running from untamed dogs.

Not only did you have 2 parents they had sense. They fostered your love of science. Three families and 2/3 of them wanted their progeny to be Micheal Jordan. And that’s just 1 zip code. In one city.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Late or absent for 272 days.
That's crazy.
Why even go to school, if you don't want to be there.

Where are the truancy courts? Why wasn’t the counselor or principal interviewed? Why wasn’t the school superintendent and mayor interviewed?

Mothafuckas feel like King Lenidas against a single, black woman, but turn into Ephialtes when the attention should be focused on the real source of fuckery.

 

[hardawayz16]

Where are the truancy courts? Why wasn’t the counselor or principal interviewed? Why wasn’t the school superintendent and mayor interviewed?

They wisely passed on commenting to avoid any further shame and embarrassment, which Mom doesn't seem to care about (not unlike her son's report cards).

 

[RoomService]

Epic Fail

 

[Texas Catdaddy]

The school not following up on these kids is definitely a system failure. As outlined in the story, there are protocols that are supposed to be in place socially to assist these cases because they are far too common to ignore and leave everything up to parents. Baltimore City's school system is one of the worst in the country, regardless of the amount of money pumped into it. It's essentially turned into a money pit. At some point, the State needs to take it over.

However, does the mother even able to read the report cards? The report cards don't just show grades, they show days absent. None of that was a red flag? Didn't raise any questions? Just couldn't wait to be able to have a graduation party and show off the pictures of you and your son on social media that you ignored every possible red flag that could be raised? I don't think this poor kid ever had a chance...all kids need to be taught responsibility and accountability and there's so little chance of that in single parent homes where one parent works multiple jobs. It can be done...I know a couple people who had the single parent working multiple jobs upbringing, and their parents still found ways to get in that ass if they fucked up like this. But it's an enormous disadvantage his entire childhood to grow up in a home where it sounds like he wasn't getting raised, he was just getting a roof over his head and food on the table and little to no other support at home.

this shyt, all day .....

 

[Texas Catdaddy]

I know some folks are going to turn this into a "black man hating on black woman" shit, but they can go fuck themselves. Even if the school isn't on top of attendance or any immediate follow ups, you don't ask your kid "hey what did you do in school today?" at least one time in the last four years? I have more questions than outrage at this point because as a parent, she missed some very easy opportunities to be even the most basic parent, and just simply check in with the kid. The only victim in this situation is a kid that didn't have a parent that gave enough of a fuck about him to at least inquire as to how he was doing in school. If I take any type of class, even right now in my 30s, for cooking, coding, fucking needle point...my parents would ask my how I'm doing in the class and if I'm enjoying it.

Funny shyt yo, me and my two brothers were latchkey kids ..... Got home from school at 3, pops called at 3:30, wants to talk to everyone ..... First question, what you learned today .....

 

[Texas Catdaddy]

One more thing.
He’s not at the bottom of his class?

bruh, I'm trying not to laugh .....

 

[shaddyvillethug]

I’m screaming @ him failing algebra 1 but moving on to geometry and algebra 2

Holy shit

 

[fu2]

Just ran across this story on Tiktok. I wander what the outcome was here? Did the child repeat or drop out? Any investigation into what happened? Is the mom looking paying closer attention to her other kids grades now? I am genuinely curious what's happening now

 

[tallblacknyc]

Well if the kid is a fan of sports and has great knowledge of it.. he could transfer his knowledge and make educated guess and become an online sports gambler when he turn 21.. as of nov 22 Maryland has officially ok sports gambling..kid might fuck around and be the rain man of sports betting..turning $1 bets into hundreds even thousands of dollars per bet.. he may have had a rough start but lil opportunities like this could turn his life around..mom dukes open up account under her name and let rain man go