Why schools are failing urban kids

Parents send their kids to school assuming their kids are being educated and prepared for the future. But what parents don”t know is that many kids are not being prepared to compete in the U.S. economy, let alone a global economy. Many kids are not being prepared for tomorrow.

Schools are not preparing our kids to be leaders. And of particular concern are schools that have a large population of minority children. It is thought by many that minorities are the last to be hired and the first to be fired. So it makes perfect sense that schools with a large population of minority students would be teaching kids how to start their own businesses, how to build, and how to be self-sufficient. This type of teaching is what prepares minority children for the real world.

Who decided shop should be taken out of schools? With all of the single mothers in the U.S., it seems as though shop classes are more valuable now than ever. The sons of these single mothers would be learning how to fix things and build things, but someone decided that shop was no longer important.

It’s time for parents to begin demanding that schools prepare our kids to be productive citizens. With charter schools and cyber schools, parents have more schooling options than ever before.  This gives the parents power to demand what they want, or take the dollars attached to their child and give it to another school.

Money talks, and schools see each child as money coming into the school. Once more parents realize that, parents and their kids will start winning this battle over appropriate education of minority students.