Here I think it's more a shared feeling of disenfranchisement and knowing that most commited slights are done because everbody is trying to "get by".  If someone stole your car it's because they didn't have a car, and hell, you probably stole that car in the first place. 

Which is coincidentally why I think people don't look inside their own commuties at problems sometimes as the above comic suggests.  What's the point in improving your strategy if your convinced the game is rigged against you anyway.  It reminds me of this one "Race boardgame" lecture we had where a guy brought in a board game that more or less showed how frustrating such a thing can be for African Americans.  Funny enough my team progressed quick and "won" pretty fast, because I could figure out the trick to the game, while everybody else got stuck in an endless loop.

(Edit: The trick was you had a "Race" card you could play a couple times to avoid negative issues.  Essentially i forced my team to stay pateint until we were near the goal line, even giving up half progress or more, until we were within striking distance of the goal to where it would take the worst possible dice combination to occur twice to get us to lose.  He seemed annoyed we won quick, but really I thought that still made his point.)

A few problems... big two?

The teachers union and administration union is the same.   Administrators are teachers with more seniority.  So when cuts are made, teachers are cut first.  Administrators generally aren't.

Inner city areas have low parental responsibilities and a lot of acting out.  So teachers often avoid these areas, a lot of the best teachers end up teaching in private schools that actually pay LESS because there are less issues.

Essentially this is why Magnet and charter schools work so well in poorer areas.  To stay in one of those schools the parents HAVE to make an effort.  They're suddenly forced to, it makes all the difference in the world.

How you fix the schools for everybody?  I'm not sure you can.  You need to fix the parents.  Oddly enough kicking kids OUT of school and not having school mandatory might ironically lead to more people learning as parents would get more involved.

But then you would have to account for the ones that just honestly didn't give a shit, though i can see the benefits of your idea otherwise.

The blacks and Hispanic war has been going on for over 30 years the media hides stuff .

Would we have to though?  Afterall these are people not being accounted for anyway since they're people who likely aren't going to pass anyway and mostly just get in the way of other people learning.

The sad truth of life is that you can't account for everybody no matter how hard you try.

There will always be people who will march against their best interest.  No matter how much effort and time you spend you can't feed someone who refuses to eat handouts. 

We have a homeless problem mostly because people refuse to take advantage of the shelters, because you can't be drunk in a shelter for obvious saftey reasons.

All you can do is provide the oppurtunity and hope people take advantage of it.   Putting resources towards people who don't want those resources and won't use them only ends up bringing everyone down with no benefit.

Anyone who's had a drug addict as a friend or relative can tell you that.

I mean, it's galling that we're talking about kids paying the price because their parents are too irresponsible to push them, but I mean... what's the option?  Take kids from their parents because they aren't making sure they are doing their math homework?

I learned a long time ago that as much as you want to shake people into having some sense and force them into not being violently selfdestructive it's nothing but a futile effort that does nothing but cause resentment and often causes them to get farther away from sane decision making because they have someone else to blame.   Also it totally ruins your day.

Yeah true enough. Government shouldn't step over the line from offering and promoting the help to forcing it on people.

Oh, I do not doubt that there are many horrible Asian gangs that are in the US. Even then, you still have less crime amongst Asian immigrants than you do whites, blacks, or hispanics. I'm sure there may be multiple reasons, but they do (stereotypically) have higher median grades than whites do. Every color has problems - of this I have no doubt. But if you have more poor, stupid <insert race>, then you simply have more problems. Doesn't matter if they're white, black, or whatever. Its just a universal fact.

The problem is that most inner-city schools *do* get a lot more funding than rural schools. For example, DC and Detroit have the worst graduation rates in the USA. They cost $14,000 and $20,000 per student to teach, respectively. The reality is that in the US, there is no correlation to costs and performance. I'd have no problem with a temporary increase in funding for bad schools, but its never worked in America, as far as I can tell. Where I live, our schools spend between $5,300 and $8,500 per student. The school that spends $8,500 has the worst graduation rate (82% - mind you, Detroit is sub-40%), and the school that spends $5,300 graduates about 94% of kids (the other two schools are about $7,000 each and graduate ~90%).

This one really doesn't have a lot to do with the interracial tensions and the US, but rather between US, Cuba, and Mexico.

My statement can really be applied to either aspect (whether individual people in the U.S., or other nations). We've always been focused on it and it will forever be a main talking point.